178th Panzer Division (Wehrmacht)

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Division No. 178
Division No. 178 (motorized)
Panzer Division No. 178

active December 15, 1940 to December 1944
Country German Reich NSGerman Reich (Nazi era) German Empire
Armed forces Wehrmacht
Armed forces army
Branch of service Infantry , armored forces
Type Infantry Division , Panzer Division
structure structure
garrison Liegnitz

The 178th Panzer Division was a major unit of the army of the German Wehrmacht during World War II .

Division history

The . 178 Division No. was established in December 1940 in Legnica in the military district situated VIII and served as a staff of spare units. In April 1942 the motorization and renaming to Division No. 178 (motorized) took place .

On April 5, 1943, the regrouping to Panzer Division No. 178 took place . After the Panzergrenadier units were surrendered to the Tatra Panzer Division , the 178th Panzer Division was disbanded in December 1944. Only the staff of the Grenadier Training Regiment 128 remained in Silesia.

structure

Structure of Division No. 178

  • Panzer Division 15
  • Rifle Replacement Regiment 85
  • Infantry Replacement Battalion 30
  • Infantry Replacement Battalion 51
  • Artillery replacement division 116 (motorized)

Structure of the 178th Panzer Division (April 1943)

  • Tank replacement and training department 15
  • 85th Panzer Grenadier Training Regiment
Panzergrenadier Training Battalion 13
Panzergrenadier Training Battalion 110
  • Grenadier training regiment (motorized) 8
Grenadier Training Battalion 30th
Grenadier Training Battalion 51
  • Armored Reconnaissance Replacement and Training Department 55
  • Tank Hunter Replacement and Training Department 8
  • Artillery Division 178
  • Pioneer Division 178
  • Storm Pioneer Division 178

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 .
  • Rolf Stoves: The armored and motorized large German formations 1935–1945 . Ed. Dörfler im Nebel-Verlag, Eggolsheim 2003, ISBN 3-89555-102-3 .
  • Samuel W. Mitcham : The Panzer Legions: A Guide to the German Army Tank Divisions of World War II and Their Commanders . Stackpole Books, 2007, ISBN 978-0-8117-3353-3 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).

Web links

Notes and individual references

  1. ^ Organizational History of the German Armored Forces 1939 - 1945. (PDF; 290kb) 178th Panzer Division. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on December 8, 2011 ; accessed on September 16, 2011 .
  2. ↑ stationed in Sagan
  3. ↑ stationed in Liegnitz
  4. ↑ a b stationed in Görlitz
  5. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Rolf Stoves: The armored and motorized German large units 1935-1945. Ed. Dörfler im Nebel-Verlag, Eggolsheim 2003, ISBN 3-89555-102-3 .
  6. ↑ a b c destroyed at Orscha in June 1944