285th Security Division (Wehrmacht)
The 285th Security Division was a German infantry division during World War II .
Division history
The division was set up on March 15, 1941 at the Groß-Born military training area in Pomerania in Wehrkreis II from parts of the 207th Infantry Division , which was to be converted into a security division.
During the entire war, the division was mainly used on the eastern front in the area of northern Russia around Luga and Pleszkau and from Estonia around Reval for security tasks in the rear army area. In July and August 1942, the division was administratively responsible for the refugees, many of whom died on arrival in Luga due to lack of supplies. The 322 Infantry Regiment was repeatedly assigned to other army corps , such as the LIV in early 1943 . Army Corps of the 18th Army .
From 1941 the division was used together with the 207th security division and the 281st security division for so-called partisan combat. The killing of 609 partisans was documented for 1941 . A railway line was secured from the summer of 1942. In October 1942 the security units deployed in the rear of the army were able to smash four of the five partisan brigades in a large company in the Pleskau area .
On November 9, 1944, the division was formally dissolved. The staff formed the staff of the Kleffel General Command.
Commanders
- Major General / Lieutenant General Wolfgang von Plotho : from the establishment to May 1942
- Colonel Traut: from May 1942 to June 1942
- Lieutenant General Wolfgang von Plotho: from June 1942 to September 1942
- Lieutenant General Gustav Adolph-Auffenberg-Komarow : from September 1942 until dissolution
structure
1941
- Extended Infantry Regiment 322
- III./Artillery Regiment 207
- Division Units 322
- State Rifle Regimental Staff 113
- Divisional News Section 823: from December 1941
- East Rider Department 285: from May 1942
1942
- Grenadier Regiment 322: after dissolution of the division to the 281st Security Division
- Security Regiment 113: after dissolution of the division to the 207th Security Division
- I./Polizei-Regiment 9 (from the police battalion 61)
- East Rider Department 285 (until October 1943)
- Prey Panzer Company 285
- Artillery Department 285 (from III./Artillery-Regiment 207)
- Divisional News Section 823
- Division Units 322
literature
- Gottfried Mueller, Friedrich Wilhelm Guttmann: The history of the 207th and 281st Infantry Division with its sub-divisions 1939-1945 . Depressed with W. Straasburger, 1958.
- Samuel W. Mitcham (2007). German Order of Battle. Volume One: 1st - 290th Infantry Divisions in WWII. PA; United States of America: Stackpole Books. Pp. 334 + 335, ISBN 978-0-8117-3416-5
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.
- 285th Security Division on EHRI portal from the Federal Archives
Individual evidence
- ↑ John Due Enstad: Soviet Russians under Nazi Occupation: Fragile Loyalties in World War II . Cambridge University Press, 2018, ISBN 978-1-108-42126-3 , pp. 106 ( google.de [accessed on February 8, 2019]).
- ↑ John Due Enstad: Soviet Russians under Nazi Occupation: Fragile Loyalties in World War II . Cambridge University Press, 2018, ISBN 978-1-108-42126-3 , pp. 210 ( google.de [accessed on February 8, 2019]).
- ^ Heinz Kühnrich: The partisan war in Europe 1939-1945 . Dietz, 1968, p. 487 ( google.de [accessed February 8, 2019]).
- ^ Klaus Jochen Arnold: The Wehrmacht and the Occupation Policy in the Occupied Territories of the Soviet Union: Warfare and Radicalization in "Operation Barbarossa" . Duncker & Humblot, 2005, ISBN 978-3-428-11302-6 , pp. 464 ( google.de [accessed on February 8, 2019]).
