Most Successful U-boat Commanders in the Mediterranean
The following table shows the most successful U-boat Commanders in the Mediterranean. Warships are included in these figures. After each man the U-boats he scored his successes in are shown. All men who sank ships in the Med are shown here. The data is calculated from the date a boat under his command entered the Mediterranean (and all subsequent attacks in the theatre).
| Commander | Patrols | Ships sunk/damaged | |
| 1. | Oblt. Horst-Arno Fenski (U-410, U-371) | 5 patrols | 8 ships sunk (46,516 tons) 2 ships damaged (2,500 tons) |
| 2. | KrvKpt. Waldemar Mehl (U-371) | 12 patrols | 9 ships sunk (42,451 tons) 4 ships damaged (28,072 tons) |
| 3. | Kptlt. Friedrich Guggenberger (U-81) | 7 patrols | 11 ships sunk (40,854 tons) |
| 4. | Kptlt. Hans-Diedrich Freiherr von Tiesenhausen (U-331) | 9 patrols | 2 ships sunk (40,235 tons) 1 ship damaged (372 tons) |
| 5. | Kptlt. Gerd Kelbling (U-593) | 13 patrols | 13 ships sunk (39,253 tons) 2 ships damaged (1,677 tons) |
| 6. | Kptlt. Horst Hamm (U-562) | 7 patrols | 4 ships sunk (28,234 tons) 1 ship damaged (3,359 tons) |
| 7. | Kptlt. Otto Hartmann (U-77) | 4 patrols | 5 ships sunk (25,397 tons) 2 ships damaged (6,419 tons) |
| 8. | Oblt. Johann-Otto Krieg (U-81) | 8 patrols | 14 ships sunk (23,279 tons) 1 ship damaged (6,671 tons) |
| 9. | KrvKpt. Helmut Rosenbaum (U-73) | 3 patrols | 1 ship sunk (22,600 tons) |
| 10. | Kptlt. Ernst-Ulrich Brüller (U-407) | 8 patrols | 1 ship sunk (19,627 tons) 2 ships damaged (17,900 tons) |
| 11. | KrvKpt. Egon Reiner Freiherr von Schlippenbach (U-453) | 14 patrols | 6 ships sunk (18,390 tons) 2 ships damaged (16,610 tons) |
| 12. | Kptlt. Josef Röther (U-380) | 9 patrols | 2 ships sunk (18,247 tons) 1 ship damaged (7,191 tons) |
| 13. | Kptlt. Hans Heidtmann (U-559) | 8 patrols | 6 ships sunk (17,404 tons) |
| 14. | KrvKpt. Gunter Jahn (U-596) | 5 patrols | 3 ships sunk (16,930 tons) 2 ships damaged (14,180 tons) |
| 15. | FrgKpt. Albrecht Brandi (U-617, U-967) | 9 patrols | 8 ships sunk (16,610 tons) |
| 16. | KrvKpt. Heinz-Joachim Neumann (U-372) | 5 patrols | 1 ship sunk (14,650 tons) |
| 17. | Oblt. Hubertus Korndörfer (U-407) | 3 patrols | 3 ships sunk (14,441 tons) 1 ship damaged (6,207 tons) |
| 18. | Kptlt. Jürgen Koenenkamp (U-375) | 11 patrols | 9 ships sunk (14,378 tons) 1 ship damaged (2,650 tons) |
| 19. | Oblt. (R) Max Dobbert (U-969) | 2 patrols | 2 ships sunk (14,352 tons) |
| 20. | Kptlt. Victor-Wilhelm Nonn (U-596) | 5 patrols | 8 ships sunk (14,085 tons) |
| 21. | KrvKpt. Georg-Werner Fraatz (U-652) | 7 patrols | 5 ships sunk (13,515 tons) |
| 22. | KrvKpt. Wilhelm Franken (U-565) | 10 patrols | 4 ships sunk (12,887 tons) 2 ships damaged (17,565 tons) |
