Siegfried Rollmann
Kapitänleutnant (Crew 34)
| Successes 8 ships sunk, total tonnage 51,859 GRT 1 warship sunk, total tonnage 1,190 tons 1 ship damaged, total tonnage 1,999 GRT |
| Born | 13 Sep 1914 | Friedrichshafen, Lake Constance | |
| Died | 6 Feb 1942 | (27) | North Atlantic |
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U-boat Commands
| U-boat | From | To | |
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| U-82 | 14 May 1941 | 6 Feb 1942 (+) | 3 patrols (102 days) |
Siegfried Rollmann joined the German Navy (Reichsmarine) in 1934. He served on the light cruiser Karlsruhe from Nov 39 to March 1940 when he switched to the U-boat force. He finished his U-boat training in Sept and in Oct he was sent as First Watch Officer (1WO) on the U-52 (Kptlt. Otto Salmann). On this boat Rollmann went out on two patrols during which 4 ships were sunk by the boat. He left the boat the following spring.
In March 1941 Oblt. Rollmann started his U-boat commander training with the 24th flotilla, finishing the course in April when he was sent to U-boat familiarization (Baubelehrung).
On 14 May 1941 Oblt. Siegfried Rollmann took command of his boat, the brand new U-82. With this boat Rollmann was very successful. During 3 patrols the boat sank 10 ships with a total of over 53,000 GRT, and damaged another ship of 1,999 tons.
U-82 was sunk with all hands on 6 Feb 1942 by British warships HMS Rochester and HMS Tamarisk around convoy ON-18 while returning from the US coast (Niestlé, 1998). Rollmann had reported a small convoy while inbound to Lorient, France and was ordered to shadow it but nothing was heard from him again.
Sources
Busch, R and Röll, H-J. (1998). German U-boat commanders of World War II.
Niestle, A. (1998). German U-boat losses during World War II.
Patrol info for Siegfried Rollmann
| U-boat | Departure | Arrival | ||||||
| 1. | U-82 | 12 Jul 1941 | Kiel | 13 Jul 1941 | Horten | 2 days | ||
| 2. | U-82 | 20 Jul 1941 | Horten | 23 Jul 1941 | Trondheim | 4 days | ||
| 3. | U-82 | 11 Aug 1941 | Trondheim | 18 Sep 1941 | Lorient | Patrol 1, | 39 days | |
| 4. | U-82 | 15 Oct 1941 | Lorient | 19 Nov 1941 | La Pallice | Patrol 2, | 36 days | |
| 5. | U-82 | 11 Jan 1942 | La Pallice | 6 Feb 1942 | Sunk | Patrol 3, | 27 days | |
| 3 patrols, 102 days at sea | ||||||||
Ships hit by Siegfried Rollmann
| Date | U-boat | Name of ship | Tons | Nat. | Convoy | ||
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| 10 Sep 1941 | U-82 | Empire Hudson | 7,465 | br | SC-42 | ||
| 11 Sep 1941 | U-82 | Bulysses | 7,519 | br | SC-42 | ||
| 11 Sep 1941 | U-82 | Gypsum Queen | 3,915 | br | SC-42 | ||
| 11 Sep 1941 | U-82 | Empire Crossbill | 5,463 | br | SC-42 | ||
| 11 Sep 1941 | U-82 | Scania (d.) | 1,999 | sw | SC-42 | ||
| 21 Oct 1941 | U-82 | Serbino | 4,099 | br | SL-89 | ||
| 21 Oct 1941 | U-82 | Treverbyn | 5,281 | br | SL-89 | ||
| 22 Jan 1942 | U-82 | Athelcrown | 11,999 | br | ON-56 | ||
| 23 Jan 1942 | U-82 | Leiesten | 6,118 | nw | ON-56 | ||
| 31 Jan 1942 | U-82 | HMS Belmont (H 46) | 1,190 | br | NA-2 | ||
| 55,048 | |||||||
9 ships sunk (53,049 tons) and 1 ship damaged (1,999 tons). Legend | |||||||
About ranks and decorations
Ranks shown in italics are our database inserts based on the rank dates of his crew comrades. The officers of each crew would normally have progressed through the lower ranks at the same rate.
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