| Born | 5 Jul 1908 | Berlin-Schöneberg | |
| Died | 21 Apr 1970 | (61) |
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Decorations
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U-boat Commands
| U-boat | From | To | |
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| U-7 | 10 Feb 1938 | 5 Feb 1939 | No war patrols |
| U-7 | 31 May 1939 | 2 Jul 1939 | No war patrols |
| U-7 | 2 Aug 1939 | 1 Oct 1939 | No war patrols |
| U-7 | 25 Oct 1939 | 13 Nov 1939 | No war patrols |
| U-52 | 14 Nov 1939 | 9 Jun 1941 | 7 patrols (228 days) |
With the advantage of a thorough prewar U-boat training, Otto Salman commanded U-52 very successfully for more than a year. In June 1941 he became a staff member of the BdU op (5. Asto), before joining the BdU org staff in 1943, where he remained to the end of the war. Otto Salman was, with Admiral Friedeburg, one of only two naval recipients of the Knights Cross of the War Merit Cross (Ritterkreuz des Kriegsverdienstkreuzes).
Sources
Busch, R. and Röll, H-J. (1999). German U-boat commanders of World War II.
Patrol info for Otto Salman
| U-boat | Departure | Arrival | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | U-52 | 20 Feb 1940 | Kiel | 21 Feb 1940 | Helgoland | 2 days | ||
| 2. | U-52 | 25 Feb 1940 | Helgoland | 25 Feb 1940 | Wilhelmshaven | 1 days | ||
| 3. | U-52 | 27 Feb 1940 | Wilhelmshaven | 27 Feb 1940 | Helgoland | 1 days | ||
| 4. | U-52 | 27 Feb 1940 | Helgoland | 4 Apr 1940 | Wilhelmshaven | Patrol 1, | 38 days | |
| 5. | U-52 | 7 Apr 1940 | Wilhelmshaven | 29 Apr 1940 | Kiel | Patrol 2, | 23 days | |
| 6. | U-52 | 8 Jun 1940 | Kiel | 21 Jul 1940 | Lorient | Patrol 3, | 44 days | |
| 7. | U-52 | 27 Jul 1940 | Lorient | 13 Aug 1940 | Kiel | Patrol 4, | 18 days | |
| 8. | U-52 | 17 Nov 1940 | Kiel | 28 Dec 1940 | Lorient | Patrol 5, | 42 days | |
| 9. | U-52 | 22 Jan 1941 | Lorient | 24 Feb 1941 | Lorient | Patrol 6, | 34 days | |
| 10. | U-52 | 22 Mar 1941 | Lorient | 23 Mar 1941 | Lorient | 2 days | ||
| 11. | U-52 | 27 Mar 1941 | Lorient | 31 Mar 1941 | Lorient | 5 days | ||
| 12. | U-52 | 3 Apr 1941 | Lorient | 1 May 1941 | Kiel | Patrol 7, | 29 days | |
| 7 patrols, 228 days at sea | ||||||||
Ships hit by Otto Salman
| Date | U-boat | Commander | Name of ship | Tons | Nat. | Convoy | ||
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| 19 Jun 1940 | U-52 | Otto Salman | The Monarch | 824 |  | br | ||
| 19 Jun 1940 | U-52 | Otto Salman | Ville de Namur | 7,463 |  | be | ||
| 21 Jun 1940 | U-52 | Otto Salman |  | Hilda | 1,144 |  | fi | |
| 14 Jul 1940 | U-52 | Otto Salman | | Thetis A. | 4,111 |  | gr | |
| 4 Aug 1940 | U-52 | Otto Salman | | King Alfred | 5,272 | | br | HX-60 |
| 4 Aug 1940 | U-52 | Otto Salman | | Gogovale | 4,586 | | br | HX-60 |
| 4 Aug 1940 | U-52 | Otto Salman | | Geraldine Mary | 7,244 | | br | HX-60 |
| 2 Dec 1940 | U-52 | Otto Salman | Tasso | 1,586 | | br | HX-90 | |
| 2 Dec 1940 | U-52 | Otto Salman | | Goodleigh | 5,448 | | br | HX-90 |
| 4 Feb 1941 | U-52 | Otto Salman | | Ringhorn | 1,298 |  | nw | OB-280 |
| 10 Feb 1941 | U-52 | Otto Salman | | Canford Chine | 3,364 | | br | OG-52 |
| 10 Apr 1941 | U-52 | Otto Salman | | Saleier | 6,563 |  | nl | OB-306 |
| 14 Apr 1941 | U-52 | Otto Salman | | Ville de Liège | 7,430 | | be | |
| 56,333 | ||||||||
13 ships sunk (56,333 tons). Legend | ||||||||
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.
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