U-boat Aces: Top 20 Kriegsmarine submarine aces

U-48: The most successful U-boat of WW2

Otto Kretschmer - 46 ships sunk for 273.043 tons

U-boats commanded: U-23, U-99

Wolfgang Luth - 46 ships sunk for 225.204 tons

U-boats commanded: U-9, U-138, U-43, U-181

Erich Topp - 35 ships sunk for 197.460 tons.

U-boats commanded: U-57, U-552

Heinrich Liebe - 34 ships sunk for 187.267 tons

U-boat commanded: U-38

Viktor Schutze - 35 ships sunk for 180.073 tons

U-boats commanded: U-25, U-103

Heinrich Lehmann-Willenbrock - 25 ships sunk for 179.125 tons

U-boats commanded: U-5, U-96, U-256

Karl-Friedrich Merten - 27 ships sunk for 170.151 tons

U-boats commanded: U-68

Herbert Schutze - 26 ships sunk for 169.709 tons

U-boat commanded: U-48

Gunther Prien- 30 ships sunk for 162.769 tons

U-boat commanded: U-47

Georg Lassen - 26 ships sunk for 156.082 tons

U-boats commanded: U-160

Joachim Schepke - 36 ships sunk for 153,677 tons

U-boats commanded: U-3, U-19, U-100

Werner Henke - 22 ships sunk for 140,196 tons

U-boats commanded: U-515

Carl Emmerman - 26 ships sunk for 152.080 tons

U-boats commanded: U-172

Heinrich Bleichrodt - 24 ships sunk  for 151,260 tons

U-boats commanded: U-48, U-109

Robert Gysae - 25 ships sunk for 136,266 tons

U-boats commanded: U-98, U-177

Ernst Kals - 20 ships sunk for 145,656 tons

U-boats commanded: U-130

Johann Mohr - 27 ships sunk for 129.976 tons

U-boats commanded: U-124

Klaus Scholtz - 25 ships sunk for 128.190 tons

U-boats commanded: U-108

Adolf Cornelius Piening - 25 ships sunk for 126.664 tons

U-boats commanded: U-155

Helmut Witte - 23 ships sunk for 119.554 tons

U-boats commanded: U-159

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