In what year was the man under whose command the 1st U-boat Flotilla was founded born?
1st U-boat Flotilla The 1st U-boat flotilla (German "1. Unterseebootsflottille") also known as the Weddigen flotilla, was the first operational U-boat unit in Nazi Germany's "Kriegsmarine" (navy). Founded on 27 September 1935 under the command of "Fregattenkapitän" Karl Dönitz, it was named in honor of "Kapitänleutnant" Otto Weddigen. Weddigen, a U-boat commander during World War I, died on 18 March 1915 after his submarine "U-29" was rammed by the British battleship HMS "Dreadnought" in the North Sea.
Wilhelm Keitel Wilhelm Keitel (22 September 1882 – 16 October 1946) was a German field marshal who served as Chief of the Armed Forces High Command ("Oberkommando der Wehrmacht" or OKW) in Nazi Germany during World War II. According to David Stahel, Keitel was "well known and [...] reviled as Hitler's dependable mouthpiece and habitual yes-man" among his military colleagues.