345th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)

345th Motorized Infantry Division
active	November 24, 1942 to March 1, 1943
Country	German Empire
Armed forces	Wehrmacht
Armed forces	army
Branch of service	infantry
Type	Infantry Division
structure	structure
Installation site	Wildflecken military training area

The 345th Motorized Infantry Division was a short-term motorized infantry division in World War II .

Division history

The division was set up on November 24, 1942 at the Wildflecken military training area in military district IX . The personnel was provided by the military districts V , VI , IX and XII . In January 1943, the 345th Motorized Infantry Division moved to the Commander-in-Chief West in France for further deployment . By order of February 11, 1943, it was then used to re-establish the 29th Infantry Division (motorized) , which had gone down with the 6th Army in Stalingrad shortly before . On March 1, 1943, the name was changed to 29th Infantry Division (motorized). All regiments and divisional units adopted the numbers of their predecessors there. On June 23, 1943, it was renamed the 29th Panzer Grenadier Division and from July 1943 to May 1945 it was used in combat, exclusively in Italy .

structure

• Motorized Grenadier Regiment 148
• Panzer Grenadier Regiment 152 (both 3 battalions each)
• Artillery Regiment 345 (only 2 divisions)
• Panzer Division 345
• Motorcycle Battalion 345
• Engineer Battalion 345
• News Department 345 and Supply Units 345.

literature

• Georg Tessin : Associations and troops of the German Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS 1939–1945. Volume 9, pages 237-238, Osnabrück 1974 and Volume 4, pages 273-274, Frankfurt 1974

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Georg Tessin: Associations and Troops of the German Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS 1939–1945 Volume 9. P. 237