376th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)

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376th Infantry Division

376th Infantry Division Logo.svg

Troop registration
active March 21, 1942 to August 1944
Country German Reich NSGerman Reich (Nazi era) German Empire
Armed forces Wehrmacht
Armed forces army
Type Infantry division
structure See outline
Commanders
list of Commanders

The 376th Infantry Division was a major unit of the army of the German Wehrmacht during World War II .

Division history

The 376 ID was deployed as a division of the 19th wave of deployment on March 21, 1942 in Angoulême in occupied France . In June 1942 she was transferred to the Eastern Front to Army Group South and fought near Kharkov . As part of the Blau case , the 376th Infantry Division marched from the Donbogen to Stalingrad in August 1942 . In the 6th Army she was the XI. Subordinate to Army Corps and on September 14, 1942 already had the following wear and tear in combat strength: seven infantry battalions, six of which were average strength and one was weak, engineer battalion with average combat strength.

On November 1, 1942, there were 158 officers, 1,125 non-commissioned officers and 5,007 men’s ranks, with a total of 6,206 men. The losses in October 1942 amounted to 158 people. She surrendered together with the 6th Army in the Stalingrad pocket on January 31, 1943.

In April 1943 the association was reorganized in the Netherlands with recruits and convalescents and returned to the 8th Army on the Eastern Front in November 1943 . In February 1944 it was reinforced by the incorporation of division group 167 . In the summer of 1944 she had to withdraw with the Army Group South Ukraine as far as Romania , until she was destroyed in August 1944 as a result of the Operation Jassy-Kishinew of the Red Army near Jassy . The survivors were assigned to the 15th ID and 76th ID .

people

Division commanders of the 376th ID
period of service Rank Surname
April 1, 1942 to April 1, 1943 Lieutenant General Alexander of Daniels
April 1 to December 11, 1943 Lieutenant General Arnold Szelinski
December 11, 1943 until unknown Lieutenant General Otto Schwarz
General Staff officers (Ia) of 376 ID
period of service Rank Surname
April 1 to August 21, 1942 major Heinrich Bussmann
August 21, 1942 to March 5, 1944 Lieutenant colonel Horst Wilutzky
March 5 to August 15, 1944 major Philipp Heinz
August 15, 1944 until 376 ID was destroyed in August 1944 major Ralf Bucher

structure

Changes in the structure of the 376th ID from 1942 to 1944
1942 January - July 1944 August 1944
672nd Grenadier Regiment
673rd Grenadier Regiment
Grenadier Regiment 767 -
- Divisional Group 167 Grenadier Regiment 315
- Fusilier Battalion 376
- Field Replacement Battalion 376
376th Artillery Regiment 376th Artillery Regiment 376th Artillery Regiment
Panzerjäger detachment 376
Engineer Battalion 376
News Department 376
Supply units 376

literature

  • Georg Tessin : Associations and troops of the German Wehrmacht and Waffen SS in World War II 1939–1945, Volume 10: The land forces. No. 371-500. Osnabrück 1975. VI, 308 pages. ISBN 3-7648-1002-5 .

Web links

Notes and individual references

  1. ↑ 400–500 strong
  2. ↑ 300–400 strong
  3. ↑ 300–400 strong
  4. ↑ flown out of the Stalingrad pocket
  5. ↑ dissolved on January 31, 1944
  6. ↑ from February 1 to July 27, 1944 subordinated to 376 ID; Renamed the GR 315 on July 27, 1944
  7. ↑ in four sections
  8. ↑ I. and II. Dept. AR 376, II. Dept./AR 238 and I. Dept./AR 40
  9. ↑ with four departments
  1. ↑ David M. Glantz: Armageddon in Stalingrad: September-November 1942 (The Stalingrad Trilogy, Volume 2). University of Kansas Press, Lawrence 2009, p. 137
  2. ↑ David M. Glantz: Armageddon in Stalingrad: September-November 1942 (The Stalingrad Trilogy, Volume 2). University of Kansas Press, Lawrence 2009, p. 662
  3. ↑ http://www.diedeutschewehrmacht.de/376%20inf%20div.htm