Theodor Petersen

Oberleutnant zur See



No ships sunk or damaged.


Born  14 Jan 1914 Flensburg


Ranks

1 Jan 1943Oberleutnant zur See

Decorations

12 Mar 1943German Cross in Gold

U-boat Commands

U-boatFromTo
U-612 31 May 1943 20 Feb 1944   No war patrols 
U-874 8 Apr 1944 8 May 1945   No war patrols 

Personal information

Theodor Petersen, possibly someone elevated from the enlisted ranks to officer status during the war, did not belong to Crew 34 as is often claimed. He may have been belatedly attached to the Crew for mere administrative purposes by the Navy’s personnel office, but he did neither share the common training experience of the Crew’s regular members nor did he participate in any Crew events, such as reunions after the war. Regular Crew 34 members would not have claimed him as one of their own, nor would he have claimed to be one of them.

Ships hit by Theodor Petersen

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