26th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (Hungarian No. 2)

26th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (Hungarian No. 2)
Troop registration
active	December 1944 to May 1945
Country	German Empire
Armed forces	Armed SS
Branch of service	Grenadiers
Type	division
structure	See outline
commander
list of	Commanders

The 26th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (Hungarian No. 2) , similar to the 25th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS "Hunyadi" , was set up on December 23, 1944 at the Neuhammer military training area in Silesia. At the beginning of January the division was relocated to Sieddratz for further training and equipment . The division mainly comprised former members of the Hungarian Army and Hungarian nationals who had been recruited for the Division, together. In contrast to SS units, which were made up of Germans or members of the so-called "Nordic race", the division had the designation: Waffen instead of SS , the ranks were also preceded by weapons .

The two Hungarian SS divisions formed the XVII in February 1945 . Arms Army Corps (Hungarian) , which never got beyond the deployment phase. The Soviet winter offensive in Silesia prevented the full deployment of the division, which withdrew to the west, where it surrendered to American troops in the Frankenburg area in early May 1945 .

structure

• Arms grenadier - regiment of the SS 64 (Hungarian no. 4)
• Waffen-Grenadier-Regiment of SS 65 (Hungarian No. 5)
• Waffen-Grenadier-Regiment of SS 66 (Hungarian No. 6)
• Weapon Artillery Regiment of the SS 26
• Arms Ski Battalion 26th

Commanders

• November 1944: SS-Sturmbannführer Rolf Tiemann
• November 1944: until January 1945 SS-Oberführer Zoltan Pisky
• 23-29 January 1945: SS-Oberführer László Deák
• January 29 to March 19, 1945: SS-Oberführer Berthold Maack
• March 21 to May 8, 1945: SS-Gruppenführer Josef Grassy

swell

• Rolf Michaelis : The Grenadier Divisions of the Waffen SS Erlangen 1944, ISBN 3-930849-04-6 , pp. 143-164.