Wolfgang Ketelsen

Kapitänleutnant (Crew 34)

No ships sunk or damaged.

Born	14 Aug 1911		Lüne/Lüneberg
Died	10 Dec 1963	(52)	New Orleans, USA

Kriegsmarine Crew photo

Ranks

8 Apr 1934		Offiziersanwärter
1 Jul 1935		Fähnrich zur See
1 Jan 1937		Oberfähnrich zur See
1 Apr 1937		Leutnant zur See
1 Apr 1939		Oberleutnant zur See
1 Feb 1942		Kapitänleutnant

U-boat Commands

U-boat	From	To
UD-1	15 Dec 1942	17 May 1943	No war patrols

Wolfgang Ketelsen was a former merchant navy officer (Rust, 2009).

Sources

Rust, E. (2009) E-mail correspondence. Author of Naval Officers under Hitler.

Patrol info for Wolfgang Ketelsen

This commander did not go out on patrols with his boats.

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.