10th Panzer Division (Wehrmacht)

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10th Panzer Division

Troop registration of the 10th Panzer Division

Troop registration
active April 1, 1939 to May 1943 (extermination) / 30. June 1943 (Official dissolution)
Country German Reich NSGerman Reich (Nazi era) German Empire
Armed forces Wehrmacht
Armed forces army
Branch of service Armored force
Type Panzer Division
structure structure
Insinuation German Africa Corps
garrison Prague Bohemia and Moravia
Second World War Attack on Poland
French campaign
German-Soviet war
Vyazma Cauldron Battle
Battle for Moscow

Africa campaign

Battle of the Kasserin Pass
Commanders
list of Commanders
insignia
Afrikakorps special characters Afrikakorps special characters
Troop registration numbers 1940–1942 Troop registration numbers 1940–1942
Troop registration 1941–1943 Troop registration 1941–1943

The 10th Panzer Division was a major unit of the army of the German Wehrmacht during World War II . It should not be confused with the 10th SS Panzer Division of the Waffen SS .

history

The division was set up in April 1939 in Prague in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia .

During the attack on Poland in 1939, the division was subordinate to Army Group North , in the process it broke through the corridor and fought in the Battle of the Tucheler Heide , the Battle of Wizna and Brest-Litowsk .

As part of Heinz Guderians XIX. Army corps advanced across the Maas in the western campaign in 1940 . On the Channel coast it advanced to Calais and took part in the enclosure of Dunkirk . Other battles were:

Then the division was used as an occupation force in the Paris area.

In 1941 it was used in the war against the Soviet Union . She went ahead on the Dęblin , Bug , Slonim and Jelnja lines , where she was refreshed. She fought in the double battles of Vyazma and Bryansk and made the breakthrough in the Battle of Moscow , then had to retreat across the Moskva near Borodino on Rusa . At the end of the year the division was at Gschatsk .

In May 1942 she was relocated to France for a refresher . In November of the same year the division was shipped to Tunisia to support the Africa Corps . First, with the 334th Infantry Division and the "von Manteuffel" division as part of the "Eilbote" company , she secured northern Tunisia against the attack of the British 1st Army advancing from Algeria . She then operated as part of the 5th Panzer Army , taking part in the battle of the Kasserin Pass .

From March 1943 until his wounding on April 7, 1943, Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg was First General Staff Officer (Ia) of the 10th Panzer Division.

The association was destroyed south of Tunis in May 1943 and officially dissolved on June 30, 1943.

Commanders

Well-known members of the division

structure

September 1939
attack on Poland 		1940
French campaign 		1943
Tunisia
  • 8th Panzer Regiment
  • Panzer Brigade 4
    • 7th Panzer Regiment
    • 8th Panzer Regiment
  • 7th Panzer Regiment
  • Infantry Regiment 86 (motorized)
  • Rifle Brigade 10
    • Rifle Regiment 69
    • Rifle Regiment 86
  • Panzer Grenadier Regiment 69
  • Panzer Grenadier Regiment 86
  • II. / Artillery Regiment 29
  • Artillery Regiment 90
  • 706 Heavy Infantry Gun Company
  • 90th Panzer Artillery Regiment
  • I. / Reconnaissance Regiment 8
  • Reconnaissance Department 90
  • Panzer Reconnaissance Division 10
  • Panzerjäger detachment 90
  • Panzerjäger detachment 90
  • Army Flak Artillery Department 302
  • Luftwaffe anti-aircraft artillery group
  • Engineer Battalion 49
  • Panzer Pioneer Battalion 49
  • News Department 90
  • Panzer News Department 90
  • Supply Troops 90
  • Tank supply troops 90

The Panzer-Ersatz -teilung 7 (cf. Panzer-Regiment 7) in Vaihingen (Kurmärker barracks) was responsible for providing the staff .

literature

  • 10th Panzer Division. In: Veit Scherzer (Ed.): German troops in the Second World War. Volume 4. Scherzers Militaer-Verlag, Ranis / Jena 2008, ISBN 978-3-938845-14-1 , pp. 146-175.
  • Samuel W. Mitcham : German Order of Battle. Panzer, Panzer Grenadier, and Waffen SS Divisions in World War II. Stackpole Books, 2007, ISBN 978-0-8117-3438-7 .
  • Georg Tessin : Associations and troops of the German Wehrmacht and Waffen SS in World War II 1939–1945. Volume 3: The Land Forces 6-14 . 2nd Edition. Biblio-Verlag, Bissendorf 1974, ISBN 3-7648-0942-6 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d See Scherzer 2008; Pp. 146-150.
  2. ↑ Incomplete, faulty! See Scherzer 2008; P. 151.
  3. ↑ See Scherzer 2008; P. 146 f.