228th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)
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228th Infantry Division |
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| active | August 16, 1939 to August 1, 1940 |
| Country |
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| Armed forces | Wehrmacht |
| Armed forces | army |
| Branch of service | infantry |
| Type | Infantry division |
| structure | structure |
| Installation site | Elblag |
| Commanders | |
| list of | Commanders |
The 228th Infantry Division was a major unit of the army of the German Wehrmacht during World War II .
Division history
Areas of application:
- Poland : September 1939 to May 1940
- Western campaign : May to July 1940
The 228th Infantry Division was set up as a division of the 3rd wave and so-called training division in Elbing in Wehrkreis I in August 1939 . 1939 took the division, which the XXI. Army Corps was subordinate to the attack on Poland . There she marched to the fortress Modlin between the Vistula and the Bug , where the fighting ended. In the period after that, the unit served as an occupation force in Poland . It was moved from Graudenz to the western front and moved in the western campaign across the Rhine to Strasbourg in Alsace. In August 1940 the 228th Infantry Division at the Munsterlager military training area was officially disbanded and distributed to other units. The division staff was added to the staff of the 16th Infantry Division (motorized) , the infantry units in Landesschützen battalions of three companies each.
people
| period of service | Rank | Surname |
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| August 16, 1939 to March 1, 1940 | Lieutenant General | Hans Suttner |
| March 1, 1940 until unknown | Lieutenant General | Karl-Ulrich Neumann-Neurode |
- Henning von Tresckow (born January 10, 1901 in Magdeburg , † July 21, 1944 in Ostrów near Białystok , Poland )
- As a general staff officer of the 228th Infantry Division, von Tresckow was involved in the operational planning of the attack on Poland and later became an important member of the resistance against National Socialism
structure
- 325th Infantry Regiment
- 356th Infantry Regiment
- 400th Infantry Regiment
- 228 Artillery Regiment
- Engineer Battalion 228
- Field Replacement Battalion 228
- Anti-tank department 228
- Reconnaissance Division 228
- News Department 228
- Supply Force 228
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.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: militaerloge.de
