The Men - U-boat Commanders

Wilhelm Prehn

Oberleutnant zur See



No ships sunk or damaged.


Born  23 Dec 1914 Langen-Jarchow, Mecklenburg


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Ranks

1 Jul 1943 Leutnant zur See
1 Jul 1944 Oberleutnant zur See

Decorations

U-boat Commands

U-boatFromTo
U-3034 31 Mar 1945 Apr, 1945   No war patrols 

Wilhelm Prehn, possibly promoted to officer status during the war, did not belong to Crew 34. He may have been belatedly attached to the Crew for administrative purposes by the Navy’s personnel office, but he did not share the common training experience of the Crew’s regular members nor did he participate in any Crew events, such as reunions after the war (Rust, 2009).

Sources

Rust, E. (2009) E-mail correspondence. Author of Naval Officers under Hitler.

Patrol info for Wilhelm Prehn

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

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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