Helmut Röttger

Kapitänleutnant (Crew 37a)

No ships sunk or damaged.

Born	15 Dec 1918		Maltahöhe, German South-West Africa
Died	13 Jun 1944	(25)	off Faroes

Kriegsmarine Crew photo

Ranks

3 Apr 1937		Offiziersanwärter
21 Sep 1937		Seekadett
1 May 1938		Fähnrich zur See
1 Jul 1939		Oberfähnrich zur See
1 Aug 1939		Leutnant zur See
1 Sep 1941		Oberleutnant zur See
1 Apr 1944		Kapitänleutnant

U-boat Commands

U-boat	From	To
U-715	17 Mar 1943	13 Jun 1944 (+)	1 patrol (6 days)

Patrol info for Helmut Röttger

	U-boat	Departure		Arrival
1.	U-715	27 May 1944	Kiel	30 May 1944	Stavanger		4 days
2.	U-715	8 Jun 1944	Stavanger	13 Jun 1944	Sunk	Patrol 1,	6 days

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.