Ottokar Arnold Paulssen
Korvettenkapitän (Crew 34)
| Successes 6 ships sunk for a total of 31,729 GRT 1 warship sunk for a total of 5,220 tons |
| Born | 11 Oct 1915 | Berlin-Charlottenburg | |
| Died | 16 Dec 1941 | (26) | Mediterranean |
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U-boat Commands
| U-boat | From | To | |
| U-20 | 8 Jun 1940 | 5 Jan 1941 | No war patrols |
| U-557 | 13 Feb 1941 | 16 Dec 1941 (+) | 4 patrols (120 days) |
Patrol info for Ottokar Arnold Paulssen
| U-boat | Departure | Arrival | ||||||
| 1. | U-557 | 13 May 1941 | Kiel | 10 Jul 1941 | Lorient | Patrol 1, | 59 days | |
| 2. | U-557 | 13 Aug 1941 | Lorient | 15 Aug 1941 | Lorient | Patrol 2, | 3 days | |
| 3. | U-557 | 20 Aug 1941 | Lorient | 19 Sep 1941 | Lorient | Patrol 2, | 31 days | |
| 4. | U-557 | 19 Nov 1941 | Lorient | 7 Dec 1941 | Messina | Patrol 3, | 19 days | |
| 5. | U-557 | 9 Dec 1941 | Messina | 16 Dec 1941 | Sunk | Patrol 4, | 8 days | |
| 4 patrols, 120 days at sea | ||||||||
Ships hit by Ottokar Arnold Paulssen
| Date | U-boat | Name of ship | Tons | Nat. | Convoy | ||
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| 29 May 1941 | U-557 | Empire Storm | 7,290 |  | br | HX-128 | |
| 27 Aug 1941 | U-557 | Embassage | 4,954 | | br | OS-4 | |
| 27 Aug 1941 | U-557 |  | Saugor | 6,303 | | br | OS-4 |
| 27 Aug 1941 | U-557 | Segundo | 4,414 |  | nw | OS-4 | |
| 27 Aug 1941 | U-557 | | Tremoda | 4,736 | | br | OS-4 |
| 2 Dec 1941 | U-557 | Fjord | 4,032 | | nw | ||
| 15 Dec 1941 | U-557 | | HMS Galatea (71) | 5,220 | | br | |
| 36,949 | |||||||
7 ships sunk (36,949 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.