ULD became superfluous and was disbanded in November 1944. ULD never came into service, and following the fall in the number of commissioned boats 4. The main part of the course was technical. There, in a short course of three months, men were trained after their time at 3. ULD was set up in February 1944 in Memel. To train the extra NCO's required for the Type XXI boat 4.

Increasing numbers led to a further division in Autumn 1943 when all technical NCO's and men were moved to 3. It was responsible for all seamanship and mechanical training undertaken in the ULD and UAA. HKU was established in Kiel on 15 January 1943. As boats became available with fully trained crews, they were passed on to FdU-AusB as part of the Home Fleet under FdU-Ost. In the organisation structure there were two establishments between the BdU and the ULD and UAA these were the HKU, which had overall control of the ULD and UAA, and The FdU-AusB, commanding certain training Flotillas. The rising numbers of trained crewmen available, coupled with increasing losses led to further intensification of building from the beginning of 1943. This was established at Neustadt, with responsibility for the men coming from 2. UAA was set up to cope with the personnel overflow from I UAA. Small groups of these men went to the yards to do building courses, and others went to the other involved manufacturers on short courses.ĭue to a delay in building boats, and the resulting back-log of trained crews, 2. Skills training continued, and there was the addition of military training. UAA was set up in February 1940 in Plön this acted as a holding camp for fully trained crews awaiting posting to a boat. The attached Flotillas were respectively the 21st and 22nd U-Flotillas.įor crews already trained at the ULDI the 1.

ULD, set up in July 1940, was based at Gotenhafen, but could only go into operation in November 1940 due to building difficulties. In 1940 the whole U-boat training establishment was transferred in April from Neustadt to Pillau, due to the danger from air attack, mine laying operations in the training area of the L?beck Bight, and due to the lack of room at Neustadt. When the U-boat production rate was stepped up in 1941 a further gunnery school was established in Pillau and, to intensify the battle-training schedule in technical matters, a technical training group for combat boats was established in Hela. All three schools were under the command of the BdU.Ĭommander training was done individually at Flotillas, and despite the anomalous nature of this training, due to the high standards achieved in peacetime, the method was vindicated by results. A tactical training school was also set up in Gotenhafen from January 1940. The principle remained however of training specific skills at different training schools with subsequent crew training on board.īattle-training was provided by extra gunnery and other training schools and I Training Flotilla was set up in November 1939, followed by 2 Training Flotilla in April 1940, both being based in Danzig. These conflicting opinions led to a serious dispute between the BdU and Admiral Raeder.

The counter-proposal was that all matters relating to training should be placed under the command of the Commanding Admiral, Baltic. The Neustadt school was placed under the direct command of the BdU and within the organisation of the BdU service establishment, under direct command of Kapitän zur See von Friedeburg.ĭönitz took the important decision to place U-boat training under the responsibility of the BdU, seeing this as the only way of providing a speedy and easy supply of trained men for the front. To allow for this UAS 2 was set up in Gotenhafen on, and UAS 3 in Pillau on. Thus on training was laid down for the following numbers of crews yearly:ġ942 - 350 crews (and similarly per year thereafter). At the same time training capacity required for the expanded submarine war program had to be greatly increased. War caused a change in the training program, for it was no longer practical to indulge in training at Flotilla level such training was now reduced to a 'practical' for prospective U-boat commanders under the eye of the most experienced captains. However, all training boats returned to their original duties from July 1940 onwards.

With the outbreak of war in September 1939 the training boats were pressed into active service on patrol duties in the Baltic and North Seas, Half of them were returned to the schools at the end of the Polish campaign, only to be recalled to the front during the Norwegian campaign in 1940.

Men of war 2 cpu not training