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Helmut Köster

Kapitänleutnant (Crew 34)



No ships sunk or damaged.


Born  25 Apr 1914 Geestemünde Kronenbitter
Died  21 Dec 1941(27)


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Ranks

8 Apr 1934Offiziersanwärter
1 Jul 1935Fähnrich zur See
1 Jan 1937Oberfähnrich zur See
1 Apr 1937Leutnant zur See
1 Apr 1939Oberleutnant zur See
1 Dec 1941Kapitänleutnant

Decorations

U-boat Commands

U-boatFromTo
U-72 Sep, 1941 1 Dec 1941   No war patrols 

Kptlt. Helmut Köster died on U-567 while serving as a supernumerary Watch Officer (WO) under the famous Engelbert Endrass (Busch & Röll, 1999).

Ships hit by Helmut Köster

No entries found.


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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