| Born | 11 Mar 1918 | Munich, Germany | |
| Died | 28 Apr 2010 | (92) | Munich, Germany |
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U-boat Commands
| U-boat | From | To | |
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| U-149 | 1 Aug 1942 | 14 May 1944 | No war patrols |
Adolf-Wilhelm von Hammerstein-Equord joined the Kriegsmarine in 1937. He went through U-boat training from Oct 1940 to April 1941. He went through U-boat familiarization (Baubelehrung from April to May 1941 and then became First Watch officer (1WO) on the new U-402 (Kptlt. Siegfried von Forstner) from May to Oct 1941. He left the boat just prior to its first patrol at the end of Oct 1941 (Busch & Röll, 1999).
He then became the First Watch officer (1WO) on the U-71 (Kptlt. Walter Flachsenberg) in Oct 1941 and served on the boat until April 1942 (Busch & Röll, 1999). During this time he went out on 2 war patrols, 92 days at sea, and took part in sinking 5 ships for almost 39,000 tons.
von Hammerstein-Equord then went through U-boat Commander training with the 24th Flotilla and U-boat Commander sea training on the "duck" U-149 from April to July 1942 (Busch & Röll, 1999).
Adolf-Wilhelm von Hammerstein-Equord took command of his old boat U-149 on 1 Aug 1942, commanding the boat until 14 May 1944 (Busch & Röll, 1999). The boat was a school boat and von Hammerstein-Equord never went out on patrol with it.
Leaving his boat he joined the Staff of the U-boat Command in Norway and stayed in staff positions there until the end of the war in May 1945 (Busch & Röll, 1999).
Post war
After the war Baron Adolf-Wilhelm von Hammerstein-Equord spent 1 year as a prisoner of war in England. After he returned to Germany in 1946 he lived in Prien a. Chiemsee, a little town between Munich and Salzburg at the lake Chiemsee.
From 1957 he lived with his family in Munich. He made a professional career and in the end became a director of an insurance company. He spent his retirement in Munich, Germany. He passed away on 28 April 2010 at the age of 92.
Sources
Busch, R. and Röll, H-J. (1999). German U-boat commanders of World War II.
Ships hit by Adolf-Wilhelm von Hammerstein-Equord
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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.
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