148th Reserve Division (Wehrmacht)
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148th Reserve Division |
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 Troop registration |
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| active | October 1942 to September 18, 1944 |
| Country |
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| Armed forces | Wehrmacht |
| Armed forces | army |
| Branch of service | infantry |
| Type | Infantry Division |
| structure | structure |
| Installation site | Metz |
| Second World War | Western front |
| management | |
| list of | Commanders |
The 148th Reserve Division was a major military unit of the Wehrmacht .
Division history
148th Division and Division No. 148
In December 1939, the 148th Division, located in Gleiwitz, was formed in Wehrkreis VIII as a replacement for the 168th Division and later renamed Division 148 in January 1940 . In order to free barracks accommodation, the relocation to Metz in the military district XII followed in 1941 .
148th Reserve Division
Division No. 148 was renamed the 148th Reserve Division in October 1942 when the reserve army was reorganized . The move to Silesia followed in December 1942.
In May 1943, the Infantry Replacement Regiment 252 was transferred to the newly established 356th Infantry Division and the Infantry Replacement Regiment 28 to the 189th Reserve Division and the division was transferred to southern France in the Toulouse area and the LXVI . Reserve corps in the 19th Army, subordinated to Army Group D. The move to the Nice area followed in November .
During the Allied landing in southern France in Operation Dragoon on August 15, 1944, parts of the division, which had been part of the field army and Army Group G since July , attempted a failed counterattack against Allied troops near Cannes before the division moved along the Côte d'Azur in the direction of the Maritime Alps . Together with the 8th Mountain Division , these were the only two German divisions in southern France that retreated towards Italy after the Allied invasion of southern France. On its retreat, the division was involved in defensive battles against Allied troops and the Resistance . In September 1944 she was the army Liguria of Army Group C assigned and entrusted with the protection of the Alpine crossings to France.
On September 18, 1944, the division was renamed the 148th Infantry Division .
structure
1940
- Infantry Replacement Regiment 8 ( Troppau , later Metz)
- Infantry Replacement Regiment 28 ( Schweidnitz , later Mörchingen )
- Infantry Replacement Regiment 239 (Gleiwitz, later Diedenhofen )
- Infantry Replacement Regiment 252 (Neisse, later Metz)
- Rifle Replacement Battalion 13 ( Oppeln )
- Artillery Replacement Regiment 8 (Troppau, later Metz)
- Pioneer Replacement Battalion 8 (from 1941)
1943
- Reserve Grenadier Regiment 8 ( Castres )
- Reserve Grenadier Regiment 239 ( Montauban )
- Reserve Artillery Regiment 8 ( Also )
- Reserve Engineer Battalion 8 (Toulouse)
- Panzer Jäger Company 1048
- Cycling squadron 1048
- Reserve News Battalion 8th
- IV./Reserve-Grenadier-Regiment 239 (formerly Eastern Battalion 661, from April 1944)
people
| rank | Surname | Period |
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| Major general | Conrad Stephanus | from the establishment until February 7, 1940 |
| Lieutenant General | Hermann Bottcher | February 7, 1940 to February 10, 1942 |
| Lieutenant General | Hubert Gercke | February 10 to April 2, 1942 |
| Lieutenant General | Hermann Bottcher | April 2, 1942 to April 1, 1943 |
| Lieutenant General | Friedrich-Wilhelm von Rothkirch and Panthen | April 1, 1943 to September 25, 1943 |
| Major General / Lieutenant General | Otto Fretter-Pico | September 25, 1943 until renaming |
Some sources, u. a. Samuel W. Mitcham in his value German Order of Battle , wrongly indicate Lieutenant General Otto Schönherr Edler von Schönleiten as commandant from March 1944. This is based on rotating numbers, as Otto Schönherr took over division no. 418.
literature
- Jean-Loup Gassend: Operation Dragoon: Autopsy of a Battle: the Allied Liberation of the French Riviera August-September 1944 . Schiffer Publications, 2014, ISBN 978-0-7643-4580-7 .
- Samuel W. Mitcham : German Order of Battle: 1st-290th Infantry Divisions in World War II. PA; United States of America: Stackpole Books. 2007, pp. 194 + 195, ISBN 978-0-8117-3416-5 .
- Georg Tessin : Associations and troops of the German Wehrmacht and Waffen SS in World War II 1939–1945. Seventh Volume The Land Forces No. 131–200. Biblio Verlag, Osnabrück 1973.
Web links
- 1th through 199th German Infantry, Security, and Panzer Grenadier Divisions. Organizations and Histories 1939–1945 Nafziger Collection, Combined Armed Research Library.
- 148th Reserve Division in the south of France
- 148. Reserve Division / Division No. 148 on EHRI portal from the Federal Archives
Individual evidence
- ^ Georg Tessin: Associations and troops of the German Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS in World War II 1939–1945. Seventh Volume The Land Forces No. 131 - 200. P. 65
- ↑ 148. Reserve Division / Division No. 148. In: portal.ehri-project.eu. Retrieved November 5, 2019 .
- ^ Reserve Division 148 in the South of France - 1944: Nice, Cannes, Grasse, Sospel, St Raphaël. In: gassend.net. Retrieved November 5, 2019 .
- ^ Southern France. In: history.army.mil. Retrieved November 6, 2019 .
- ^ Samuel W. Mitcham: German Order of Battle: 1st-290th Infantry divisions in World War II . Stackpole Books, 2007, ISBN 978-0-8117-3416-5 , pp. 195 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
