| Born | 25 Dec 1909 | Bautzen, Saxony | |
| Died | 13 Feb 1980 | (70) | Hamburg |
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Ranks
Decorations
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U-boat Commands
| U-boat | From | To | |
| U-161 | 8 Jul 1941 | 30 Nov 1941 | No war patrols |
| U-161 | 1 Dec 1941 | 31 Dec 1941 | No war patrols |
| U-129 | 14 May 1942 | 8 Jul 1943 | 3 patrols (275 days) |
| U-3524 | 26 Jan 1945 | 5 May 1945 | No war patrols |
Personal information
Hans Witt spent his first years in the navy on school ships, including the Gorch Fock and the Schlageter. In October 1940 he entered U-boat training. With U-129 he completed three very successful patrols in the western Atlantic and the Caribbean. Later he spent a year as a member of the BdU staff.
In the last months of the war he was one of the highly decorated U-boat commanders (like Schnee, Cremer, Emmermann and Topp) who took command of the new Elektro U-boats (Types XXI and XXIII) in an attempt to turn the tide in the battle of the Atlantic.
Patrol info for Hans-Ludwig Witt
| U-boat | Departure | Arrival | ||||||
| 1. | U-129 | 20 May 1942 | Lorient | 21 Aug 1942 | Lorient | Patrol 1, | 94 days | |
| 2. | U-129 | 28 Sep 1942 | Lorient | 6 Jan 1943 | Lorient | Patrol 2, | 101 days | |
| 3. | U-129 | 11 Mar 1943 | Lorient | 29 May 1943 | Lorient | Patrol 3, | 80 days | |
| 3 patrols, 275 days at sea | ||||||||
Ships hit by Hans-Ludwig Witt
| Date | U-boat | Name of ship | Tons | Nat. | Convoy | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 Jun 1942 | U-129 | L.A. Christensen | 4,362 |  | nw | ||
| 12 Jun 1942 | U-129 |  | Hardwicke Grange | 9,005 |  | br | |
| 17 Jun 1942 | U-129 | Millinocket | 3,274 |  | am | ||
| 27 Jun 1942 | U-129 | Las Choapas | 2,005 |  | me | ||
| 27 Jun 1942 | U-129 | | Tuxpam | 7,008 | | me | |
| 1 Jul 1942 | U-129 | | Cadmus | 1,855 | | nw | |
| 2 Jul 1942 | U-129 | | Gundersen | 1,841 | | nw | |
| 4 Jul 1942 | U-129 | Tuapse | 6,320 |  | sj | ||
| 12 Jul 1942 | U-129 | | Tachirá | 2,325 | | am | |
| 19 Jul 1942 | U-129 | Port Antonio | 1,266 | | nw | ||
| 23 Jul 1942 | U-129 | | Onondaga | 2,309 | | am | |
| 16 Oct 1942 | U-129 | | Trafalgar | 5,542 | | nw | |
| 23 Oct 1942 | U-129 | | Reuben Tipton | 6,829 | | am | |
| 30 Oct 1942 | U-129 | | West Kebar | 5,620 | | am | |
| 5 Nov 1942 | U-129 | | Astrell | 7,595 | | nw | TAG-18 |
| 5 Nov 1942 | U-129 | Meton | 7,027 | | am | TAG-18 | |
| 2 Apr 1943 | U-129 | | Melbourne Star | 12,806 | | br | |
| 24 Apr 1943 | U-129 | | Santa Catalina | 6,507 | | am | |
| 4 May 1943 | U-129 | Panam | 7,277 |  | pa | NK-538 | |
| 100,773 | |||||||
19 ships sunk (100,773 tons). Legend | |||||||
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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.