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''Kapitänleutnant'' Peter Zschech (died 24 October 1943) was the second commander of the German submarine . He earned notoriety as the first (and thus far only) commanding officer to commit suicide while in active command of a naval vessel, as well as the only submariner to ever do so while underwater. ==History with ''U-505''== (詳細はAxel Löwe, who was relieved for illness in October 1942. Löwe was replaced by Zschech, a veteran U-boat officer, who served for a year as watch officer in . Zschech was described as a "hard" commander, ambitious in his first command, indifferent to the morale of his men, and bad-tempered. On 11 November 1942, a month into her first war patrol under Zschech, ''U-505'' was heavily damaged by air attack in the Caribbean Sea. The direct impact of a 250-lb bomb from a Lockheed Hudson on the foredeck tore the deck gun from the boat and severely breached the hull. Zschech ordered his men to abandon ship but his officers refused and managed to keep her afloat after a marathon two-week effort. She eventually limped back to Lorient on 12 December, earning the vessel the mixed honor of being the most heavily damaged U-boat to successfully return to port during the war. Repairs took six months. When Zschech again attempted to take ''U-505'' to sea, repeated mechanical failures forced him to turn back for repairs after only a few days. This happened six consecutive times, usually due to sabotage by French dockyard workers in the Resistance, and caused ''U-505'' to become the butt of numerous jokes for her combat ineffectiveness; while some U-boats were racking up impressive tonnage totals (and others were being sunk with all hands), ''U-505'' had not even succeeded in leaving the Bay of Biscay in almost a year. The main joke about Zschech was, while many other u-boats were being sunk with all hands... "there is a captain who will always return home... Zschech" (due to the sabotages mentioned, such as defective welds). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Peter Zschech」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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