Deutsches U-Boot-Museum

Welcome…

to the German Uboat-Museum, an institution highly regarded by visitors and international experts. It is composed mainly of the Uboat-Archive and a collection of Uboat exhibits.

Started in 1947, the Uboat-Archive compiles all available information, photographs and personal notes by witnesses as well as historians of the history of German submarines, to evaluate those for objective historiography. In 1986 this compilation was reckognized officially as "Uboat Tradition Archive Foundation", using that name furtheron. It became a unique place for reunions of submarine veterans, but also a meeting point for many Uboat interests. You can find more under Archive.

Second pillar of the foundation is the collection of Uboat exhibits, where objects of all kinds from the history of underwater-operations are on display. It ranges from parts of former Uboats and their equipment, to uniforms, pieces of personal belongings from veterans, technical instruments, and much more. You can find more under Museum. Since 1989, the town of Cuxhaven-Altenbruch is the location of the foundation and thereby hosts archive and museum.

In order to maintain and further expand this facility the "Association of Friends of the Uboat Tradition Archive ( FTU)" was founded in 1992. Its members support the work and lasting existence of the Uboat-Archive through their personal hands-on co-operation, their donations or other contributions. If there is any interest on your side to become an active or supporting member of the association you can find more under Contact.

The file " Flotsam" is a compilation of contributions by volunteers of the archive of facts from the world of seafaring of general inter-est. Reports from the daily work at the archive and results of various projects are mentioned in file " Reports & Figures". A new file " Series" will present the information about visits to German Uboats by Head of States and Government published so far, as well as a new series about myths around operations of German Uboats, plus more series to come. Consequently, the current structure of the files has been amended.

Telephone
0049-04722-322
Tuesday & Friday from 9 - 12 a.m.
Fax (0049)-4722-910 176

Address:
Deutsches U-Boot-Museum
Lange Straße 1
27478 Cuxhaven-Altenbruch


Founder and Managing Director:
Horst Bredow

NEW
ONLINE RESEARCH

As a new feature, readers may research online about Kriegsmarine U-Boats in operation between 1939 and 1945. There is a choice of various interrogations, such as for U-Boat hull numbers, U-Boat types, U-Boat shipyards, Commanding Officers, and more - see the research menu below. Currently, more than 140.000 pages of documents are available for research, from war diaries to navigational track charts, messages logs, U-Boat data sheets, and others. The data bank is updated on a regular basis. It is planned in the not to distant future to also add documents from the Imperial German Navy, the Austro-Hungarian Navy and the Federal German Navy to the online research data bank.

You may find more information here - one click and you are connected to our research data bank.

Last Update 30. May 2013