201st Security Division (Wehrmacht)

The 201st Security Division was a German infantry division in World War II of Army Group Center , later Army Group North .

Division history

The division was formed on June 1, 1942 from the staff of the former Backup Brigade 201 . By the beginning of 1943 there were numerous additions and departures of subordinate units.

Operational areas were, mainly subordinated to the 3rd Panzer Army , until February 1944 in the regions around Polotsk , Nevel and Vitebsk . Operations against partisans followed. In September 1942 more than 1,000 deaths were recorded out of 8 of the company's own deaths. In late 1942 / early 1943, the large association took part in various military operations , such as ball lightning and snowstorms, part. Over 6,000 deaths were registered. The division was deployed at the front and the unit withdrew in April 1944. Together with the von Gottberg combat group , the division carried out Operation Spring Festival in April / May 1944 to annihilate partisans, with a large number of assassinations and arrests. In July 1944, during the Soviet offensive operation Bagration near Minsk , the division was encircled and almost completely destroyed with the Doppelkopf company . The remnants of the combat units were added to the 181 Artillery Regiment and the 81st Infantry Division . The bar and supply troops of the former division, which managed to escape from the boiler, still remained until February 1945 in Kurland of Army Group North assumed as an association without combat units installed.

The remaining units of the former division were relocated to Courland. At the end of the year he was assigned to the 18th Army and then to the 16th Army .

structure

Grenadier Regiment 406
Security Regiment 601
III. / Artillery Regiment 213
East Rider Squadron 201
News Company 201
Resupply Units 466

commander

Major General / Lieutenant General Alfred Jacobi : June 1942 to October 1944, promoted to Lieutenant General in March 1943
Major General Martin Berg : October 1944, then commander of the 207th Security Division
Colonel / Major General Anton Eberth : October 1944 until the release, promoted to Major General in January 1945

Well-known members of the division

Bernhard Niggemeyer : as field police director of the division from June 1942 to spring 1943
Kurt Kühme : as commander of the Grenadier Regiment 406 from October 1943 to July 1944

literature

Erich Hesse: The Soviet Russian partisan war 1941 to 1944: in the mirror of German combat instructions and orders . Musterschmidt-Verlag, 1969, et al. P. 204 ff.
Samuel W. Mitcham (2007). German Order of Battle. Volume One: 1st - 290th Infantry Divisions in WWII. PA; United States of America: Stackpole Books. Pp. 250-252, 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 8, Biblio Verlag, Frankfurt / Main and Osnabrück, 1966, pages 1–3.

Web links

200th through 370th German Infantry, Security, and Panzer Grenadier Divisions. Organizations and Histories 1939–1945 ( Memento from February 10, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 461 kB), Nafziger Collection, Combined Armed Research Library.

reference

^ Antonio J. Muñoz: The German Secret Field Police in Greece, 1941-1944 . McFarland, 2018, ISBN 978-1-4766-3104-2 , pp. 164 ( google.de [accessed October 17, 2018]).
^ ^A ^b Ian V. Hogg: German Order of Battle, 1944: The Regiments, Formations and Units of the German Ground Forces . Arms & Armor Press, 1975, ISBN 978-0-88254-355-0 , pp. D-115 ( google.de [accessed October 17, 2018]).
↑ ^a ^b ^c MATTHEW HUGHES, Gaynor Johnson: Fanaticism and Conflict in the Modern Age . Routledge, 2014, ISBN 978-1-135-75364-1 , pp. 75 ( google.de [accessed on January 8, 2019]).
↑ Jeremy Black: The Second World War: The German war 1943-1945 . Ashgate, 2007, ISBN 978-0-7546-2637-4 , pp. 103 ( google.de [accessed December 28, 2018]).
^ Antonio J. Muñoz: The German Secret Field Police in Greece, 1941-1944 . McFarland, 2018, ISBN 978-1-4766-3104-2 , pp. 161 ( google.de [accessed October 17, 2018]).

[1] Antonio J. Muñoz: The German Secret Field Police in Greece, 1941-1944 . McFarland, 2018, ISBN 978-1-4766-3104-2 , pp. 164 ( google.de [accessed October 17, 2018]).

[:0-2] A ^b Ian V. Hogg: German Order of Battle, 1944: The Regiments, Formations and Units of the German Ground Forces . Arms & Armor Press, 1975, ISBN 978-0-88254-355-0 , pp. D-115 ( google.de [accessed October 17, 2018]).

[:1-3] MATTHEW HUGHES, Gaynor Johnson: Fanaticism and Conflict in the Modern Age . Routledge, 2014, ISBN 978-1-135-75364-1 , pp. 75 ( google.de [accessed on January 8, 2019]).

[4] Jeremy Black: The Second World War: The German war 1943-1945 . Ashgate, 2007, ISBN 978-0-7546-2637-4 , pp. 103 ( google.de [accessed December 28, 2018]).

[5] Antonio J. Muñoz: The German Secret Field Police in Greece, 1941-1944 . McFarland, 2018, ISBN 978-1-4766-3104-2 , pp. 161 ( google.de [accessed October 17, 2018]).