28th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)

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28th Infantry Division
28th Light Infantry Division
28th Jäger Division

Troop registration number of the 28th Infantry Division

Troop registration
active October 1, 1936 to May 1945
Country German Reich NSGerman Reich (Nazi era) German Empire
Armed forces Wehrmacht
Armed forces army
Type Infantry Division
structure structure
garrison Wroclaw
Nickname Iron Cross, Silesian Division
Second World War attack on Poland

Western campaign
against the Soviet Union

Commanders
list of Commanders

The 28th Infantry Division , later the 28th Light Infantry Division and from 1942 the 28th Jäger Division , was a major unit of the army of the German Wehrmacht .

Division history

The 28th Infantry Division was set up in Breslau in Wehrkreis VIII on October 1, 1936 and mobilized as part of the 1st wave of formation on August 1, 1939. She took part in the attack on Poland , in the western campaign and in the war against the Soviet Union . After heavy losses during the Battle of Moscow , she was withdrawn from the front in November 1941 and transferred to France . Here it was reorganized as a light infantry division in December with only two Jäger regiments.

In February 1942, what was now the 28th Light Infantry Division was relocated to the Eastern Front, this time to the Crimea at the disposal of Army Group South . On March 30th, it was classified as fully operational with six infantry battalions in excellent condition and a full divisional artillery unit. She took part in the Bustard Hunt operation in May and then in the attack on Sevastopol . On July 1, 1942, it was renamed the 28th Jäger Division. After security tasks in the Crimea, the 28th JD was transferred to Army Group North on the Volkhov in September , where it took part in the First Ladoga Battle . In 1943 the Second and Third Ladoga Battles followed .

In January 1944 she took on the remains of the 1st Field Division (L) during the Soviet Leningrad-Novgorod operation . In June she was briefly made available to the 4th Panzer Army in Army Group Northern Ukraine in the Kovel area , then transferred to the 2nd Army . After the withdrawal to Poland as a result of Operation Bagration , it was transferred to the 4th Army in East Prussia , which was being reorganized . Here it was smashed in March / April 1945 in the Heiligenbeil Kessel Battle . The division had fewer than 1,000 soldiers when it surrendered to the Red Army at the end of the war .

people

Commanders

period of service Rank Surname
October 1, 1936 to May 21, 1940 Lieutenant General Hans von Obstfelder
May 21, 1940 to May 1, 1943 Lieutenant General Johann Sinnhuber
May 1 to November 25, 1943 Lieutenant General Friedrich Schulz
November 25, 1943 to January 1944 Major general Hubert Lamey
January 28th to April 28th 1944 Lieutenant General Hans-Ludwig Speth
April 28 to November 20, 1944 Lieutenant General Gustav Heisterman von Ziehlberg
November 20, 1944 to April 12, 1945 Major general Ernst King
12.-24. April 1945 Colonel Hans-Georg von Tempelhoff
April 24 to May 9, 1945 Lieutenant General Siegfried Verhein

First General Staff Officers (Ia)

period of service Rank Surname
July 15, 1938 to October 25, 1940 Lieutenant colonel Helmuth von Grolman
October 25, 1940 to June 1, 1943 Lieutenant colonel Kurt Gundelach
June 1, 1943 to June 20, 1944 Lieutenant colonel Christian Schaeder
June 27th to July 27th 1944 major Joachim Kuhn
August 5 to November 20, 1944 major Wernher Freiherr von Schönau-Wehr
20th - 25th November 1944 major Gerhard Schlie
November 25, 1944 to January 1, 1945 major Wernher Freiherr von Schönau-Wehr
January 1 to April 1945 major Franz-Josef von Löbbecke
April to May 1945 Lieutenant colonel Ernst-August Freiherr von Wangenheim

Well-known members of the division

Awards

A total of 49 knight's crosses were given to members of the 28. ID / 28. lID and 28th JD awarded, as well as 85 German crosses in gold.

structure

28th Infantry Division
1939
28th Light Infantry Division
1941
28th Jäger Division
1943
7th Infantry Regiment -
49th Infantry Regiment Jäger Regiment 49
83rd Infantry Regiment 83rd Hunter Regiment
28th Artillery Regiment
Observation Department 28 -
Reconnaissance Department 28 Cycling Department 28 Reconnaissance Department 28
Engineer Battalion 28
Anti-tank department 28 Panzerjäger detachment 28
Field Replacement Battalion 28
Divisional News Department 28
Infantry Division Supply Leader 28 Commander of the Jäger Division Supply Forces 28

literature

  • Romuald Bergner - Silesian Infantry (7th Infantry Regiment), Pöppinghaus, Bochum, 1980.
  • Bernhard Kranz: History of the Hirschberger Jäger: 1920 to 1945; from the Jägerbataillon d. 7th (Preuss.) Infantry Regiment to the Jäger Regiment 83 . Comradeship Hirschberger Jäger, Bad Salzuflen 1975.
  • Georg Tessin : Associations and troops of the German Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS in the Second World War 1939–1945, Volume 4: The land forces. No. 15-30. 2nd edition Osnabrück 1976. VI, 300 pages. ISBN 3-7648-1083-1 .
  • Peter Hoffmann: Stauffenbergs Freund - The tragic story of the resistance fighter Joachim Kuhn , CH Beck Verlag, Munich 2007, p. 57 f.
  • BA-MA RH2 / 429

Remarks

  1. one of which is unofficial and unconfirmed
  2. to the in November 1941 252nd Infantry Division issued
  3. The AR 28 consisted of the I. – III. Department and the I. Department of AR 64.
  4. became an army troop in December 1939