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Heinrich Schonder

Korvettenkapitän (Crew 34)

Successes
14 ships sunk for a total of 28.333 GRT
1 warship sunk for a total of 1.050 tons
1 ship damaged for a total of 155 GRT
1 warship damaged for a total of 1.690 tons

Born	23 Jul, 1910	Erfurt
Died	24 Jun, 1943	North Atlantic

Kapitänleutnant Heinrich Schonder

Ranks

26 Sep, 1934	Seekadett
1 Jul, 1935	Fähnrich zur See
1 Jan, 1937	Oberfähnrich zur See
1 Apr, 1937	Leutnant zur See
1 Apr, 1939	Oberleutnant zur See
1 Sep, 1941	Kapitänleutnant
1 Jun, 1943	Korvettenkapitän

Decorations

1 Oct, 1939	Iron Cross 2nd Class
1 Dec, 1939	U-boat War Badge 1939
23 Jul, 1940	Iron Cross 1st Class
19 Aug, 1942	Knights Cross

U-boat Commands

U-53	Dec, 1939	-	Jan, 1940	No war patrols
U-58	1 Jul, 1940	-	24 Nov, 1940	4 patrols (56 days)
U-77	18 Jan, 1941	-	2 Sep, 1942	8 patrols (210 days)
U-200	22 Dec, 1942	-	24 Jun, 1943 (+)	1 patrol (13 days)

Personal information

Kapitänleutnant Heinrich Schonder on board

Heinrich Schonder began his naval career in April 1935. After some months on the torpedo boat Falke he transferred to the U-boat force in January 1938.

He served for two years on several U-boats as watch officer before taking command of the Type IIC U-boat U-58 in June 1940. On four patrols, mostly in the North Atlantic, he sank four ships.

He left U-58 and in January 1941 commissioned the Type VIIC U-boat U-77. After three patrols in the North Atlantic he managed the breakthrough into the Mediterranean in December 1941. He made six patrols there and sank among other ships the British the frigate HMS Grove and damaged the destroyer HMS Kimberley.

'Hein' Schonder left U-77 in September 1942 and three months later commissioned the Type IX-D2 U-boat U-200 which was sunk on her first patrol with all hands on 24 June, 1943 southwest of Iceland by a RAF Liberator aircraft.

Patrol info

	U-boat	Departure		Arrival
1.	U-58	6 Jul, 1940	Kiel	22 Jul, 1940	Lorient	Patrol	17 days
2.	U-58	29 Jul, 1940	Lorient	12 Aug, 1940	Lorient	Patrol	15 days
3.	U-58	2 Sep, 1940	Lorient	20 Sep, 1940	Lorient	Patrol	19 days
4.	U-58	2 Oct, 1940	Lorient	12 Oct, 1940	Bergen		11 days
5.	U-58	14 Oct, 1940	Bergen	18 Oct, 1940	Kiel	Patrol	5 days
6.	U-77	29 May, 1941	Kiel	7 Jul, 1941	St. Nazaire	Patrol	40 days
7.	U-77	2 Aug, 1941	St. Nazaire	10 Sep, 1941	St. Nazaire	Patrol	40 days
8.	U-77	11 Oct, 1941	St. Nazaire	13 Nov, 1941	Lorient	Patrol	34 days
9.	U-77	10 Dec, 1941	Lorient	19 Dec, 1941	Messina	Patrol	10 days
10.	U-77	21 Dec, 1941	Messina	14 Jan, 1942	Salamis	Patrol	25 days
11.	U-77	28 Mar, 1942	Salamis	3 Apr, 1942	Salamis	Patrol	7 days
12.	U-77	7 Apr, 1942	Salamis	11 Apr, 1942	La Spezia		5 days
13.	U-77	6 Jun, 1942	La Spezia	17 Jun, 1942	Salamis		12 days
14.	U-77	23 Jun, 1942	Salamis	9 Jul, 1942	Salamis	Patrol	17 days
15.	U-77	16 Jul, 1942	Salamis	21 Aug, 1942	Salamis	Patrol	37 days
16.	U-77	25 Aug, 1942	Salamis	30 Aug, 1942	Pola		6 days
17.	U-200	12 Jun, 1943	Kiel	24 Jun, 1943	Sunk	Patrol	13 days

Ships hit by Heinrich Schonder

Date	Boat	Name of ship	Tons	Nat.		Convoy	Fate *
18 Jul, 1940	U-58	Gyda	1.591		nw
4 Aug, 1940	U-58	Pindos	4.360		gr	SL-40
8 Oct, 1940	U-58	Confield	4.956		br	HX-76

13 Jun, 1941	U-77	Tresillian	4.743		br	OB-330
22 Jun, 1941	U-77	Arakaka	2.379		br
25 Jun, 1941	U-77	Anna Bulgaris	4.603		gr
15 Dec, 1941	U-77	Empire Barracuda	4.972		br

12 Jan, 1942	U-77	HMS Kimberley (F 50)	1.690		br		damaged
12 Jun, 1942	U-77	HMS Grove (L 77)	1.050		br	MW-11
22 Jul, 1942	U-77	Vassiliki	140		gr
24 Jul, 1942	U-77	Toufic El Rahman	30		sy
30 Jul, 1942	U-77	Fany	43		ag
1 Aug, 1942	U-77	St. Simon	100		ag
6 Aug, 1942	U-77	Adnan	155		ag		damaged
6 Aug, 1942	U-77	Ezzet	158		ag
10 Aug, 1942	U-77	Kharouf	158		pl
16 Aug, 1942	U-77	Daniel	100		pl
			31.228
* Unless otherwise noted the ships listed here were sunk.