328th Infantry Division Zealand

The 328th Infantry Division Seeland (also just Infantry Division Seeland ) was a German infantry division during World War II . A 328th Infantry Division already existed from 1941 to 1943 .

Division history

The division was set up on March 9, 1945 on the Danish island of Zealand with the stationing in Copenhagen . For this purpose, so-called recovered units (i.e. consisting of wounded German soldiers who had recovered from health) were brought together from all over Denmark . The formation of the unit was not completed before the end of the war in May 1945.

The commanding officer was Lieutenant General Ernst Richter .

structure

Grenadier Regiment 593, formerly part of the 323rd Infantry Division
Grenadier Regiment 594, formerly with the 323rd Infantry Division
Grenadier Regiment 595, formerly with the 327th Infantry Division
Artillery Regiment 328
Support Regiment 328

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. 230, ISBN 978-0-8117-3437-0 .

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.
328th Infantry Division on EHRI portal from the Federal Archives

credentials

↑ Jürgen Möller: End of the war on Saale and Unstrut April 1945: The advance of the V. US Corps from Northern Thuringia to the Saale and Unstrut and the occupation of the Querfurt, Naumburg and Weißenfels region in April 1945 . Verlag Rockstuhl, 2013, ISBN 978-3-86777-641-7 ( google.de [accessed on July 14, 2019]).

[1] Jürgen Möller: End of the war on Saale and Unstrut April 1945: The advance of the V. US Corps from Northern Thuringia to the Saale and Unstrut and the occupation of the Querfurt, Naumburg and Weißenfels region in April 1945 . Verlag Rockstuhl, 2013, ISBN 978-3-86777-641-7 ( google.de [accessed on July 14, 2019]).