333rd Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)
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333rd Infantry Division |
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 Troop registration |
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| active | November 15, 1940 to November 2, 1943 |
| Country |
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| Armed forces | Wehrmacht |
| Armed forces | army |
| Type | Infantry division |
| structure | See outline |
| Installation site | Berlin and Brandenburg |
| Commanders | |
| list of | Commanders |
The 333rd Infantry Division was a major unit of the army of the German Wehrmacht during World War II .
Division history
The 333rd Infantry Division was set up in November 1940 in Military District III in Berlin and Brandenburg as a native division of the 14th wave of deployment . She served as an occupation force in France for a while . At the end of October 1942, the unit was converted into a field-ready attack division and relocated to the Eastern Front, where it was subordinated to Army Group South . She struggled with the XXXX. Panzer Corps of the 1st Panzer Army near Donetsk and Isjum , in October 1943 the retreat to Zaporozhye on the Dnepr . After continuing fighting in the Ukraine, the 333rd Infantry Division had to be disbanded in November 1943. The remnants were divided between divisional group 333 and the 278th and 294th infantry divisions .
people
| period of service | Rank | Surname |
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| November 15, 1940 to December 10, 1942 | Lieutenant General | Rudolf Pilz |
| December 10, 1942 to March 22, 1943 | Major general | Gerhard Graßmann |
| March 22 to July 1, 1943 | Lieutenant General | Rudolf von Tschudi |
| 1-10 July 1943 | Major general | Wilhelm Crisolli |
| July 10, 1943 until dissolution | Lieutenant General | Erwin Menny |
structure
- 679th Infantry Regiment
- 680 Infantry Regiment
- 681st Infantry Regiment
- 333rd Artillery Regiment
- Engineer Battalion 333
- Field Replacement Battalion 333
- Panzerjäger detachment 333
- Reconnaissance Department 333
- News Department 333
- Resupply Troops 333
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.
Notes and individual references
- ↑ Division of war on the Eastern Front on July 7, 1943 before the tank battle of Kursk at http://weltkrieg2.de/Geschichte/Kriegsgliederungen/Wehrmacht/Kriegsgliederung-07-Juli-1943.htm
