295th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)
295th Infantry Division |
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Troop identification: The double horse head |
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active | February 10, 1940 to May 1945 (British captivity) |
Country | German Empire |
Armed forces | Wehrmacht |
Armed forces | army |
Type | Infantry Division |
structure | See outline |
Installation site | Magdeburg and Bergen / Lower Saxony |
Nickname | Doppelkopf Division, Horse Division |
Second World War | War against the Soviet Union |
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list of | Commanders |
The 295th Infantry Division (295th ID) was a major military unit of the Wehrmacht and was used on the Eastern Front in the Battle of Stalingrad . It was unofficially known as the "Doppelkopf Division" or the "Horse Division".
Division history
Areas of application
- Germany: February to May 1940
- Western Front: Belgium and France May 1940 to June 1941
- Eastern Front: southern section June 1941 to August 1942
- Eastern Front: Stalingrad September 1942 to January 1943
- Norway March 1943 to May 1945
The division was set up on February 10, 1940 as a division of the 8th wave of deployment by the military district XI in the Magdeburg area, and later on the Bergen military training area . On November 15, 1940, the division gave a third of its units to the 321st Infantry Division . (Staff 517, III./516, III./517, III./518, III./AR 295). The 295th Infantry Division was one of three Lower Saxony divisions ( 71st and 216th Infantry Divisions).
The 295th division was a so-called "top division", that is, the division advanced furthest east from autumn 1941 to summer 1942. The division suffered the highest losses during this time with the 17th Army .
She was also a Stalingrad division of the 6th Army . The 295th Infantry Division was the first to break through on September 14, 1942 at 3:00 p.m. in the center of Stalingrad as far as the Volga. It was the only one of over 20 Stalingrad divisions that was reorganized in Germany, including in Goslar am Harz.
As a small combat group, it should return to combat duty as soon as possible after deployment. But deployed as a so-called "Bo" division (down-to-earth division) in Norway, it was then the only Stalingrad division that was not used again. The division had comparably very high losses, as well as a high proportion of medals awarded during the Stalingrad Battle.
The 295th Infantry Division fought in September 1942 a. a. on Mamayev Hill , from October 1942 mainly on the "tennis racket" and the chemical factory "Lazur". The last division commander of Stalingrad was the subject of heated discussions between Goebbels and Hitler at the Fuehrer's headquarters during the Kesselschlacht . The division was completely destroyed in Stalingrad in January 1943.
The 295th Infantry Division was reorganized by order of February 12, 1943, first as a combat group, then from March 31, 1943 as a local fortress division in Norway. The list was not completed until April 1945. The 295th Infantry Division was captured by the British in Norway.
date | Army Corps | army | Army Group | Location |
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May 1940 | reserve | OKH | - | Belgium |
June 1940 | IX | 2. | A. | |
July 1940 | XXXXIII | 16. | Lille , France | |
August 1940 to April 1941 | XXXII | 9. | Rouen , France | |
May 1941 | IV | 17th | South Poland | |
June to July 1941 | south | Przemyśl , Vinnitsa , Ukraine | ||
August 1941 | XXXXIX | Uman , Ukraine | ||
September 1941 | reserve | Dnepr , Ukraine | ||
October 1941 | IV | Poltava , Ukraine | ||
November 1941 to January 1942 | XXXXIV | Artemovsk , Donetsk , Ukraine | ||
February to July 1942 | IV | Artemovsk | ||
August 1942 | LI | 6th | B. | Rossosh |
September 1942 | XIV | Stalingrad | ||
October to November 1942 | LI | |||
December 1942 to February 1943 | Don | |||
April to July 1943 | Re-establishment | BdE | - | - |
August 1943 | LXX | Norway | Norway | |
September 1943 to December 1944 | XXXIII | Molde , Norway | ||
January to April 1945 | 20th Mountain Army |
War crimes
Zloczow massacre in July 1941
The Wehrmacht was involved in pogroms against the civilian population in Zloczow, Galicia, in July 1941, including members of the 295th ID.
