German submarine U-11 (1935)
II B
M 27 219
Germania Werft in Kiel
July 20, 1934
545
May 6, 1935
August 27, 1935
September 21, 1935
- September 21, 1935 - October 1, 1937 Kptlt Hans -Rudolf Rösing
- August 13, 1938 - September 4, 1939 Kptlt Viktor Schütze
- September 5, 1939 - March 22, 1943 Kptlt Georg Peters
- March 23, 1943 - July 13, 1944 Oblt.z.S. Gottfried Stolzenburg
- July 14, 1944 - December 15, 1944 Oblt.z.S. Günter Dobenecker
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U 11 was a German U- boat of the type II B, which was used in World War II by the Kriegsmarine.
History
The construction contract for the boat was given the Germania shipyard in Kiel on 20 July 1934. The keel was laid on 6 May 1935 the launching on August 27, 1935, and was commissioned under Lieutenant Hans -Rudolf Rösing on 21 September 1935.
After the commissioning of the boat served until June 30, 1940 as the school boat at the submarine Schulflottille. From 1 July to 30 November 1940, there was a school boat at the first U- Flotilla in Kiel. Then it went back to the submarine Schulflottille that had been laid under their new name 21 U- Flotilla in July 1940 after pillau. There, the boat remained until May 1941. From May to September 1941, was as a test boat for measures against underwater detection at the NPC used in pillau and Neufahrwasser. Finally, U was 11 on October 1, 1941 the 5th U- Flotilla to Kiel, where it also served as a pilot boat. This was followed from 1 March 1943 until the end of the war to 22 U- Flotilla to Gotenhafen where it was reinstated as a school boat.
The boat drove during his service no enemy companies and served exclusively as a school or testing boat.
Whereabouts
U 11 was blown up on 3 May 1945 as part of Operation Rainbow in Kiel, after it had been made already on 14 December 1944 in Gdynia out of service and towed to Kiel on January 5, 1945. The rest of U 11 was scrapped in 1947 in Kiel.