304th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)
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304th Infantry Division |
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| active | November 15, 1940 to May 1945 |
| Country |
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| Armed forces | Wehrmacht |
| Armed forces | army |
| Type | Infantry Division |
| structure | See outline |
| Installation site | Leipzig |
| Commanders | |
| list of | Commanders |
The 304th Infantry Division (304th ID) was a major military unit of the Wehrmacht .
Division history
The 304th Infantry Division was set up as an indigenous division of the 13th wave of deployment in November 1940 in Leipzig . It was composed of personnel from the 56th and 294th Infantry Divisions . Your first war mission was to secure the coast in occupied Belgium . In October 1942 there was a tactical reclassification to an attack division and immediate transfer to the Eastern Front. There she was subordinated to Army Group South and fought in the Donbogen. In doing so, she suffered heavy losses, for example the Grenadier Regiment 574 was completely destroyed.
In April 1943 a refresher had to take place because the 304th Infantry Division only had the strength of a combat group. In May 1944, the number of staff could be increased through the incorporation of the dissolved 5th Field Division (L) . After the Wehrmacht withdrew from the occupied Soviet Union, the 304th Infantry Division was destroyed on the Vistula bend. The divisional headquarters escaped capture by breaking out south of Katowice . From this the group Lieutenant General Sieler was formed, to which other combat groups were subordinate. A little later in February 1945 there was a reorganization in Prague and Ostrava , after which the 304th Infantry Division surrendered near Deutsch-Brod in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia and was taken prisoner by the Soviets.
people
| period of service | Rank | Surname |
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| November 15, 1940 to November 16, 1942 | Lieutenant General | Heinrich Krampf |
| November 16, 1942 to February 1, 1943 | Major general | Ernst Sieler |
| February 1 to March 1, 1943 | Colonel | Alfred Philippi |
| March 1 to August 30, 1943 | Lieutenant General | Ernst Sieler |
| August 30 to October 1943 | Colonel | Norbert Holm |
| October 1943 to May 8, 1944 | Lieutenant General | Ernst Sieler |
| May 8 to August 9, 1944 | Major general | Gustav Hundt |
| August 9, 1944 to January 1945 | Lieutenant General | Ernst Sieler |
| 10-22 January 1945 | Major general | Ulrich Liß |
| February to April 6, 1945 | Colonel | Friedrich Kruger |
| 6-17 April 1945 | Colonel | Robert Bader |
| period of service | Rank | Surname |
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| October 21 to December 1942 | Lieutenant colonel | Hans-Ulrich von Oertzen |
| November 25, 1942 to March 20, 1944 | Lieutenant colonel | Eberhard Einbeck |
| May 25, 1944 to May 1945 | major | Gerd von Koblinski |
structure
| 1940 | 1945 |
| 573rd Infantry Regiment | Grenadier Regiment 573 |
| 574th Infantry Regiment | Grenadier Regiment 574 |
| 575th Infantry Regiment | Grenadier Regiment 575 |
| - | Divisional Fusilier Battalion 304 |
| 304 Artillery Regiment | |
| Engineer Battalion 304 | |
| Panzerjäger detachment 304 | - |
| - | Field Replacement Battalion 304 |
| News Company 304 | News Department 304 |
| Resupply Force 304 | |
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 .
- Werner Haupt : The German Infantry Divisions 1921–1945, 3 volumes, Dörfler Verlag 2005, ISBN 978-3-89555-274-8 .
- Antonio J. Muñoz: Göring's Grenadiers: The Luftwaffe Field Divisions, 1942-1945, Europa Books Inc., 2002, ISBN 978-1-891227-40-0 .
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.
Notes and individual references
- ↑ LIX. Army Corps.
- ↑ http://www.diedeutschewehrmacht.de/304%20inf%20div.htm
