U-8

Type

IIB

 
Ordered20 Jul 1934
Laid down 25 Mar 1935 F. Krupp Germaniawerft AG, Kiel (werk 542)
Launched16 Jul 1935
Commissioned5 Aug 1935Kptlt. Harald Grosse
Commanders
13 Aug 1935 - 3 Nov 1936   Harald Grosse
24 Jun 1938 - 5 Sep 1939   Georg Peters
2 Sep 1938 - 29 Oct 1938  Kptlt. Otto Schuhart (Knights Cross)
6 Sep 1939 - 13 Oct 1939   Wolf-Harro Stiebler
14 Oct 1939 - 30 Nov 1939  Kptlt. Heinrich Lehmann-Willenbrock (Knights Cross)
1 Dec 1939 - 4 May 1940   Georg-Heinz Michel
5 May 1940 - 7 Jun 1940  Kptlt. Eitel-Friedrich Kentrat (Knights Cross)
5 Jun 1940 - 9 Jun 1940   Heinz Stein
10 Jun 1940 - 6 Jul 1940  Oblt. Walter Kell
7 Jul 1940 - 28 Jul 1940  Oblt. Hans-Jürgen Zetzsche
13 Sep 1940 - 17 Dec 1940  Oblt. Walter Kell
18 Dec 1940 - 25 Apr 1941  Kptlt. Heinrich Heinsohn
26 Apr 1941 - 22 May 1941  Kptlt. Ulrich Borcherdt
23 May 1941 - 31 Jul 1941  Oblt. Rolf Steinhaus
1 Aug 1941 - 16 May 1942  Oblt. Horst Deckert
17 May 1942 - 15 Mar 1943  Oblt. Rudolf Hoffmann
16 Mar 1943 - 12 May 1944  Oblt. Alfred Werner
13 May 1944 - 24 Nov 1944  Oblt. Jürgen Iversen
25 Nov 1944 - 31 Mar 1945  Oblt. Jürgen Kriegshammer
Career1 patrol 1 Sep 1935 - 1 Aug 1939  U-Bootschulflottille (school boat)
1 Sep 1939 - 3 Jan 1940  U-Bootschulflottille (school boat)
4 Jan 1940 - 12 Apr 1940  U-Abwehrschule (school boat)
13 Apr 1940 - 30 Jun 1940  1. Flottille (school boat)
1 Jul 1940 - 17 Dec 1940  24. Flottille (training)
18 Dec 1940 - 8 May 1945  22. Flottille (school boat)
SuccessesNo ships sunk or damaged
Fate

Scuttled on 2 May 1945 in the Raederschleuse at Wilhelmshaven.

View the 1 war patrol

General notes on this boat

* Kentrat spent time heavily wounded in hospital in Esbjerg, Denmark

Men lost from U-boats

Unlike many other U-boats, which during their service lost men due to accidents and various other causes, U-8 did not suffer any casualties (we know of) until the time of her loss.



U-Boat Operations of the Second World War - Vol 2
Wynn, Kenneth


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Books dealing with this subject include:

German U-Boat Losses During World War II. Niestle, Axel, 1998.
Hitler's U-boat War. Blair, Clay, 1996.
Hitler's U-boat War, Vol II. Blair, Clay, 1998.
U-Boat Operations of the Second World War - Vol 1. Wynn, Kenneth, 1998.
U-Boat Operations of the Second World War - Vol 2. Wynn, Kenneth, 1998.


There was another U-8 in World War One
That boat was launched from its shipyard on 14 Mar 1911 and commissioned into the Imperial Navy on 18 Jun 1911. The Naval war in WWI was brought to an end with the Armistice signed on 11 Nov, 1918. Read about the U 8 during WWI.