Burckhard Hackländer

Kapitänleutnant (Crew 33)

Successes
1 ship sunk, total tonnage 557 GRT
1 warship sunk, total tonnage 1,870 tons
1 ship damaged, total tonnage 5,395 GRT

Born	17 Dec 1914		Lüneburg
Died	20 Jan 2001	(86)	Kiel, Germany

Kptlt. Burckhard Hacklander returning from patrol on 8 March 1943.

Ranks

1 Apr 1933		Offiziersanwärter
1 Jul 1934		Fähnrich zur See
1 Apr 1936		Oberfähnrich zur See
1 Oct 1936		Leutnant zur See
1 Jun 1938		Oberleutnant zur See
1 Nov 1940		Kapitänleutnant

Decorations

		Iron Cross 2nd Class
		Iron Cross 1st Class

U-boat Commands

U-boat	From	To
U-454	24 Jul 1941	1 Aug 1943	10 patrols (290 days)

Patrol info for Burckhard Hackländer

	U-boat	Departure		Arrival
1.	U-454	1 Dec 1941	Kiel	12 Dec 1941	Kirkenes		12 days
2.	U-454	25 Dec 1941	Kirkenes	20 Jan 1942	Kirkenes	Patrol 1,	27 days
3.	U-454	27 Jan 1942	Kirkenes	3 Feb 1942	Trondheim	Patrol 2,	8 days
4.	U-454	24 Feb 1942	Trondheim	15 Mar 1942	Kirkenes	Patrol 3,	20 days
5.	U-454	24 Mar 1942	Kirkenes	2 Apr 1942	Kirkenes	Patrol 4,	10 days
6.	U-454	8 Apr 1942	Kirkenes	20 Apr 1942	Kirkenes	Patrol 5,	13 days
7.	U-454	23 Apr 1942	Kirkenes	29 Apr 1942	Bergen		7 days
8.	U-454	30 Apr 1942	Bergen	3 May 1942	Kiel		4 days
9.	U-454	4 Jul 1942	Kiel	17 Aug 1942	St. Nazaire	Patrol 6,	45 days
10.	U-454	15 Sep 1942	St. Nazaire	16 Sep 1942	St. Nazaire		2 days
11.	U-454	26 Sep 1942	St. Nazaire	7 Dec 1942	St. Nazaire	Patrol 7,	73 days
12.	U-454	18 Jan 1943	St. Nazaire	8 Mar 1943	St. Nazaire	Patrol 8,	50 days
13.	U-454	17 Apr 1943	St. Nazaire	23 May 1943	La Pallice	Patrol 9,	37 days
14.	U-454	26 Jul 1943	La Pallice	1 Aug 1943	Sunk	Patrol 10,	7 days
10 patrols, 290 days at sea

Ships hit by Burckhard Hackländer

Date	U-boat	Name of ship	Tons		Convoy
17 Jan 1942	U-454	RT-68 Enisej	557	sj
17 Jan 1942	U-454	Harmatris (d.)	5,395	br	PQ-8
17 Jan 1942	U-454	HMS Matabele (G 26)	1,870	br	PQ-8
			7,822
2 ships sunk (2,427 tons) and 1 ship damaged (5,395 tons). Legend We have a picture of this vessel. (d.) means the ship was damaged.

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.