5. Unterseebootsflottille

Infobox Military Unit
unit_name=5. Unterseebootsflottille


caption=
country=Nazi Germany
type=U-boat flottilla
branch=Kriegsmarine
dates=Raised 1938, Dissolved 1940, Re-raised 1941, Finally dissolved 1945
command_structure=
garrison=Kiel
nickname=Unterseebootsflottille Emsmann
battles=
notable_commanders=Korvettenkapitän Hans-Rudolf Rösing
associated units=

5. Unterseebootsflottille (also known as Unterseebootsflottille Emsmann) was formed in December 1938 in Kiel under the command of Korvettenkapitän Hans-Rudolf Rösing. It was named in honour of Oberleutnant Hans Joachim Emsmann, a U-boat commander during World War I, that died on October 28 1918 after his U-boat U-116 was sunk by a mine. The flotilla was disbanded in January 1940 and the boats all went to the 1. Unterseebootsflottille.

The flotilla was re-formed as "5. Unterseebootsflottille" in June 1941 under the command of Kapitänleutnant Karl-Heinz Moehle as a training flotilla with her base in Kiel. Moehle was sentenced in 1946 for 5 years in prison, because the Allies accused him to give the Laconia order to the new U-boat commanders before they went out on patrol. He then spent more than 4 years in prison.

Flotilla commanders

References

*cite web | title= Uboat.net| work= The Flotillas – 5th Flotilla (Emsmann)| url=http://www.uboat.net/flotillas/5flo.htm| accessdate=12 February| accessyear=2007
*cite web | title= Uboat.net| work= The Flotillas – 5th Flotilla| url=http://www.uboat.net/flotillas/5flo2.htm| accessdate=12 February| accessyear=2007
*cite web | title= Uboatnet.de| work= Die Flottillen – 5. Unterseebootsflottille| url=http://www.uboatnet.de/Archiv/Flottillen/5.U_Flottille.htm| accessdate=12 February| accessyear=2007