Freiherr Adolf-Wilhelm von Hammerstein-Equord

Kapitänleutnant (Crew 37a)



No ships sunk or damaged.


Born  11 Mar 1918 Munich


Ranks

3 Apr 1937Offiziersanwärter
1 May 1938Fähnrich zur See
1 Jul 1939Oberfähnrich zur See
1 Aug 1939Leutnant zur See
1 Sep 1941Oberleutnant zur See
1 Sep 1944Kapitänleutnant

Decorations

U-boat Commands

U-boatFromTo
U-149 1 Aug 1942 14 May 1944   No war patrols 

Personal information

After the war Baron Adolf-Wilhelm von Hammerstein-Equord spent 1 year as a prisoner of war in England. After he returned to Germany in 1946 he lived in Prien a. Chiemsee, a little town between Munich and Salzburg at the lake Chiemsee.

From 1957 he has lived with his family in Munich. He made a professional career and in the end became a director of an insurance company. Now he is still living retired in Munich. He is 90 years old.

Ships hit by Adolf-Wilhelm von Hammerstein-Equord

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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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