Joachim Sauerbier

Oberleutnant zur See (Crew X/39)

No ships sunk or damaged.

Born	25 Sep 1919		Kempen, Posen
Died	19 Apr 1945	(25)	Kattegat

Kriegsmarine Crew photo

Ranks

16 Sep 1939		Offiziersanwärter
1 Sep 1940		Fähnrich zur See
1 Jul 1941		Oberfähnrich zur See
1 Mar 1942		Leutnant zur See
1 Oct 1943		Oberleutnant zur See

U-boat Commands

U-boat	From	To
U-591	15 May 1943	17 May 1943	No war patrols
U-120	26 Jul 1943	14 Sep 1944	No war patrols
U-56	23 Feb 1945	3 Apr 1945	No war patrols

In April 1945 Joachim Sauerbier was assigned to take command of U-324, stationed at Bergen, Norway. He boarded U-251 for Norway at Kiel as a passenger (Busch & Röll, 1999). U-251 was sunk on 19 April 1945 by British and Norwegian aircraft in the Kattegat west of Halmstad, Sweden (Niestlé, 1998). Oblt Sauerbier was not one of the four survivors (Busch & Röll, 1999).

Patrol info for Joachim Sauerbier

This commander did not go out on patrols with his boats.

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.