<page_title> List of most successful U-boat commanders </page_title> <section_title> World War II </section_title> <table> <cell> Otto Kretschmer <col_header> Commander </col_header> </cell> <cell> Otto Kretschmer (1912–1998) was the most successful of the World War II Aces of the Deep. As commander of U-35, U-23 and U-99 he sank 47 merchant ships totalling 272,043 tons in a remarkably short period of time, being captured in March 1941 and spending the rest of the war in the Bowmanville POW camp, Canada. <col_header> Notes </col_header> </cell> </table>
Otto Kretschmer (1912 – 1998) was the most successful German U-boat commander in the Second World War.