U-boat Archive - U-boat KTB - U-123 Schulz Album

The Wartime Album of Heinz-Walter Schulz

This album is presented thanks to Henrik Behrens and Katrin Nielsen (granddaughter of Heinz-Walter Schulz).

Heinz-Walter Schulz graduated from the German Naval Academy in 1939. He was a member of Crew 36 (intake of officer cadets in 1936 - the "Olympia" crew). Initially, only 32 of Crew 36's 324 graduates joined the U-boat arm. By the end of the war, 164 had become U-boat Commanders, many of them famous.

After completing training as a U-boat Engineering Officer he served aboard U-123 for 5 patrols. The first as prospective Chief Engineer under Karl-Heinz Moehle, then 4 patrols as Chief Engineer under Reinhard Hardegen from April 1941 to May 1942.

He then served as Chief Engineer of the newly commissioned U-849 under Heinz-Otto Schultze from March 1943 until the boat was lost with all hands on its first patrol on 25 November 1943.

This album covers the period of Officer training and U-boat training from 1936 to 1941 and two patrols in U-123 from April 1941 to 23 August 1941.

Kapitänleutnant (Ing.) Heinz-Walter Schulz - 1943

Click the icons to view the KTBs for patrols that Heinz-Walter Schulz served on

	U-boat	CO	Covering Period	Operation/Significant Events


	U-123	Karl-Heinz Moehle	10 APR 41 - 11 MAY 41	4th Patrol/North Atlantic

	U-123	Reinhard Hardegen	15 JUN 41 - 23 AUG 41	5th Patrol/Central Atlantic

	U-123	Reinhard Hardegen	14 OCT 41 - 22 NOV 41	6th Patrol/North Atlantic

	U-123	Reinhard Hardegen	23 NOV 41 - 9 FEB 42	7th patrol - Operation Drumbeat patrol to the US East Coast

	U-123	Reinhard Hardegen	2 MAR 42 - 2 MAY 42	8th patrol - Hardegen's second patrol to the US East Coast

	U-123	Reinhard Hardegen	16 MAY 42 - 5 JUN 42	Transfer cruise from Lorient to the homeland

	U-849	Heinz-Otto Schultze	11 MAR 43 - 25 NOV 43	1st Patrol/South Atlantic

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Text in brackets [ ] is a contemporary caption - not in the original album

Text without brackets is a translation of notations in the original album




















	[Post card of the Naval Academy at Mürwik]
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	[Naval Academy at Mürwik]
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	[Naval Academy at Mürwik]
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	Motor Vehicle Company


	[Company Commander (center) Heinz-Walter Schulz to his left]


	[Company Commander (center) Heinz-Walter Schulz third from the left]

	[Pillau 28 October 1939]
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			Giselbrecht

	[Pillau - probably 1939]
	- 6 -



	Pillau April 1940



































	[In June 1940 1. Unterseeboots-Lehrdivision moved to Pilllau]
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	[Baltic U-10 - type IIB training boat - pre-war photos]
	- 7 -


































	[Baltic type IID training boat - probably U-145]
	- 8 -












































	[Baltic type IID training boat - probably U-138]
		- 9 -




















	[Peter Lohmeyer? if so U-138 between 1 and 31 December 1940]




















	[Baltic type IID training boat - probably U-138]
	- 10 -


		Ice cruise through the Baltic







































	[Baltic type IID training boat - probably U-138]
	- 11 -





	[Baltic type IID training boat - probably U-145]






	[Baltic type IID training boat - probably U-138]
	- 12 -









































	[Baltic type IID training boat - probably U-138]
	- 13 -









	[Baltic type IID training boat - probably U-138]
	- 14 -












	[Baltic type IID training boat - probably U-138]
	- 15 -









	[Baltic U-145 - type IID training boat]
	- 16 -











	[Baltic type IID training boat - probably U-138]
	- 17 -











	[Baltic type IID training boat - probably U-138 - U-145 in the background]
	- 18 -












	[Baltic type IID training boat - probably U-138]
	- 19 -









	[Leave in the Baltic]
	- 20 -










	Pistol shooting in Memel

	[Walther PPK pistol]
	- 21 -



	Paris








	[Paris Eiffel Tower]
	- 22 -











	[Paris Eiffel Tower - Luxor Oblisk - Jardins du Trocadéro]
	- 23 -
















































	[Paris - Notre Dame Cathedral - Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel]
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	[Paris - Jardins du Trocadér - Sacre Coeur Cathedral]
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	[Paris - Arc de Triomphe]
	- 26 -





