The Faculty of Humanities Master Thesis Project Front page for the Master’s thesis Submission June: [2019] Supervisor: Thijs J. Maarleveld Department: History Title, Danish: Tyske ubåde fra 2. Verdenskrig i danske farvande Title, English: German World War II Submarines in Danish Waters Min./Max. number of characters: 144,000 – 192,000 Number of characters in assignment1: 179.040 (60 – 80 normal pages) (1 norm page = 2400 characters incl. blanc spaces) Please notice in case your Master’s thesis project does not meet the minimum/maximum requirements stipulated in the curriculum your assignment will be dismissed and you will have used up one examination attempt. Solemn declaration I hereby declare that I have drawn up the assignment single-handed and independently. All quotes are marked as such and duly referenced. The full assignment or parts thereof have not been handed in as full or partial fulfilment of examination requirements in any other courses. Read more here: http://www.sdu.dk/en/Information_til/Studerende_ved_SDU/Eksamen.aspx Handed in by: First name: Last name: Date of birth Anders Jensen 20 /11 1975 1 Characters are counter from first character in the introduction until and including the last character in the conclusion. Footnotes are included. Charts are counted with theirs characters. The following is excluded from the total count: abstract, table of contents, bibliography, list of references, appendix. For more information, see the examination regulations of the course in the curriculum. 1 Table of Contents Acknowledgements ........................................................................................................................................... 3 Abstract ............................................................................................................................................................. 4 Dansk abstract ............................................................................................................................................... 4 Introduction ....................................................................................................................................................... 5 Objective ............................................................................................................................................................ 5 Methods ............................................................................................................................................................ 6 Identifying Stakeholders ................................................................................................................................ 6 The interviews ............................................................................................................................................... 6 Case Studies U-534 and U-3523 .................................................................................................................... 7 Historical Background ................................................................................................................................ 7 Other Sources ................................................................................................................................................ 8 German U-Boot production ............................................................................................................................... 8 Submarines in World War I ............................................................................................................................ 8 Interbellum .................................................................................................................................................... 9 U-Boot type IX ............................................................................................................................................ 9 Submarines in World War II ......................................................................................................................... 10 U-Boot type XXI ........................................................................................................................................ 10 The Nollau Group ............................................................................................................................................ 13 Regenbogen ................................................................................................................................................. 14 Onward Passage .......................................................................................................................................... 17 The Attack .................................................................................................................................................... 18 The Fate of U-534 .................................................................................................................................... 20 The Fate of U-3523 .................................................................................................................................. 20 The Fate of U-3503 .................................................................................................................................. 21 The Fate of U-3017 .................................................................................................................................. 23 German Submarines in Denmark after the War .............................................................................................. 24 The Iron Age ................................................................................................................................................. 26 Høruphav and Sønderborg Bugt .................................................................................................................. 27 The Golden Age ............................................................................................................................................ 29 Slots- og Kulturstyrelsen .................................................................................................................................. 32 Maritime Regions ........................................................................................................................................ 33 Special Interest Wrecks ............................................................................................................................... 35 Søfartsstyrelsen ............................................................................................................................................... 35 2 Bundesamt für zentrale Dienste und offene Vermögensfragen ..................................................................... 36 Otto Uldum ...................................................................................................................................................... 38 Gert Normann Andersen ................................................................................................................................. 44 Sports divers ................................................................................................................................................ 46 Other transforms ......................................................................................................................................... 49 Åge Jensen and Stig Thornsohn ....................................................................................................................... 50 Small time divers ......................................................................................................................................... 54 Bending the rules ......................................................................................................................................... 56 Flemming Hansen ............................................................................................................................................ 58 Analysis and Conclusion .................................................................................................................................. 60 The interest of the stakeholders ................................................................................................................. 60 Sports divers ............................................................................................................................................ 60 Special Interest Wrecks ........................................................................................................................... 61 Ideas and suggestions .............................................................................................................................. 61 Litterature ........................................................................................................................................................ 63 Other sources .................................................................................................................................................. 64 Acknowledgements I would like to thank professor Thijs J. Maarleveld for his supervision and guidance on my thesis, and the rest of the faculty, especially Konstantinos Alexiou. I would also like to thank Otto Christian Uldum from Langelands Museum, Gert Normann Andersen of JD- Contractor A/S the Sea War Museum and Åge Jensen and Stig Thornsohn