209th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)
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209th Infantry Division |
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| active | August 26, 1939 to July 24, 1940 |
| Country |
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| Armed forces | Wehrmacht |
| Armed forces | army |
| Branch of service | infantry |
| Type | Infantry division |
| structure | structure |
| Installation site | Chemnitz |
| Commanders | |
| list of | Commanders |
The 209th Infantry Division was a major unit of the Army of the German Wehrmacht in World War II .
Division history
The 209th Infantry Division was set up as a division of the 3rd wave of formation in August 1939 in Chemnitz in Wehrkreis IV . This was followed by submission to the 1st Army and relocation to the Westwall in the Saar Palatinate. After the invasion of Poland , the 209th Infantry Division came to central Poland in November 1939.
There she had to transfer her anti-tank department to the 170th Infantry Division . There were also changes in the 209 Artillery Regiment, which sent parts to the 164th , 167th and 168th Infantry Divisions. The service as an occupying force in Poland lasted until June 1940, when the 209th Infantry Division received new artillery units and returned to their location. The division was officially dissolved as early as July 1940. She gave her units to the 11th and 18th Panzer Divisions and Landesschützen battalions.
people
| period of service | Rank | Surname |
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| September 1, 1939 to January 7, 1940 | Lieutenant General | Hans Stengel |
| January 7, 1940 until unknown | Lieutenant General | Wolf Schede |
structure
- 304 Infantry Regiment
- 394th Infantry Regiment
- 414th Infantry Regiment
- Artillery Regiment 209
- Engineer Battalion 209
- Field Replacement Battalion 209
- Anti-tank department 209
- Reconnaissance Department 209
- News Department 209
- Resupply Troops 209
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 .
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.
