Awards
- U-boat War Badge (7 November 1939)
- with Diamonds (11 April 1942)
- Honorary dagger of the Kriegsmarine with Diamonds (17 August 1942)
- War Merit Cross
- 2nd Class with Swords (30 January 1944)
- 1st Class with Swords (1944)
- Iron Cross (1939)
- 2nd Class (1 January 1940)
- 1st Class (1 September 1940)
- Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords
- Knight's Cross on 20 June 1941 as Oberleutnant zur See and commander of U-552
- 87th Oak Leaves on 11 April 1942 as Kapitänleutnant and commander of U-552
- 17th Swords on 17 August 1942 as Kapitänleutnant and commander of U-552
- Mentioned three times in the Wehrmachtbericht (3 July 1941, 11 April 1942, 18 June 1942)
- Großes Verdienstkreuz des Verdienstordens der Bundesrepublik Deutschland (19 September 1969)
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