231st Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)
231st Infantry Division |
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active | August 26, 1939 to July 31, 1940 |
Country | German Empire |
Armed forces | Wehrmacht |
Armed forces | army |
Branch of service | infantry |
Type | Infantry division |
structure | structure |
Installation site | Nuremberg |
Commanders | |
Sole commander | Lieutenant General Hans Schönhärl |
The 231st Infantry Division was a major unit of the Army of the German Wehrmacht in World War II .
Division history
Operational areas:
- Germany : September to November 1939
- Poland : November 1939 to June 1940
- Germany: June to August 1940
The 231st Infantry Division was established in August 1939 in Nuremberg in Military District XIII as a division of the third wave set. It was subordinated to the 1st Army and then served as an army reserve near Kaiserslautern . In November 1939 she was awarded the XXXIV. Army corps moved to Poland and was then an occupation force in the south of the country. Before the start of the western campaign , the 231st Infantry Division was moved to the Ohrdruf military training area, where it was disbanded in July 1940. Their troops were divided between the 11th and 20th Panzer Divisions and guard units from prisoner-of-war camps.
structure
- 302nd Infantry Regiment
- 319th Infantry Regiment
- 342nd Infantry Regiment
- Artillery Regiment 231
- Engineer Battalion 231
- Field Replacement Battalion 231
- Anti-tank department 231
- Reconnaissance Department 231
- News Department 231
- Resupply Troops 231
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.