Date of birth:

October 18th, 1914

Date of death:

November 30th, 1944 (Sunda Straits south of Java)

Buried on:

German Submarines Memorial

Nationality:

German

30.11.1944: U-196 want missing since 1st Dec, 1944 near the Sunda Straits south of Java. She may have had a diving accident. All 65 hands lost.
U-196 under Korvkpt. Kentrat completed from 13 March, 1943 to 23 Oct, 1943 the longest patrol a submarine in WWII ever did (225 days at sea).

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• - PATZWALL, K. & SCHERZER, V., Das Deutsche Kreuz 1941-1945, Verlag Klaus D. Patzwall, Norderstedt, 2001.
  

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