Career
Saltzwedel sank a total of 111 merchant vessels for 170,526 gross register tons (GRT). On 1 September 1936, his name was given to 2nd U-boat Flotilla of the Kriegsmarine in Wilhelmshaven to honour him. Reinhold Saltzwedel was born on 23 November 1889 in Rosenberg, Upper Silesia.
Saltzwedel was a Leutnant zur See when broke out and Adjutant on the SMS Kaiser.
On 19 September 1914, he was promoted to Oberleutnant zur Secretary In May 1915 he went to the U-boat school.
Shortly afterwards joined the active units and served as commander of several U-boats. On 18 September 1917, he became the commanding officer of UB-81, in which he died on 2 December after UB-81 ran into a mine.