“ Conditions are unpleasant in Zloczow. On the citadel lie 900 corpses of Ukrainians murdered by the Russians, which are currently being dug up with their hands by Jews and Russians. In the city and on the citadel, mass shootings and murders on the street of Jews and Russians, including women and children, are taking place by the Ukrainians . "
The then Colonel Dr. Otto Korfes was entrusted with restoring order and sent his battalion commander Lieutenant Colonel Patzwahl to Zloczow for consistent implementation, including the use of weapons if necessary. Some civilians were saved from being shot by the Waffen SS “Wiking” division . Since the intervention of Lieutenant Colonel Patzwahl was not determined enough, the SS continued their killings on July 4, 1941.
Belaya Tserkov massacre in August 1941
In August 1941 the 295th ID was probably directly or indirectly involved in the murder of civilians in the village of Belaya Tserkov ( Bila Tserkva ) near Kiev . During the massacre, u. a. 90 children killed. Lieutenant Colonel Helmuth Groscurth is said to have complained to General Field Marshal Walter von Reichenau about it in a vain report. The shootings were carried out by SS-Sonderkommando 4a ( Einsatzgruppe C ), in which 800 to 900 civilians were killed.
Battle for Stalingrad
During the major offensive on the inner city of Stalingrad on September 13, 1942, the 295th Infantry Division advanced together with the 71st Infantry Division on the city center. They got into a Soviet counter-offensive northwest of Mamayev Hill , which was however repulsed. The Lower Saxony divisions 295th and 71st formed a far-forward thrust wedge into the Stalingrad business district. The skirmishes around Mamayev Hill and the industrial complexes heralded the beginning of the Soviet sniper movement, which was particularly active in this section of the front.
Due to the unusually tough street fighting in downtown Stalingrad and on the slopes of the Mamayev, only 7 of the 9 infantry battalions (a total of 7 infantry battalions and one engineer battalion) were still operational on September 14th. 2 of them medium strength (500–700 men), 3 average (400–500) and 2 weak (300–400).
On September 15, 1942, she took the tactically significant hill above the workers' settlement "Red October" and met with IR 518 on Mamayev Hill on parts of the 10th NKVD division.
At times the fighting was concentrated around a tactically significant height, which was known as the " Douaumont Stalingrads ":
“ While the infantry has to bear the brunt of the battle in the northwest sector - the bayonet, the hand grenade and the small flamethrower have displaced the heavy weapons - the battle of the tanks continues in the northern section over a ridge called the 'Douaumont' of Stalingrad . From here German field artillery could fire into the streets of the city, and von Bock would gain an extremely valuable observation post. The importance of this position corresponds to the use of people and materials on both sides: Probably the worst losses occurred in the struggle for this position. The position runs through the middle of a small garden suburb, which rises relatively sharply. As on Sunday evening [20. September 1942] a few square meters of this suburb was recaptured by our troops, no less than 485 dead German officers and men were found. "
On September 16, 1942, IR 516 and 517 fought on the left wing of the division against a composite unit of the Red Army for access to the workers' settlement "Red October", while IR 518 fought with parts of the 39th Guards Rifle Regiment and the 112th Rifle Division was on duty to control Mamayev Hill. In the early morning hours the hill was stormed by 4 Soviet infantry battalions and in the afternoon it was recaptured by the 295th Infantry Division in a chaotic, completely confusing and very lossy battle. The Mamayev Hill is with 102 m ("height 102") the highest elevation in the city and gives a view of the city and Volga. Its occupation was synonymous with the best starting point for artillery attacks on the eastern Volga and the entrances to both the city center and the center of Stalingrad. At the same time a battalion from IR 518 was deployed together with parts of the 71st Infantry Division to defeat Soviet defensive positions in the Dolgaja and Krutaja Balkas.
Panzer grenadiers of the 24th Panzer Division were dispatched to the battle around Mamayev Hill on September 20, 1942 to relieve the heavily worn out infantrymen of the 295th Infantry Division; on the western slope they achieved partial success in taking the airfield and the pilot school. On the right flank, IR 518 asserted itself between Dolgaja Balka and the southern slope, IR 516 was in the trenches in the middle of the hilltop and IR 517 together with combat group Sälzer (24th PD) tried in vain to advance in the Bannaja Balka Start the workers' settlement "Red October". One day later, Red Army soldiers of the 95th SD stormed lost terrain on the eastern slope when the 284th SD under Colonel Batjuk landed on the western Volga and was able to save the critical situation for the 62nd Army. On September 22, 1942, the battle around the hill reached its climax, with IR 516 and 518 suffering heavy losses.
