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Wilhelm Rollmann

Fregattenkapitän (Crew 26)

Successes 20 ships sunk for a total of 96,562 GRT 3 warships sunk for a total of 2,365 tons 2 ships sunk for a total of 4,957 GRT

Personal information

Wilhelm Rollmann began his naval career in April 1926. Later he served on several ships, including the light cruiser Karlsruhe. In May 1937 he transferred to the U-boat force. After the usual training he took command of U-34 in October 1938. Two of his more notable successes were the sinking of the British destroyer HMS Whirlwind and the British submarine Spearfish.

After seven successful patrols he left the boat and became an instructor in the 2nd ULD (Unterseeboots-Lehr-Division).

On 20 February, 1943 he commissioned the U-848, a large Type IXD2 U-boat. The boat was sunk on her first patrol with all hands on 5 November, 1943 by US aircraft southwest of Ascension in the mid-Atlantic.

Date	U-boat	Commander		Name of ship	Tons	Nat.		Convoy
7 Sep 1939	U-34	Wilhelm Rollmann		Pukkastan	5,809		br
8 Sep 1939	U-34	Wilhelm Rollmann		Kennebec	5,548		br
24 Sep 1939	U-34	Wilhelm Rollmann		Hanonia (c.)	1,781		es
20 Oct 1939	U-34	Wilhelm Rollmann		Gustaf Adolf	926		sw
20 Oct 1939	U-34	Wilhelm Rollmann		Sea Venture	2,327		br
27 Oct 1939	U-34	Wilhelm Rollmann		Bronte	5,317		br	OB-25
29 Oct 1939	U-34	Wilhelm Rollmann		Malabar	7,976		br	HX-5A
9 Nov 1939	U-34	Wilhelm Rollmann		Snar (c.)	3,176		nw
20 Jan 1940	U-34	Wilhelm Rollmann		Caroni River [Mine]	7,807		br
28 Jan 1940	U-34	Wilhelm Rollmann		Eleni Stathatou	5,625		gr
13 Apr 1940	U-34	Wilhelm Rollmann		HNoMS Frøya	595		nw
5 Jul 1940	U-34	Wilhelm Rollmann		HMS Whirlwind (D 30)	1,100		br
6 Jul 1940	U-34	Wilhelm Rollmann		Vapper	4,543		es
7 Jul 1940	U-34	Wilhelm Rollmann		Lucrecia	2,584		nl
9 Jul 1940	U-34	Wilhelm Rollmann		Tiiu	1,865		es
10 Jul 1940	U-34	Wilhelm Rollmann		Petsamo	4,596		fi
11 Jul 1940	U-34	Wilhelm Rollmann		Janna	2,197		nw	HX-54
15 Jul 1940	U-34	Wilhelm Rollmann		Evdoxia	2,018		gr
17 Jul 1940	U-34	Wilhelm Rollmann		Naftilos	3,531		gr
26 Jul 1940	U-34	Wilhelm Rollmann		Accra	9,337		br	OB-188
26 Jul 1940	U-34	Wilhelm Rollmann		Vinemoor	4,359		br	OB-188
27 Jul 1940	U-34	Wilhelm Rollmann		Sambre	5,260		br	OB-188
27 Jul 1940	U-34	Wilhelm Rollmann		Thiara	10,364		br	OB-188
1 Aug 1940	U-34	Wilhelm Rollmann		HMS Spearfish (N 69)	670		br
2 Nov 1943	U-848	Wilhelm Rollmann		Baron Semple	4,573		br
					103,884
25 ships sunk (103,884 tons). Legend We have a picture of this vessel. (c.) means the ship was captured (included in ships & tonnage lost). [Mine] indicates the vessel was hit by a mine laid by said U-boat.

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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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