299th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)

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299th Infantry Division

active February 1940 to March 1945
Country German Reich NSGerman Reich (Nazi era) German Empire
Armed forces Wehrmacht
Armed forces army
Type Infantry Division
structure See outline
Installation site Erfurt
Commanders
list of Commanders

The 299th Infantry Division (299th ID) was a major military unit of the Wehrmacht .

Division history

Areas of application :

On May 14, 1940, the division attacked the Verdun sector together with 76th Infantry Division and 36th Infantry Division .
  • Eastern Front , Southern Section: June 1941 to February 1942
  • Eastern Front, Central Section: February 1942 to July 1944
  • Poland and East Germany: September 1944 to February 1945

The 299th Infantry Division was set up in Erfurt in February 1940 as a division of the 8th wave of deployment . In May 1940 the unit took part in the western campaign and fought in Luxembourg , Belgium and Sedan in France . In June 1941, she was transferred to the Eastern Front and was initially as a left wing of the 6th Army at the Army Group South assumed. After crossing the Bug, the 299th Infantry Division marched into the Dubno region and broke the Stalin line at Novograd Volinsky . The eight-day battles between Zhitomir and Korosten led to a total of 685 casualties at IR 530. At Shulyany she crossed the Dnieper and took part in the battle for Kiev . In 1942 she fought near Voronezh , in 1943 she had a large-scale operation in the tank battle of Kursk and the battle of Gomel . At the beginning of 1944 the 299th Infantry Division was mainly used as part of the 3rd Panzer Army on the Orsha - Vitebsk road . The 299th ID was established in July 1944 in the boiler of Minsk during the collapse of Army Group Center destroyed. The corps department G was formed from the division staff, which included the division group 299. On September 1, 1944, the 299th Infantry Division from Corps Department G was reorganized and destroyed again in March 1945 in the Heiligenbeil pocket in East Prussia . Survivors were accepted into the Reich Labor Service Division 1 "Infantry Division Schlageter" in the Battle of Berlin .

people

Division commanders of 299th ID:
period of service Rank Surname
April 6, 1940 to November 1, 1942 Major General / Lieutenant General Willi Moser
November 1 to November 5, 1942 Major general Viktor Koch
November 5, 1942 to May 3, 1943 Major general Hans Bergen
May 3, 1943 to January 15, 1944 Major general Ralph Count of Oriola
January 15 to March 13, 1944 Colonel Paul Reichelt
March 13 to June 28, 1944 Lieutenant General Ralph Count of Oriola
June 28, 1944 to July 31, 1944 Major general Hans Junck
September 1, 1944 to February 16, 1945 Colonel Karl Goebel
General Staff Officers (Ia) of 299th ID:
period of service Rank Surname
February 8 to July 10, 1940 major Wilhelm Meyer-Detring
July 10, 1940 to September 4, 1942 major Alfred Zerbel
November 1942 to October 1943 Lieutenant colonel Gerd von Coelln
September 20, 1943 to June 5, 1944 Lieutenant colonel Albert Schindler
June 5, 1944 to March 1945 major Hellmut Schreiber

Awards

A total of 33 members of the 299th ID were awarded the Knight's Cross and 114 with the German Cross in Gold.

structure

  • 529th Infantry Regiment
  • 530 Infantry Regiment
  • Artillery Regiment 299
  • Panzerjäger detachment 299
  • Reconnaissance Department 299
  • Field Replacement Battalion 299
  • Engineer Battalion 299
  • News Section 299
  • Supply troops

literature

  • 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

Notes and individual references

  1. ↑ In the Wehrmacht reports of March 1942, also referred to as "Division Moser" after its commander
  1. ↑ Dominique Lormier "Comme des Lions (may juin 1940, le sacrifice héroïque de l'armée française)" Paris Editeur: Calmann-Lévy 2005 ISBN 2-7021-3445-9 section 257