30th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (Russian No. 2)

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30th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (Russian No. 2)

Troop registration number of the 30th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS

Troop registration
active August 1944 to January 1945
Country German Reich NSGerman Reich (Nazi era) German Empire
Armed forces Flag of the Schutzstaffel.svg Armed SS
Branch of service Grenadiers
Type division
structure See outline
commander
list of Commanders

The 30th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (Russian no. 2) was born on 18th August 1944 from the Schutzmannschaften Brigade "Siegling", named after the commander, Major of Police Hans Siegling formed.

It was used in Warsaw and then for so-called anti - gangs in France .

Units presumably belonging to the division carried out the Etobon massacre on September 27, 1944 , in which 39 residents of the municipality of Étobon in the Haute-Saône department were executed for supporting the Resistance . Another 27 people were abducted to Germany, seven of whom were also killed.

On December 31, 1944, on the orders of the SS Leadership Main Office , the division was transferred to the 25th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS "Hunyadi" to the Waffen-Grenadier-Brigade of the SS ( " Volksdeutsche ", parts of the artillery and administrative units). Belarusian No. 1) reclassified.

structure

  • Waffen-Grenadier-Regiment of SS 75 (Russian No. 4)
  • Waffen-Grenadier-Regiment of SS 76 (Russian No. 5)
  • Waffen-Grenadier-Regiment of SS 77 (Russian No. 6)
    • Russian Battalion No. 654
    • Battalion Muraviev
  • Waffen-Artillerie-Regiment der SS 30
    • SS reconnaissance department 30
    • SS Artillery Department 30
    • SS tank destroyer division 30
    • SS field replacement battalion
      • Cavalry Squadron 30
      • SS pioneer company 30
      • SS medical company
      • SS Panzer Scout Company
      • SS Fusilier Company

Commanders

  • August to December 1944: SS-Obersturmbannführer and Lieutenant Colonel of the Schutzpolizei Hans Siegling

literature

  • Rolf Michaelis : The Grenadier Divisions of the Waffen SS. Part 2. Michaelis-Verlag, Erlangen 1995, ISBN 3-930849-06-2 .
  • Rolf Michaelis: Russians in the Waffen SS. 29th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS “RONA” (Russian No. 1), 30th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (Russian No. 2), SS Association “Drushina”. Winkelried-Verlag , Dresden 2006, ISBN 978-3-938392-24-9 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Writings of the Federal Archives, edition 3. H. Boldt Verlag, 1957, p. 63.
  2. ↑ Peter Lieb : Conventional war or Nazi ideological war? Warfare and the fight against partisans in France 1943/44 , Oldenbourg, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-486-57992-5 , p. 498.
Divisions of the Waffen SS


SS Panzer Divisions

1. “Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler” • 2. “The Reich” • 3. “Totenkopf” • 5. “Wiking” • 9. “Hohenstaufen” • 10. “Frundsberg” • 12. “Hitler Youth”

SS Panzer Grenadier Divisions

4. "Police Panzer Grenadier Division" • 11. "Nordland" • 16. "Reichsführer SS" • 17. "Götz von Berlichingen" • 18. "Horst Wessel" • 23. "Nederland" (Dutch no. 1) • 28. "Wallonia" (Walloon No. 1)

SS cavalry divisions

8. "Florian Geyer" • 22. • 37.

SS grenadier divisions

27. “Langemarck” (Flemish No. 1) • 31. • 32. “30. January " • 34th" Landstorm Nederland "(Dutch No. 2) • 35th SS Police Grenadier Division • 38th" Nibelungen "

SS mountain divisions

6. "North" • 7. "Prinz Eugen"

Waffen-Cavalry Divisions of the SS

33. (Hungarian No. 3)

Waffen Grenadier Divisions of the SS

14. (Galician No. 1) • 15. (Latvian No. 1) • 19th (Latvian No. 2) • 20th (Estonian No. 1) • 25th (Hungarian No. 1) • 26th (Hungarian No. . 2) • 29. “RONA” (Russian No. 1) • 29. (Italian No. 1) • 30. (Russian No. 2) • 30. (Belarusian No. 1) • 33. “Charlemagne” (French No. 1) • 36.

Waffen Mountain Divisions of the SS

13. “Handschar” (Croatian no. 1) • 21. “Skanderbeg” (Albanian no. 1) • 23rd “Kama” (Croatian no. 2) • 24th Karstjäger division