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Werner Winter (26 March 1912 – 9 September 1972) was a German U-boat commander in World War II and recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. He reached the rank of ''Korvettenkapitän'' with the ''Kriegsmarine'' during World War II, and later that of ''Kapitän zur See'' with the ''Bundesmarine''. ==Career== Winter joined the ''Reichsmarine'' in April 1930, serving aboard the battleship and the light cruiser ''Emden'' then transferred to the U-boat force in July 1935. He served for a few months aboard , before taking command of the U-boat in October 1937. In September 1939 he made two short and unsuccessful combat patrols, before joining the staff of the BdU, but returned in July 1941 to take command of from Viktor Schütze, making three successful patrols, sinking fifteen merchant ships, for a total of 79,302 tons of Allied shipping, including the .〔 Winter testified in the court martial which sentenced Oskar Kusch, the commander of , to death on charges of "defeatism". Kusch had served on ''U-103'' under the command of Winter. Although the prosecution had only requested a 10-year sentence, the court led by ''Marine-Kriegs-Gerichtsrat'' Karl-Heinrich Hagemann, assisted by ''Oberleutnant zur See'' Otto Westphalen, sentenced him to death. Both Winter and his successor as commander of ''U-103'', Gustav-Adolf Janssen, had tried their best to save the life of Kusch, whom they considered a very able and brave officer. In July 1942 he took command of ''1st U-boat Flotilla'' in Brest, France, where he was captured after the city's surrender in August 1944, and was finally released in November 1947.〔 Winter joined the ''Bundesmarine'' in 1957, commanding the from July 1961 to September 1962, retiring in March 1970 with the rank of ''Kapitän zur See''.〔 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「Werner Winter」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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