27th Panzer Division (Wehrmacht)

27th Panzer Division
Division badge of the 27th Panzer Division
active	Late 1942 to 1943
Country	German Empire
Armed forces	Wehrmacht
Armed forces	army
Branch of service	Armored force
Type	Panzer Division
Installation site	Southern section of the eastern front
Second World War	German-Soviet War
Commanders
list of	Commanders

The 27th Panzer Division of the Army was a large armored unit of the Wehrmacht in World War II . The formation of the Panzer Division began towards the end of 1942 in the area of Army Group South on the Eastern Front , but was never completed because after the German defeat in the Battle of Stalingrad with the Soviet counter-offensive Operation Uranus , the troops that were deployed were destroyed in early 1943 and went into Soviet captivity. There was no re-erection of the Division .

Division commanders

• Colonel Helmut Michalik, listed by November 29, 1942
• Colonel Hans Tröger , November 30, 1942 to January 26, 1943
• Colonel Joachim von Kronhelm, January 26, 1943 pending dissolution

literature

• 27th Panzer Division. In: Veit Scherzer (Ed.): German troops in the Second World War. Volume 6. Scherzers Militaer-Verlag, Ranis / Jena 2010, ISBN 978-3-938845-27-1 , pp. 451-466.

Web links

• Organizational History of the German Armored Formation 1939–1945 (English, PDF; 285 kB)