Otto Schuhart
Korvettenkapitän (Crew 29)
| Successes 11 ships sunk for a total of 62.765 GRT 1 warship sunk for a total of 22.500 tons |
| Born | 1 Apr, 1909 | Hamburg |
| Died | 26 Feb, 1990 |
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Ranks
Decorations
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U-boat Commands
| 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
| U-boat | Departure | Arrival | |||||
| 1. | U-29 | 19 Aug, 1939 | Wilhelmshaven | 26 Sep, 1939 | Wilhelmshaven | Patrol | 39 days |
| 2. | U-29 | 14 Nov, 1939 | Wilhelmshaven | 16 Dec, 1939 | Wilhelmshaven | Patrol | 33 days |
| 3. | U-29 | 6 Feb, 1940 | Wilhelmshaven | 12 Mar, 1940 | Wilhelmshaven | Patrol | 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 | 8 days |
| 6. | U-29 | 27 May, 1940 | Wilhelmshaven | 11 Jul, 1940 | Wilhelmshaven | Patrol | 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 | 21 days |
| 9. | U-29 | 26 Oct, 1940 | Lorient | 3 Dec, 1940 | Wilhelmshaven | Patrol | 39 days |
Ships hit by Otto Schuhart
| Date | Boat | Name of ship | Tons | Nat. | Convoy | Fate * | |
| 8 Sep, 1939 | U-29 | Regent Tiger | 10.176 |  | br | ||
| 13 Sep, 1939 | U-29 | Neptunia | 798 | | br | ||
| 14 Sep, 1939 | U-29 | British Influence | 8.431 | | br | ||
| 17 Sep, 1939 | U-29 | HMS Courageous (50) | 22.500 | | br | ||
| 3 Mar, 1940 | U-29 | Cato [Mine] | 710 | | br | ||
| 4 Mar, 1940 | U-29 | Pacific Reliance | 6.717 | | br | HX-19 | |
| 4 Mar, 1940 | U-29 | Thurston | 3.072 | | br | ||
| 26 Jun, 1940 | U-29 | Dimitris | 5.254 |  | gr | ||
| 1 Jul, 1940 | U-29 | Adamastos | 7.466 | | gr | ||
| 2 Jul, 1940 | U-29 | Athellaird | 8.999 | | br | OB-176 | |
| 2 Jul, 1940 | U-29 | Santa Margarita | 4.919 |  | pa | ||
| 25 Sep, 1940 | U-29 | Eurymedon | 6.223 | | br | OB-217 | |
| 85.265 | |||||||
* 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.