330th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)
330th Infantry Division |
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active | December 19, 1941 to November 2, 1943 |
Country | 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
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
1941 | 1943 |
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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 |
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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
- Karl Schnell (1916–2008) was quartermaster of the division and from 1977 to 1980 State Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Defense
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 .
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.