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 | (28) | Kiel (fire onboard accommodation ship Daressalem) |
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U-boat Commands
| U-boat | From | To | |
| U-188 | 5 Aug 1942 | 9 Aug 1944 | 3 patrols (356 days) |
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 for Siegfried Lüdden
| U-boat | Departure | Arrival | ||||||
| 1. | U-188 | 4 Mar 1943 | Kiel | 4 May 1943 | Lorient | Patrol 1, | 62 days | |
| 2. | U-188 | 30 Jun 1943 | Lorient | 30 Oct 1943 | Penang | Patrol 2, | 123 days | |
| 3. | U-188 | 1 Jan 1944 | Penang | 19 Jun 1944 | Bordeaux | Patrol 3, | 171 days | |
| 3 patrols, 356 days at sea | ||||||||
Ships hit by Siegfried Lüdden
| Date | U-boat | Commander | Name of ship | Tons | Nat. | Convoy | ||
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| 11 Apr 1943 | U-188 | Siegfried Lüdden | HMS Beverley (H 64) | 1,190 |  | br | ON-176 | |
| 21 Sep 1943 | U-188 | Siegfried Lüdden | Cornelia P. Spencer | 7,176 |  | am | ||
| 5 Oct 1943 | U-188 | Siegfried Lüdden | Britannia (d.) | 9,977 |  | nw | ||
| 20 Jan 1944 | U-188 | Siegfried Lüdden | Fort Buckingham | 7,122 | | br | ||
| 25 Jan 1944 | U-188 | Siegfried Lüdden | Fort la Maune | 7,130 | | br | ||
| 26 Jan 1944 | U-188 | Siegfried Lüdden | Samouri | 7,219 | | br | ||
| 26 Jan 1944 | U-188 | Siegfried Lüdden |  | Surada | 5,427 | | br | |
| 29 Jan 1944 | U-188 | Siegfried Lüdden | | Olga E. Embiricos | 4,677 |  | gr | |
| 3 Feb 1944 | U-188 | Siegfried Lüdden | | Chung Cheng | 7,176 |  | ch | |
| 9 Feb 1944 | U-188 | Siegfried Lüdden | | Viva | 3,798 | | nw | |
| 60,892 | ||||||||
9 ships sunk (50,915 tons) and 1 ship damaged (9,977 tons). Legend | ||||||||
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.