Gerd Schaar
Kapitänleutnant (Crew 37b)
| Successes 2 ships sunk for a total of 7.564 GRT 2 warships sunk for a total of 604 tons |
| Born | 5 Mar, 1919 | Berlin |
| Died | 24 Jan, 1983 | Maseru / Lesotho (South Africa) |
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Ranks
Decorations
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U-boat Commands
| U-957 | 1 Apr, 1943 | - | 21 Oct, 1944 | 6 patrols (147 days) |
| U-2551 | 20 Apr, 1945 | - | 5 May, 1945 | No war patrols |
Personal information
Gerhard Schaar began his naval career in October 1937. He served on the destroyer Erich Giese, which was sunk during the occupation of Norway in April 1940. After some months on shore in Narvik, he served as training officer in the Marineschule Mürwik (Naval Academy) before transferring in February 1942 to the U-boat force.
After two patrols on U-704, in April 1943 he took command of the Type VIIC boat U-957, which was attached to the 11th Flotilla and was in action in the Arctic Sea. Schaar won his Knights Cross for leading the landing operation on the Soviet island Sterligova, where a radio station was destroyed in September 1944.
In April 1945 Schaar commissioned the Type XXI U-boat U-2551, which was scuttled one month later.
Patrol info
| U-boat | Departure | Arrival | |||||
| 1. | U-957 | 14 Dec, 1943 | Kiel | 12 Jan, 1944 | Narvik | Patrol, | 30 days |
| 2. | U-957 | 24 Jan, 1944 | Narvik | 2 Feb, 1944 | Hammerfest | Patrol, | 10 days |
| 3. | U-957 | 6 Feb, 1944 | Hammerfest | 20 Feb, 1944 | Narvik | 15 days | |
| 4. | U-957 | 22 Feb, 1944 | Narvik | 25 Feb, 1944 | Hammerfest | 4 days | |
| 5. | U-957 | 26 Feb, 1944 | Hammerfest | 4 Mar, 1944 | Bergen | Patrol, | 8 days |
| 6. | U-957 | 29 Apr, 1944 | Bergen | 2 May, 1944 | Narvik | 4 days | |
| 7. | U-957 | 11 May, 1944 | Narvik | 8 Jun, 1944 | Narvik | Patrol, | 29 days |
| 8. | U-957 | 14 Jun, 1944 | Narvik | 15 Jun, 1944 | Tromsö | 2 days | |
| 9. | U-957 | 23 Jun, 1944 | Tromsö | 23 Jun, 1944 | Tromsö | 1 days | |
| 10. | U-957 | 26 Jun, 1944 | Tromsö | 28 Jun, 1944 | Tromsö | 3 days | |
| 11. | U-957 | 2 Jul, 1944 | Tromsö | 3 Jul, 1944 | Narvik | 2 days | |
| 12. | U-957 | 18 Jul, 1944 | Narvik | 20 Jul, 1944 | Hammerfest | 3 days | |
| 13. | U-957 | 23 Jul, 1944 | Hammerfest | 3 Sep, 1944 | Hammerfest | Patrol, | 43 days |
| 14. | U-957 | 7 Sep, 1944 | Hammerfest | 3 Oct, 1944 | Narvik | Patrol, | 27 days |
| 15. | U-957 | 6 Oct, 1944 | Narvik | 8 Oct, 1944 | Trondheim | 3 days | |
| 16. | U-957 | 17 Oct, 1944 | Trondheim | 21 Oct, 1944 | Narvik | 5 days | |
| 6 patrols, 147 days at sea | |||||||
Ships hit by Gerd Schaar
| Date | Boat | Name of ship | Tons | Nat. | Convoy | Fate * | |
| 26 Jan, 1944 | U-957 | Fort Bellingham | 7.153 |  | br | JW-56A | |
| 26 Jan, 1944 | U-957 | USS PTC-38 | 54 |  | am | JW-56A | |
| 26 Aug, 1944 | U-957 | Nord | 411 |  | sj | ||
| 23 Sep, 1944 | U-957 | Brilliant (No 29) | 550 | | sj | VD-1 | |
| 8.168 | |||||||
* Unless otherwise noted the ships listed here were sunk. | |||||||
Decorations and ranks information is in many cases not complete. If you can help on any of those missing that would be great.