34th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)

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34th Infantry Division

Division badge of the 34th Infantry Division


Troop registration
active April 1, 1936 to the end of April 1945
Country German Reich NSGerman Reich (Nazi era) German Empire
Armed forces Wehrmacht
Armed forces army
Type Infantry Division
structure See outline
garrison Koblenz
Second World War Western campaign
war against the Soviet Union
Italian campaign
Commanders
list of Commanders

The 34th Infantry Division was a major unit of the Army of the German Wehrmacht .

history

The division was set up in the Falckenstein barracks in Koblenz in military district XII in April 1936 and mobilized in August 1939 as part of the first wave of deployment . She took up defense positions in the Saar Palatinate and took part in the campaign in the west from there .

In June 1941 she was involved in the attack on the Soviet Union in association with Army Group Center and was involved in combat operations almost continuously for the next three years. After heavy losses in the environment of Cherkassy boiler at Gniloy Tikich (Гнилой Тикич) south of Zhashkiv and battles to Uman the 34th ID had in May 1944 by the Shadow Division Neuhammer (26th wave) are filled. In July 1944 she was transferred to the Zangen Army Division in Italy , where she surrendered in April 1945.

people

Commanders

period of service Rank Surname
April 1, 1936 to October 1, 1937 Lieutenant General Erich Lüdke
October 1, 1937 to March 1, 1938 Lieutenant General Max von Viebahn
March 1, 1938 to April 1, 1939 Lieutenant General Friedrich Bremer
July 19, 1939 to May 10, 1940 Lieutenant General Hans Behlendorff
May 11 to November 1, 1940 Major general Werner Sanne
November 1, 1940 to October 18, 1941 Lieutenant General Hans Behlendorff
October 18, 1941 to September 5, 1942 Lieutenant General Friedrich Prince
September 5 to November 2, 1942 Lieutenant General Theodor Scherer
November 2 to December 31, 1942 Colonel Friedrich Hochbaum (in charge of the tour)
January 1, 1943 to May 31, 1944 Major General / Lieutenant General Friedrich Hochbaum
May 31, 1944 to 1945 Lieutenant General Theobald Lieb
1945 Colonel Ferdinand Hippel

Prominent relatives

  • Ernst Hollstein , dendrochronologist, served in the 80th Infantry Regiment.

structure

1939 1942 1943-1944
80th Infantry Regiment Grenadier Regiment 80
107th Infantry Regiment Grenadier Regiment 107
253rd Infantry Regiment Grenadier Regiment 253
Artillery Regiment 34
Engineer Battalion 34
Anti-tank department 34 Panzerjäger detachment 34
News Department 34
Reconnaissance Department 34 Cycling Department 34 Fusilier Battalion 34
Observation Department 34 -
Field Replacement Battalion 34
Infantry Division Supply Leader 34

The artillery regiment 1 consisted of the I. – III. Division and the 1st / Artillery Regiment 70.

literature

  • Jean-Loup Gassend: Operation Dragoon: Autopsy of a Battle: The Allied Liberation of the French Riviera • August-September 1944. Schiffer, Atglen 2014, ISBN 978-0-7643-4580-7 .
  • Heinz Schulz: 34th Infantry Division: Operations and Combat Overview 1939 - 1945. Dieckmann, Baden-Baden 1954.
  • Georg Tessin : Associations and troops of the German Wehrmacht and Waffen SS in World War II 1939–1945 . 2nd Edition. tape 5 . The Land Forces 31-70 . Biblio-Verlag, Bissendorf 1977, ISBN 3-7648-1107-2 . P. 35 f.

Remarks

  1. wounded in battle
  2. ↑ released in December 1939 by the army

Individual evidence