Kriegsmarine U-Boat Badge Award Docs for U-Boat Commanders

[Gordon Williamson]

Here are some award docs to well known commanders.

Jurgen Oesten

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Horst von Schroeter

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Helmut Rosenbaum

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Georg Schewe

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Jochen Brans.

Note that all of the above early documents have the correct foliage border, and correct ink stamp - "Befehlshaber der Unterseeboote-Operationsabteilung"

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Bronze and Silver Frontspange for von Schroeter

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Frontspange for Rolf Thomsen

[Jan Arne S]

WOW !

Jan Arne

Edited June 24, 2007 by Jan Arne S

[RichardT]

Great set of documents Gordon. The more original documents we get to view, the more educated we become and value of that is inestimable.

Richard

[Erik Krogh]

Gordon,

Thanks for posting your amazing docs! Just wonderful to see.

Here is an early U-Boat document awarded posthumously to Kplt. Wilhelm Fr?hlich of U-36. Fr?hlich died when U-36 went down on December 16, 1939, one of the first U-Boats sunk in the war.

Fr?hlich is immortalized in Georg H?gel's "U-Boat Emblems of World War II 1939-1945" on pages 42-43 as informing the Captain of S/S Turo (Capt. J. E. Egner) "Good day Captain, I am sorry but war is war and I am going to sink your ship. Why did you run away from me?" After requiring Egner to sign a paper promising that Egner "would not go on board a British Man O' War or merchant vessel until after the war" and sending an SOS with the lifeboats' position, Fr?hlich asked Egner if there was anything else he needed. Egner replied that he needed water, to which Fr?hlich replied "No, the water on my ship is bad, but I will give you beer." Egner received "24 bottles of beer and a bucket for baling out the boat."

Best Regards,

Erik

Edited June 27, 2007 by Erik Krogh

[Erik Krogh]

I have Fr?hlich's photo album and am pretty sure that this is a picture of him.

[Erik Krogh]

I have Fr?hlich's photo album and am pretty sure that this is a picture of him.

Here's a page from Fr?hlich's photo album.

[Gordon Williamson]

Quite fabulous Erik ! Sad that such a gallant officer was lost so early in the war.

I will be over at the U-Boot Archiv later in the year and will try to find some more images of him for you.

[Erik Krogh]

Thank you for your very generous offer to obtain more information on Kplt. Fr?hlich, Gordon! Much appreciated, and I'll look forward to your research.

Best,

Erik