13th Panzer Division (Wehrmacht)

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13th Infantry Division
13th Motorized Infantry Division
13th Panzer Division

Group number of the 13th Panzer Division

Troop registration
active October 1934 to January 1945
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
garrison Magdeburg , Angerkaserne
Second World War Attack on Poland
Western campaign
German-Soviet war
Battle for Kiev (1941)
Edelweiss company
Defense against the North Caucasian operation
Kuban bridgehead
Defense against the Dnieper-Carpathian operation
Defense against the Lviv-Sandomierz operation
Operation Jassy-Kishinev
Battle for Budapest
Commanders
please refer Commanders

The 13th Panzer Division was a large unit of the army of the German Wehrmacht .

history

1934-1938

The division was set up under the code name Infanterieführer IV in October 1934 in Magdeburg in the military district IV (Dresden) . After the proclamation of military sovereignty in 1935, the association received its official designation 13th  Infantry Division on October 15 . In 1937 the division was motorized, so that on October 12, 1937 it received the addition " motorized ".

1939-1940

After a month of deployment in the attack on Poland , the division was in position near Dillenburg and in the Eifel until May 1940 . In the western campaign , the division advanced via Laon , Calais and Amiens to Lyon . Members of the division murdered fifty wounded African Tirailleurs sénégalais on May 24, 1940 in Aubigny (Somme) . In the summer of 1940 the division was briefly occupied as an occupation force in the General Government, only to be reclassified to the 13th Panzer Division in October . After the reclassification, the division was moved to Romania as a training unit.

1941-1943

PzKpfw III of the 13th Pz.Div. in Poland in 1941

From June 1941, the division was initially concentrated in the Lublin area as part of Army Group South for the war against the Soviet Union . After the German attack, the 13th Panzer Division went to the III. Army Corps across the western bow to Vladimir-Volynsk and Lutsk . At the beginning of August she fought in the unit of Panzer Group 1 near Uman , in September in the Kiev area and in November near Rostov .

Between January and July 1942, the division continued to operate in the Ukraine , especially on the Mius . In August 1942 the division was assigned to Army Group A. With this she advanced from August to December 1942 in the Edelweiss company via Armavir and Mozdok into the Caucasus .

From February to May 1943 the division defended the Kuban bridgehead until it was relocated to Zaporozhye on the Dnieper .

1944-1945

From October 1943 to January 1944 the division was at Krivoy Rog , and then withdrew with the Army Group via Cherkassy and the Bug . She was subordinated to the Army Group South Ukraine and withdrew via the Dniester and Kishinev . In August 1944 the division was wiped out when the Army Group collapsed . From the end of September 1944 it was reorganized in the Reich and moved to Hungary in October 1944, where it was destroyed again in February 1945 during the Battle of Budapest .

Remnants of the division were used to set up the Feldherrnhalle 2 Panzer Division in February 1945.

Commanders

Gerhard Schmidhuber , the last division commander (picture from January 14, 1944 as a colonel)

13th Infantry Division

13th Panzer Division

structure

13th Infantry Division
1936 		13th Infantry Division (motorized)
1940 		13th Panzer Division
1941 		13th Panzer Division
1944
  • Infantry Regiment 66 (motorized)
  • Infantry Regiment 93 (motorized)
  • Rifle Brigade 13
    • 66th Rifle Regiment
    • 93rd Rifle Regiment
  • Artillery Regiment 13th
  • I./Artillery Regiment 49
  • Artillery Regiment 13
  • Army Flak Department 271
  • Reconnaissance Department 13
  • Reconnaissance Department 13 (motorized)
  • Panzer News Department 13
  • Division Supply Troops 13
  • Supply Troops 13
  • Panzer Division Supply Troops 13

Takeover of tradition

The regiment had taken over the tradition of the Prussian infantry regiment No. 26 "Prince Leopold von Anhalt-Dessau" in Magdeburg, which existed from 1813 to 1918. The tradition of the 13th Panzer Division for its part was taken over by the 23rd Panzer Battalion in Braunschweig, in whose barracks (Roselieskaserne) a memorial stone for the fallen of the 13th PD was erected.

References

literature

  • Veit Scherzer (Ed.): German troops in World War II. Volume 4. Scherzers Militaer-Verlag, Ranis / Jena 2008, ISBN 978-3-938845-14-1 .
  • 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 .
  • Dieter Hoffmann: The Magdeburg Division - On the history of the 13th Infantry and 13th Panzer Division 1935–1945. Book and offset printing company Max Schlutius, Magdeburg 1999, ISBN 3-8132-0746-3 .
  • 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. ^ Albrecht Kieser massacre of black French soldiers , Deutschlandfunk, July 27, 2009, accessed June 25, 2015.
  2. ↑ http://www.panzerbataillon23.de/page1001.html
  3. ↑ https://www.friedenszentrum.info/index.php/archivierte-artikel/2014/189-der-name-roselies-ist-unertraeglich