Installing the equipment for the station was the only known armed German military operation on land in North America (outside of Greenland) during the Second World War.

Fourteen stations were deployed in Arctic and sub-Arctic regions (Greenland, Bear Island, Spitsbergen, and Franz Josef Land) and five were placed around the Barents Sea.

[2] En route, the U-boat was caught in a storm and a large breaker produced significant damage, including leaks in the hull and the loss of the submarine's quadruple anti-aircraft cannon, leaving it both unable to dive and defenceless against Allied aircraft.

Schrewe selected a site this far north as he believed this would minimize the risk of the station being discovered by Inuit.

[2] Within an hour of dropping anchor, a scouting party had located a suitable site, and soon after Dr. Sommermeyer, his assistant, and ten sailors disembarked to install the station.

Armed lookouts were posted on nearby high ground, and other crew members set to repair the submarine's storm damage.

[7] The U-boat undertook a combat patrol in the area of the Grand Banks of Newfoundland, during which she survived three attacks by Canadian aircraft, but sank no ships.

She was sunk with all hands eleven months later on 11 November 1944, by the submarine USS Flounder near the Dutch East Indies.

[9][10] Around the same time, retired Siemens engineer Franz Selinger, who was writing a history of the company, went through Sommermeyer's papers and learned of the station's existence.

Weather Station Kurt was removed from its site and is now part of the collection of the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa.