Spahr, Wilhelm (U-178)

Date of birth:: April 4th, 1904 (Esingen, Tornesch, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany)
Date of death:: October 6th, 1978
Nationality:: German (1933-1945, Third Reich)

Biography

Enlisted 1921
00.00.1922-00.12.1938: served aboard various U-Boot U-12 then U-15 then U-16
00.12.1938-00.02.1940: Obersteuermann, U-47
00.10.1939: Obersteuermann, chief navigator U-47 during the raid on Scapa Flow and the attack on the UK battleship Royal Oak
01.01.1940: promoted to Leutnant zur See
00.02.1940: instructor at a training Flotilla - 1. ULD / 1. Unterseeboots-Lehrdivision, Neustadt (Pillau)
01.01.1941: promoted to Oberleutnant zur See
00.02.1942-00.11.1943: Oberleutnant zur See, 1. WO, U-178
01.01.1943: promoted to Kapitänleutnant
28.03.1943-27.08.1943: Kapitänleutnant, 1. WO, U-178, 21-weeks patrol from Bordeaux to Penang
25.11.1943-25.08.1944: Kapitänleutnant, Kdr, U-178
27.11.1943-25.05.1944: 1 patrol of 181 days from Penang to Bordeaux
27.12.1943: U-178 sunk American Liberty ship SS 'José Navarro' (7,244 tons)
25.08.1944: U-178 was scuttled due to the US advance towards Bordeaux
00.09.1944-00.10.1944: Lehrgang, 23. U-Flottille, Training Flotilla, Gdansk
00.10.1944-00.02.1945: Naval Reserve
00.02.1945-00.03.1945: Chef, 1. Unterseeboots-Lehrdivision, Hamburg-Finkenwerder
00.03.1945-00.05.1945: instructor, 19. U-Flottille, Kiel