225th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)
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225th Infantry Division |
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 Troop identification: marching soldier |
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| active | August 26, 1939 to May 8, 1945 |
| Country |
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| Armed forces | Wehrmacht |
| Armed forces | army |
| Branch of service | infantry |
| Type | Infantry division |
| structure | See: Outline |
| Second World War |
French campaign war against the Soviet Union 1941–1945 |
| Commanders | |
| Please refer: | List of commanders |
| insignia | |
| Identification symbol | marching soldier |
The 225th Infantry Division was a major military unit of the Wehrmacht in the German Reich .
history
The division was set up in 1935 by the Landwehr Commander Hamburg , trained in the following years and mobilized on August 26, 1939 as a division of the 3rd wave of deployment . During the attack on Poland , the division remained stationed on the Siegfried Line for security .
January 1940 the division moved to Sennelager near Paderborn , where it was reinforced and trained.
March 1940 the division moved as a reserve to the Dortmund - Unna area . After the start of the western campaign in May 1940, the division was initially used in the Netherlands and Belgium . When the division on 27./28. When the village of Vinkt got into fierce skirmishes with Belgian troops near the village of Vinkt, the local leaders resorted to hostage-taking and shooting, which led to the death of innocent civilians and which became known as the Vinkt massacre . After the war, the officers Major Erwin Kühner and Lieutenant Franz Lohmann were sentenced to several years of forced labor as war criminals.
In June 1940, the division took part in the advance into France. The division remained in France as an occupying force until autumn 1941.
In January 1942 the division moved to the Eastern Front and in the spring of 1942 took part in the defense of the Demyansk pocket until it was cleared in February 1943.
The division took part in the fighting on the Volkhov and Leningrad . On February 20, 1944, large parts of the 9th Air Force Field Division were incorporated to fill up .
In the fall of 1944, the division got into the Kurland basin as part of Army Group North , where it fought until May 8, 1945. Then she began the march into Soviet captivity.
A memorial to commemorate the fallen and missing of the division was erected in 1959 at the Dammtor train station in Hamburg.
Storage and operational areas
| date | corps | army | Army Group | Operational area |
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| September 1939 | reserve | 5th Army | C. | Aachen |
| October 1939 | XXVII. | 4th Army | B. | |
| December 1939 | 6th Army | |||
| May 1940 | reserve | Kleve | ||
| June 1940 | 18th Army | Flanders | ||
| July 1940 | XXXXII. | 16th Army | A. | |
| August 1940 | V. | |||
| September 1940 | XXIII. | |||
| November 1940 | XXXXII. | Reims | ||
| January 1941 | Le Havre | |||
| February 1941 | XXXXIII. | 9th Army | D. | |
| May 1941 | XXXII. | 15th Army | Amiens | |
| January 1942 | reserve | North | Riga | |
| February 1942 | L. | 18th Army | Volkhov | |
| May 1942 | Leningrad | |||
| October 1942 | 11th Army | |||
| November 1942 | 18th Army | |||
| January 1943 | II. | 16th Army | Demyansk | |
| March 1943 | X. | Ilmensee | ||
| June 1943 | XXVIII. | Volkhov | ||
| September 1943 | XXVI. | Leningrad | ||
| October 1943 | LIV. | 18th Army | ||
| January 1944 | Leningrad, Luga | |||
| March 1944 | XXVI. | Narva | ||
| July 1944 | Kleffel | 16th Army | Dünaburg | |
| August 1944 | XXXXIII. | Livonia | ||
| October 1944 | XXXIX. | Kleffel | Courland | |
| November 1944 | XXXVIII. | 18th Army | ||
| December 1944 | Tomshki | |||
| January 1945 | I. | Courland | ||
| February 1945 | II. | |||
| March 1945 | L. | |||
| April 1945 | I. |
structure
- 333rd Infantry Regiment
- 376th Infantry Regiment
- 377th Infantry Regiment
- Artillery Regiment 225
- Division units 225
Commanders
| date | Rank | Surname |
|---|---|---|
| September 1, 1939 | Lieutenant General | Ernst Schaumburg |
| July 1, 1940 | Lieutenant General | Friedrich-Karl von Wachter |
| June 1, 1941 | Lieutenant General | Hans von Baße |
| September 25, 1942 | Lieutenant General | Walter Risse |
literature
- Miehe, Walter (ed.): The way of the 225th Infantry Division - comrades relief organization of the 225th Inf. e. V. Hamburg , Patzwall Militärverlag, Hamburg 1980.
- Haupt, Werner: Leningrad, Volkhov, Courland , 1976.
- Siegle, Gerhard: The long way - diary of a soldier ; Context publisher.
- 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.
- Kurland-Kessel 1944/1945 , accessed March 7, 2009.
Individual evidence
- ↑ cf. Lieb, Peter: Conventional War or Nazi Weltanschauung ?: Warfare and Fight against Partisans in France 1943/44.
- ↑ Consecration of the memorial of the former 225th Infantry Division . In: Hamburger Abendblatt . No. 105 , May 8, 1959, pp. 11 ( archive.org [PDF] also available for a fee via Abendblatt.de ).
