137th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)
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137th Infantry Division |
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 Troop registration |
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| active | October 10, 1940 to November 2, 1943 |
| Country |
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| Armed forces | Wehrmacht |
| Armed forces | army |
| Type | Infantry Division |
| structure | structure |
| Installation site | Dollersheim |
| Nickname | Bergmann Division |
| Second World War | Typhoon company |
| Commanders | |
| list of | Commanders |
The 137th Infantry Division (137th ID) was a major military unit of the Wehrmacht .
Division history
Areas of application:
- Austria and Germany : October 1940 to June 1941
- Eastern Front , central section: June 1941 to December 1943
The 137th Infantry Division was deployed as a division of the 11th wave of deployment in October 1940 at the Döllersheim military training area. It was composed of a staff led by General Moser. Their units were formed from parts of the 44th Infantry Division , the 262nd Infantry Division and the 18th Infantry Division (motorized) . The 137th ID took part in decisive battles on the Eastern Front. In 1941 she fought in the central section near Białystok , Minsk , Smolensk , Roslavl , Vyazma and during the attack on Moscow in the Typhoon company in the winter of 1941/1942. Throughout 1942 the 137th Infantry Division was involved in heavy trench warfare and was deployed near Oryol in the winter of 1942/1943 . The Austrian division fought near Sevsk , withdrew across the Desna and had to repel Soviet advances on the Dnieper and Pripet . During this time she was XX. Corps under the 9th Army . In 1943, the division's losses on the Eastern Front were so high that it only consisted of two infantry regiments. This was followed by the withdrawal from the front and in November 1943 the graduation to a division group 137.
The staff of the former division was reassigned to the 271st Infantry Division . Division group 137 was subordinated to Corps Department E , which was also set up in November 1943, in Army Group Center .
people
| period of service | Rank | Surname |
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| October 8, 1940 to December 21, 1941 | Lieutenant General | Friedrich Bergmann |
| 21.-28. December 1941 | Colonel | Siegfried Heine |
| December 28, 1941 to January 5, 1942 | Colonel | Kurt Muhl |
| January 5 to February 5, 1942 | Lieutenant General | Hans Kamecke |
| February 5 to February 12, 1942 | Colonel | Siegfried Heine |
| 12-25 February 1942 | Lieutenant General | Karl Rudiger |
| February 25 to June 1, 1942 | Colonel | Paul Mahlmann |
| June 1, 1942 to October 15, 1943 | Lieutenant General | Hans Kamecke |
| October 15 to October 20, 1943 | Representative | |
| October 20 to November 2, 1943 | Lieutenant General | Egon von Neindorff |
| period of service | Rank | Surname |
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| October 5, 1940 to June 1, 1942 | major | Wilhelm Meyer-Detring |
| June 1, 1942 to November 1943 | Lieutenant colonel | Hans Refior |
structure
| 1940 | 1943 |
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| 447th Infantry Regiment | Grenadier Regiment 447 |
| 448th Infantry Regiment | Grenadier Regiment 448 |
| 449th Infantry Regiment | Divisional Battalion 137 |
| Artillery Regiment 137 | |
| Engineer Battalion 137 | |
| Panzerjäger detachment 137 | |
| Reconnaissance Division 137 | Field Replacement Battalion 137 |
| News Department 137 | |
| Resupply Troops 137 | |
literature
- Georg Tessin : Associations and troops of the German Wehrmacht and Waffen SS in World War II 1939–1945 . 2nd Edition. tape 7 . The Land Forces 131–200 . Biblio-Verlag, Bissendorf 1979, ISBN 3-7648-1173-0 .
- Werner Haupt: The German infantry divisions . Ed. Dörfler im Nebel-Verlag, Eggolsheim 2005, ISBN 3-89555-274-7 .
- Wilhelm Meyer-Detring : The 137th Infantry Division in the middle section of the Eastern Front -, Kameradschaft der Division, Petzenkirchen / Lower Austria, 1962, Dörfler Verlag, new edition 2002, ISBN 978-3-89555-382-0 .
- Mitcham, Samuel W., Jr. (2007a). German Order of Battle. Volume One: 1st - 290th Infantry Divisions in WWII. PA; United States of America: Stackpole Books. Pp. 189 + 190, ISBN 978-0-8117-3416-5 .
