309th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)

The 309th Infantry Division (also (309th) Infantry Division (Greater) Berlin called) was a German infantry division during World War II .

Division history

The division was set up on February 1, 1945 on the Döberitz military training area near Berlin in military district III as an alarm association.

The division was only deployed on the Oder front near Küstrin . In April 1945; from March the 9th Army in the CI. Army Corps assigned; took major unit in the Battle of the Seelow Heights on the southern line of defense between Trebbin and Altfriedland together in position with the 303rd Infantry Division and the 606th Infantry Division in part. This defensive position was breached by Russian tanks of the 47th Army . The division was later broken up in the Halbe pocket.

commander

Colonel / Major General Heinrich Voigtsberger

Outline in February 1945

Guard regiment "Greater Germany"
652nd Grenadier Regiment
653rd Grenadier Regiment
Fusilier Battalion 309
309th Artillery Regiment
Engineer Battalion 309
Panzerjäger-Bataillon 309 (former Panzerjäger-Bataillon 200 of the 21st Panzer Division )
News Department 309
Supply Regiment 309

literature

Samuel W. Mitcham (2007). German Order of Battle. Volume Two: 291st - 999th Infantry Divisions, Named Infantry Divisions, and Special Divisions in WWII. PA; United States of America: Stackpole Books. P. 203, ISBN 978-0-8117-3437-0 .
Le Tissier, Tony. Zhukov at the Oder: The Decisive Battle for Berlin. Stackpole Books, 2009.

Individual evidence

↑ Richard Lakowski: Seelow 1945: The decisive battle on the Oder . ES Mittler & Sohn, 2015, ISBN 978-3-8132-1003-3 ( limited preview in Google book search).

^ Tony Le Tissier: Zhukov at the Oder: The Decisive Battle for Berlin . Stackpole Books, 2009, ISBN 978-1-4617-5214-1 , pp. 124 ( limited preview in Google Book search).

^ Germany (West) Military History Research Office, Rolf-Dieter Müller, Horst Boog, Jörg Echternkamp: The collapse of the German Reich 1945 . Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 2008, ISBN 978-3-421-06237-6 , pp. 637 ( limited preview in Google Book search).

[1] Richard Lakowski: Seelow 1945: The decisive battle on the Oder . ES Mittler & Sohn, 2015, ISBN 978-3-8132-1003-3 ( limited preview in Google book search).

[2] Tony Le Tissier: Zhukov at the Oder: The Decisive Battle for Berlin . Stackpole Books, 2009, ISBN 978-1-4617-5214-1 , pp. 124 ( limited preview in Google Book search).

[3] Germany (West) Military History Research Office, Rolf-Dieter Müller, Horst Boog, Jörg Echternkamp: The collapse of the German Reich 1945 . Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 2008, ISBN 978-3-421-06237-6 , pp. 637 ( limited preview in Google Book search).