330th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)

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330th Infantry Division

active December 19, 1941 to November 2, 1943
Country German Reich NSGerman Reich (Nazi era) German Empire
Armed forces Wehrmacht
Armed forces army
Type Infantry division
structure See outline
Installation site Training area for hiking (Oststernberg district, Brandenburg); today Sulęcin , Powiat Sulęciński, Poland
Second World War Battle of Rzhev
Commanders
list of Commanders

The 330th Infantry Division was a major unit of the army of the German Wehrmacht .

Division history

Incorporation and subordination of the 330th ID during the Second World War
date corps army Army Group Location
December 1941 Installation in WW III - - -
January 1942 Relocation to the Eastern Front - - -
February to April 1942 LIX 3rd Panzer Army center Demidow
May to October 1942 -
November 1942 XXXXI 9th Army Welisch
December 1942 to March 1943 VI
April to August 1943 3rd Panzer Army
September 1943 IX 4th Army Orsha ( Gorky )
October 1943

The 330th ID was set up on December 19, 1941 as a so-called " Valkyrie " unit in military district III on the hiking training area in Berlin - Brandenburg from parts of already existing units. The background to the rapid deployment was the urgent need for personnel on the loss-making Eastern Front . The 330th ID was drawn up within two weeks, which normally took two to three months.

In the winter battle of 1941/1942, counterattacks by the Red Army near Demidow, northeast of Vitebsk in eastern Belarus, caused a critical breakthrough in the front, with units of the LIX that were quickly brought up. Army Corps under General Kurt von der Chevallerie should be encountered. From Siedlce in Poland , the unit was moved in forced marches to the German-Soviet front. The division suffered so heavy losses in the ensuing trench warfare that it had to be disbanded on November 2, 1943. The survivors were integrated into Divisional Group 330, which fought in northern Ukraine. This was later completely destroyed on the Vistula bend.

structure

Changes in the structure of the 330th ID from 1941 to 1943
1941 1943
554th Infantry Regiment Grenadier Regiment 554
555th Infantry Regiment Grenadier Regiment 555
556 Infantry Regiment -
330 Artillery Regiment
Engineer Battalion 330
Panzerjäger detachment 330
Reconnaissance Division 330
Divisional News Section 330
Division Supply Leader 330

Commanders

Rank Surname period of service
Lieutenant General Karl Graf December 17, 1941 to January 5, 1942
Lieutenant General Edwin Graf von Rothkirch and Trach January 5, 1942 to June 22, 1943
Major general Georg Zwade June 22 to September 23, 1943
Lieutenant General Wilhelm Falley September 23 to October 5, 1943
Major general Hans Sauerbrey October 5 to December 8, 1943

Well-known members of the division

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 .

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