16th Marine Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)

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The 16th Marine Infantry Division (only 16 Marine-Division ) was a German nominal major unit in World War II .

Division history

The division was set up at Steenwijk in the Netherlands in early March 1945 . The association was set up on the basis of an order from Hitler with the aim of deceiving the Allies about the withdrawal of German associations from the occupied Netherlands . To this end, as many divisions as possible have been renamed in the Netherlands.

The association never reaches the strength of a full division, even if it was named that way for reasons of deception.

The 16th Marine Infantry Division only existed formally for around two months from the beginning of March 1945 until the German surrender on May 8, 1945.

The commanding officer was the sea captain Carl Hollweg, former commander of the 4th Ship Trunk Regiment.

structure

  • Marine Rifle Regiment 161 from the 6th Ship Trunk Division (Steenwijk), probably camouflaged as Grenadier Regiment 604 and Fusilier Grenadier Battalion 219 of the 219th Infantry Division
  • Marine-Schützen-Regiment 162 from the 10. Schiffs-Stamm -teilung (Assens), probably camouflaged parts of the 219th Infantry Division as well as the Fusilier Battalion 703 of the 703rd Infantry Division
  • Marine Rifle Regiment 163 from the 24th Ship Trunk Division ( Groningen ), probably camouflaged as Grenadier Regiment 579 of the 703rd Infantry Division
  • Division personnel from the 4th Ship Stamm Regiment, probably camouflaged as the Grenadier Regiment 604

literature

  • Georg Tessin : Associations and troops of the Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS 1939–1945. Volumes 2, 7, 8, Osnabrück 1972/73.
  • Samuel W. Mitcham (2007). German Order of Battle. Volume One: 1st - 290th Infantry Divisions in WWII. PA; United States of America: Stackpole Books, pp. 59 + 60. ISBN 978-0-8117-3416-5 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bernd Bölscher: Hitler's Navy in Land Warfare: A Documentation . BoD - Books on Demand, 2015, ISBN 978-3-7386-3509-6 , pp. 371 ( google.de [accessed on May 16, 2020]).
  2. ^ War diary of the Naval War Command 1939-1945 . In: Military History Research Institute (ed.): Part A . tape 67 , March 1945. ES Mittler & Sohn, Berlin, Bonn, Hamburg 1997, ISBN 3-8132-0667-X , p. 30 + 31 .
  3. ↑ Bölscher, Bernd: Hitler's navy in the war on land use 1939-1945, 1st edition, ISBN 978-3-7386-3509-6 , p. 85