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Siegfried Lüdden

Korvettenkapitän (Crew 36)

Successes
8 ships sunk for a total of 49,725 GRT
1 warship sunk for a total of 1,190 tons
1 ship damaged for a total of 9,977 GRT

Born	20 May 1916		Neubrandenburg, Stargard
Died	13 Jan 1945	(28)	Kiel

Kptlt. Siegfried Lüdden

Ranks

3 Apr 1936	Offiziersanwärter
10 Sep 1936	Seekadett
10 Sep 1936	Seekadett
1 May 1937	Fähnrich zur See
1 Jul 1938	Oberfähnrich zur See
1 Oct 1938	Leutnant zur See
1 Oct 1940	Oberleutnant zur See
1 Apr 1943	Kapitänleutnant
18 Mar 1945	Korvettenkapitän (posthumous)

Decorations

18 Dec 1941	Iron Cross 2nd Class
29 Dec 1941	U-boat War Badge 1939
8 Apr 1942	Iron Cross 1st Class
11 Feb 1944	Knights Cross
27 Sep 1944	U-boat Front Clasp

U-boat Commands

U-boat	From	To
U-188	5 Aug 1942	9 Aug 1944	3 patrols (356 days)

Personal information

Leutnant zur See Siegfried Lüdden spent his first year as an officer in the Luftwaffe, but in April 1940 he entered U-boat officer training. After a short time on U-141 he was aide-de-camp for seven months in several flotillas.

On 11 April, 1943 on his first patrol with U-188 he sank the British destroyer HMS Beverley. His second patrol took him to Penang and later to Singapore in the Far East, where he took on board 100 tons of tin and other badly-needed materials for the German war industry and transported them to his French base in June 1944.

Korvkpt. Siegfried Lüdden died during a fire on the living-quarters-ship Daressalam in Kiel.

Patrol info for Siegfried Lüdden

	U-boat	Departure		Arrival
1.	U-188	4 Mar 1943	Kiel	4 May 1943	Lorient	Patrol 1,	62 days
2.	U-188	30 Jun 1943	Lorient	30 Oct 1943	Penang	Patrol 2,	123 days
3.	U-188	1 Jan 1944	Penang	19 Jun 1944	Bordeaux	Patrol 3,	171 days
3 patrols, 356 days at sea

Ships hit by Siegfried Lüdden

Date	Boat	Name of ship	Tons	Nat.		Convoy	Fate *
11 Apr, 1943	U-188	HMS Beverley (H 64)	1,190		br	ON-176
21 Sep, 1943	U-188	Cornelia P. Spencer	7,176		am
5 Oct, 1943	U-188	Britannia	9,977		nw		damaged

20 Jan, 1944	U-188	Fort Buckingham	7,122		br
25 Jan, 1944	U-188	Fort la Maune	7,130		br
26 Jan, 1944	U-188	Samouri	7,219		br
26 Jan, 1944	U-188	Surada	5,427		br
29 Jan, 1944	U-188	Olga E. Embiricos	4,677		gr
3 Feb, 1944	U-188	Chung Cheng	7,176		ch
9 Feb, 1944	U-188	Viva	3,798		nw
			60,892
* Unless otherwise noted the ships listed here were sunk.