| 23. | KrvKpt. Robert Bartels (U-561) | 5 patrols | 2 ships sunk (11,754 tons) 1 ship damaged (4,043 tons) |
| 24. | Kptlt. Hans-Georg Trox (U-97) | 2 patrols | 2 ships sunk (10,174 tons) |
| 25. | KrvKpt. Ottokar Arnold Paulssen (U-557) | 2 patrols | 2 ships sunk (9,252 tons) |
| 26. | Kptlt. Horst Deckert (U-73) | 7 patrols | 3 ships sunk (9,029 tons) 3 ships damaged (22,928 tons) |
| 27. | Kptlt. Hanns-Ferdinand Massmann (U-409) | 2 patrols | 2 ships sunk (8,772 tons) |
| 28. | FrgKpt. Wilhelm Dommes (U-431) | 8 patrols | 4 ships sunk (8,077 tons) 2 ships damaged (4,010 tons) |
| 29. | Oblt. Dierk Lührs (U-453) | 3 patrols | 5 ships sunk (7,439 tons) |
| 30. | Kptlt. Oskar Curio (U-952) | 3 patrols | 1 ship sunk (7,176 tons) |
| 31. | Kptlt. Hans-Werner Kraus (U-83) | 7 patrols | 5 ships sunk (6,477 tons) 1 ship damaged (2,590 tons) |
| 32. | Kptlt. Karl-Jürg Wächter (U-223) | 2 patrols | 2 ships sunk (6,270 tons) |
| 33. | Oblt. Walther Huth (U-414) | 2 patrols | 1 ship sunk (5,979 tons) 1 ship damaged (7,134 tons) |
| 34. | Kptlt. Johann Jebsen (U-565) | 2 patrols | 1 ship sunk (5,450 tons) |
| 35. | KrvKpt. Franz-Georg Reschke (U-205) | 6 patrols | 1 ship sunk (5,450 tons) |
| 36. | KrvKpt. Heinrich Heinsohn (U-573) | 3 patrols | 1 ship sunk (5,289 tons) |
| 37. | Kptlt. Friedrich Bürgel (U-97) | 6 patrols | 3 ships sunk (3,974 tons) |
| 38. | Kptlt. Paul Siegmann (U-230) | 4 patrols | 3 ships sunk (3,585 tons) |
| 39. | Kptlt. Konstantin von Puttkamer (U-443) | 2 patrols | 2 ships sunk (2,679 tons) |
| 40. | KrvKpt. Helmuth Ringelmann (U-75) | 2 patrols | 3 ships sunk (2,331 tons) |
| 41. | Kptlt. Siegfried Koitschka (U-616) | 8 patrols | 2 ships sunk (2,181 tons) 2 ships damaged (17,754 tons) |
| 42. | Kptlt. Walter Göing (U-755) | 4 patrols | 2 ships sunk (2,075 tons) |
| 43. | KrvKpt. Udo Heilmann (U-97) | 5 patrols | 2 ships sunk (1,966 tons) |
| 44. | Oblt. Peter Gerlach (U-223) | 2 patrols | 1 ship sunk (1,935 tons) |
| 45. | Kptlt. Hermann Hesse (U-133) | 3 patrols | 1 ship sunk (1,920 tons) |
| 46. | KrvKpt. Heinrich Schonder (U-77) | 6 patrols | 8 ships sunk (1,764 tons) 2 ships damaged (1,845 tons) |
| 47. | Kptlt. Philipp Schüler (U-602) | 3 patrols | 1 ship sunk (1,540 tons) |
| 48. | Oblt. Unno von Fischel (U-374) | 2 patrols | 2 ships sunk (992 tons) |
| 49. | Kptlt. Joachim Preuss (U-568) | 3 patrols | 1 ship sunk (925 tons) |
| 50. | Kptlt. Wolfgang Kaufmann (U-79) | 3 patrols | 1 ship sunk (625 tons) |
| 51. | Oblt. Dietrich Schöneboom (U-431) | 6 patrols | 4 ships sunk (265 tons) |
| 52. | Kptlt. Heinz Schomburg (U-561) | 6 patrols | 1 ship sunk (39 tons) |
On 283 war patrols these 52 men sank 194 ships with a total of 649,719 tons.