267th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)
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267th Infantry Division |
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| active | August 26, 1939 to August 3, 1944 |
| Country |
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| Armed forces | Wehrmacht |
| Armed forces | army |
| Type | Infantry Division |
| structure | See outline |
| Strength | 15,000 debit |
| Installation site | Hanover |
The 267th Infantry Division was a division of the Wehrmacht during World War II .
Division history
The 267th Infantry Division was set up on August 26, 1939 as a division of the 4th wave of deployment in Wehrkreis XI in Hanover . In the same year the division was relocated to the Eifel , where it remained until the spring of 1940. During the western campaign , the division marched through Belgium in May 1940 and stayed on the Channel coast until May 1941.
From June the 267th Infantry Division was involved in the attack on the Soviet Union and marched with Army Group Center via Pinsk , Sluzk , via the Berezina to the Dnieper . She was involved in major battles near Roslavl and Desna . In the winter of 1941 she was part of the German attack formation during the Typhoon operation on Moscow . She belonged to Panzer Group 4.
The division took up winter positions on the Moskva and suffered considerable losses. Due to increasing pressure from the Red Army, the division was moved to the Rosslavl-Juchnow taxiway near Spas-Demensk and was supposed to hold the "buffalo position" there in the spring of 1943. In the summer of 1943 the retreat began, first south to the Brjansk region , then west to Mogilev in what is now Belarus , where the division stayed until 1944 and was destroyed in July in the Minsk pocket. It was officially dissolved on August 3, 1944.
structure
Origin of the regiments:
- Infantry Regiment 467: Zerbst , Blankenburg and Halberstadt
- Infantry Regiment 487: Hildesheim , Bergen and Hameln
- 497 Infantry Regiment: Braunschweig , Osterode and Bergen (later Göttingen )
| 1939 | 1942 | 1944 |
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| 467th Infantry Regiment | Grenadier Regiment 467 | |
| 487th Infantry Regiment | Grenadier Regiment 487 | |
| 497th Infantry Regiment | - | Grenadier Regiment 497 |
| Artillery Regiment 267 (mostly with four divisions) | ||
| Reconnaissance Department 267 | - | Fusilier Battalion 267 (from October 1943) |
| Anti-tank department 267 | Rapid department 267 (from winter 1943/43) | Panzerjäger -teilung 267 (from April 1943) |
| Engineer Battalion 267 | ||
| News Department 267 | ||
| Supply units 267 | ||
| - | Field Replacement Battalion 267 | |
literature
- Georg Tessin : Associations and troops of the German Wehrmacht and Waffen SS in World War II 1939–1945. Eighth volume: The Land Forces 201–280 . Biblio Verlag, Osnabrück 1973, ISBN 3-7648-0872-1 , pp. 284-288.
Individual evidence
- ^ A b c Georg Tessin : Associations and troops of the German Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS in World War II 1939–1945. Eighth volume: The Land Forces 201–280 . Biblio Verlag, Osnabrück 1973, ISBN 3-7648-0872-1 , pp. 284-288.
