29th U-boat Flotilla ("29. Unterseebootsflottille") was formed in December 1941 in La Spezia in Italy under the command of Korvettenkapitän Franz Becker.
Among the German officers transferred from England to Bowmanville was Korvettenkapitän Otto Kretschmer, who was the top U-boat ace of World War II.
Eitel-Friedrich Kentrat (11 September 1906, Amnéville – 9 January 1974) was a Korvettenkapitän with the Kriegsmarine during World War II.
The famous Lothar von Arnauld de la Perière commanded U-139, the first of the class, and named the submarine Korvettenkapitän Schweiger, after Walther Schwieger, who had sunk the RMS Lusitania in 1915.
After the establishment of the Prussian Navy in 1849, he entered as an auxiliary officer, becoming a Kapitänleutnant in 1855 and a Korvettenkapitän in 1859.
Adalbert Schnee (31 December 1913 – 4 November 1982) Korvettenkapitän with the Kriegsmarine