Siegfried Lüdden
Korvettenkapitän (Crew 36)
| Successes 8 ships sunk for a total of 49.725 GRT 1 warship sunk for a total of 1.190 tons 1 ship damaged for a total of 9.977 GRT |
| Born | 20 May, 1916 | Neubrandenburg, Stargard |
| Died | 13 Jan, 1945 | Kiel |
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Personal information
Leutnant zur See Siegfried Lüdden spent his first year as an officer in the Luftwaffe, but in April 1940 he entered U-boat officer training. After a short time on U-141 he was aide-de-camp for seven months in several flotillas.
On 11 April, 1943 on his first patrol with U-188 he sank the British destroyer HMS Beverley. His second patrol took him to Penang and later to Singapore in the Far East, where he took on board 100 tons of tin and other badly-needed materials for the German war industry and transported them to his French base in June 1944.
Korvkpt. Siegfried Lüdden died during a fire on the living-quarters-ship Daressalam in Kiel.
Patrol info
| U-boat | Departure | Arrival | |||||
| 1. | U-188 | 4 Mar, 1943 | Kiel | 4 May, 1943 | Lorient | Patrol | 62 days |
| 2. | U-188 | 30 Jun, 1943 | Lorient | 30 Oct, 1943 | Penang | Patrol | 123 days |
| 3. | U-188 | 1 Jan, 1944 | Penang | 19 Jun, 1944 | Bordeaux | Patrol | 171 days |
Ships hit by Siegfried Lüdden
| Date | Boat | Name of ship | Tons | Nat. | Convoy | Fate * | |
| 11 Apr, 1943 | U-188 | HMS Beverley (H 64) | 1.190 |  | br | ON-176 | |
| 21 Sep, 1943 | U-188 | Cornelia P. Spencer | 7.176 |  | am | ||
| 5 Oct, 1943 | U-188 | Britannia | 9.977 |  | nw | damaged | |
| 20 Jan, 1944 | U-188 | Fort Buckingham | 7.122 | | br | ||
| 25 Jan, 1944 | U-188 | Fort la Maune | 7.130 | | br | ||
| 26 Jan, 1944 | U-188 | Samouri | 7.219 | | br | ||
| 26 Jan, 1944 | U-188 | Surada | 5.427 | | br | ||
| 29 Jan, 1944 | U-188 | Olga E. Embiricos | 4.677 |  | gr | ||
| 3 Feb, 1944 | U-188 | Chung Cheng | 7.176 |  | ch | ||
| 9 Feb, 1944 | U-188 | Viva | 3.798 | | nw | ||
| 60.892 | |||||||
* Unless otherwise noted the ships listed here were sunk. | |||||||
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