Career
The Knight"s Cross of the Iron Cross was awarded to recognise extreme battlefield bravery or successful military leadership. On 14 May 1942 Reinhard Suhren, commander of U-564, sunk the Mexican oil tanker Potrero del Llano. The sinking of this ship, compounded with U-106"s attack on another tanker, the Faja de Oro, would bring Mexico to declare "A State of War" on the Axis powers.
Ships attacked As a U-boat commander of U-106 Rasch is credited with the sinking of 12 ships for a total of 78,553 gross register tons (GRT), further damaged one ship of 4,639 GRT and damaging one auxiliary warship of 8,246 metric tons (8,116 long tons.
9,090 short tons). Wehrmachtbericht reference Bibliography.