On September 26, 1942, 2 battalions on average (400–500), 4 weak (300–400) and 1 (less than 300) were completely exhausted, exhausted and no longer operational. In the days of the Stalingrad Battle between September 14 and 26, 1942, 1,000 soldiers of 71st and 295th Infantry Division, 3,000 wounded and 100 missing were killed. The 295th Infantry Division was relieved from the 100th Jäger Division on Mamayev Hill, reinforced by parts of the 24th Infantry Division and placed on the right flank of the 389th Infantry Division in the Stalingrad industrial complex. Paulus decided on September 27, 1942 that the enormous losses did not justify taking the entire city center, since the 71st, 94th and 295th Infantry Division no longer had the strength for the final attack. By reinforcing the 295th ID, 389th ID, 100th JD and 24th PD, the forces for the offensive on the industrial facilities were bundled. IR 516, 517 and 518 together with IR 194 of 71st Infantry Division were assigned the attack section between Mamayev Hill and the Dolgaja Balka. The focus of the 295th Infantry Division, reinforced with assault guns , was the capture of the heavily fortified railway loop "Tennisschläger" with the meat combine and the chemical factory "Lazur", which had been expanded to a fortress by the 95th and 284th SD. On one of the bloodiest days of the battle of Stalingrad on September 27th, the violent attempt of the 295th Infantry Division to reach the Volga via the Dolgaja and Krutaja Balka and to split the 62nd Army into two parts was made by the extremely bitter resistance the Siberian riflemen of the 284th SD prevented with all their might. Despite joining forces with the Croatian IR 369, IR 516 did not succeed in completely conquering the meat combine.
“ In the street fights, the infantrymen and pioneers disappear completely in the rubble, because whoever shows up is at risk. Any carelessness is punished with a fatal shot by the enemy lurking in camouflaged hiding places. A war correspondent compares Stalingrad to the French battlefields of the world war. He writes: 'Like then, the unleashed forces of the material rush across a deserted battlefield, and like then they crouch together again, crouched in funnels or shelters. A handful of men in steel helmets, men in battered and tattered uniforms, with burning eyes, who have not slept in days. For weeks they have been attacking, defending and counter-attacking in the city. They endured raids by enemy artillery and grenade launchers by day, and bomber storms by night. They are burned out by the fires of this hell, and in the dark grounds of their faces the timeless features of the warrior from the world war dawn. ' "
On September 30, 1942, IR 516 and IR 369 made another unsuccessful attempt to penetrate the defensive positions of the 95th and 284th SD and to take both the hilltop and the northeastern slopes of the Mamajew, further south the attack by IR 517 and IR 518 remained in cooperation with IR 194 (71st ID) in the defenses of the 284th SD in the Dolgii and Krutoi Balka. A 300-man combat group from IR 517 infiltrated the Krutoi Gorge on the night of September 30th to October 1st, 1942 and succeeded in the rear of the 34th Guards Rifle Regiment, but was beaten off after an intense firefight. In the period from September 26 to 30, 1942, the losses of 16,174 men (3,767 killed, 10,217 wounded and 878 missing) were recorded on the Stalingrad front. The combat strength of the 295th Infantry Division from September 25th to October 5th deteriorated in relation to 4 weak and 3 completely worn out infantry battalions.
During the major attack on the workers' settlements, which began on October 3, 1942, the 295th Infantry Division was given the order together with the 100th JD the right flank of the LI. To secure the army corps and to increase the pressure on the workers' settlement “Red October” by moving on the Mamayev Kurgan and from the south via the “tennis racket”. While the north side of the hill was temporarily conquered, there was no significant progress on the hardened fronts either in the “tennis racket” or in the two Balkans.
As part of Operation Hubertus , the 295th Infantry Division was supposed to undertake a final, precisely prepared advance by raiding troops against the Soviet defensive positions on Mamayev Hill and in the chemical factory "Lazur" in the railway loop "Tennis Racket", which the Red Army held stubbornly. This attack was intended to bind the Soviet flank in the south and distract from the actual main attack on the “Red October” steelworks and the “Barricades” gun factory. The condition of the 71st Infantry Division, 94th Infantry Division and 295th Infantry Division was already in a critical state on November 9, 1942, ranging from weak to completely worn out and barely able to carry out the planned attack on November 11th.
On November 16, 1942, Major General Dr. Otto Korfes from the previous division commander General of the Artillery Rolf Wuthmann .
structure
- Infantry Regiment 516, (renamed Grenadier Regiment 516 from October 15, 1942), was formed from IR 118 Kaiserslautern , IR 87 Wiesbaden and IR 193 Hamm
- I.-III. Btl.
- Infantry Regiment 517, (renamed Grenadier Regiment 517 from October 15, 1942), formed from IR 74 Hameln and IR 12 Quedlinburg
- I.-III. Btl.
- Infantry Regiment 518 (renamed Grenadier Regiment 518 from October 15, 1942), was formed from IR 211 (71st ID) Magdeburg and IR 487 Bergen
- I.-III. Btl.
- Artillery Regiment 295, formed from AR 19 Celle , AR 31 Halberstadt and AR 36 Kaiserslautern
- Panzerjäger detachment 295
- Pioneer Battalion 295, Magdeburg
- Infantry Division Intelligence Division 295
- Infantry Division Supply Leader 295
function | Rank | Surname |
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Division commander | Major general | Herbert Geitner |
Chief of Staff (Ia) | major | Hans-Georg von Schaewen |
Adjutant (IIa) | major | Gerhard Bechly |
Quartermaster (Ib) | - | Martin Boriss |
Enemy u. Defense (Ic) | Captain | Dr. Helmuth Oehler |
Division doctor (IVb) | Senior Field Physician | Dr. Erich Reimer |
Adjutant d. Div.-doctor | Senior physician | Richard Kayser |
Division Veterinary (IVc) | Chief Veterinary Officer | Dr. Hans-Hugo Warnatsch |
Commandant headquarters | Rittmeister | Oskar Milberg |
1st orderly officer (O1) | First lieutenant | Paul Dupont |
2nd orderly officer (O2) | Rittmeister | Karl Bartels |
3rd orderly officer (O3) | lieutenant | Guy Dulier |
Ammunition and device | First lieutenant | Werner Molter |
unit | Subunit | function | Rank | Surname |
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Regimental staff | - | commander | Colonel | Karl Gümbel |
- | adjutant | First lieutenant | Erich Boenigk | |
- | Ordinance officer | lieutenant | Klaus Gollnick | |
- | Intelligence officer | lieutenant | Wilhelm Schiffels | |
Large luggage | - | Supply leader | First lieutenant | Rudolf Beiber |
I. Btl. | - | Battalion commander | Lieutenant colonel | Karl Muller |
- | adjutant | lieutenant | Edgar Himmler | |
- | Ordinance officer | lieutenant | Bernhard Otto | |
1st company | Company commander | First lieutenant | Gerhard Concept | |
Platoon leader | lieutenant | Walter Cratz | ||
2nd company | Company commander | First lieutenant | Dr. Ernst Ratz | |
Platoon leader | lieutenant | Willi Wagner | ||
Platoon leader | lieutenant | Johann-Fritz Kotzenberg | ||
3rd company | Company commander | First lieutenant | Wilhelm Sanders | |
Platoon leader | lieutenant | Fritz Boss | ||
4th company | Company commander | lieutenant | Siegfried Stolze | |
II. Btl. | - | Battalion commander | major | Emil Schubach |
