| U 352. age twenty-five, served in U352 as navigator. Pending his commissioning as an officer his actual rank is that of a Steuermann d. R. (quartermaster, 1cl, naval reserve). He is a native of Nuremburg and makes his home in Hamburg-Altona, where he taught navigation at the nautical school. He joined the navy in 1940 after serving in the engineer corps of the German army and participating in the Polish campaign. A Catholic, he does not hold uncompromisingly to National Socialist views, but is a loyal, conscientious German and extremely security-minded. He has received the Minesweeper Badge, the U boat Badge, and the Iron Cross, 2nd class. Pow. |
