Georg-Werner Fraatz
Korvettenkapitän (Crew 35)
| Successes 2 ships sunk for a total of 8,152 GRT 1 auxiliary warship sunk for a total of 558 GRT 2 warships sunk for a total of 2,740 tons 2 ships damaged for a total of 9,918 GRT 1 auxiliary warship damaged for a total of 10,917 GRT |
| Born | 30 Mar 1917 | Hamelin | |
| Died | 12 Feb 1943 | (25) | North Atlantic |
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Ranks
Decorations
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U-boat Commands
| U-boat | From | To | |
| U-652 | 3 Apr 1941 | 2 Jun 1942 | 8 patrols (139 days) |
| U-529 | 30 Sep 1942 | 12 Feb 1943 (+) | 1 patrol (14 days) |
Personal information
Missing, official date of death was Feb 15, 1943.
Patrol info for Georg-Werner Fraatz
| U-boat | Departure | Arrival | ||||||
| 1. | U-652 | 19 Jun 1941 | Kiel | 20 Jun 1941 | Horten | 2 days | ||
| 2. | U-652 | 29 Jun 1941 | Horten | 3 Jul 1941 | Trondheim | 5 days | ||
| 3. | U-652 | 17 Jul 1941 | Trondheim | 22 Jul 1941 | Bökfjord | 6 days | ||
| 4. | U-652 | 23 Jul 1941 | Bökfjord | 7 Aug 1941 | Kirkenes | Patrol 1, | 16 days | |
| 5. | U-652 | 9 Aug 1941 | Kirkenes | 13 Aug 1941 | Trondheim | 5 days | ||
| 6. | U-652 | 23 Aug 1941 | Trondheim | 18 Sep 1941 | Lorient | Patrol 2, | 27 days | |
| 7. | U-652 | 1 Nov 1941 | Lorient | 12 Dec 1941 | Messina | Patrol 3, | 42 days | |
| 8. | U-652 | 14 Dec 1941 | Messina | 1 Jan 1942 | La Spezia | Patrol 4, | 19 days | |
| 9. | U-652 | 5 Feb 1942 | La Spezia | 16 Feb 1942 | Salamis | 12 days | ||
| 10. | U-652 | 21 Feb 1942 | Salamis | 1 Mar 1942 | Salamis | Patrol 5, | 9 days | |
| 11. | U-652 | 12 Mar 1942 | Salamis | 14 Mar 1942 | Salamis | Patrol 6, | 3 days | |
| 12. | U-652 | 18 Mar 1942 | Salamis | 31 Mar 1942 | Pola | Patrol 7, | 14 days | |
| 13. | U-652 | 25 May 1942 | Pola | 2 Jun 1942 | Sunk | Patrol 8, | 9 days | |
| 14. | U-529 | 30 Jan 1943 | Kiel | 12 Feb 1943 | Sunk | Patrol 9, | 14 days | |
| 9 patrols, 153 days at sea | ||||||||
Ships hit by Georg-Werner Fraatz
| Date | U-boat | Name of ship | Tons | Nat. | Convoy | ||
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| 6 Aug 1941 | U-652 | PS-70 | 558 |  | sj | ||
| 26 Aug 1941 | U-652 |  | HMS Southern Prince (d.) | 10,917 |  | br | |
| 10 Sep 1941 | U-652 | | Baron Pentland (d.) | 3,410 | | br | SC-42 |
| 10 Sep 1941 | U-652 | Tahchee (d.) | 6,508 | | br | SC-42 | |
| 9 Dec 1941 | U-652 | Saint Denis | 1,595 |  | fr | ||
| 19 Dec 1941 | U-652 | Varlaam Avanesov | 6,557 | | sj | ||
| 20 Mar 1942 | U-652 | HMS Heythrop (L 85) | 1,050 | | br | ||
| 26 Mar 1942 | U-652 | | HMS Jaguar (F 34) | 1,690 | | br | |
| 32,285 | |||||||
5 ships sunk (11,450 tons) and 3 ships damaged (20,835 tons). Legend | |||||||
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.