Lothar von Arnauld de la Perière
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Lothar von Arnauld de la Perière
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| Born |
March 18, 1886 Posen (today Poznań) |
| Died |
February 24, 1941 (aged 54) Le Bourget |
| Buried at | Invalidenfriedhof Berlin |
| Allegiance |
 German Empire Weimar Republic Nazi Germany
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| Service/branch |
 Kaiserliche Marine Reichsmarine Kriegsmarine
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| Years of service | 1903–32, 1939–41 |
| Rank | Vizeadmiral |
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| Relations | Friedrich von Arnauld de la Perière (brother) |
Vizeadmiral Lothar von Arnauld de la Perière (March 18, 1886 – February 24, 1941), born in Posen (now Poznań, Poland) and of French descent, was a German U-boat commander during World War I. With 194 ships and 453,716 gross register tons (GRT) sunk, he is the most successful submarine ace ever. Нis victories came in the Mediterranean, almost always using his 8.8-cm deck gun. During his career he fired 74 torpedoes, hitting 39 times.
Arnauld de la Perière remained in the German navy (Reichsmarine) after the war ended. During World War II, he was recalled to active duty as a rear admiral, and was killed in a plane crash near Paris in 1941 while taking part in secret negotiations with the Vichy French government.
In 1757 France, after a duel with a Prince de Bourbon, Jean-Gabriel Arnauld, Seigneur de la Perière, a young artillery officer aged 26 in Saint Plantaire (Indre), had to leave the country to avoid being imprisoned. He went to Prussia and joined the army of Frederick the Great, King of Prussia. Because of his noble descent, he became a member of the Prussian nobility, and because of his service he attained the rank of three star general. Married three times, he had 14 children. His 12th, Eugen Ahasverus Albertus, born in 1800, was the grandfather of Lothar von Arnauld de la Perière.
Eugen von Arnauld de la Perière was married twice and had in total 10 children. His second wife, Olga Spalding, gave birth on April 28, 1856, to Eugen Emil Alexander Valentin von Arnauld de la Perière, father of Lothar von Arnauld de la Perière.
E. E. A. V. von Arnauld de la Perière was married to Bertha Müller. Lothar was their second child. His father being in the state service, Lothar was entitled to be educated at the cadet school of Wahlstatt and later at Gross‑Lichterfelde. His younger brother was Friedrich von Arnauld de la Perière (*1888), during the Great War a Oberleutnant zur See and flight commander of the Marinekorps Flandern.
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