Otto Schuhart
Korvettenkapitän (Crew 29)
| Successes 12 ships sunk for a total of 67,277 GRT 1 warship sunk for a total of 22,500 tons |
| Born | 1 Apr 1909 | Hamburg | |
| Died | 26 Feb 1990 | (80) |
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Ranks
Decorations
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U-boat Commands
| U-boat | From | To | |
| U-8 | 2 Sep 1938 | 29 Oct 1938 | No war patrols |
| U-25 | 10 Dec 1938 | 3 Apr 1939 | No war patrols |
| U-29 | 4 Apr 1939 | 2 Jan 1941 | 7 patrols (222 days) |
Personal information
Otto Schuhart began his naval career in April 1929. Later he spent two years on the battleship Schleswig-Holstein. In 1936 he joined the U-boat force. On his first war patrol he sank the British aircraft carrier HMS Courageous (22,500 tons). This was the first outstanding sinking of the U-boat arm, and the whole crew received the EK II (Iron Cross) and as commander Schuhart received both the EK I and the EK II.
In 1941 he became an instructor in the 1st ULD (Unterseeboots-Lehr-Division), and in June 1943 became commander of the 21st Flotilla. The last months of the war he spent in the Marineschule Flensburg-Mürwik.
Otto Schuhart joined the Bundesmarine in 1955, retiring in 1967 with a rank of Kapitän zur See.
Patrol info for Otto Schuhart
| U-boat | Departure | Arrival | ||||||
| 1. | U-29 | 19 Aug 1939 | Wilhelmshaven | 26 Sep 1939 | Wilhelmshaven | Patrol 1, | 39 days | |
| 2. | U-29 | 14 Nov 1939 | Wilhelmshaven | 16 Dec 1939 | Wilhelmshaven | Patrol 2, | 33 days | |
| 3. | U-29 | 6 Feb 1940 | Wilhelmshaven | 12 Mar 1940 | Wilhelmshaven | Patrol 3, | 36 days | |
| 4. | U-29 | 17 Apr 1940 | Wilhelmshaven | 23 Apr 1940 | Trondheim | 7 days | ||
| 5. | U-29 | 27 Apr 1940 | Trondheim | 4 May 1940 | Wilhelmshaven | Patrol 4, | 8 days | |
| 6. | U-29 | 27 May 1940 | Wilhelmshaven | 11 Jul 1940 | Wilhelmshaven | Patrol 5, | 46 days | |
| 7. | U-29 | 2 Sep 1940 | Wilhelmshaven | 5 Sep 1940 | Bergen | 4 days | ||
| 8. | U-29 | 11 Sep 1940 | Bergen | 1 Oct 1940 | Lorient | Patrol 6, | 21 days | |
| 9. | U-29 | 26 Oct 1940 | Lorient | 3 Dec 1940 | Wilhelmshaven | Patrol 7, | 39 days | |
| 7 patrols, 222 days at sea | ||||||||
Ships hit by Otto Schuhart
| Date | U-boat | Commander | Name of ship | Tons | Nat. | Convoy | ||
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| 8 Sep 1939 | U-29 | Otto Schuhart | Regent Tiger | 10,176 |  | br | ||
| 13 Sep 1939 | U-29 | Otto Schuhart | Neptunia | 798 | | br | ||
| 14 Sep 1939 | U-29 | Otto Schuhart | British Influence | 8,431 | | br | ||
| 17 Sep 1939 | U-29 | Otto Schuhart |  | HMS Courageous (50) | 22,500 | | br | |
| 3 Mar 1940 | U-29 | Otto Schuhart | Cato [Mine] | 710 | | br | ||
| 4 Mar 1940 | U-29 | Otto Schuhart | | Pacific Reliance | 6,717 | | br | HX-19 |
| 4 Mar 1940 | U-29 | Otto Schuhart | | Thurston | 3,072 | | br | |
| 16 Mar 1940 | U-29 | Otto Schuhart | Slava [Mine] | 4,512 |  | yu | ||
| 26 Jun 1940 | U-29 | Otto Schuhart | | Dimitris | 5,254 |  | gr | |
| 1 Jul 1940 | U-29 | Otto Schuhart | | Adamastos | 7,466 | | gr | |
| 2 Jul 1940 | U-29 | Otto Schuhart | | Athellaird | 8,999 | | br | OB-176 |
| 2 Jul 1940 | U-29 | Otto Schuhart | | Santa Margarita | 4,919 |  | pa | |
| 25 Sep 1940 | U-29 | Otto Schuhart | | Eurymedon | 6,223 | | br | OB-217 |
| 89,777 | ||||||||
13 ships sunk (89,777 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.