302nd Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)
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302nd Infantry Division |
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| active | November 12, 1940 to August 1944 |
| Country |
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| Armed forces | Wehrmacht |
| Armed forces | army |
| Type | Infantry division |
| structure | structure |
| Nickname | Dieppe Division |
| Second World War | Battle of Dieppe , Operation Jassy-Kishinev |
| Commanders | |
| list of | Commanders |
The 302nd Infantry Division was a major unit of the army of the German Wehrmacht during World War II .
Division history
Areas of application :
- Western Front: 1941-1942
- Eastern Front : 1942–1944
The 302nd Infantry Division was set up from parts of the 75th Infantry Division , 292nd Infantry Division and Home Guard Battalions on November 12, 1940 as a native division of the 13th wave of deployment in Neustrelitz in Wehrkreis II. After deployments on the western front in occupied France, including taking part in the defense against the Allied landing company near Dieppe in August 1942, on October 10, 1942, the infantry division was converted into a front-line infantry division and a short time later it was transferred to the eastern front in Voroshilovgrad in the Donets area , where it was first subordinated to Army Group Don and then to Army Group South . In December 1943 it was reclassified to a so-called Division 44 of the new type. After subordination to Army Group South Ukraine , the 302nd Infantry Division was destroyed in August 1944 as part of Operation Jassy-Kishinew near Tighina / Romania . Survivors were integrated into the 76th Infantry Division and 15th Infantry Division .
people
| period of service | Rank | Surname |
|---|---|---|
| November 15, 1940 to November 26, 1942 | Lieutenant General | Konrad Haase |
| November 26, 1942 to November 12, 1943 | Lieutenant General | Otto Elfeldt |
| November 12, 1943 to January 25, 1944 | Lieutenant General | Karl Rudiger |
| January 25 to July 1944 | Lieutenant General | Erich von Bogen |
| July 1944 until unknown | Colonel | Willi Fischer |
Prominent relatives
- Lorenz Jaeger , Archbishop of Paderborn and important ecumenist, was a division pastor
structure
Changes in the structure of the 302nd ID from 1940 to 1944
| 1940 | 1944 |
| Infantry Regiment 570 | Grenadier Regiment 570 |
| 571th Infantry Regiment | Division group 125 |
| 572nd Infantry Regiment | Grenadier Regiment 572nd |
| - | Field Replacement Battalion 302 |
| - | Fast department 302 |
| - | Cycling Department 302 |
| Artillery Regiment 302 | |
| Panzerjäger detachment 302 | - |
| Engineer Battalion 302 | |
| News Department 302 | |
| 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 .
- Emil Kilgast: Review of the history of the 302nd Infantry Division, self-published, Hamburg 1976.
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.
