19th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)

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19th Infantry Division,
19th Panzer Division

Troop registration

Troop registration
active October 2, 1934 to May 1945 (surrender)
Country German Reich NSGerman Reich (Nazi era) German Empire
Armed forces Wehrmacht
Armed forces army
Branch of service Armored force
Type Infantry / tank division
structure structure
garrison Hanover
Second World War attack on Poland

Western campaign
against the Soviet Union

Commanders
list of Commanders
insignia
Troop registration number 2 Wolfsangel

The 19th Infantry Division , later the 19th Panzer Division , was a major unit of the army of the German Wehrmacht .

Division history

Pre-war period

The 19th Infantry Division was set up on October 1, 1934 - under the code name Artillerieführer VI , which it retained until October 15, 1935 - in Wehrkreis  VI in Hanover . The infantry regiments were formed from the 17th Infantry Regiment of the 6th Division of the Reichswehr . Since the new division of the military districts in 1936, it belonged to the military district XI.

1939

In August 1939 the mobilization took place as part of the first wave of deployment. During the attack on Poland , the division fought in the association of the XI. Army Corps , 10th Army, among others in the Battle of the Bzura and Warsaw .

1940

After border security tasks in the west, she joined the 6th Army from the Viersen area in May 1940 to attack across the Meuse . After the advance over Löwen to the Ypres area , she was ordered to the Roubaix area for the second part of the campaign . She went through Douai to Paris , where a parade was held on June 16, and finally crossed the Loire at Blois . Temporarily stationed in France as an occupying force, the division returned home at the end of September 1940. On November 1, 1940, it was reorganized and renamed the 19th Panzer Division . The 59th Infantry Regiment joined the newly established 20th Panzer Division , and the drawn parts of the division joined the 131st Infantry Division .

1941

As part of Panzer Group 3 , Army Group Center , she took part in the attack on the Soviet Union and fought in the Kesselschlacht near Białystok and Minsk , was then subordinated to the 4th Army during the Battle of Brjansk , with which she defeated the Muscovites during the Battle of Moscow Protective position reached. When the Soviet counter-offensive began, it was pushed back into the Juchnow - Sukhinichi area.

1942

Later it was used in the Bryansk area and with the 2nd Panzer Army in the Orel area until it was relocated to Army Group South in the Kupyansk area in December 1942 due to the development of the situation in the south of the eastern front .

1943

At the Citadel company in July 1943 it was under the III. Panzer Corps of the Kempf Army Division . She suffered heavy losses in the subsequent fighting in the Ukraine. She fought during the Battle of the Dnieper as part of the 4th Panzer Army near Kiev before being forced to retreat to Zhitomir in December 1943 .

1944

It was then used in the Shepetovka area and in March 1944 got into the Kamenez-Podolski pocket with the 1st Panzer Army . In June 1944 it was relocated to the Netherlands, but after the start of Operation Bagration it was sent back to the Eastern Front, where it was used to stabilize the front of the Central Army Group in the Grodno - Białystok area. Pursued by the Red Army, she then withdrew to Warsaw. In November 1944 it was moved to Radom as a reserve of Army Group A , where it was used in the fighting over the Baranov bridgehead .

1945

Before the Soviet Vistula-Oder operation , she had to withdraw to Silesia in January 1945 , and in March as a result of the Upper Silesian operation to the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia , where she surrendered in May.

Inclusion and subordination

Swell:

date Army Corps army Army Group Location
September 1939 XI 10th Army south Silesia , Poland
December 1939 reserve 6th Army B. Lower Rhine
January 1940 IX Lower Rhine, Belgium
June 1940 z. Vfg. - Paris
July 1940 XXXIX 2nd Army C. France
October 1940 BdE in WK XI - - for reclassification
November 1940 XXII 6th Army C. homeland
December 1940 to April 1941 XXXXVII
May / June 1941 WW VI Panzer Group 3 -
July / August 1941 LVII center Minsk , Smolensk
September 1941 9th Army Newel
October 1941 z. Vfg. -
November / December 1941 LVII 4th Army Moscow
January 1942 XXXX Juchnow
February 1942 LVII
March / April 1942 XXXX
May / June 1942 XXXXIII Yelnya
July 1942 z. Vfg.
August / October 1942 XXXXI 2nd Panzer Army Orel
November 1942 z. Vfg.
December 1942 - Smolensk
January 1943 - 8th Army B. Millerowo
February 1943 III 1st Panzer Army Don Isjum
March 1943 south
April / May 1943 z. Vfg. Artemovsk room
June 1943 XXIV Isjum
July 1943 III Kempf Kharkov
August 1943 LII 4th Panzer Army Kiev
September 1943 XXXXVIII
October 1943 XXXVIII 8th Army
November 1943 XXIV 4th Panzer Army
December 1943 XXXXII Zhitomir
January 1944 z. Vfg.
February 1944 XXXXVIII Luck
March 1944 LIX 1st Panzer Army Kamenetz-Podolsk
April 1944 II. SS Northern Ukraine Hube boiler
May 1944 z. Vfg. 1st Hungarian Army Kolomea
June / July 1944 - Wehrmacht Commander Netherlands west Netherlands
August 1944 XXXXVI 9th Army center Warsaw
September / October 1944 IV. SS
November 1944 z. Vfg. OKH - Radome
December 1944 / January 1945 - A.
February / March 1945 XVII 17th Army center Silesia
April 1945 LIX 1st Panzer Army Moravia
May 1945 XXIV