- | adjutant | lieutenant | Rudolf Wende | |
- | Ordinance officer | lieutenant | Hans Wilde | |
5th company | Company commander | Captain | Heinrich Brocker | |
6th company | Company commander | Captain | Wilhelm Leonhardt | |
Platoon leader | lieutenant | Heinz Fabian | ||
7th company | Company commander | First lieutenant | Emil Dördelmann | |
8th company | Company commander | First lieutenant | Andreas Kaltenhäuser | |
Platoon leader | lieutenant | Josef Count von Plettenberg | ||
Platoon leader | lieutenant | Walter Stinshoff | ||
III. Btl. | - | Battalion commander | major | Wolfgang Hecker |
- | adjutant | lieutenant | Fritz mare | |
9th company | Company commander | First lieutenant | Ernst Werner | |
Platoon leader | lieutenant | Eschroin of Krosigk | ||
10th company | Company commander | Captain | Josef Domann | |
Platoon leader | First lieutenant | Franz Rust | ||
11th company | Company commander | First lieutenant | Wilhelm Boonholt | |
Platoon leader | lieutenant | Hans-Adolf Vollmann | ||
12th company | Company commander | First lieutenant | Wilhelm Venz | |
Platoon leader | lieutenant | August Koehler | ||
13th company | Company commander | Captain | Dr. Karl Wiedemann | |
Platoon leader | First lieutenant | Erich am Orde | ||
Platoon leader | First lieutenant | Dr. Karl Rast | ||
14th Company (PzAbwehr) | Company commander | Captain | Ernst Wintmölle | |
light infantry column 516 | - | Column leader | lieutenant | Walter Baumann |
unit | Subunit | function | Rank | Surname |
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Regimental staff | - | commander | Lieutenant colonel | Erich Gruner |
- | adjutant | First lieutenant | Maximilian Harlinghausen | |
- | Ordinance officer | lieutenant | Günther Riepenhausen | |
- | Catering Officer | First lieutenant | Ferdinand Boeger | |
I. Btl. | - | Battalion commander | Lieutenant colonel | Otto Drescher |
- | adjutant | lieutenant | Erich Brose | |
- | Ordinance officer | First lieutenant | Ernst Koehlitz | |
1st company | Company commander | lieutenant | Helmut Breddemann | |
2nd company | Company commander | First lieutenant | Ludwig Richter | |
Platoon leader | lieutenant | Franz Walter | ||
3rd company | Company commander | Captain | Hermann Wolff | |
4th company | Company commander | Captain | Wilhelm Alten | |
Platoon leader | lieutenant | Wilhelm Herb | ||
II. Btl. | - | Battalion commander | Captain | Hermann Ahrens |
- | adjutant | lieutenant | Axel Walther | |
- | Ordinance officer | lieutenant | Albert Nitze | |
5th company | Company commander | Captain | Martin Wadepuhl | |
Platoon leader | lieutenant | Arnulf Datz | ||
6th company | Company commander | lieutenant | Wilhelm Schmitt | |
7th company | Company commander | lieutenant | Kurt Schöngarth | |
8th company | Company commander | First lieutenant | Walter Lux | |
III. Btl. | - | Battalion commander | major | Alexander Möckel |
- | adjutant | lieutenant | Rudolf Lange | |
9th company | Company commander | Captain | Friedrich Koehne | |
Platoon leader | First lieutenant | Josef Hörrmann | ||
10th company | Company commander | First lieutenant | Hans Fiedler | |
11th company | Company commander | First lieutenant | Ernst Kiessling | |
Platoon leader | lieutenant | Dr. Alexander Schwechten | ||
12th company | Company commander | Captain | Rudolf von Merkatz | |
13th company | Company commander | Captain | Johannes von Roden | |
14th Company (PzAbwehr) | Company commander | First lieutenant | Hermann Hoops | |
