101st Jäger Division (Wehrmacht)

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101st Light Infantry Division
101st Jäger Division

active December 1940 to May 1945
Country German Reich NSGerman Reich (Nazi era) German Empire
Armed forces Wehrmacht
Armed forces army
Type Infantry division
structure structure
Installation site Prague
Second World War Battle of Kharkov (1942) , Kuban bridgehead
Commanders
list of Commanders

The 101st light infantry division and later the 101st Jäger division was a major unit of the army of the German Wehrmacht during World War II .

Division history

Operations rooms of the 101st Light Infantry Division
Germany : December 1940 to June 1941
Eastern Front , Southern Section: June 1941 to July 1942

The 101st light ID was deployed in Prague in December 1940 as a division of the 12th wave of deployment . It consisted of parts of the 35th Infantry Division , border infantry and various fortress units. From 1940 to June 1941 the division was in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia and had a brief deployment in the Balkan campaign . In the summer of 1941 she was on the border with the Soviet Union pulled together and took as part of Army Group South on Operation Barbarossa part. Her stations during the war against the Soviet Union were Przemysl , Uman , Kiev , Kharkov , the Donets Basin and Isjum . In July 1942 it was renamed the 101st Jäger Division.

Operations rooms of the 101st Jäger Division
Eastern Front, Southern Section: July 1942 to October 1944
Slovakia , Hungary and Austria : October 1944 to May 1945

The renaming to the Jäger Division took place during the Battle of Kharkov . From mid-1942 the 101st Jäger Division took part in the offensive in the southern sector and advanced into the Caucasus. As a result of the defeat of Stalingrad , she had to retreat to the Kuban bridgehead after heavy losses in battles with the Red Army and partisans . At the end of 1943, the division was evacuated across the Kerch Strait and gathered on the Lower Dnieper . Together with the 1st Panzer Army , it was surrounded by Soviet troops in March 1944, but was able to join forces with the XLVI. Liberate Panzer Corps. She withdrew via western Ukraine , from there to Slovakia in October 1944 . This was followed by a further retreat via Hungary and Austria. The 101st Jäger Division surrendered in May 1945 when it was reduced to combat group strength.

people

Division commanders of the 101st light ID:
period of service Rank Surname
December 10, 1940 to June 26, 1941 General of the artillery Erich Marcks
June 26, 1941 to April 11, 1942 Lieutenant General Brauner von Haydringen
April 11 to July 6, 1942 Lieutenant General Erich Diestel
Division commanders of the 101st Jäger Division:
period of service Rank Surname
July 6 to September 1, 1942 Lieutenant General Erich Diestel
September 1, 1942 to July 12, 1944 General of the mountain troops Emil Vogel
July 12, 1944 to May 8, 1945 Lieutenant General Dr. Walter Assmann
General Staff Officers (Ia) of the 101st Light ID and 101st Jäger Division:
period of service Rank Surname
December 10, 1940 to February 5, 1942 Lieutenant colonel Volkmar Schöne
6: July to October 20, 1942 major Hans-Joachim Ludendorff
October 20, 1942 to November 15, 1943 Lieutenant colonel Gernot Nagel
November 15, 1943 to May 1945 Lieutenant colonel Franz Vital

Well-known members of the division

  • Willi Heinrich served in the 1st Battalion / 258. Jäger Regiment of the 101st Jäger Division and was wounded five times. After the war, Heinrich wrote well-known novels such as “The patient meat”, “In Stolzer Trauer”, “So long, Archie” and others. In his war novel “The patient meat” he processed his traumatic war memories and, among other things, accused the inhumane command structure of the Wehrmacht .
  • Hans Liebherr , master builder, inventor and company founder of the construction machine group Liebherr served in this division.

structure

Change in the division structure 1940–1944
101st Light Infantry Division
 101st Jäger Division
1942 		101st Jäger Division
1944
  • 228th Infantry Regiment
  • 229th Infantry Regiment
  • 228th Hunter Regiment
  • Hunter Regiment 229
  • 228th Hunter Regiment
  • Hunter Regiment 229
  • Artillery Regiment 85
  • Artillery Regiment 85
  • Artillery Regiment 85
  • Panzerjäger detachment 101
  • Panzerjäger detachment 101
  • Panzerjäger detachment 101
  • Reconnaissance Battalion 101
  • Cycling Department 101
  • Reconnaissance Division 101
  • Engineer Battalion 101
  • Engineer Battalion 101
  • Engineer Battalion 101
  • Field Replacement Battalion 101
  • Field Replacement Battalion 101
  • Field Replacement Battalion 85
  • Division Units 101
  • News Division 101
  • Supply units 101
  • News Division 101
  • Supply units 101

reception

Memorial stone for the fallen of the 3rd Pi / 101. Jäger Division in Wangen (2011)

The film " Steiner - The Iron Cross " is based on the war experiences of the 101st Jäger Division in the Crimea.

literature

  • Georg Tessin : Associations and troops of the German Wehrmacht and Waffen SS in World War II 1939–1945. Volume 6. The Land Forces 71-130 . 2nd Edition. Biblio-Verlag, Bissendorf 1979, ISBN 3-7648-1172-2 .
  • Willi Weinmann: The 101st Jäger Division in documents, pictures and reports , self-published, Offenburg (Marbach aN) 1966, publisher. Traditions-Verband, Sozial Hilfswerk 101. Jäger-Div. e. V. Offenburg.
  • Hans Kissel : Attack of an infantry division: the 101st light infantry division in the spring battle near Charkow in May 1942 , Scharnhorst Buchkameradschaft , Heidelberg 1958.

Notes and individual references

  1. ↑ was filmed as " Steiner - The Iron Cross ".
  2. ↑ Fanhomepage by Willi Heinrich. Niki Gabel and Riet Stroomer, accessed February 24, 2011 .