Karl-Friedrich Merten (15 August 1905 – 2 May 1993) commanded the U-boat U-68 in Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine during World War II. He received the Knight's...
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football player Christa Merten (1944–1986), West German athlete Helena Merten (born 1995), Australian high diver Karl-Friedrich Merten (1905–1993), German...
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commissioned on 1 January 1941 under the command of Korvettenkapitän Karl-Friedrich Merten as part of 2nd U-boat Flotilla. U-68 conducted ten combat patrols...
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Retrieved 18 April 2010. Helgason, Guðmundur. "Kapitän zur See Karl-Friedrich Merten". German U-boats of WWII – uboat.net. Archived from the original...
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in Gruppe Eisbär planned that around 5 October 1942 that U-68 (Karl-Friedrich Merten) and U-172 (Carl Emmermann) would conduct a reconnaissance of Table...
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rockets fired by F4F Wildcats and TBM Avengers of USS Guadalcanal. Karl-Friedrich Merten Albert Lauzemis Ekkehard Scherraus Gerhard Seehausen Albert Lauzemis...
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the German failure in the Battle of the Barents Sea. He was replaced by Karl Dönitz on 30 January 1943 who held the command until he was appointed President...
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Lützow* August Maus Hans-Karl Mayer Wilhelm Meentzen Wilhelm Meisel Karl-Friedrich Merten Walter Model Johann Mohr Werner Mölders* Heinz Neukirchen Eduard...
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philosopher Heinrich Mendelssohn (1881–1959), building tycoon Karl-Friedrich Merten (1905–1993), U-boat commander Małgorzata Musierowicz (born 1945)...
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Lehmann-Willenbrock Heinrich Liebe Wolfgang Lüth Johann Mohr Rolf Mützelburg Karl-Friedrich Merten Gunther Prien Joachim Schepke Adalbert Schnee Klaus Scholtz Viktor...
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U-185, he served as an officer on U-68 under the command of Captain Karl-Friedrich Merten. Maus was taken prisoner after the sinking of U-185 and in 1944...
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Fregattenkapitan Karl-Friedrich Merten (March 1943–May 1944) Korvettenkapitän Karl Jasper (May–July 1944) Fregattenkapitan Karl-Friedrich Merten (July 1944–March...
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List of Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross recipients (M) (redirect from Friedrich-Karl "Nasen" Muller)
formal correctness of the listing. Großadmiral and President of Germany Karl Dönitz, Hitler's successor as Head of State (Staatsoberhaupt) and Supreme...
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land. Some U-boat commanders, such as Wilhelm Schulz of U-124 and Karl-Friedrich Merten of U-68, were recognized for several humanitarian acts. Assistance...
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Type IXC boats and on commissioning of U-68 by Kapitän zur See Karl-Friedrich Merten he became its Second Watch Officer (2WO). Lauzemis sailed on the...
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Carl Chun (redirect from Karl Friedrich Gustav Chun)
Carl Chun or Karl Friedrich Gustav Chun (1 October 1852 – 11 April 1914) was a German marine biologist who worked as a professor at the University of Königsberg...
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"Laconia Order". U-156 together with U-68 under the command of Karl-Friedrich Merten departed from Lorient on 20 August 1942 heading for the Bay of Biscay...
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Hans-Gerrit von Stockhausen (April 1941–January 1943) Korvettenkapitän Karl-Friedrich Merten (January–April 1943) Fregattenkapitan Helmut Brümmer-Patzig (April...
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by four torpedoes from the German submarine U-68, commanded by Karl-Friedrich Merten, broke in two and sank. Forty-one men were lost and two men on deck...
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29,726 0 0 Sunk 16 July 1943 US Avenger aircraft U-68 1940 IXC Karl-Friedrich Merten, Albert Lauzemis 1 545 0 0 32 197,453 0 0 0 0 Sunk 10 April 1944...
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Robert Friedrich Wilhelm Mertens (1 December 1894 – 23 August 1975) was a German herpetologist. Several taxa of reptiles are named after him. He postulated...
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Soviet-Russian actor (Andrei Rublev, The Brothers Karamazov, Eternal Call). Karl-Friedrich Merten, 87, German U-boat commander during World War II, cancer. André...
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and one recipient received the award after 11 May 1945, when Großadmiral Karl Dönitz ordered a cease of all promotions and illegalized all subsequent awards...
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5 June the Type IXC German submarine U-68 under the command of Karl-Friedrich Merten hit L.J. Drake with three torpedoes, sinking her with all hands...
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Corinna Bath Friedrich L. Bauer August Beer Walter Benz Rudolf Berghammer Felix Bernstein Ludwig Berwald Friedrich Bessel Karl Bobek Friedrich Böhm Oskar...
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trail was sighted by the German submarine U-68 under the command of Karl-Friedrich Merten. At 2136 hours, U-68 fired a torpedo at the lone merchant ship....
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made. Two recipients received the award after 11 May 1945, when Großadmiral Karl Dönitz ordered a cease of promotions and illegalized subsequent awards. The...
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Joachim-Friedrich Martin Josef Merz (German: [mɛʁts]; born 11 November 1955) is a German politician serving as Leader of the Christian Democratic Union...
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Prince Frederick of Württemberg (German: Friedrich Karl August Prinz von Württemberg) (21 February 1808 – 9 May 1870) was a German prince from House of...
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(1662–1736), architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886–1969), architect Karl Friedrich Schinkel (1781–1841), architect and painter Johann Conrad Schlaun (1695–1773)...
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