The newly assembled U-3014 crew commanded by KptLt. Marbach included several former members of U-953, 1945

Oblt. Karl-Heinz Marbach takes command of U-953 at her commissioning ceremony, 1943

Crewmen line the afterdeck after their first war patrol

The unofficial crest for U-953

Peter the tomcat (Kater) also went to war aboard U-953

Mascot Rin-Tin-Tina sailed more than 90 days at sea on U-953's combat patrols

U-953 gunner Karl C. Baumann at barracks in La Rochelle, France

Mascot Peter and crewmen disembark from U-953 at the end of a war patrol: La Pallice, France, 1943

U-953 CREWMEMBERS LIST

Ahrendholz, Gerhard                   MtrGfr Allweiler, ---                                MtrOGfr Arndt, Otto                                  MaschOGfr Aue, Helmut                                BtsMt Augtustin, Siegfried                     FkMt Band, Franz                                  --- Bartnik, Stanislaus                       --- Baumann, Karl                            MtrOGfr  Wounded 18 June 1944 aboard U-953 by 20mm gun barrel                                                                explosion; captured 18 September 1944 in Brest, France;                                                                Prisoner of War in USA March - November 1945 Bechtel, Albert                             BtsMt Bischoff, Gustav-Heinrich            OLt.z.S Braun, Hermann                          MaschMt Brede, Christian                           Lt.Ing Brenn, Erwin                                --- Bruns, Fritz                                  OStrm Buck, Gotthilf                              OMasch Buhl, ---                                       MaschGfr Corbach, ---                                  Mtr Degen, ---                                     BtsMt Döring, Egon                                Mtr             KIA 9 July 1943 during aircraft attack Dresse, ---                                    MtrGfr Elksnat, Walter                            MechGfr Etzhold, Heinz                               --- Flöter, Erwin                                Lt.z.S Goydke, Karl                                --- Grans, ---                                      FkOGfr Hagemann, Herbert                      MaschOGfr Hahn, Max                                   --- Hämmerling, Helmut                   SanOMt Harder, Hans                                --- Hartmann, Eduard                        OStrm Haudel, Georg                               --- Heinemann, Kurt                         OLt.Ing Hentschel, Helmut                        ---               WIA 9 July 1943 during aircraft attack Hertel, Richard                            OMasch Kabert, Leopold                           BtsMt Kaschel, ---                                  MaschMt Katerbaum, ---                             OMechMt Klockner, ---                                OMaschMt Kniekamp, Willi                          MaschMt Kohurn, ---                                  OFkMt Kreutz, Horst                               MaschMt Kühn, Willi                                  MechGfr Langbehn, Otto                            OMaschMt Lau, Kurt                                     OLt.z.S Lischewski, Theo                          MaschOGfr Loeh, ---                                       MechOGfr Marbach, Karl-Heinz                     KpLt             First commanding officer of U-953 Markert, Heinz                             ---                 Milkau, Klaus                               Dr Mühlheim, Jupp                            MaschOGfr Mühlheims, Reinhold                    --- Müller, Hans                                 MaschOGfr Müller-Feldhammer, Werner       OLt.z.S Neumann, Helmut                        OMaschMt Osterwald, Fritz                            MaschOGfr Patzer, Karl-Heinz                        MtrOGfr Plociniak, Anton                            --- Quack, Ewald                                MechOGfr Raschewski, Herbert                     MtrGfr            WIA 9 July 1943 during aircraft attack Rassek, Ramon                             MaschGfr Reimann, Ernst                             OLt.z.S Renfordt, Hugo                              MaschOGfr Resch, ---                                       MaschOGfr Roß, Willi                                      FkOGfr Schindler, ---                                 OBtsMt Schlüter, Karl-Heinz                      MtrOGfr Schmall, Willi                                MtrGfr Schnuck, Fritz                               OLt.Ing Schulz, Paul                                   MtrGfr Seelbach, Otto                               MaschGfr Steinbrink, Erich                           OLt.z.S        Third commanding officer of U-953 Stemmler, Hans                            OLt.Ing Storm, Heinrich                             OMaschMt Tetzel, Helmut                               BtsMt Theising, Wilhelm                          --- Twardokus, Siegfried                     OLt.z.S Vogt, Hans                                     --- Weinrich, Kurt                              MtrOGfr Werner, Herbert                            OLt.z.S        Second Commanding officer of U-953 Werner, Johannes                         FkMt Wiedmann, Heinz                          MaschMt Willner, ---                                    FkOGfr Wollherr, Kurt                              BtsMt Wunde, ---                                     MaschOGfr Zehner, Günter                             OLt.z.S Zeitz, Hans                                    Lt.z.S Zimmermann, Herbert                  MtrOGfr Sources: www.ubootwaffe.net/crews Karl C. Baumann, Mailing List of former U-953 crewmembers dated 15 October 1988 Herbert Raschewski, Notations from photos of U-953 crewmembers’ reunion, 21-24 September 1989; Bad Sachsa, Germany Last Updated: 1 July 2006 by Gregory L. Owen

An early reunion of U-953 crewmembers

Karl-Heinz Marbach, 1989

1989 reunion of U-953 crewmembers at Bad Sachsa, Germany

Special thanks to U. E. Hartmann, Karl-Heinz Patzer, and Karl Baumann for the photos displayed on this page

Latest U-953 Research Information not included in The Longest Patrol: Official USAAF Reports of a B-24 attack on 9 July 1943 against U-953, and U-953 crewmember Herbert Raschewski's eyewitness account This Section Under Construction!

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