269th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)
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269th Infantry Division |
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| active | August 26, 1939 to May 1945 |
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| Armed forces | Wehrmacht |
| Armed forces | army |
| Type | Infantry Division |
| Installation site | Hamburg |
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The 269th Infantry Division (269th ID) was a major unit of the Wehrmacht , which was set up as a division of the 4th wave of formation on August 26, 1939.
Division history
Areas of application :
- Germany : October to December 1939
- France : January to June 1940
- Denmark : July 1940 to March 1941
- East Prussia : April to May 1941
- Courland : June 1941
- Eastern Front , Northern Section: June 1941 to November 1942
- Norway : December 1942 to October 1944
- France : November 1944 to January 1945
- Ore Mountains and Silesia : February to May 1945
The 269th Infantry Division was set up on August 26, 1939 as a division of the 4th wave in military district X in Hamburg .
After the attack on Poland , the 269th Infantry Division was transferred to the Siegfried Line to fight in Belgium and France . In 1940 the battalions III./IR 469, III./IR 489, III./IR 490 and III./AR 269 were handed over to the 131st Infantry Division for replenishment and replaced. In June 1941 the 269th Infantry Division took part in Operation Barbarossa , the attack on the Soviet Union. She was subordinate to Army Group North , fought in Courland and in the area of Lake Ladoga . The division spent the winter of 1941/1942 at the hotly contested Volkhov position . The Grenadier Regiment 490 had to be disbanded because of heavy losses on December 2, 1942 and the survivors were distributed to the other division units. The division was moved to Bergen (Norway) to secure the coast , except for the IV. Division / Artillery Regiment 269, which was assigned to the 69th Infantry Division and continued to besieged Leningrad . In 1944 it was moved to France with fighting in the Vosges and near Colmar against advancing Allied troops. In January 1945 a regiment of the 269th Infantry Division took part in the unsuccessful Solstice in Strasbourg with the 198th Infantry Division and the 106th Panzer Grenadier Brigade "Feldherrnhalle" from the Alsace bridgehead . The rest of the 269th Infantry Division was deployed again on the Eastern Front and was given the task of holding a bridgehead over the Oder near Ohlau . Towards the end of the war, the remnants of the division, consisting of only one combat group, were in the Ore Mountains and were captured by the Soviets near Breslau in May 1945 .
people
Division commanders
| rank | First name Last Name | from |
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| Major General / Lieutenant General | Ernst-Eberhard Hell | August 26, 1939 |
| Lieutenant General | Wolfgang von Plotho | August 12, 1940 |
| Lieutenant General | Ernst von Leyser | April 1, 1941 |
| Lieutenant General | Curt Badinski | September 1, 1942 |
| Lieutenant General | Hans Wagner | November 25, 1943 |
- Simon-Casimir Prinz zur Lippe-Biesterfeld (born September 24, 1900 in Potsdam , † December 9, 1980 )
- Simon-Casimir Prinz zur Lippe was Lieutenant Colonel and Second General Staff Officer (IIa) of the division from August 1942 to February 1944. Prince zur Lippe, who was related to Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands , was taken prisoner by the Soviets in 1945 and was sentenced to 25 years in prison for espionage and only released under pressure from the Dutch aristocracy.
structure
- 469th Infantry Regiment
- 489th Infantry Regiment
- 490 Infantry Regiment
- Artillery Regiment 269
- Engineer Battalion 269
- Field Replacement Battalion 269
- Anti-tank department 269
- Reconnaissance Department 269
- Infantry Division Intelligence Department 269
- Infantry Division Supply Leader 269
literature
- Helmut Römhild: History of the 269th Infantry Division. Podzun Publishing House. Dorheim 1967.
- 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 .
- Walter Held: Associations and troops of the German Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS in World War II. A bibliography of German-language post-war literature. 5 volumes. Osnabrück 1978 ff.
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
- ↑ Also called Solstice.
- ↑ Simon Casimir . In: Der Spiegel . No. 38 , 1955 ( online ).
