27th SS Volunteer Grenadier Division "Langemarck" (Flemish No. 1)

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27th SS Volunteer Grenadier Division "Langemarck" (Flemish No. 1)

Coat of arms of the 27th SS Volunteer Grenadier Division "Langemarck" (Flemish No. 1)

Troop registration
active October 18, 1944 to May 1945
Country German Reich NSGerman Reich (Nazi era) German Empire
Armed forces Flag of the Schutzstaffel.svg Armed SS
Branch of service Grenadiers
Type division
structure See outline
commander
list of Commanders

The 27th SS Volunteer Grenadier Division "Langemarck" (Flemish No. 1) was created on October 18, 1944 through the renaming of the 6th SS Volunteer Assault Brigade "Langemarck" , which emerged from the SS Volunteer Association "Nordwest “ Emerged.

description

The division consisted mainly of Flemish volunteers , members of the Vlaamse Wacht , the Algemeene SS (Flemish General SS ) and the Vlaamse Arbeidsdienst, as well as Flemish forced laborers , members of the Todt Organization , the NSKK , the Navy and the Air Force with German support personnel and was mostly attended used on the Eastern Front.

The storm brigade was named "Langemarck" on May 31, 1943. The name of the Flemish village referred to the myth of Langemarck from the First World War .

On May 10, 1945, the survivors of the division in Mecklenburg surrendered to British troops.

structure

  • 66th SS Volunteer Grenadier Regiment
  • SS Volunteer Grenadier Regiment 67
  • SS Volunteer Grenadier Regiment 68
  • SS Volunteer Artillery Regiment 27
    • Division units 27
The division never got beyond brigade strength.

Insinuation

Commanders

literature

  • Georg Tessin : Associations and troops of the German Wehrmacht and Waffen SS in World War II 1939–1945. Volume 4. The Land Forces 15–30 . 2nd Edition. Biblio-Verlag, Osnabrück 1976, ISBN 3-7648-1083-1 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gordon Williamson: Die SS. Hitler's Instrument of Power, Kaiser, 2005, p. 245.
Divisions of the Waffen SS


SS Panzer Divisions

1. “Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler” • 2. “The Reich” • 3. “Totenkopf” • 5. “Wiking” • 9. “Hohenstaufen” • 10. “Frundsberg” • 12. “Hitler Youth”

SS Panzer Grenadier Divisions

4. "Police Panzer Grenadier Division" • 11. "Nordland" • 16. "Reichsführer SS" • 17. "Götz von Berlichingen" • 18. "Horst Wessel" • 23. "Nederland" (Dutch no. 1) • 28. "Wallonia" (Walloon No. 1)

SS cavalry divisions

8. "Florian Geyer" • 22. • 37.

SS grenadier divisions

27. “Langemarck” (Flemish No. 1) • 31. • 32. “30. January " • 34th" Landstorm Nederland "(Dutch No. 2) • 35th SS Police Grenadier Division • 38th" Nibelungen "

SS mountain divisions

6. "North" • 7. "Prinz Eugen"

Waffen-Cavalry Divisions of the SS

33. (Hungarian No. 3)

Waffen Grenadier Divisions of the SS

14. (Galician No. 1) • 15. (Latvian No. 1) • 19th (Latvian No. 2) • 20th (Estonian No. 1) • 25th (Hungarian No. 1) • 26th (Hungarian No. . 2) • 29. “RONA” (Russian No. 1) • 29. (Italian No. 1) • 30. (Russian No. 2) • 30. (Belarusian No. 1) • 33. “Charlemagne” (French No. 1) • 36.

Waffen Mountain Divisions of the SS

13. “Handschar” (Croatian no. 1) • 21. “Skanderbeg” (Albanian no. 1) • 23rd “Kama” (Croatian no. 2) • 24th Karstjäger division