The U-166 Crew

The crew of U-166 was young. They ranged in age from 18 (Brandt, Hassel and Toppe) to 30 (Wille). Hans-Günther Kuhlmann was, at 28, the second-oldest man on the boat. The average age of the U-166 crew was 21 years 9 months. The most complete crew listing available, with the mens' ranks, is included here:

Helmuth Asmussen Age 20	Georg Bock Age 23	Bernhard Bömke Age 19	Martin Brumme Age 22	Herbert Duscha Age 23
Hans Eichstädt Age 22	Heinrich Feldmann	Friedrich Feller Age 19	Seaman 2nd Cl. Herbert Fischer Age 20	Alfons Friedel Age 19
Heinz Hasert Age 21	F. Heinzelmeier Age 21	Alois Jäkel Age 19	Senior Lt. (Eng.) Erwin Klein Age 23	Ludwig Koch Age 21
Josef Kreicziersky Age 21	Johann Kremer Age 22	Walter Krug Age 25	Senior Lieutenant H.-G. Kuhlmann Age 28	B. Landermann Age 26
Alfred Lange Age 22	Friedrich Langer Age 19	Rolf Lawrenz Age 22	Wilhelm Lay Age 19	Johann Leitsch Age 21
August Lindner Age 21	Werner Lorenz Age 19	Alois Mang Age 24	Heinrich Marschall Age 23	Arthur Niemann Age 19
Albert Nitschke Age 21	Lieutenant Claus v. Oppel Age 20	Warrant Machinist Eugen Pfitzer Age 27	Gerhard Pitz Age 28	Wilhelm Pörkert Age 22
K. Quiadkowski Age 21	Egon Schmidt Age 23	S. Schwichtenberg Age 19	Paul Simanski Age 21	H. Sobolewski Age 20
Kurt Steinhöfer Age 20	Helmut Stenzel Age 22	Herbert Toppe Age 18	Lieutenant Hans Traun Age 25	Alfred Tüffers Age 21
Alois Veith Age 19	Helmut Welti Age 24	Chief QMmaster Friedrich Wille Age 30	Werner Wuttke Age 21	Hubert Zaremba Age 27

Photos are known to exist for only a handful of the U-166 crew. Anyone having a good-quality image of one of the crew members listed here should contact the PAST Foundation it can be included here.

Additional data from: Uboat.net