	[views from the train]




[Port Manec'h Lighthouse - looking NE]		[Port Manec'h Lighthouse - looking SW]

[French countryside]
- 27 -



			First patrol
			with Moehle






























	[U-123 - departure from Lorient on 4th patrol 10 April 1941]
	- 28 -









	Moehle with Ritterkreuz

	[U-123 circa April 1941 - prior to 4th patrol - probably 10 April 1941]
	- 35 -




























	Old Chief Engineer
	[Kapitänleutnant (Ing.) Otto Zschetsching]






	[U-123 - departure on 4th patrol 10 April 1941]
	- 29 -







	[Leutnant zur See Karl Fleige - U-123's Navigator]

	[Top drifting raft 12 April 1941 - bottom right departure 10 April 1941]
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	[U-123 - at sea early on 4th patrol]
	- 31 -




			A shipwrecked [illegible word]




























	[U-123 - drifting raft 12 April 1941]
	- 32 -








































			Kapitänleutnant Moehle

	[U-123 - dog on Isêre departure 10 April 1941 - right fished out match boxes from drifting raft 12 April 1941]
	- 34 -


































	[U-123 - homecoming 4th patrol 11 May 1941]
	- 33 -










	[U-123 - homecoming 4th patrol 11 May 1941]
	- 36 -




	Homecoming








	[U-123 - homecoming 4th patrol 11 May 1941]
	- 37 -

The series of photos below were not taken aboard U-123 - they may have been obtained from a PK-Leute in Lorient







	Harbor in Lorient




	[Type VII boat arriving - not U-123 arriving from 4th patrol 11 May 1941]
	- 38 -






	Welding


	[Type IX boat - not U-123]
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	[Type VII U-boat]
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	Swells in the Atlantic




	- 41 -








	Evening twilight





	- 42 -






	Seen through the periscope




	[Not a ship hit on the 5th patrol]
	- 43 -





	A steamer was sunk





	[Not a ship hit on the 5th patrol - a coup de grâce]
	- 44 -






	A second steamer





	[This is not taken from U-123 - note the aft net deflector]
	- 45 -






	A tanker




	[No tankers hit on the 5th patrol - looks like a coup de grâce]
	- 46 -






	and afterwards a steamer goes into the deep






	[Not a ship hit on the 5th patrol - looks like the same tanker as above after the coup de grâce]
	- 47 -






	Homecoming - the mail comes aboard



	[Type VII boat]
	- 48 -










	- 49 -




			2nd Patrol [Walter Schulz's 2nd patrol, the boat's 5th patrol]









			Departure








	[U-123 - departure on 5th patrol 15 June 1941]
	- 54 -













	[U-123 - 5th patrol]
	- 55 -














	[U-123 - 5th patrol]
	- 56 -


	2nd Patrol


	[Leutnant zur See Horst von Schroeter - 2nd Watch Officer - at left]







	[U-123 - 5th patrol]
	- 50 -








	[U-123 - 5th patrol - Crossing the Line Ceromony 27 July 1941]
	- 51 -








	A shark was caught



	[U-123 - 5th patrol - shark caught during the Crossing the Line Ceromony 27 July 1941]
	- 52 -











	[U-123 - 5th patrol - shark caught during the Crossing the Line Ceremony 27 July 1941]
	- 53 -









	The Doctor!


	[U-123 - 5th patrol - Dr. Gerhard Petzold]
	- 57 -



			First Watch Officer








	[U-123 - 5th patrol - top First Watch Officer Oberleutnant zur See Herbert Schneider]
	- 58 -









	[U-123 - 5th patrol]
	- 60 -










	[U-123 - 5th patrol - PK-Leute - Siemens 16 mm Model FII]

	[U-123 - 5th patrol]
	- 61 -










	[U-123 - 5th patrol]
	- 62 -











	[U-123 - 5th patrol]
	- 63 -

[U-123 - 5th patrol]

- 64 -













	[U-123 - 5th patrol]
	- 65 -

[U-123 - 5th patrol - PK-Leute - Siemens 16 mm Model FII]

- 66 -









	[U-123 - 5th patrol]
	- 67 -










	[U-123 - 5th patrol - homecoming 23 August 1941]

	- 59 -








	[U-123 - 5th patrol - homecoming 23 August 1941]
	- 68 -








	[U-123 - 5th patrol - homecoming 23 August 1941]
	- 69 -


	Homecoming





		[U-205 arrived Lorient 23 August]

[U-123 - 5th patrol - homecoming 23 August 1941]
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