WWI U-boat commanders

Raimund Weisbach

Kapitänleutnant (Crew 4/05)

Successes
36 ships sunk with a total of 107,763 GRT
2 ships damaged with a total of 3,481 GRT

Born:16 Sep 1886 Breslau 
Died:16 Jun 1970 Hamburg 

Raimund Weisbach

Ranks

Oberleutnant zur See
24 Apr 1916Kapitänleutnant

Decorations

Iron Cross 2nd class
Iron Cross 1st class

U-boat Commands

U 1916 Mar 1916 - 10 Aug 1916
U 8122 Aug 1916 - 1 May 1917

Notes

Raimund Weisbach was a Watch Officer (and torpedo officer) under Kapitänleutnant Walther Schwieger’s command when U 20 torpedoed S/S Lusitania on 7th May 1915. He prepared and fired the fatal torpedo, under Schwieger’s order. Back in Germany, he was awarded the Iron Cross 1st Class.

The World War One career of Kapitänleutnant Raimund Weisbach ended on 1st May 1917 when U 81 was torpedoed by the British submarine E 54. 24 members of the U-boat crew died. Weisbach, his watch officer Otto Walter and five other Germans survived. They spent the rest of the war as prisoners in Britain.

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