# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/reinhard-hardegen
# Generated: 2026-08-15T03:49:11.404Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/reinhard-hardegen"
name: "Reinhard Hardegen"
slug: "reinhard-hardegen"
description: "Korvettenkapitän Reinhard Hardegen was a German U-boat commander during World War II. He was credited with the sinking of 25 ships, at a total of 136,661 tons. After the war, he spent a year and a half as a British prisoner-of-war before starting a successful oil trading business and serving as a member of Bremen's city council for over 32 years. He was the last surviving World War II German U-Boat captain when he died in 2018."
tagline: "German World War II U-boat commander (1913-2018)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Hardegen_2016.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "DE"
birthDate: "1913-03-18"
deathDate: "2018-06-09"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump