226th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)
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226th Infantry Division |
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 Troop registration number of the 226th Infantry Division |
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| active | June 26, 1944 to May 1945 (surrender) |
| Country |
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| Armed forces | Wehrmacht |
| Armed forces | army |
| Type | Infantry Division |
| structure | see structure |
| Installation site | Neuhammer military training area |
| Second World War | Western Front 1944/1945 |
The 226th Infantry Division was a major unit of the German Wehrmacht during World War II .
Mission history
The deployment took place on June 26, 1944 in military district VIII (Breslau) on the Neuhammer military training area in the 27th wave of deployment . The division staff was used by the previously disbanded 111th Infantry Division , which was wiped out on the Eastern Front near Sevastopol in April . The 226th Infantry Division was set up as a ground-based division for occupied France and was operational until August 1944.
Tactically it was subordinate to the 15th Army of Army Group B , and from December 1944 to the Naval High Command West .
After its formation, the division was sent to France. They fought at Le Havre , but could not prevent the loss of the seaport to the Allies . During the subsequent retreat, the Grenadier Regiment was destroyed in 1041 near Calais . The rest of the division was trapped near Dunkirk and remained there until the end of the war with combat group strength. The trapped associations capitulated at the end of the war.
structure
At the time of deployment it comprised the following regiments:
- Grenadier Regiment 1040 with 1st - 2nd battalion
- Grenadier Regiment 1041 with 1st - 2nd Battalion
- Grenadier Regiment 1042 with 1st - 2nd Battalion
- Artillery Regiment 226 with I. - III. Department
Commanders
The commander was Lieutenant General Wolfgang von Kluge until September 19, 1944 . He was posted to Berlin because of the suicide of his brother Günther von Kluge .
The post of commander will then remain vacant . The division was then formally led by Vice Admiral Friedrich Frisius as Dunkirk fortress commander until the end of the war .
literature
- Romuald Bergner: Troops and Garrisons in Silesia 1740-1945 , Podzun-Pallas-Verlag 1987, ISBN 3-7909-0318-3 , p. 92.
- 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. 277-279, 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.
