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  • Werner Hartenstein
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  • Gustav Julius Werner Hartenstein (27 February 1908 – 8 March 1943) commanded the U-boat in the German Navy of the Third Reich during World War II. He received the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross, a decoration awarded to recognise extreme battlefield bravery or outstanding military leadership. Corvette captain (or lieutenant commander) Hartenstein is credited with the sinking of 20 ships for a total of , and with damaging three ships and a destroyer.
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serviceyears
  • 1928
Birth Date
  • 1908-02-27
Commands
  • torpedo boat Seeadler
  • torpedo boat Jaguar
death place
  • Atlantic Ocean
Name
  • Werner Hartenstein
Caption
  • Werner Hartenstein
Birth Place
  • Plauen
Title
  • Deputy commander of 6th Torpedo-boat Flotilla
Awards
death date
  • 1943-03-08
Rank
Allegiance
  • Nazi Germany
  • Weimar Republic
Battles
Before
  • Korvettenkapitän Georg Waue
Years
  • --03-04
Alt
  • The head and shoulders of a man, shown in semi-profile. He wears a peaked cap, white shirt and a black jacket, and a military decoration in shape of an Iron Cross at his neck.
After
  • Korvettenkapitän Hans Marks
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  • Gustav Julius Werner Hartenstein (27 February 1908 – 8 March 1943) commanded the U-boat in the German Navy of the Third Reich during World War II. He received the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross, a decoration awarded to recognise extreme battlefield bravery or outstanding military leadership. Corvette captain (or lieutenant commander) Hartenstein is credited with the sinking of 20 ships for a total of , and with damaging three ships and a destroyer. Born in Plauen, Hartenstein joined the Reichsmarine (navy) of the Weimar Republic in 1928. After a period of training on surface vessels and service on various torpedo boats during the Spanish Civil War and the first year of World War II, he transferred to the U-boat service in 1941. In September 1942, Hartenstein torpedoed and sank the , then attempted to rescue the survivors. He was forced to abort the rescue when his U-boat came under attack by a B-24 Liberator bomber of the United States Army Air Forces. The event became known as the "Laconia incident" and resulted in the "Laconia order", an order from the Befehlshaber der U-Boote to the entire German U-boat force that forbade rescuing the survivors of sunken ships. Hartenstein and the entire crew of U-156 were killed in action by depth charges from a US PBY Catalina aircraft on 8 March 1943.