Personal details

Division commanders of the 19th Infantry Division
period of service Rank Surname
October 15, 1935 to March 1, 1938 General of the cavalry Konrad von Goßler
March 1, 1938 to February 1, 1940 Lieutenant General Günther Schwantes
February 1 to November 1, 1940 Major general Otto von Knobelsdorff
Division commanders of the 19th Panzer Division
period of service Rank Surname
November 1, 1940 to January 6, 1942 Lieutenant General Otto von Knobelsdorff
January 6, 1942 to August 7, 1943 Lieutenant General Gustav Schmidt
8-17 August 1943 Colonel Oskar Sörgel
August 18, 1943 to March 21, 1945 Lieutenant General Hans Källner
March 22 to May 8, 1945 Major general Hans-Joachim Deckert
Staff officers (General Staff Officer Ia) of the 19th Infantry Division
period of service Rank Surname
Listed until October 15, 1935 Lieutenant colonel Walter None
April 1, 1937 to November 10, 1938 major Eberhard Kinzel
November 3, 1938 to January 10, 1940 Lieutenant colonel Alexander von Pfuhlstein
January 10 to November 1, 1940 Lieutenant colonel Sigismund-Hellmuth Knight and Edler von Dawans
Staff officers (General Staff Officer Ia) of the 19th Panzer Division
period of service Rank Surname
November 1, 1940 to December 26, 1941 Lieutenant colonel Sigismund-Hellmuth Knight and Edler von Dawans

structure

19th Infantry Division 19th Panzer Division 1943
  • Panzer Regiment 27
    I. + II. Division
  • Infantry Regiment 59
    I. – III. battalion
  • Infantry Regiment 73
    I. – III. battalion
  • Infantry Regiment 74
    I. – III. battalion
  • Panzer Grenadier Regiment 73
    1st + 2nd Battalion
  • Panzer Grenadier Regiment 74
    1st + 2nd Battalion
  • Artillery Regiment 19
    I. – III. Division
    I. Division / Artillery Regiment 55
  • Panzer Artillery Regiment 19th
  • Observation Department 19
  • Reconnaissance Department 19
  • Panzer Reconnaissance Division 19
  • Anti-tank department 19
  • Panzerjäger detachment 19
  • Army Flak Artillery Department 272
  • Engineer Battalion 19th
  • Panzer Pioneer Battalion 19th
  • Infantry Division News Department 19th
  • Panzer News Department 19
  • Infantry Division Supply Leader 19th
  • Tank supply troops 19

Changes in the structure of the 19th Infantry Division from 1934 to 1940

Artillery Leader VI October 1934 October 15, 1935 October 6, 1936 October 12, 1937 November 10, 1938 September 1939 June 1940
IR Braunschweig IR 17 IR 73 IR 7 IR 73
IR Göttingen IR 38 IR 82 IR 74
- IR 59
AR 19
- AR 55 (I., II. Departments) - AR 55 (Department I) AR 55 (I., II. Departments) AR 55 (Department I) I. Section / Artillery Regiment 55
Holzminden Pioneer Battalion Engineer Battalion 19th
- Driving Department 24 -
- Anti-tank department 19 Panzerjäger detachment 19
- Infantry Division News Department 19th
- Observation Department 19 - Observation Department 19 Reconnaissance Department 19
- Infantry Division Supply Leader 19th

Well-known members of the division

literature

  • Rolf Hinze: The 19th Panzer Division. 1939-1945. Edition Dörfler in Nebel-Verlag, Eggolsheim 2003, ISBN 3-89555-093-0 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ After the Soviet breakthrough through the Romanian armies on both sides of Stalingrad on November 21. was the 19th Pz.Div. from the H.Gr. Transported from the center to the south. Schramm: War Diary of the OKW - 1942, Part 2, p. 76
  2. ↑ a b c d Cf. Georg Tessin : Associations and troops of the German Wehrmacht and Waffen SS in the Second World War 1939–1945. Volume 4. The Land Forces 15–30 . 2nd Edition. Biblio-Verlag, Osnabrück 1976, ISBN 3-7648-1083-1 . ; Pp. 114 and 117 f.
  3. ↑ EHRI - 19th Panzer Division. Retrieved October 8, 2019 .