He died on Dec 26 2005. Nazaire 5 Oct 1941 St. Nazaire 27 Apr 1942 St. Nazaire Patrol 4, 30 days 8. In March 1958 he joined the Bundesmarine Federal German Navy. Legend We have a picture of this vessel. A year later he became watch officer on.
Nazaire Patrol 10, 52 days 14. Topp scored most of his successes in the North Atlantic against convoys, and off the North American coast. Nazaire Patrol 6, 9 days 10. Nazaire Patrol 7, 32 days 11. Nazaire 26 Nov 1941 St. Nazaire Patrol 5, 39 days 9.
Nazaire Patrol 8, 33 days 12. Later he served in several staff positions, and for a month was deputy commander of U-boats. Nazaire Patrol 11, 11 days 15. He was decorated in that year with the GroĂes Verdienstkreuz Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of Federal Germany. Nazaire Patrol 12, 41 days 12 patrols, 352 days at sea Date U-boat Commander Name of ship Tons Nat. .
He served six months on the light cruiser Karlsruhe before joining the U-boat force in October 1937. Erich Topp began his naval career in April 1934. Convoy 17 Jul 1940 1,960 sw 17 Jul 1940 8,652 br 3 Aug 1940 2,161 sw 24 Aug 1940 10,939 br 24 Aug 1940 d. Oberleutnant Erich Topp and his close friend In September 1942 Topp became commander of the U-boat Flotilla, where new U-boat crews received their tactical training. Konteradmiral Erich Topp retired in December 1969. During this command he sank six ships with a total of 36,862 tons - a considerable achievement with a small coastal boat.
Nazaire 6 May 1941 St. Nazaire Patrol 9, 34 days 13. Nazaire 27 Jan 1942 St. Nazaire 13 Aug 1942 St. The officers of each would normally have progressed through the lower ranks at the same rate. Nazaire 19 Jun 1942 St.
Nazaire 2 Jul 1941 St. About ranks and decorations Ranks shown in italics are our database inserts based on the rank dates of his crew comrades. After four patrols in , Topp took over command of. Topp wrote the Battle Instructions for the new Elektro U-boat Elektro Boats in 1944, and when the war ended he was commanding one of them, , which he surrendered at Horten, Norway in May 1945. From 1970 to 1984 he worked as an industrial consultant for, among others, the Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft shipyard. Konteradmiral Erich Topp After the war Topp worked for some months as a fisherman before becoming a successful architect. Nazaire Patrol 3, 27 days 7.
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