Platoon leader | lieutenant | Heinrich Boelsche | ||
light infantry column 517 | - | Column leader | lieutenant | Christian Mueller |
unit | Subunit | function | Rank | Surname |
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Regimental staff | - | commander | Lieutenant colonel | Otto Korfes |
- | adjutant | First lieutenant | Ernst Huar | |
- | Ordinance officer | lieutenant | Otto Wilkens | |
light infantry | Column leader | First lieutenant | Radtke | |
I. Btl. | - | Battalion commander | major | Eitel-Friedrich Patzwahl |
- | adjutant | lieutenant | Kurt Reinhardt | |
1st company | Company commander | lieutenant | Georg Hagemeier | |
Platoon leader | lieutenant | Otto Ulrich | ||
2nd company | Company commander | Captain | Walter Runge | |
3rd company | Company commander | Captain | Hans Quiver | |
Platoon leader | lieutenant | Horst Marschhausen | ||
4th company | Company commander | First lieutenant | Theodor Weltz | |
Platoon leader | lieutenant | Helmuth von Lorentz | ||
Platoon leader | lieutenant | Rudiger Drosten | ||
II. Btl. | - | Battalion commander | major | Helmuth von Osterroht |
- | adjutant | lieutenant | Helmuth Coing | |
5th company | Company commander | Captain | Joseph Knaps | |
6th company | Company commander | Captain | Arthur Riese | |
7th company | Company commander | Captain | Alfred Giese | |
Platoon leader | lieutenant | Oskar Jahn | ||
8th company | Company commander | Captain | Friedrich Warnecke | |
Platoon leader | lieutenant | Gottfried Schöne | ||
III. Btl. | - | Battalion commander | Captain | Rudolf Brauns |
- | adjutant | lieutenant | Albert Bauer | |
9th company | Company commander | Captain | Walter Kremer | |
Platoon leader | lieutenant | Erich Steffen | ||
10th company | Company commander | Captain | Adolf Hartmann | |
Platoon leader | lieutenant | Hans Daake | ||
11th company | Company commander | Captain | Friedrich Specht | |
12th company | Company commander | First lieutenant | Heinrich Schuett | |
Platoon leader | lieutenant | Vollrath | ||
13th company | Company commander | Captain | Hans Kahle | |
Platoon leader | lieutenant | Heinz Maek | ||
Platoon leader | lieutenant | Werner Schwarzbach | ||
14th Company (PzAbwehr) | Company commander | Captain | Richard Henze | |
Platoon leader | First lieutenant | Walter Kitscha |
people
Entry into service | Rank | Surname |
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February 1940 | Major General / Lieutenant General | Herbert Geitner |
December 1941 | Colonel / Major General | Karl Gümbel |
May 1942 | Major general | Rolf Wuthmann |
November 1942 | Colonel / Major General | Otto Korfes |
April 1943 | Major General / Lieutenant General | Rudolf Dinter |
1944 | Lieutenant General | Karl-Ludwig Rhein |
January 1945 | Lieutenant General | Sigfrid Macholz |
Rank | Surname | period of service |
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Lieutenant colonel | Hans-Georg Schaewen | February 8 to July 10, 1940 |
Lieutenant colonel | Horst von Zitzewitz | July 10, 1940 to April 1941 |
Lieutenant colonel | Helmuth Groscurth | April to November 1941 |
major | Franz Engerisser | November 25, 1941 to May 1, 1942 |
Lieutenant colonel | Gerhard Dissel | ? until January 31, 1943 fell into Soviet captivity |
Colonel | Karl Zipper | April 1943 to February 25, 1945 |
major | Ernst-Günther Steuer | February 25, 1945 until the surrender |
Awards
A total of 49 members of the 295th ID were awarded the German Cross in Gold and 14 with the Knight's Cross.
