239th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)
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239th Infantry Division |
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| active | August 26, 1939 to January 1, 1942 |
| Country |
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| Armed forces | Wehrmacht |
| Armed forces | army |
| Type | Infantry division |
| structure | structure |
| Installation site | Opole |
| Second World War | Battle for Kiev (1941) |
| Commanders | |
| list of | Commanders |
The 239th Infantry Division was a major unit of the Army of the German Wehrmacht in World War II .
Division history
The 239th Infantry Division was set up as a division of the 3rd wave in August 1939 in Opole in military district VIII (Breslau) . The replacement was provided by the Infantry Replacement Battalion 372 in Gleiwitz .
In 1939 the division was involved in the attack on Poland and advanced to Katowice . In the reserve of the 8th Army , it served as security on the border between Slovakia and Hungary . In 1940 it was relocated to the Kaiserstuhl to take part in the western campaign as a reserve of the 7th Army . In June 1940 the 239th Infantry Division crossed the Rhine near Neu-Breisach . After the breakthrough on the Maginot Line , the division was in action in Alsace near Mulhouse . After the fighting ended, she returned home.
In May 1941 the transfer to the Romanian Bukovina took place in order to move together with Romanian troops to attack position for the attack on the Soviet Union . The Soviet border fortifications of Ștefăneşti could be overcome, then the unit crossed the Prut and penetrated into the Ukraine , the further stations of their march to the east were Balta , Voznesensk , the Bug to Kremenchug . Then she was involved in the Battle of Kiev in September 1941 . The further advance went via Bogoduchow , Poltava , Kharkov to the south of Belgorod in the Russian Soviet Republic .
The 239th Infantry Division had to be disbanded in January 1942 in the Kharkov area. Your remaining units were given to other divisions of the 6th Army . The division staff came to the staff of the 6th Army or that of the 294th Infantry Division .
people
| period of service | Rank | Surname |
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| September 1, 1939 to December 1941 | General of the Infantry | Ferdinand newcomer |
| period of service | Rank | Surname |
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| 1939 to September 1939 | Colonel | Bruno Ortner |
| September 7 to November 29, 1939 | Lieutenant colonel | Kurt Lottner |
| January to August 1940 | major | Georg von During |
| August 1940 to April 1941 | - | unknown |
| April 1, 1941 to March 23, 1942 | major | Theodor Mehring |
structure
- 327th Infantry Regiment
- I to III. battalion
- 372nd Infantry Regiment
- I to III. battalion
- 444th Infantry Regiment
- I to III. battalion
- Artillery Regiment 239
- I to IV. Department
- Engineer Battalion 239
- Field Replacement Battalion 239
- Anti-tank department 239 (motorized)
- Reconnaissance Department 239
- News Department 239
- Resupply Troops 239
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 . Ed. Dörfler im Nebel-Verlag, Eggolsheim 2005, ISBN 3-89555-274-7 .
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.
