Erich Niester

Oberleutnant zur See (Crew X/39)



No ships sunk or damaged.


Born  19 Sep 1921 Linz, Danube
Died  26 Mar 2005(83)Hamburg, Germany


Kriegsmarine Crew photo

Ranks

16 Sep 1939 Offiziersanwärter
1 Jul 1940 Fähnrich zur See
1 Jul 1941 Oberfähnrich zur See
1 Mar 1942 Leutnant zur See
1 Oct 1943 Oberleutnant zur See

Decorations

U-boat Commands

U-boatFromTo
U-350 7 Oct 1943 30 Mar 1945   No war patrols 

Patrol info for Erich Niester

This commander did not go out on patrols with his boats.


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.

Media links


German U-boat Commanders of World War II

Busch, Rainer and Röll, Hans-Joachim

Listing of all U-boat commanders


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