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Allied Warships
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U-boat Officers during WWI
Complete commander listing
On these pages you can find the complete U-boat commander listing from World War One.
Some famous acesThese are generally not the same officers as on the most successful list. Kptlt. Walter Forstmann (1883 - 1973) Kptlt. Carl-Siegfried Ritter von Georg (1886 - 1957) Kptlt. Otto Hersing (1885 - 1960) Kptlt. Walther Schwieger (1885 - 1917) Kptlt. Edgar Freiherr von Spiegel von und zu Peckelsheim (1885 - 1965) Kptlt. Otto Weddigen (1882 - 1915) Kptlt. Bernd Wegener (1884 - 1915) | Most Successful CommandersThis page shows the 20 most successful U-boat commanders of World War One. |
The Aces of Aces
Kptlt. Lothar von Arnauld de la Perière
(1886 - 1941)
Highest scoring U-boat commander of all time with 194 ships for about 450,000 tons sunk.