Kapitän zur See Hans-Georg Friedrich Poske - German U-boat Commanders of WWII - The Men of the Kriegsmarine (original) (raw)

Kapitän zur See (Crew 23)

Successes
15 ships sunk, total tonnage 78,123 GRT
1 ship a total loss, total tonnage 7,176 GRT

Born 23 Oct 1904
Died 1 Oct 1984 (79) Wachtberg near Bonn, Germany

U-boat Commands

U-boat From To
U-504 30 Jul 1941 5 Jan 1943 4 patrols (264 days)

Fritz Poske joined the Reichsmarine in April 1923. He served on the torpedo boat Albatros and on the light cruisers Königsberg and Nürnberg, and in October 1940 transferred to the U-boat force. After standard training he commissioned the type IXC U-boat U-504 in July 1941. He was one of the few commanders to take a boat on active service without any previous experience as a U-boat Watch Officer or Commander-in-Training (Kommandantenschüler).

His second patrol was successful: four ships sunk with a total of 26,561 tons. He also scored on his next two patrols, sinking 11 more ships, and was awarded the Knights Cross in Nov 1942.

Korvettenkapitän Poske left U-504 in January 1943 to command the 1st ULD (Unterseeboots-Lehrdivision, U-boat Training Division). For the last months of the war he was Chief of the Special Staff for Marine Infantry (Chefs des Sonderstabes Marineinfanterie at OKM (Naval High Command). After the war he spent 11 months in British captivity.

In 1951 he joined the Federal German Navy, retiring in 1963 with the rank of Kapitän zur See.

Sources

Busch, R. and Röll, H-J. (1999). German U-boat commanders of World War II.
Busch, R. and Röll, H-J. (1997). Der U-Bootkrieg 1939-1945 (Band 2).
Rohwer, J. (1998). Axis Submarine Successes of World War Two.

Patrol info for Hans-Georg Friedrich Poske

| | U-boat | Departure | Arrival | | | | | | | -------------------------- | ------------------------ | ----------- | ------- | ----------- | ------- | --------- | -------- | | 1. | U-504 | 6 Jan 1942 | Kiel | 20 Jan 1942 | Lorient | Patrol 1, | 15 days | | 2. | U-504 | 25 Jan 1942 | Lorient | 1 Apr 1942 | Lorient | Patrol 2, | 67 days | | 3. | U-504 | 2 May 1942 | Lorient | 7 Jul 1942 | Lorient | Patrol 3, | 67 days | | 4. | U-504 | 19 Aug 1942 | Lorient | 11 Dec 1942 | Lorient | Patrol 4, | 115 days | | 4 patrols, 264 days at sea | | | | | | | |

Ships hit by Hans-Georg Friedrich Poske

Date U-boat Commander Name of ship Tons Nat. Convoy
22 Feb 1942 U-504 Hans-Georg Friedrich Poske Republic 5,287 am
23 Feb 1942 U-504 Hans-Georg Friedrich Poske W.D. Anderson 10,227 am
26 Feb 1942 U-504 Hans-Georg Friedrich Poske Mamura 8,245 nl
16 Mar 1942 U-504 Hans-Georg Friedrich Poske Stangarth 5,966 br
29 May 1942 U-504 Hans-Georg Friedrich Poske Allister 1,597 br
8 Jun 1942 U-504 Hans-Georg Friedrich Poske Tela 3,901 ho
8 Jun 1942 U-504 Hans-Georg Friedrich Poske Rosenborg 1,512 br
11 Jun 1942 U-504 Hans-Georg Friedrich Poske Crijnssen 4,282 nl
11 Jun 1942 U-504 Hans-Georg Friedrich Poske American 4,846 am
14 Jun 1942 U-504 Hans-Georg Friedrich Poske Regent 3,280 le
17 Oct 1942 U-504 Hans-Georg Friedrich Poske Empire Chaucer 5,970 br
23 Oct 1942 U-504 Hans-Georg Friedrich Poske City of Johannesburg 5,669 br
26 Oct 1942 U-504 Hans-Georg Friedrich Poske Anne Hutchinson (t.) 7,176 am
31 Oct 1942 U-504 Hans-Georg Friedrich Poske Empire Guidon 7,041 br
31 Oct 1942 U-504 Hans-Georg Friedrich Poske Reynolds 5,113 br
3 Nov 1942 U-504 Hans-Georg Friedrich Poske Porto Alegre 5,187 bz
85,299
16 ships sunk (85,299 tons).Legend We have a picture of this vessel.(t.) means the ship was a total loss (included in ships & tonnage lost).

Men who sank over 50,000 tons

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