3rd Marine Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)

The 3rd Marine Infantry Division (also only 3rd Marine Division ) was a major German unit in World War II , which was set up towards the end of the war on April 1, 1945.

history

The 3rd Marine Infantry Division was formed from the parts of the 163rd Infantry Division which had escaped from Stargard . A supplement was made by naval personnel. Waren was the headquarters of the division .

The division was sent to the 3rd Panzer Army in Pomerania and later took part in the Stettin-Rostock operation , assigned to the Swinoujscie defense area. Fighting followed in the area around Swinoujscie , Sachsenhausen and Lindow near Berlin . At the end of the war, the division went into Soviet captivity near Kyritz .

Commanders

• Colonel Henning von Witzleben: April 1 to April 27, 1945
• Colonel / Major General Fritz Fullriede : from April 28, 1945 until the end of the war

structure

• Marine Grenadier Regiment 8
• Marine Grenadier Regiment 9
• Marine Grenadier Regiment 10
• Artillery Regiment 234 (added in Pomerania)
• Marine Fusilier Battalion 3rd
• 3rd Marine Tank Hunter Battalion
• 3rd Marine Engineer Battalion
• Marine News Battalion 3rd
• Marine supply units 3

literature

• Samuel W. Mitcham (2007). German Order of Battle. Volume One: 1st - 290th Infantry Divisions in WWII. PA; United States of America: Stackpole Books, p. 39. ISBN 978-0-8117-3416-5 .
• Georg Tessin : Associations and troops of the Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS 1939–1945. Volumes 2, 7, 8, Osnabrück 1972/73.