332nd Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)
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332nd Infantry Division |
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 Troop registration |
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| active | November 15, 1940 to September 3, 1943 |
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| Armed forces | Wehrmacht |
| Armed forces | army |
| Type | Infantry division |
| structure | See outline |
| Installation site | Guestrow |
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| list of | Commanders |
The 332nd Infantry Division was a major unit of the army of the German Wehrmacht during World War II .
Division history
The division was set up on November 15, 1940 as part of the 14th wave of deployment in Güstrow in Wehrkreis II (Stettin) . From the summer of 1941 she was stationed as part of the 7th Army in Brittany in occupied France . Even after being assigned to the 15th Army, she remained in northern France on the English Channel until winter 1942/43 . Then she was moved to the Eastern Front to Army Group South . In the summer of 1943 she fought in the Kharkov area . In July, she took the 4th Panzer Army on Operation Citadel part. Last used at Poltava , the division was disbanded in September 1943.
Part of the remaining team was integrated into the 576 Infantry Division with the retained designation Grenadier Regiment 676 , including the former division commander Trowitz. The other, larger part was initially placed under the 255th Infantry Division . However, this suffered heavy losses within a few weeks, so was incorporated into Corps Department B and ended up with this in the pocket near Cherkassy .
people
| period of service | Rank | Surname |
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| November 14, 1940 to August 6, 1941 | Lieutenant General | Heinrich Recke |
| August 6, 1941 to December 17, 1942 | Lieutenant General | Hans Kessel |
| December 17, 1942 to January 1, 1943 | General of the Infantry | Walter Melzer |
| January 1 to June 5, 1943 | Lieutenant General | Hans Schäfer |
| June 5, 1943 pending dissolution | Major general | Adolf Trowitz |
structure
- 676th Infantry Regiment
- 677th Infantry Regiment
- 678th Infantry Regiment
- 332nd Artillery Regiment
- Engineer Battalion 332
- Field Replacement Battalion 332
- Cycling Department 332
- Panzerjäger detachment 332
- News Department 332
- Supply Troops 332
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 .
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.
