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Years of service
  
1898 – 1920

Battles and wars
  
U-boat Campaign


Name
  
Waldemar Kophamel

Rank
  
Fregattenkapitan

Allegiance
  
German Empire

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Commands held
  
U-35, Nov 3, 1914 – November 12, 1915U-140, Mar 28, 1918 – November 11, 1918

Battles/wars
  
U-boat Campaign (World War I)

Died
  
November 4, 1934, Plon, Germany

Awards
  
House Order of Hohenzollern, Order of the Red Eagle, Pour le Merite

Service/branch
  
Imperial German Navy

Commander Waldemar Kophamel (August 16, 1880 – November 4, 1934) was a successful and highly decorated German U-boat commander in the Kaiserliche Marine during World War I. Kophamel joined the Imperial German Navy on 12 April 1898 and started his military education on a ship named SMS Stosch.

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In his time as commander of U-35 and U-140 he succeeded in sinking 54 ships for a total tonnage of 148,852 gross register tons (GRT). One of his notable actions was sinking the Diamond Shoal Lightship No. 71 (LV-71). Before doing so he allowed the crew, as well as survivors they had rescued from another of his victims, the SS Merak, to evacuate the ship.

Awards and decorations

  • Order of the Red Eagle, 4th class (Prussia)
  • Lifesaving Medal (Prussia)
  • Iron Cross (1914), 1st and 2nd class
  • Knight's Cross of the Royal House Order of Hohenzollern with Swords
  • Pour le Mérite
  • Hanseatic Cross of Hamburg
  • Military Merit Cross, 1st class (Mecklenburg-Schwerin)

    • References

    Waldemar Kophamel Wikipedia
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