Siegfried Strelow

Siegfried Strelow
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Born	(1911-04-15)15 April 1911 Kiel
Died	North Atlantic
Buried
Allegiance	Weimar Republic (to 1933) Nazi Germany
Service/branch	Reichsmarine Kriegsmarine
Years of service	1931–43
Rank	Korvettenkapitän (posthumous)
Unit	SSS Niobe cruiser Karlsruhe torpedo boat Seeadler Schleswig-Holstein Panzerschiff Admiral Graf Spee destroyer Z4 Richard Beitzen cruiser Leipzig
Commands held	torpedo boat G-11 torpedo boat Albatros torpedo boat Löwe U-435
Battles/wars	World War II Battle of the Atlantic
Awards	Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross

Siegfried Strelow (15 April 1911 – 15 July 1943) was a German U-boat commander in World War II and recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross (German: Ritterkreuz des Eisernen Kreuzes), awarded for extreme battlefield bravery or successful military leadership. He and the entire crew of U-435 were killed in action west of Figueira da Foz Municipality, Portugal, in position when their boat was sunk by four depth charges from a Royal Air Force (RAF) Vickers Wellington bomber of No. 179 Squadron RAF.

Summary of career

Ships Attacked

As a U-boat commander of U-435 Strelow is credited with the sinking of nine merchant ships for a total of 53,712 gross register tons (GRT), further sinking one auxiliary warship of 2,456 metric tons (2,417 long tons; 2,707 short tons) and three warships of 855 t (841 long tons; 942 short tons).

Date	Name	Nationality	Tonnage (GRT)	Fate
30 March 1942	Effingham	United States	6,421	Sunk
13 April 1942	El Occidente	Panama	6,008	Sunk
13 April 1942	Harpalion	United Kingdom	5,486	Sunk
20 September 1942	HMS Leda (J 93)	Royal Navy	835	Sunk
22 September 1942	Bellingham	United States	5,345	Sunk
22 September 1942	Grey Ranger	United Kingdom	3,313	Sunk
22 September 1942	Ocean Voice	United Kingdom	7,174	Sunk
29 December 1942	Empire Shackleton	United Kingdom	7,068	Sunk
29 December 1942	Norse King	Norway	5,701	Sunk
30 December 1942	HMS Fidelity (D57)	Royal Navy	2,456	Sunk
30 December 1942	HMS LCV-752	Royal Navy	10	Sunk
30 December 1942	HMS LCV-754	Royal Navy	10	Sunk
17 March 1943	William Eustis	United States	7,196	Sunk

Awards

• Wehrmacht Long Service Award (2 October 1936)
• Sudetenland Medal (1 August 1939)
• Iron Cross (1939)
  • 2nd Class (25 April 1940)
  • 1st Class (25 May 1940)
• Destroyer War Badge (19 February 1941)
• U-boat War Badge (1939) (15 April 1942)
• Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross on 27 October 1942 as Kapitänleutnant and commander of U-435