5 EM Going to Marineschule Mürwik in 1941

[Joe Slavick]

I have six different photos of five friends----KM enlisted men who were selected for and attended Officer Training School at Marineschule Mürwik in 1941.

This is what I know of these men. From the left:

1. Ernst-Helmut Gackenholz: Born 14 Apr 1923--Lost as a Leutnant zur See in July 1944. No Further data.

2. Johann Glaser: Born 17 Feb 1922—Served aboard U 373 and was aboard when U 373 was sunk on 08 Jun 1944. Rescued by German forces. Then served aboard U 3508 from Non 1944 until Mar 1945. Transferred to U 3044 in Mar 1945 and assigned to the boat until May 1945. Survived.

3. Günter Arp: Earned Minesweeper Badge as an enlisted man before being selected to attend Officer Training School at Marineschule Mürwik in 1941. No Further data.

4. Siegfried Bauspieß: Born 20 Aug 1921. Earned Minesweeper Badge as an enlisted man before being selected to attend Officer Training School at Marineschule Mürwik in 1941. Killed in action as a Leutnant zur See aboard M-346 in the Arctic Ocean when the destroyer was sunk by the Soviet submarine S-56. 32 of M-346 crewman died. No Further data.


5. Eberhard Rünge: Earned Minesweeper Badge as an enlisted man before being selected to attend . Served as commander of S-69 in 1945. No Further data.


Any other data about these men?

Joe

[Hirschstein]

Hey Joe

Eberhard Runge went on to CO S-69 in the Baltic in the Fall of 1944 till wars end. He particpated on a major operation with S-64 and S-81 against 9 Soviet D-3's sinking 3 of them and damaging another 4. the 3 S-Boot CO's took 15 POW's plus the CO of the 2nd TKA Division on 27th of March 1945. Runge was one of 8 CO's in the 2. Schnellbootschule Flottille that provided escort services to the retreating Km ships loaded with refugee's along with independent mining and torpedo/cannon operations against any Soviet ship/submarine underaken.
A little more info all 8 S-Boots were 38B variants-older Boots but had the updated armored Kalotte in place. the unit was identified with numbers for each vessel.

E ~

[Mil-Archive]

I have an album from Marineschule Mürwik from 1941 (Jan-June) - I don't have it photographed or online yet but will let you know when the pictures are done on the offchance one of your guys may be in the pictures. There are only about 15 - 20 KM pictures from there at that time.

[Joe Slavick]

Hirschstein: Thanks for the additional information! Great info.

Helden: I'll keep a watch for when you get the album scanned. It would be interesting if there was a connection between the two photo sets.

Joe