337th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)
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337th Infantry Division |
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| active | November 16, 1940 to July 1944 |
| Country |
.svg){kind=small} German Empire
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| Armed forces | Wehrmacht |
| Armed forces | army |
| Type | Infantry division |
| structure | See outline |
| Installation site | Kempten (Allgäu) |
| commander | |
| list of | Commanders |
The 337th Infantry Division was a major unit of the Army of the German Wehrmacht in World War II .
Division history
The 337th Infantry Division was deployed on November 16, 1940 as a division of the 14th wave of deployment in Kempten in military district VII . Until July 1942, the division was an occupying force in Brittany and was then transferred to the Eastern Front. The Army Group Center assumed she struggled to January 1943, the 9th Army in the Battle of Rzhev east of Sychyovka . In the spring of 1943 she took part in the Buffalo Movement operation when the Rzhev front arch was withdrawn. It withdrew to the Dachau position and was assigned a section at Dorogobusch on the Vyazma - Smolensk taxiway . With increasing pressure from the Red Army, she took up the panther position. With the retreating 4th Army she was then in action at Jelnja , Smolensk and Orsha . In November 1943 it was reinforced with division group 113 . In July 1944, the division was completely destroyed in the Soviet summer offensive after crossing the Berezina in the Mogilew area . The division commander, Lieutenant General Schünemann, fell. Survivors were incorporated into division group 337, which in turn was subordinate to Corps division G. In April 15, 1945 an attempt was made to reorganize in Danzig as the 337th People's Grenadier Division .
people
| period of service | Rank | Surname |
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| November 15, 1940 to May 2, 1941 | Lieutenant General | Karl Spang |
| May 2, 1941 to March 15, 1942 | Lieutenant General | Kurt Pflieger |
| March 15 to September 20, 1942 | General of the artillery | Erich Marcks |
| September 20, 1942 to December 27, 1943 | Lieutenant General | Otto Schünemann |
| December 27, 1943 to February 1, 1944 | Lieutenant General | Walter Scheller |
| February 1 to June 29, 1944 | Lieutenant General | Otto Schünemann |
Outline (1944)
- Grenadier Regiment 313
- 688th Grenadier Regiment
- Grenadier Regiment 690 (disbanded March 28, 1944)
- Division group 113 (from November 2, 1943 to July 1944 under the 337th ID)
- Fusilier Battalion 337
- 337th Artillery Regiment
- Engineer Battalion 337
- Panzerjäger detachment 337
- News Department 337
- Field Replacement Battalion 337
- Supply units 337
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 .
- Working group of former 313s: The history of a regiment 1939–1945.
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.
Individual evidence
- ↑ ( page no longer available , search in web archives )
