| Born | 23 May 1920 | Kiel-Russee | |
| Died | 1988 | (67) |
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Ranks
Decorations |
U-boat Commands
| U-boat | From | To | |
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| U-1161 | 27 Sep 1943 | 17 Jan 1945 | No war patrols |
| U-1007 | Feb, 1945 | Apr, 1945 | No war patrols |
Karl-Heinz Raabe joined the Kriegsmarine in 1938. He served with minesweeping flotillas (44th, 14th and 44th again) from Aug 1940 to Jan 1943, when he joined the U-boat force.
From Jan to Sept 1943 Karl-Heinz Raabe went through U-boat training, including a Commander course, spending the last month on U-boat construction familiarization (Baubelehrung) for his first command.
Raabe commissioned the type VIIC U-boat school boat U-1161 on 27 Sept 1943 and joined the 18th (Training) Flotilla in Jan 1945. He commanded another school boat, the former combat boat U-1007, from Feb to April 1945.
Sources
Busch, R and Röll, H-J. (1998). German U-boat commanders of World War II.
Patrol info for Karl-Heinz Raabe
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.
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