227th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)
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227th Infantry Division |
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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 | structure |
| Installation site | Krefeld |
| Nickname | Rhenish-Westphalian Division, Stern Division |
| Commanders | |
| list of | Commanders |
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The 227th Infantry Division was a major unit of the Army of the German Wehrmacht in World War II .
Division history
Operational areas:
- Germany: September 1939 to May 1940
- Belgium : May to July 1940
- France : July 1940 to October 1941
- Eastern Front , Northern Section: October 1941 to January 1945
- Northeast Germany: January to March 1945
The 227th ID was as a division of the third wave in August 1939 in Krefeld in the Military District VI prepared and served shortly after the Association of 5th Army on border controls in the Eifel . In December 1939, she became the 6th Army in Army Group B subordinate. In February 1940, it was relocated to the Rheine / Gronau area to be ready for the case of Gelb . From there the association with the X. Army Corps and the 18th Army began the advance to Enschede and Deventer . Further successes were the capture of Fort Pannerden and the breakthrough through the Grebbelinie . Then the Lys was crossed at Gent , Zwolle and Amersfoort and shortly afterwards the Netherlands capitulated . After the capitulation of France , the 227th Infantry Division was stationed, among other things, to secure the coast in Normandy near Le Havre .
In October 1941 the 227th Infantry Division was transferred to the Eastern Front for the siege of Leningrad and placed under Army Group North . Your first combat actions took place with the XXVIII. Army Corps at the Volkhov position . During the years 1941-42 the change they fought in the area around Schlüsselburg and 1942 at the Sinyavino height measurements, the Tschernaja and on the south shore of Lake Ladoga . The fighting continued in this area in 1943, it was not until January 1944 that the pressure of the Red Army became so strong that the 227th Infantry Division together with the XXXXIII. Army Corps had to withdraw to rear positions behind the Narva . The bank section of Omuti could be held until June 1944. Only then did the withdrawal from Estonia and northern Russia and the march back via Ostrow to Pleskau take place . The 227th Infantry Division suffered heavy losses, so that they had to withdraw further via Marienburg , Wenden and Riga . During this phase the 227th Infantry Division was assigned to the LIV, L., II. And XVI. Army Corps subordinated. The division from October 1944 to January 1945 with the VI. SS corps involved in the battles of Courland . The division escaped total annihilation by being transported to West Prussia by ship . There she was involved in defensive battles for Gotenhafen until she was finally destroyed in the second battle for the Tucheler Heide . The survivors were divided among other army departments.
people
| period of service | Rank | Surname |
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| September 1, 1939 to May 6, 1940 | Lieutenant General | Friedrich Zickwolff |
| May 6 to July 1, 1940 | Lieutenant General | Friedrich-Karl von Wachter |
| July 1, 1940 to April 12, 1941 | Lieutenant General | Friedrich Zickwolff |
| April 12, 1941 to June 7, 1943 | General of the artillery | Friedrich von Scotti |
| June 7, 1943 to May 11, 1944 | General of the artillery | Wilhelm Berlin |
| May 11, 1944 until unknown | Major general | Maximilian Wengler |
| period of service | Rank | Surname |
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| 1939 to January 1941 | major | Karl-Heinrich Erich Graf von Klinckowstroem |
| February 1941 to January 10, 1942 | major | Karl Zipper |
| January 10 to March 15, 1942 | major | Penitent |
| March 15 to December 1942 | major | Karl Zipper |
| December 1942 to January 1943 | major | Dietrich Kördel |
| January to March 1943 | Captain | Hans-Jürgen Vogler |
| March 1943 to September 1, 1944 | Lieutenant colonel | Günther Starck |
| September 1, 1944 to April 1, 1945 | major | Reinhold Rehfeld |
structure
Changes in the structure of the 227th ID from 1939 to 1943
| 1940 | 1943 |
| 328th Infantry Regiment | Grenadier Regiment 328 |
| 366th Infantry Regiment | Grenadier Regiment 366 |
| Infantry Regiment 412 | Grenadier Regiment 412 |
| Artillery Regiment 227 | Artillery Regiment 227 |
| Division units 227 | Division units 227 |
| - | Divisional Fusilier Battalion 227 |
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 .
- Werner Haupt : The German Infantry Divisions 1921–1945, 3 volumes, Dörfler Verlag 2005, ISBN 978-3-89555-274-8 .
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; 460 kB), Nafziger Collection, Combined Armed Research Library.