Rank | Surname | unit | Award date |
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Colonel | Karl Gümbel | Regimental commander IR 516 | October 30, 1941 |
major | Günther Nentwig | Department commander I. Btl./AR 295 | January 21, 1942 |
Lieutenant colonel | Alexander Möckel | Regimental commander IR 517 | February 6, 1942 |
Sergeant Major | Wilhelm Reinhardt | Platoon leader 5th Company / IR 518 | February 22, 1942 |
Captain | Alwin Düskow | Department commander II. Btl./AR 295 | March 21, 1942 |
Captain | Wilhelm Herb | Department commander I. Btl./IR 517 | September 10, 1942 |
Captain | Ernst Werner | Department Commander III. Btl./IR 516 | September 19, 1942 |
major | Richard Henze | Department commander II. Btl./IR 518 | October 2, 1942 |
Sergeant Major | Hermann Fleischer | Platoon leader I. Btl./IR 517, 2nd company | October 29, 1942 |
major | Hans Bohnenkamp | Department Commander III. Btl / AR 295 | January 22, 1943 |
Major general | Otto Korfes | Division commander 295th ID | January 22, 1943 |
major | Friedrich Warnecke | Department Commander III. Btl./IR 517 | January 22, 1943 |
Lieutenant colonel | Richard Claassen | Regimental commander IR 517 | January 29, 1943 |
Captain | Kurt Schäfer | Department commander IR 516 | January 29, 1943 |
Rank | Surname | unit | Award date |
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sergeant | Wilhelm Wollmar | 2nd company / IR 518 | October 27, 1942 |
Constable | Eduard Winter | 2nd battery / AR 295 | October 27, 1942 |
First lieutenant | Rolf Wiegräfe | GR 517 | January 30, 1943 |
First lieutenant | Ernst Werner | III.Btl./IR 516 | January 23, 1942 |
Staff Sergeant | Adolf Weiss | Staff III.Btl./IR 518 | March 25, 1942 |
major | Friedrich Warnecke | III.Btl./IR 518 | February 2, 1942 |
Sergeant Major | Otto Treu | 9th Company / IR 517 | September 26, 1942 |
First lieutenant | Fritz Tacke | Pi.Btl. 295 | September 26, 1942 |
First lieutenant | Otto Spoerhase | 3rd company / Pi.Btl. 295 | December 8, 1942 |
Lieutenant colonel | Emil Schubach | II.Btl./IR 516 | December 11, 1941 |
First lieutenant | Kurt Behrens | 1st company / IR 518 | October 27, 1942 |
major | Ernst Benicke | Pi.Btl. 295 | January 25, 1943 |
First lieutenant | Theodor Blase | Pi.Btl. 295 | September 26, 1942 |
Sergeant Major | Karl Brandis | 1st company / IR 518 | November 24, 1942 |
First lieutenant | Werner Budde | GR 517 | January 30, 1943 |
Captain | Max Busch | II.Btl./IR 517 | May 30, 1942 |
First lieutenant | Walter Cratz | 2nd Company / IR 517 | November 12, 1942 |
First lieutenant | Hans Daake | I. Btl./IR 518 | November 5, 1942 |
Captain | Arnulf Datz | GR 517 | January 30, 1943 |
First lieutenant | Heinz-Otto Fabian | 5th Company / GR 516 | December 8, 1942 |
First lieutenant | Heinrich Federhenn | III. Btl./IR 516 | November 6, 1942 |
Sergeant Major | Franz Firfas | 2nd Company / IR 517 | May 30, 1942 |
Sergeant major | Gustav Fricke | 8. Battery / AR 295 | January 25, 1943 |
Lieutenant General | Herbert Geitner | 295 ID | December 10, 1941 |
lieutenant | Alfons Grimm | 14th Company / IR 518 | November 12, 1942 |
Captain | Fritz Gröpler | 4. Battery / AR 295 | May 18, 1942 |
sergeant | Erich Hempel | 3rd Company / IR 518 | November 24, 1942 |
First lieutenant | Wilhelm Herb | I. Btl./IR 517 | May 30, 1942 |
Sergeant Major | Josef Herbert | Staff III. Btl./IR 516 | March 25, 1942 |
sergeant | Wilhelm Herdzin | 3rd company / Pi.Btl. 295 | October 9, 1942 |
Colonel | Fritz Herrmann | GR 516 | January 29, 1943 |
First lieutenant | Karsten Hermann | 14th Company / IR 517 | November 12, 1942 |
lieutenant | Willy guy | 4th Company / IR 518 | November 24, 1942 |
lieutenant | Heinz Klase | 6th Company / IR 517 | March 25, 1942 |
Captain | Ernst Koehlitz | IR 517 | January 30, 1943 |
Colonel | Otto Korfes | IR 518 | January 11, 1942 |
Captain | Walter Lux | II. Btl./IR 517 | September 26, 1942 |
First lieutenant | Horst Marschhausen | 7th Company / IR 518 | March 25, 1942 |
First lieutenant | Kurt Meisel | 5th Company / IR 518 | October 9, 1942 |
lieutenant | Heinrich Mergen | 9th Company / IR 517 | November 12, 1942 |
Sergeant Major | Willi Mollenhauer | 3rd Company / IR 518 | March 3, 1942 |
Colonel | Günther Nentwig | AR 295 | January 25, 1943 |
major | Eitel Friedrich Patzwahl | Staff I. Btl./IR 518 | February 2, 1942 |
Sergeant Major | August Peter | 8th Company / IR 518 | November 6, 1942 |
Staff Sergeant | Richard Podszus | 5th Company / IR 517 | March 7, 1942 |
sergeant | Paul Rose | 6th Company / GR 517 | July 20, 1943 |
lieutenant | Erich a shame | 8th Company / GR 516 | January 10, 1943 |
lieutenant | Wilhelm Schiffels | 7th Company / IR 516 | April 11, 1942 |
sergeant | Albert Schlichthörl | 2nd company / GR 517 | January 10, 1943 |
literature
- David M. Glantz: Armageddon in Stalingrad: September – November 1942 . University of Kansas Press, Lawrence 2009, ISBN 978-0-7006-1664-0 ( The Stalingrad Trilogy , Vol. 2).
