Hans-Dieter Mohs

Kapitänleutnant (Crew 37b)


Successes
1 warship sunk, total tonnage 1,190 tons
1 ship a total loss, total tonnage 7,176 GRT

Born  22 Sep 1919 Magdeburg
Died  10 Mar 2009(89)Bonn, Germany


Ranks

9 Oct 1937 Offiziersanwärter
28 Jun 1938 Seekadett
1 Apr 1939 Fähnrich zur See
1 Mar 1940 Oberfähnrich zur See
1 May 1940 Leutnant zur See
1 Apr 1942 Oberleutnant zur See
1 Jan 1945 Kapitänleutnant

Decorations

  Iron Cross 2nd Class
  Iron Cross 1st Class
  U-boat Front Clasp
6 Feb 1945 German Cross in Gold

U-boat Commands

U-boatFromTo
U-5 26 Mar 1942 May, 1942   No war patrols 
U-60 May, 1942 6 Dec 1942   No war patrols 
U-956 6 Jan 1943 13 May 1945   13 patrols (316 days) 

Patrol info for Hans-Dieter Mohs

 U-boat Departure Arrival  
1. U-956 3 Aug 1943  Kiel  6 Aug 1943  Bergen   4 days
2. U-956 14 Aug 1943  Bergen  17 Aug 1943  Narvik   4 days
3. U-956 18 Aug 1943  Narvik  13 Sep 1943  Narvik  Patrol 1,27 days
4. U-956 23 Sep 1943  Narvik  4 Nov 1943  Narvik  Patrol 2,43 days
5. U-956 5 Nov 1943  Narvik  8 Nov 1943  Bergen   4 days
6. U-956 28 Dec 1943  Bergen  7 Jan 1944  Narvik  Patrol 3,11 days
7. U-956 8 Jan 1944  Narvik  18 Jan 1944  Skjomenfjord  Patrol 4,11 days
8. U-956 25 Jan 1944  Skjomenfjord  2 Feb 1944  Hammerfest  Patrol 5,9 days
9. U-956 15 Feb 1944  Hammerfest  2 Mar 1944  Narvik  Patrol 6,17 days
10. U-956 23 Mar 1944  Narvik  8 Apr 1944  Narvik  Patrol 7,17 days
11. U-956 9 Apr 1944  Narvik  12 Apr 1944  Bergen   4 days
12. U-956 3 Jun 1944  Bergen  8 Jun 1944  Narvik   6 days
13. U-956 9 Jun 1944  Narvik  10 Jun 1944  Hammerfest   2 days
14. U-956 23 Jun 1944  Hammerfest  23 Jun 1944  Hammerfest   1 days
15. U-956 26 Jun 1944  Hammerfest  24 Jul 1944  Harstad  Patrol 8,29 days
16. U-956 24 Jul 1944  Harstad  24 Jul 1944  Narvik   1 days
17. U-956 27 Aug 1944  Narvik  28 Aug 1944  Tromsö   2 days
18. U-956 28 Aug 1944  Tromsö  28 Aug 1944  Hammerfest   1 days
19. U-956 29 Aug 1944  Hammerfest  5 Sep 1944  Hammerfest  Patrol 9,8 days
20. U-956 6 Sep 1944  Hammerfest  8 Sep 1944  Skjomenfjord   3 days
21. U-956 14 Sep 1944  Skjomenfjord  3 Oct 1944  Narvik  Patrol 10,20 days
22. U-956 15 Oct 1944  Narvik  24 Nov 1944  Narvik  Patrol 11,41 days
23. U-956 11 Dec 1944  Narvik  20 Jan 1945  Narvik  Patrol 12,41 days
24. U-956 22 Jan 1945  Narvik  25 Jan 1945  Trondheim   4 days
25. U-956 2 Apr 1945  Trondheim  13 May 1945  Loch Eriboll, UK  Patrol 13,42 days
13 patrols, 316 days at sea

Ships hit by Hans-Dieter Mohs

Date U-boat Name of ship Tons Nat. Convoy
30 Dec 1944U-956 Tbilisi (t.)7,176sjKP-24
 
16 Jan 1945U-956 Dejatelnyj1,190sjKB-1
 8,366

2 ships sunk (8,366 tons).

Legend
We have a picture of this vessel.
(t.) means the ship was a total loss (included in ships & tonnage lost).


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.

Media links


U-Boat Attack Logs

Daniel Morgan and Bruce Taylor


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German U-boat Commanders of World War II

Busch, Rainer and Röll, Hans-Joachim

Listing of all U-boat commanders


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