205th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)
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205th Infantry Division |
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 Troop mark, the toadstool |
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| active | January 1, 1940 to May 8, 1945 (surrender) |
| Country |
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| Armed forces | Wehrmacht |
| Armed forces | army |
| Branch of service | infantry |
| Type | Infantry Division |
| structure | structure |
| Location | Freiburg in Breisgau |
| Nickname | Mushroom Division |
| Second World War | German-Soviet War |
| Commanders | |
| list of | Commanders |
| insignia | |
| Identification symbol | Fly agaric |
The 205th Infantry Division was a major division of the Wehrmacht in the German Reich .
history
The 205th Infantry Division was set up in August 1939 under the designation 14th Landwehr Division in Freiburg im Breisgau / Wehrkreis V Stuttgart and regrouped on January 1, 1940 as a division of the 3rd wave of formation in the 205th Infantry Division.
After the successful campaign in the west, the division was given leave of absence except for the permanent staff on July 17, 1940, and was not called up again until February 1941.
From 1941, the division took as part of the Army Group Center at the German-Soviet war in part. It proved itself in the battles in the Velikiye Luki area and in the defensive battles at the interface between the Army Groups Center and North near Newel, under whose command it was placed at the end of 1943 and which it followed into the Kurland pocket at the end of 1944 .
The division was one of the few large units which, when the unconditional surrender took place on May 8th, made their way to Soviet captivity.
- Storage and operational areas
| date | corps | army | Army Group | Operational area |
| January 1940 | XXV | 7th Army | C. | Upper Rhine |
| February 1940 | z. Vfg. | OKH | ||
| June 1940 | VI | 2nd Army | A. | France |
| July 1940 | z. Vfg. | 12th Army | C. | |
| August 1940 | OKW | on leave | ||
| March 1941 | XXV | 6th Army | D. | Atlantic |
| May 1941 | ||||
| February 1942 | z. Vfg. | center | Vitebsk | |
| March 1942 | LIX | 3rd Panzer Army | Welisch | |
| November 1942 | XXXXI | 9th Army | Velikiye Luki | |
| December 1942 | VI | |||
| February 1943 | LIX | 3rd Panzer Army | ||
| March 1943 | z. Vfg. | |||
| April 1943 | XXXXIII | |||
| October 1943 | 16th Army | North | Newel | |
| January 1944 | I. | |||
| July 1944 | II | Polotsk | ||
| August 1944 | XXXXIII | Dünaburg | ||
| September 1944 | I. | Courland | Courland | |
| October 1944 | VI. SS | Courland | ||
| November 1944 | z. Vfg. | |||
| December 1944 | XXXVIII | 16th Army | North | |
| February 1945 | Courland | |||
| March 1945 | L. | 18th Army | ||
| April 1945 | XVI | 16th Army | ||
Commanders
| date | Rank | Surname | |
| August 26, 1939 | Major general | Ernst Richter | |
| January 1, 1940 | Lieutenant General | Ernst Richter | |
| March 1, 1942 | Lieutenant General | Paul Seyffardt | |
| November 5, 1943 | Major general | Ernst Michael | |
| December 1, 1943 | General of the artillery | Horst von Mellenthin | |
| November 20, 1944 | Major general | Ernst Biehler | |
| November 15, 1944 | Major general | Karl-Hans Giese | |
structure
1939
- Landwehr Infantry Regiment 33
- Landwehr Infantry Regiment 40
- Landwehr Infantry Regiment 59
- Landwehr Infantry Regiment 182
- Landwehr Artillery Department 14
- Landwehr News Department 14
- Landwehr anti-tank department 14
1940
- 353rd Infantry Regiment
- 335th Infantry Regiment
- 358th Infantry Regiment
- Artillery Regiment 205
- Engineer Battalion 205
- Panzerabwehr -teilung 205 (established on January 1, 1940 by the renaming of the Landwehr-Panzerabwehr-Department 14. Renamed on April 1, 1940 to Panzerjäger -teilung 205. 1941 dissolved except for Panzerjäger-Company 205)
- Infantry Divisions News Department 205 (formed from Landwehr Divisions News Department 14 on January 1, 1940)
- Infantry Division Supply Leader 205 (formed on January 1, 1940 by renaming the Division Supply Leader 14th Landwehr Division. Renamed as Commander of Infantry Division Supply Troops 205 on October 15, 1942)
In December 1941, the division surrendered the three infantry gun companies to the 88th Infantry Division , which had been relocated to the east .
1944
- Grenadier Regiment 353
- Grenadier Regiment 335
- Grenadier Regiment 358
- Fusilier Battalion 205 (formed in 1943 from Radfahr-Schwadron 205 with four companies)
- Artillery Regiment 205
- Engineer Battalion 205
- Field Replacement Battalion 205 (formed on June 15, 1943 with three companies)
- Anti-tank department 205 (June 1944)
- Infantry Division News Department 205
- Infantry Division Supply Leader 205 (renamed Supply Regiment 205 on September 1, 1944).
Well-known members of the division
- Otto Seitz (1911–1974) was in 1970, as a general of the infantry , head of Section III in the Austrian Federal Ministry for National Defense
Commemoration
The memorial stone for the fallen of the division is in Schramberg .
literature
- Georg Tessin : Associations and troops of the German Wehrmacht and Waffen SS in World War II 1939–1945 . Volume 8: The Land Forces 201–280 . 2nd Edition. Biblio-Verlag, Bissendorf 1979, ISBN 3-7648-1174-9 . ; P. 18 f.
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; 450 kB), Nafziger Collection, Combined Armed Research Library.
Individual evidence
- ↑ cf. Georg Tessin : Associations and troops of the German Wehrmacht and Waffen SS in World War II 1939–1945 . Volume 8: The Land Forces 201–280 . 2nd Edition. Biblio-Verlag, Bissendorf 1979, ISBN 3-7648-1174-9 . ; P. 18 f.
- ↑ Achim Ringwald, " Schramberg ab 2003 ", December 14, 2006, accessed January 8, 2009.
