Date of birth:

July 5th, 1908 (Berlin/Schöneberg, Germany)

Date of death:

April 21st, 1970

Nationality:

German (1933-1945, Third Reich)

After a solid prewar U-boat training, Otto Salman commanded U-52 very successfully for more than a year. In June 1941 he became a staff member of the BdU op (5. Asto), before joining the BdU org staff in 1943, where he remained to the end of the war. Otto Salman was with the exception of Admiral Friedeburg the only recipient of the Knights Cross of the Kriegsverdienstkreuz mit Schwertern within the Kriegsmarine.
Although his las name often is spelled Salmann, it is actually Salman.

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• Photo: Otto SALMAN
  
• - PATZWALL, K. & SCHERZER, V., Das Deutsche Kreuz 1941-1945, Verlag Klaus D. Patzwall, Norderstedt, 2001.
  - Axis Biographical Research
  - Deutsche U-Boote 1935-1945
  - The U-boat War 1939-1945
  

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