319th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)
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319th Infantry Division |
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 Troop registration |
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| active | November 1940 to May 1945 |
| Country |
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| Armed forces | Wehrmacht |
| Armed forces | army |
| Type | Infantry division |
| structure | structure |
| Installation site | Gera |
| Nickname | Canada Division |
| Commanders | |
| list of | Commanders |
The 319th Infantry Division was a major unit of the army of the German Wehrmacht during World War II .
Division history
The 319th Infantry Division was set up in Gera in November 1940 in Wehrkreis IX as a division of the 13th wave . It was made up of units from the 87th , 169th and 299th Infantry Divisions . During the entire Second World War she was under the naval command and served as an occupation force on the Channel Islands Jersey , Guernsey , Alderney and Sark in the English Channel (see also Atlantic fortress ).
people
| period of service | Rank | Surname |
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| November 19, 1940 to September 1, 1943 | Lieutenant General | Erich Müller |
| September 1, 1943 to February 27, 1945 | Lieutenant General | Rudolf Graf von Schmettow |
| February 27, 1945 until unknown | Major general | Rudolf Wulf |
structure
- 582nd Infantry Regiment
- 583rd Infantry Regiment
- 584th Infantry Regiment
- Artillery Regiment 319
- Engineer Battalion 319
- Panzerjäger detachment 319
- News Department 319
- Resupply Force 319
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 . Ed. Dörfler im Nebel-Verlag, Eggolsheim 2005, ISBN 3-89555-274-7 .
- George Forty: Channel Islands at War: A German Perspective . Allan, Shepperton, Surrey 1999, ISBN 0-7110-2678-5 .
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
- ↑ Division was interned in a Canadian POW camp
