Adalbert Schnee

Otto Adalbert Schnee (31 December 1913 – 4 November 1982) was a Korvettenkapitän (corvette captain) with Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine during World War II. He commanded the submarines , , , and , sinking twenty-one merchant ships on twelve patrols, for a total of of Allied shipping, and received the Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves.

Career Schnee was a member of Hitler's Nazi party. He joined the Reichsmarine in April 1934. After serving aboard the light cruiser , he transferred to the U-boat arm in May 1937. He spent two years on board the Type IIB U-boat , under the command of Oberleutnant zur See Otto Kretschmer, completing five combat patrols as 1.WO (second-in-command), between October 1939 and January 1940.

Schnee's first command, from January to July 1940, was the Type IIA submarine ,

His next command, between July and October 1940, was the Type IIC U-boat .

Schnee commanded the Type IIB training boat during November 1940, but as this class of submarine were withdrawn from front-line service, in January 1941 Schnee was given command of the newer, larger Type VIIC U-boat . Iron Cross (1939) 2nd Class (21 October 1939) 1st Class (15 August 1940) 105th Oak Leaves on 15 July 1942 as Kapitänleutnant and commander of U-201