713th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)

The 713th Infantry Division was a German infantry division of the Army of the German Wehrmacht in World War II in Wehrkreis XIII .

Division history

713th Infantry Division

The 713th Infantry Division was set up as a large unit with the 15th wave of formation in May 1941 in Karlsbad as an occupation division. In September he was assigned to the XVIII. Mountain Corps of the 12th Army and the deployment in the Balkans during the conquest of southern Greece and Crete . It was stationed as an occupation division on Crete. On January 15, 1942, the division on Crete was dissolved and the staff was renamed the 1st Fortress Brigade Crete .

1st Fortress Brigade Crete

The 1. Fortress Brigade Crete , set up in January 1942, consisted only of the 746 Infantry Regiment with the Landesschützen Battalions 832, 833 and 834. The 440 Infantry Regiment was taken over in September 1942 from the Crete Fortress Division . In November 1942, the brigade staff was transformed into the German Railway Security Staff in Croatia .

Outline 1941

733 Infantry Regiment from Division No. 173 ( Nuremberg )
746 Infantry Regiment from Division No. 193 ( Amberg )
Artillery Division 653
Division units 713
- News Company 713
- Administrative units 713
- Medical units 713
- Veterinary Company 713

commander

Colonel / Major General Franz Fehn : from the establishment to May 1942
Colonel Egon von Neindorff : July 1942 to September 1942

Web links

713th Infantry Division on EHRI portal from the Federal Archives

literature

Samuel W. Mitcham (2007). German Order of Battle. Volume Two: 291st - 999th Infantry Divisions, Named Infantry Divisions, and Special Divisions in WWII. PA; United States of America: Stackpole Books. Pp. 194, 196, ISBN 978-0-8117-3437-0 .

Individual evidence

^ Jörg Wurdack: Military history of the city of Hof . North Upper Franconian Association for Nature, History and Regional Studies, 2005, ISBN 978-3-928626-51-4 , p. 353 ( google.de [accessed January 5, 2019]).
^ Georg Tessin, Brün Meyer, Working Group for Defense Research: Associations and Troops of the German Wehrmacht and Waffen SS in the Second World War 1939–1945 . Biblio-Verlag, 1977, p. 134 ( google.de [accessed on January 5, 2019]).

[1] Jörg Wurdack: Military history of the city of Hof . North Upper Franconian Association for Nature, History and Regional Studies, 2005, ISBN 978-3-928626-51-4 , p. 353 ( google.de [accessed January 5, 2019]).

[2] Georg Tessin, Brün Meyer, Working Group for Defense Research: Associations and Troops of the German Wehrmacht and Waffen SS in the Second World War 1939–1945 . Biblio-Verlag, 1977, p. 134 ( google.de [accessed on January 5, 2019]).