218th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)
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218th Infantry Division |
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 Troop registration |
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| active | August 26, 1939 to May 1945 |
| Country |
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| Armed forces | Wehrmacht |
| Armed forces | army |
| Type | Infantry division |
| structure | See outline |
| Installation site | Berlin |
| Commanders | |
| list of | Commanders |
The 218th Infantry Division (218th ID) was a major military unit of the Wehrmacht .
Division history
The division was set up on August 26, 1939 as a division of the 3rd wave of formation in Berlin . When the war began, she was active in Poland and in 1940 gave her artillery departments to other units. After participating in Operation Weser Exercise in Denmark from April to June 1940, the 218th ID was inactive from August 1940 to February 1941. From December 1941 the 218th Infantry Division fought on the Eastern Front in the section of Army Group North . At the beginning of 1942, the 218th Infantry Division received the order to secure the Cholm traffic junction south of Lake Ilmen against attacks by the Soviet 3rd Shock Army , which later developed into the Battle of Cholm . Parts of the 218th ID belonged to the Scherer combat group, which defended the enclosed city.
In 1944 the 218th Infantry Division withdrew to the Baltic States and capitulated in 1945 in the Kurland Basin .
structure
- 323rd Infantry Regiment
- 386th Infantry Regiment
- 397th Infantry Regiment
- Artillery Regiment 218
- Panzerjäger Battalion 218
- Reconnaissance Battalion 218
- Engineer Battalion 218
- News Department 218
- Resupply Troops 218
people
| period of service | Rank | Surname |
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| September 1, 1939 to January 1, 1942 | Lieutenant General | Woldemar Freiherr Grote |
| January 1 to March 20, 1942 | Lieutenant General | Horst Freiherr von Uckermann |
| March 20, 1942 to December 25, 1944 | Lieutenant General | Viktor Lang |
| December 25, 1944 to May 1, 1945 | Major general | Ingo from Collani |
| 1-8 May 1945 | Lieutenant General | Werner Ranck |
| period of service | Rank | Surname |
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| 1939 | Lieutenant colonel | Kremlin |
| November 12, 1939 to April 20, 1940 | major | Otto Zeltmann |
| unknown | major | from Bodenhausen |
| January 21 to March 16, 1942 | major | Leo Hepp |
| March 22, 1942 to August 25, 1943 | Colonel | Hans-Günther Leutheußer |
| August 25, 1943 to August 25, 1944 | Lieutenant colonel | Helmut Picot |
| August 25, 1944 to 1945 | major | Siegfried Ahollinger |
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; 450 kB), Nafziger Collection, Combined Armed Research Library.
Remarks
- ↑ z. B. IR 386
