162nd Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)
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| active | December 1939 to April 1942 |
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| Armed forces | Wehrmacht |
| Armed forces | army |
| Branch of service | infantry |
| Type | Infantry Division |
| structure | structure |
| Strength | 15,000 debit |
| Installation site | Groß Born military training area |
| Second World War | Battle of Rzhev |
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| list of | Commanders |
The 162nd Infantry Division (162nd ID) was a major military unit of the Wehrmacht .
Division history
| date | corps | army | Army group | Location |
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| December 1939 to April 1940 | Lineup | - | - | Great Born |
| May 1940 | reserve | OKH | - | Darmstadt |
| June 1940 | XXXI | 16th Army | A. | Lorraine |
| July to August 1940 | XXXV | 18th Army | - | East Prussia |
| September 1940 to April 1941 | 4th Army | B. | ||
| May 1941 | XX | 9th Army | ||
| June to July 1941 | center | Białystok | ||
| August to September 1941 | reserve | - | Smolensk | |
| October to December 1941 | XXVII | 9th Army | Vyazma , Kalinin , Rzhev | |
| January to March 1942 | Rzhev | |||
| April 1942 | - |
operation area
- Germany: December 1939 to June 1941
- Eastern Front, Central Section: June 1941 to January 1942
The 162nd Division was set up on December 1, 1939 as part of the 7th wave of formation in Military District II (Stettin) on the Groß Born training area. In 1940 she received the field replacement battalions 12, 32 and 34 in order to reach the target strength. On January 1, 1941, the IV. Dept./AR 236 was also subordinated to her. The 162nd Infantry Division fought in Army Group Center, including the Battle of Rzhev . Due to the high losses at Kalinin and Rschew , the 162nd Infantry Division was disbanded on December 23, 1941. On May 18, 1942 the transfer to Stettin took place in order to refresh the division. There it acted as a training unit for foreign volunteers and was renamed the 162nd Turkmen Division on May 21, 1943 .
structure
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people
- Division commander : Lieutenant General Hermann Franke (December 1, 1939 to January 13, 1942)
- General Staff Officer (Ia): Major Hans-Werner Freiherr von Hammerstein-Gesmold (December 1939 to January 1942)
Two members of the 162nd Infantry Division were awarded the German Cross in Gold: Lieutenant General Franke on January 16, 1942 and Major Dr. iur. Ferdinand from IR 303 on September 13, 1942.
162nd Turkmen Infantry Division
Initially, only one staff functioned, which was intended to form auxiliary troops in the occupied rear of Army Group South from non-Russian (Caucasian, Turkestan, Georgian, Armenian) prisoners of war for the fight against the Soviet Union . The unit was initially in the Ukraine , where it provided training for the so-called " Eastern Legions ". In February 1943, she moved into the General Government to Neuhammer . Major General Oskar von Niedermayer was commissioned on May 30, 1943 with the command of the 162nd (Turk) Infantry Division. There it was reclassified into a regular field division by autumn 1943, but it still consisted of Caucasian, Georgian and Turkotatar soldiers.
Outline autumn 1943
- Infantry Regiment 303 (I.-III. From the 2nd Turkmen Legion)
- Infantry Regiment 314 (I.-III. From the Azerbaijani Legion)
- Division Battalion 162
- Artillery Regiment 236 (I.–IV. from the 1st Turkmen Legion)
- Division units 236
The 162nd (Turk) Infantry Division was deployed in Slovenia and then in northern Italy at the end of 1943 to fight partisans near Spezia and Val di Taro. In March 1944 they were transferred to Liguria, where they secured the LXXV there. Army Corps was subordinated. On June 9, 1944, the division was transferred to the XIV Panzer Corps, which was under pressure in central Italy . General Niedermayer, who was more than a scholar than a military man, had already been replaced by Lieutenant General von Heygendorff on May 20, 1944 at the request of the Commander-in-Chief Southwest Albert Kesselring . Between August and November 1944 the division was in the section of the 10th Army for coastal security in the Rimini area and moved back to Liguria in December 1944. In March and April 1945 the division was part of the LXXVI. Panzer Corps . After retreating via Bologna , the division fell into English captivity near Padua . The prisoners were gathered in the Taranto area and then transferred to the Soviet Union .
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 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Franz W. Seidler: Oskar Ritter von Niedermayer in the Second World War , in: Wehrwissenschaftliche Rundschau 4/1970, p. 203.
