203rd Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)

The 203rd Infantry Division was a German infantry division during World War II .

history

On December 21, 1944, the 203rd Security Division was reclassified into the 203rd Infantry Division on the front between Bobr and the Narew area in Poland .

The division was in the Soviet major offensive against East Prussia in January 1945 as part of the LV. Army corps of Army Group Center on the Narew Front north of Łomża smashed by the Soviet 48th Army . The last remnants of the unit went into Soviet captivity on the Hela peninsula in April 1945 .

structure

Grenadier Regiment 608, from Security Regiment 608, with only two battalions left
Grenadier Regiment 613, from Security Regiment 613, with only two battalions left
Grenadier Regiment 930
Fusilier Battalion 203
Panzerjäger-Company 203
Artillery Regiment 203, increased to four battalions
Engineer Battalion 203
Field Replacement Battalion 203
Divisional News Department 203
Supply units 203

Commanders

Lieutenant General Wilhelm Thomas , December 21, 1944 - December 26, 1944, former commander of the 321st Infantry Division , 539th Landesschützen Division and 203rd Security Division, as commander of the 286th Infantry Division
Major General Fritz Gädicke , December 26, 1944 - April 1945

literature

Rolf Hinze: Das Ostfront-Drama 1944, Motorbuch Verlag, Stuttgart 1987, p. 435
Dieckert / Großmann: The fight for East Prussia , Motorbuch Verlag, Stuttgart 1994, p. 214
Mitcham, Samuel W., Jr. (2007). German Order of Battle. Volume One: 1st - 290th Infantry Divisions in WWII. PA; United States of America: Stackpole Books. Pp. 252 + 253, ISBN 978-0-8117-3416-5 .

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.
Replacement Brigade 203 / 203rd Security Division / 203rd Infantry Division on EHRI portal from the Federal Archives