28th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)
28th Infantry Division |
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active | October 1, 1936 to May 1945 |
Country | 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 |
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 After heavy losses during the Battle of Moscow , she was withdrawn from the front in November 1941 and transferred to France .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 |
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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 |
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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
- Walther-Peer Fellgiebel (1918–2001), author and manager on the board of the Deutsche Zündwaren-Monopol-Gesellschaft
- Helmuth von Grolman (1898–1977), was from 1959 to 1961 the first military commissioner of the German Bundestag
- Hans-Georg von Tempelhoff (1907–1985), was from 1962 to 1967, as Brigadier General of the Army of the Bundeswehr , commander of the 3rd Panzer 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 |
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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