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History of the 22.
U-Bootflottille
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The 22.U-Bootflottille (22nd U-Boat Flotilla) was a U-Boat school flotilla
based at Gotenhafen January 1941
and operated there until the end of the war. During Operation Barbarossa,
the 22nd also operated as a facility for frontboots from June through August
1941.
The Flotillenchefs of the 22st were:
Korvettenkapitän Wilhelm Ambrosius from January 1941
until January 1944
Korvettenkapitän Wolfgang Lüth from January 1944 until
July 1944
Korvettenkapitän Heinrich Bleichrodt from July 1944
until the end
Wolfgang
Lüth
Heinrich Bleichrodt
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KTB Magazine and also here on the pages of our website. GEORG
was radioman aboard U-30, the first boat into combat, the first to
sink a ship (the liner ATHENIA) and the first into an occupied
French port. When that Skipper (Lemp) took command of U-110,
GEORG was one of the former crew to transfer to the new boat under Lemp.
After the war, he was Professor of Art at a major German university.
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