- Georg Tessin : Associations and troops of the German Wehrmacht and Waffen SS in World War II 1939–1945. Volume 9. The Land Forces 281-370 . Biblio-Verlag, Bissendorf 1974, ISBN 3-7648-1174-9 .
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.
Individual evidence
From David M. Glantz: Armageddon in Stalingrad: September – November 1942 . University of Kansas Press, Lawrence 2009, ISBN 978-0-7006-1664-0 ( The Stalingrad Trilogy , Vol. 2):
- ↑ p. 109.
- ↑ pp. 116-117.
- ↑ pp. 135, 137.
- ↑ p. 124.
- ↑ pp. 139-140, 147.
- ↑ pp. 192-193, 198-201.
- ↑ pp. 210-212, 233-235, 238, 242, 254-255, 264.
- ↑ pp. 284-285.
- ↑ p. 302.
- ↑ pp. 304-305, 322-323.
- ↑ pp. 615-616, 618.
- ↑ p. 626.
Further evidence:
- ↑ a b 295. ID / Ic, activity report July 3, 1941: BA / MA RH 26-295 / 16 in page no longer available , search in web archives: report (PDF; 67 kB) on weitermachen.de
- ↑ report on spiegel.de
- ↑ Groscurth's report of August 21, 1941 for the Chief of the General Staff of Army Group South, General von Sodenstern, on the events in Belaya Zerkow on August 20, 1941 on fluchschrift.net
- ↑ Guido Knopp: Stalingrad. The drama. Goldmann, Munich 2006, pp. 53-55.
- ↑ Saul Friedländer: Describing the Holocaust. Wallstein Verlag, 2007 pp. 54–57.
- ^ Janusz Piekałkiewicz : Stalingrad. Anatomy of a battle. Heyne, Munich 1993, p. 302.
- ↑ Is this about the September fights around the Mamayev Kurgan or the neighboring height 126.3 also called 'Aleksandrowka Hill' or, as mentioned by Colonel Groscurth on October 4, 1942, possibly hill 97.7?
- ^ Janusz Piekałkiewicz: Stalingrad. Anatomy of a battle. Heyne, Munich 1993, pp. 198-199.
- ↑ Ursula Richter-Nentwig; Telling is remembering; My father and I; Memories, letters from the field; Volume 86. Formag GmbH Publishing, Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge e. V. Work for Peace, self-published, 2013, p. 127.
- ↑ Ukrainian loess gorges, erosion channels.
- ↑ 200 casualties: 46 dead, 7 wounded officers and 164 men, 4 soldiers missing in action; Jason Mark: Death of the Leaping Horseman. Pp. 202-203. in: David M. Glantz: Armageddon in Stalingrad: September – November 1942 (The Stalingrad Trilogy, Volume 2). University of Kansas Press, Lawrence 2009, p. 753.
- ^ Janusz Piekałkiewicz: Stalingrad. Anatomy of a battle. Heyne, Munich 1993, pp. 246-248.
- ↑ Info on hamelner-geschichte.de.