Eitel-Friedrich Kentrat

Infobox Military Person
name=Eitel-Friedrich Kentrat
born=birth date|1906|9|11|df=y
died=dda|1974|1|9|1906|9|11|df=y
placeofbirth=Stahlheim, Metz
placeofdeath=Bad Schwartau


caption=
nickname=
allegiance=flagicon|Weimar Republic Weimar Republic (to 1933)
flagicon|Nazi Germany Nazi Germany
branch=navy|Weimar Republic
navy|Nazi Germany
serviceyears=1928 – 1945
rank=Korvettenkapitän
commands=U-8, U-74, U-196
unit= pocket battleship ‘’Admiral Scheer’’
battles=World War II
*Battle of the Atlantic (1939-1945)
awards=Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross
laterwork=

Eitel-Friedrich Kentrat (11 September 1906 – 9 January 1974) was a Korvettenkapitän with the Kriegsmarine during World War II. He sailed with the U-8, U-74 and U-196, sinking twenty-one ships on seven patrols, for a total of 42,433 tons of Allied shipping. He is noted for completing World War II longest combat patrol. U-196 had left Kiel on 13 March 1943 and reached Bordeaux on 23 October 1943, 225 days later.

Awards

* Iron Cross (1939)
** 2nd Class (13 April 1941)
** 1st Class (13 April 1941)
* U-boat War Badge (1939) (13 April 1941)
* U-boat Front Clasp (13 April 1941)
* Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross (31 December 1941)

References

* Fellgiebel, Walther-Peer (2000). "Die Träger des Ritterkreuzes des Eisernen Kreuzes 1939-1945". Friedburg, Germany: Podzun-Pallas. ISBN 3-7909-0284-5.
* Kurowski, Franz (1995). "Knight's Cross Holders of the U-Boat Service". Schiffer Publishing Ltd. ISBN 0-88740-748-X.
* Range, Clemens (1974). "Die Ritterkreuzträger der Kriegsmarine". Stuttgart, Germany: Motorbuch Verlag. ISBN 3-87943-355-0.

;External link
* [http://uboat.net/men/kentrat.htm uboat.net]