112th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)
112th Infantry Division |
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active | December 10, 1940 to November 2, 1943 |
Country | 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
period of service | Rank | Surname |
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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.