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Heinrich-Dietrich Hoffmann

Oberleutnant zur See (Crew 40)



No ships sunk or damaged.


Born  19 Aug 1921 Wilhelmshaven


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Ranks

23 Sep 1940Offiziersanwärter
1 Aug 1941Fähnrich zur See
1 Jul 1942Oberfähnrich zur See
1 Jan 1943Leutnant zur See
1 Oct 1944Oberleutnant zur See

Decorations

U-boat Commands

U-boatFromTo
U-141 7 Nov 1944 2 May 1945   No war patrols 

Ships hit by Heinrich-Dietrich Hoffmann

No entries found.


Books dealing with this subject include

Trial of Heinz Eck, August Hoffmann, Walter Weisspfennig, Hans Richard Lenz and Wolfgang Schwender (The Peleus Trial). Cameron, John (editor), 1948.
Unterseeboot U 196. Mielke, Otto, 1956.


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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