149th Field Training Division

The 149th Field Training Division was a German infantry division during World War II .

The division , like its sister division 150th Field Training Division , was set up on March 12, 1945 as a field training division by the Commander-in-Chief West in the Netherlands from Wehrkreis VI . From April 1945, the division was formally subordinate to the 25th Army .

By the end of March, three battalions, a regiment and a battery could be set up in addition to a regimental staff. The formation and training of the division was not completed before the end of the war in May 1945.

The commanding officer was Lieutenant General Fritz Kühlwein .

Probable structure:

• Field Training Regiment 1301
• Field Training Regiment 1302
• Field Training Regiment 1303
• Division units 1449

literature

• Samuel Mitcham (2007). German Order of Battle. Volume One: 1st - 290th Infantry Divisions in WWII. PA; United States of America: Stackpole Books. Pp. 195 + 196, ISBN 978-0-8117-3416-5 .
• Georg Tessin : Associations and troops of the German Wehrmacht and Waffen SS in World War II 1939–1945. Volume 7. The Land Forces. Name associations. The air force. Flying bandages. Flak deployment in the Reich 1943–1945. Biblio-Verlag, Bissendorf 1973, p. 70.