371st Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)
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371st Infantry Division |
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 Troop identification, " The coat of arms " |
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| active | February 17, 1942 to May 8, 1945 (total capitulation) |
| Country |
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| Armed forces | Wehrmacht |
| Armed forces | army |
| Type | Infantry Division |
| structure | See outline |
| Installation site | Beverloo ( Belgium ) |
| Nickname | Ear division |
| Second World War | War against the Soviet Union |
| Commanders | |
| list of | Commanders |
| insignia | |
| pennant |
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| Troop registration number 2 |
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The 371st Infantry Division was a major unit of the German Wehrmacht that was set up in February 1942.
history
The so-called Ähren Division was set up as a division of the 19th wave of deployment on February 17, 1942 at the Beverloo military training area in Belgium by the AOK 15 and assigned to Military District Command VI based in Münster . The list was completed on June 1, 1942. The area of operation was initially southern Russia. The division was subordinated to the 6th Army (IV Army Corps) in December 1942 (previously 2nd Panzer Army ) and, as part of it, was enclosed in the Stalingrad pocket and destroyed in January 1943.
The division was re-established on February 17, 1943 in Brittany from recovered and replacement troops on the orders of Army High Command 7, initially with combat group strength, and from June 9, 1943 again with full division strength.
The division was then initially entrusted with coastal protection tasks in Italy and relocated again to the east, to Croatia in December 1943. From there it went to northern Ukraine, Poland and Upper Silesia.
At the end of the war, the division was taken prisoner by the Soviets near Iglau - Deutsch-Brod / Moravia , today's Havlíčkův Brod .
Commanders
- Lieutenant General Richard Stempel - April 1, 1942 to April 1, 1943
- Lieutenant General Hermann Niehoff - April 1, 1943 to June 10, 1944
- Major General Hans-Joachim Baurmeister - June 10th to July 10th, 1944
- Lieutenant General Hermann Niehoff - July 10, 1944 to March 2, 1945
- Major General Rolf Scherenberg - March 2, 1945 until surrender
structure
- Infantry Regiment 669 (from October 15, 1942 Grenadier Regiment 669)
- Infantry Regiment 670 (from October 15, 1942 Grenadier Regiment 670)
- Infantry Regiment 671 (from October 15, 1942 Grenadier Regiment 671)
- Div.-Feet-Btl. 371 (from November 5, 1943)
- Artillery Regiment 371
- Engineer Battalion 371
- Infantry Division News Department 371
- 371 Infantry Division Supply Squad
- Div.-Supply-Reg. 371 (from January 1, 1945)
- Panzerjäger detachment 371
- Field Replacement Battalion 371 (from April 1, 1942)
- Reconnaissance Department 371 (until November 5, 1943)
- Motor vehicle workshop company 371
- Catering Office 371
- Baker Company 371
- Veterinary Company 371 (disbanded January 11, 1943)
- Medical Services 371
- Ambulance train 371
- Military Police Squad 371
- Administrative Services 371
Web links
- Organizational History of 371st through 719th German Infantry, Security and Panzer Grenadier Divisions 1939–1945 (PDF; 394 kB), Nafziger Collection, Combined Armed Research Library.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Cf. Georg Tessin : Associations and troops of the German Wehrmacht and Waffen SS in the Second World War 1939–1945 . tape 10 . The Land Forces 371-500 . Biblio-Verlag, Bissendorf 1975, ISBN 3-7648-1002-5 , p. 1 f . ( limited preview in Google Book search).
