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Max Viebeg
Kapitänleutnant (Crew 4/06)
| Successes 50 ships sunk for a total of 79,748 GRT 10 ships damaged for a total of 49,140 GRT 1 ship taken as prize for a total of 1,047 GRT |
| Born: | 6 Apr 1887 | Rössel/Ostpreußen |
| Died: | 9 Nov 1961 |
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Decorations
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U-boat Commands
| UC 10 | 4 Nov 1915 | - | 8 Dec 1915 |
| UB 20 | 10 Feb 1916 | - | 31 Jan 1917 |
| UB 32 | 25 Feb 1917 | - | 5 Aug 1917 |
| UC 65 | 1 Aug 1917 | - | 3 Sep 1917 |
| UB 80 | 8 Sep 1917 | - | 11 Nov 1918 |
Notes
Viebeg entered the Kaiserliche Marine as Seekadett in 1906 and served on the battleship SMS Hessen in 1910. He then became watch officer on the torpedo boat V-190 in the 1st Torpedo Boat Flotilla until joining the U-boat school in October 1915. After commanding UC-10 and UB-20 in the Baltic Flotilla he was transferred with UB-32 to the Flanders Flotilla in February 1917. He briefly took command of UC-65 and was then commander of UB-80 until the end of the war.
Awarded the Pour le Mérite on the 30 or the 31 of January, probably the 31 together with others. For outstanding leadership and distinguished naval planning and successful submarine operations. Also given in recognition of having sunk a total of 169,656 BRT of enemy shipping (later research has reduced this number quite a bit).
Max Viebeg retired from military service on 28 January 1920 and left Germany to manage a tea plantation on Java, Dutch East Indies.