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Günther Prien (16 January 1908 – presumed 8 March 1941) was a German U-boat commander during World War II. He was the first U-boat commander to receive the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross and the first member of the Kriegsmarine to receive the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves of Nazi Germany.
Oct 8, 2017 · The death of Günther Prien U-47 left Lorient (France) for her tenth patrol on 20 February 1941. Only four days later they attacked convoy OB 290 and sank four ships totalling 16,310 tons.
Günther Prien war ein deutscher Marineoffizier und U-Boot-Kommandant. Aufgrund seiner militärischen Erfolge galt er für die nationalsozialistische Propaganda als idealtypischer Kriegsheld. Seine Bekanntheit erlangte er vor allem wegen des erfolgreichen Angriffs am 14. Oktober 1939 auf Scapa Flow, den Heimathafen der Home Fleet und ...
Under the Northern Lights, in the heart of the British naval base at Scapa Flow, U-47 closes for a fatal shot at HMS Royal Oak. Günther Prien, Commanding Officer, U-47. Despite a short career, one of the greatest U-boat aces of WWII.
Late on the night of Friday, October 13, 1939, Kapitänleutnant Günther Prien surfaced his 218-foot-long submarine, U-47, and guided it through the protected, shallow, narrow channel at Kirk Sound.
A year later, shortly after the outbreak of World War II, Günther Prien took his submarine into Scapa Flow and sank the British battleship HMS Royal Oak. Upon returning to Germany, Prien and the crew of the U-47 received heroes’ welcomes in Berlin.
Günther Prien, the man who was to become the commander of the famed U-boat U-47 and the Kriegsmarine's first recipient of the Knight's Cross during the Second World War, was born on 16 January 1908 in the town of Osterfeld in the state of Thuringia in central Germany, the son of a judge and the eldest of three children.
The Second World War was just in his first weeks, when U 47 under Kapitänleutnant (=Lieutenant) Günter Prien in a daring operation managed to sneak into the British Naval Base of Scapa Flow at the Orkney Islands, to sink there on 14 October 1939 the Royal Navy´s battleship Royal Oak at anchor.
Welcome to the new, updated and revamped u47.org, the first web site to be dedicated to the history of the WWII German Type VIIB submarine U-47 and its legendary commander, Knight's Cross holder Korvettenkapitän Günther Prien, the man behind the sinking of the prize British battleship Royal Oak.
U-47 commander Gunther Prien earned a lasting place in the annals of naval history for his daring U-boat raid on Scapa Flow.
