335th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)
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335th Infantry Division |
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| active | November 20, 1940 to October 9, 1944 |
| Country |
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| Armed forces | Wehrmacht |
| Armed forces | army |
| Type | Infantry Division |
| structure | See outline |
| Commanders | |
| list of | Commanders |
The 335th Infantry Division (335th ID) was a major military unit of the Wehrmacht .
Division history
The 335th Infantry Division was set up on November 20, 1940 as a division of the 14th wave of deployment in the Aalen area in Wehrkreis V. After training and security service in central France and Brittany , she was deployed in November 1942 in the Anton company against Vichy France . This was followed by occupation service and coastal protection in Marseille and Toulon until it was relocated to the southern section of the Eastern Front in January 1943.
There she was subordinated to Army Group South in the Ukraine and had operations in Voroshilovgrad , Stalino , Zaporozhye , Nikopol , Uman , Nikolajew and on the Bug. In May 1944, the 335th ID was replenished by members of the disbanded 5th Field Division . The 335th ID was destroyed in August 1944 during Operation Jassy-Kishinew together with the 6th Army and the Army Group South Ukraine in Chișinău / Romania . The official dissolution took place on October 9, 1944.
people
| period of service | Rank | Surname |
|---|---|---|
| November 15, 1940 to October 27, 1942 | Lieutenant General | Max Dennerlein |
| October 27, 1942 to September 7, 1943 | Lieutenant General | Karl Casper |
| September 7, 1943 to June 30, 1944 | Lieutenant General | Siegfried Rasp |
| June 30 to September 4, 1944 | Colonel | Franz-Eugen Brechtel |
| period of service | Rank | Surname |
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| unknown until October 1942 | Lieutenant colonel | Otto Schaal |
| November 1942 to July 25, 1944 | Lieutenant colonel | Edwin Steinitz |
| July 25 to August 24, 1944 | Lieutenant colonel | Josef Müller |
structure
| 1940 | 1942 | 1943-1944 |
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| 682nd Infantry Regiment | 682nd Grenadier Regiment | |
| 683rd Infantry Regiment | 683rd Grenadier Regiment | |
| 684th Infantry Regiment | 684th Grenadier Regiment | |
| - | Fast division 335 | Cycling Department 335 |
| - | - | Field Replacement Battalion 335 |
| 335th Artillery Regiment | 335th Artillery Regiment | 335th Artillery Regiment |
| Panzerjäger detachment 335 | - | Panzerjäger detachment 335 |
| Engineer Battalion 335 | ||
| News Company 335 | News Department 335 | |
| Supply units 335 | ||
- ↑ Formed on December 26, 1942, renamed to Reconnaissance Department 335 on April 1, 1943, and Fusilier Battalion 335 on November 1, 1943.
- ↑ with two departments.
- ↑ with three departments.
- ↑ in four departments, II. Department was on July 4, 1944 by III. Section / AR 150 replaced.
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 .
- Antonio Muñoz: Goering's Grenadiers: The Luftwaffe Field Divisions, 1942–1945. Europa Books Inc., 2002, ISBN 978-1-891227-40-0 .
- Hans Kissel : From the Dnieper to the Dniester. Withdrawal fighting of the 683 Grenadier Regiment (as part of the 335th Infantry Division) March 9 - April 12, 1944 . Rombach, Freiburg im Breisgau 1970.
- Hans Kissel : The catastrophe in Romania in 1944 . Wehr und Wissen Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Darmstadt 1964.
Web links
- 200th through 370th German Infantry, Security, and Panzer Grenadier Divisions. Organizations and Histories 1939-1945. ( Memento of February 10, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 461 kB), Nafziger Collection, Combined Armed Research Library.
