112th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)

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112th Infantry Division

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active December 10, 1940 to November 2, 1943
Country German Reich NSGerman Reich (Nazi era) German Empire
Armed forces Wehrmacht
Armed forces army
Type Infantry division
structure structure
Installation site Baumholder Training Area
Commanders
list of Commanders

The 112th Infantry Division (ID) was a major unit of the army of the German Wehrmacht during World War II .

Division history

Operational areas:

  • Homeland War Zone: December 1940 to June 1941
  • Eastern Front , Central Section: June 1941 to November 1943

The association was set up on December 10, 1940 in military district XII (Wiesbaden) as a division of the 12th wave . Parts of the 33rd and 34th Infantry Divisions contributed to this. Under the 2nd Army , she operated near Bobruisk in the autumn of 1941 , and then took part in the Battle of Kiev . In November it was subordinated to the 2nd Panzer Army and was initially near Stalinogorsk and then in 1942 near Brjansk and Oryol , from where the withdrawal took place after the Oryol operation . Then subordinated to the 4th Panzer Army , it was used against the Belgorod-Kharkov operation and immediately afterwards in the Battle of the Dnieper near Kiev . On November 2, 1943, the division was disbanded, and the remaining parts of the division were assigned to Corps Department B.

people

Division commanders of the 112th ID:
period of service Rank Surname
December 10, 1940 to November 10, 1942 General of the Infantry Friedrich Mieth
November 10, 1942 to June 20, 1943 Major general Albert Newiger
June 20 to September 3, 1943 General of the artillery Rolf Wuthmann
September 3, 1943 until unknown Lieutenant General Theobald Lieb

structure

  • 110th Infantry Regiment
  • 256th Infantry Regiment
  • 258th Infantry Regiment
  • Artillery Regiment 86
  • Engineer Battalion 112
  • Reconnaissance Department 120
  • Panzerjäger detachment 112
  • News Department 112
  • Supply forces 112

literature

  • Georg Tessin : Associations and troops of the German Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS in the Second World War 1939–1945, Volume 6: The land forces. No. 71-130. 2nd Edition. Osnabrück 1979. VI, 336 pages. ISBN 3-7648-1172-2 .
  • Ullmer & Schenk: IR 110 - The Baden Infantry Regiment 110 (1936–1945), Ulmer-Schenk-Selbstverlag, Heidelberg, 1946.