| Born | 4 Oct 1919 | The Hague, Holland | |
| Died | 27 Apr 1945 | (25) | (land-fighting) |
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Ranks
Decorations |
U-boat Commands
| U-boat | From | To | |
|---|---|---|---|
| U-1004 | 16 Dec 1943 | Jan, 1945 | 1 patrol (56 days) |
Hartmuth Schimmelpfennig was demoted to the ranks and was killed in ground unit as an ordinary seaman on 27 April 1945 (Busch & Röll, 1999).
Patrol info for Hartmuth Schimmelpfennig
| U-boat | Departure | Arrival | ||||||
| 1. | U-1004 | 22 Aug 1944 | Kiel | 24 Aug 1944 | Horten | 3 days | ||
| 2. | U-1004 | 26 Aug 1944 | Horten | 27 Aug 1944 | Marviken | 2 days | ||
| 3. | U-1004 | 29 Aug 1944 | Marviken | 23 Oct 1944 | Bergen | Patrol 1, | 56 days | |
| 4. | U-1004 | 26 Oct 1944 | Bergen | 27 Oct 1944 | Stavanger | 2 days | ||
Ships hit by Hartmuth Schimmelpfennig
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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.