List of all U-boats

U-8

Type

IIB

 
Ordered20 Jul 1934
Laid down25 Mar 1935 F. Krupp Germaniawerft AG, Kiel (werk 542)
Launched16 Jul 1935
Commissioned5 Aug 1935Kptlt. Harald Grosse
Commanders
13 Aug 1935 - 3 Nov 1936  Kptlt. Harald Grosse
24 Jun 1938 - 5 Sep 1939  Kptlt. Georg Peters
2 Sep 1938 - 29 Oct 1938  Kptlt. Otto Schuhart (Knights Cross)
6 Sep 1939 - 13 Oct 1939  Kptlt. Wolf-Harro Stiebler
14 Oct 1939 - 30 Nov 1939  Kptlt. Heinrich Lehmann-Willenbrock (Knights Cross)
1 Dec 1939 - 4 May 1940  Kptlt. Georg-Heinz Michel
5 May 1940 - 7 Jun 1940  Kptlt. Eitel-Friedrich Kentrat (Knights Cross)
5 Jun 1940 - 9 Jun 1940  Ltn. Heinz Stein
10 Jun 1940 - 6 Jul 1940  Oblt. Walter Kell
7 Jul 1940 - 28 Jul 1940  Oblt. Hans-Jürgen Zetzsche (German Cross in Gold)
13 Sep 1940 - 17 Dec 1940  Oblt. Walter Kell
18 Dec 1940 - 25 Apr 1941  Kptlt. Heinrich Heinsohn
26 Apr 1941 - 22 May 1941  Kptlt. Ulrich Borcherdt
23 May 1941 - 31 Jul 1941  Oblt. Rolf Steinhaus
1 Aug 1941 - 16 May 1942  Oblt. Horst Deckert (German Cross in Gold)
17 May 1942 - 15 Mar 1943  Oblt. Rudolf Hoffmann
16 Mar 1943 - 12 May 1944  Oblt. (R) Alfred Werner
13 May 1944 - 24 Nov 1944  Oblt. Jürgen Iversen
25 Nov 1944 - 31 Mar 1945  Oblt. Jürgen Kriegshammer
Career
1 patrol
1 Sep 1935-1 Aug 1939  U-Bootschulflottille (school boat)
1 Sep 1939-3 Jan 1940  U-Bootschulflottille (school boat)
4 Jan 1940-12 Apr 1940  U-Abwehrschule (school boat)
13 Apr 1940-30 Jun 1940  1. Flottille (school boat)
1 Jul 1940-17 Dec 1940  24. Flottille (training)
18 Dec 1940-31 Mar 1945  22. Flottille (school boat)
SuccessesNo ships sunk or damaged
Fate

Decommissioned 31 March 1945 in Wilhelmshaven. Scuttled on 5 May 1945 at Wilhelmshaven, western entrance to Raederschleuse. Wreck broken up.

Final location

View the 1 war patrol

General notes on this boat

* Kentrat spent time heavily wounded in hospital in Esbjerg, Denmark

Men lost from U-boats

Unlike many other U-boats, which during their service lost men due to accidents and various other causes, U-8 did not suffer any casualties (we know of) until the time of her loss.

U-boat Emblems

We have 1 emblem entry for this boat. See the emblem page for this boat or view emblems individually below.


Feather

Media links


German U-Boat Losses During World War II
Niestle, Axel


U-Boat Operations of the Second World War - Vol 1
Wynn, Kenneth


Hitler's U-boat War
Blair, Clay

There was another U-8 in World War One
That boat was launched from its shipyard on 14 Mar 1911 and commissioned into the Imperial Navy on 18 Jun 1911. The Naval war in WWI was brought to an end with the Armistice signed on 11 Nov, 1918. Read about SM U 8 during WWI.




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