384th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)
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384th Infantry Division |
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 Troop registration |
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| active | January 10, 1942 to October 10, 1944 |
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| Armed forces | Wehrmacht |
| Armed forces | army |
| Type | Infantry Division |
| structure | See outline |
| Installation site | Königsbrück military training area |
| Second World War | War against the Soviet Union |
| Commanders | |
| list of | Commanders |
| insignia | |
| Troop registration number 2 |
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| Troop registration 3 |
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The 384th Infantry Division was a major military unit of the Wehrmacht in the German Reich .
history
The division was set up on January 10, 1942 at the Königsbrück military training area in Saxony as one of five so-called "Rheingold divisions" of the 18th wave of replacement troops from military districts IV, VIII and XVII.
The division was transferred to Army Group South on March 11, 1942 . In May 1942 she took part in the Battle of Kharkov . Then she took part in the advance from the Kharkov area over the Donets and Don near Kalatsch to Stalingrad .
The division went down with the 6th Army in January 1943 in the Stalingrad pocket . The division staff under Lieutenant General Freiherr von Gablenz and his Ia Lieutenant Colonel i. G. ( on the General Staff ) Adolf-Friedrich von Drabich-Waechter was flown out of the boiler in December 1942 and took over the reorganization from March 1943.
After being reorganized in the west, the division returned to the Eastern Front at the end of 1943. Destroyed again in the retreat fighting in Romania in August 1944 by Army Group South Ukraine , the division was also formally dissolved on October 9, 1944.
The leftovers were used to refresh the 76th Infantry Division in Hungary and to set up the 15th Infantry Division in the west.
Shelters and operational areas
| Period | Army Corps | army | Army Group | room |
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| January to March 1942 | in preparation | OKH | Koenigsbrück | |
| April 1942 | in feed | south | ||
| May 1942 | XXXXIV | 17th | Kharkov | |
| June 1942 | 1. Pz | Isjum | ||
| July 1942 | z. Vfg. | Donets | ||
| August to September 1942 | VIII | 6th | B. | Kalatsch on the Don |
| October to November 1942 | XI | Stalingrad | ||
| December 1942 | z. Vfg. | Don | ||
| January to February 1943 | VIII | |||
| April to May 1943 | in preparation | 15th | D. | France |
| July to September 1943 | XXV | 7th | France, Normandy | |
| October 1943 | z. Vfg. | 15th | France | |
| November to December 1943 | LII | 1. Pz | south | Krivoy Rog |
| January 1944 | 6th | Nikopol | ||
| February 1944 | 8th. | Dniester | ||
| March 1944 | 6th | A. | Uman | |
| April to August 1944 | XXX | Southern ukraine | Kishinev |
- ^ Staff at Mieth Group, Hollidt Army Department .
structure
- 534th Infantry Regiment
- 535th Infantry Regiment
- 536th Infantry Regiment
- 384th Artillery Regiment
- Field Replacement Battalion 384
- Panzerjäger detachment 384
- Reconnaissance Department 384
- Fusilier Battalion 384
- Engineer Battalion 384
- News Department 384
- Division Supply Leader 384 with
- Kraftw.Werkst.Kp. 384
- Catering Office 384
- Bakery Company 384
- Butchery Company 384
- Medical company 384
- Ambulance train 384
- Feldgendarmerie-Troop 384
In June 1943 the division handed over the II./Grenadier-Regiment 536 as a personnel contribution to the 9th Panzer Division; it was replaced; the II ./534 was dissolved and the III. Battalion replaced; the I./536 became Divisions-Fusilier-Bataillon 384 and by the III. Battalion replaced; III./535, the reconnaissance department and III./Artillerie-Regiment 384 remained as combat group on the Channel Coast in the west and were on November 25, 1943 as Grenadier Regiment 911, Fusilier Battalion 349 and III. and IV./Artillerie-Regiment 349 related to the formation of the 349th Infantry Division (21st wave). Until its dissolution, the division consisted of:
- Grenadier Regiment 534 with 1st and 2nd Battalion
- Grenadier Regiment 535 with 1st and 2nd Battalion
- Grenadier Regiment 536 with 1st and 2nd Battalion
- Division Fusilier Battalion 384
- Artillery Regiment 384 with I.–IV. Department
- Reconnaissance Department 384
- Panzerjäger detachment 384
- Engineer Battalion 384
- News Department 384
- Medical Department 384
- Field Replacement Battalion 384
Commanders
| Rank | Surname | Period |
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| Major general | Kurt Hoffmann | January 10 to February 13, 1942 |
| Lieutenant General | Eccard Freiherr von Gablenz | February 13, 1942 to January 16, 1943 |
| Major general | Hans Doerr | 16.-31. January 1943 |
| Major general | Hans Doerr | 17.-24. February 1943 |
| Lieutenant General | Hans de Salengre-Drabbe | February 24, 1943 to August 25, 1944 (fallen) |
Web links
- A cine film from 1942 has been preserved about the 384th ID, cf. Conference report “Staged Truth”. The war in the picture / pictures of the war. October 12, 2001 to October 13, 2001, Hamburg. In: H-Soz-u-Kult, October 26, 2001, online .
- Organizational History of 371st through 719th German Infantry, Security and Panzer Grenadier Divisions 1939–1945 (PDF; 394 kB), Nafziger Collection, Combined Armed Research Library.
literature
- Georg Tessin : Associations and troops of the German Wehrmacht and Waffen SS in World War II 1939–1945 . tape 10 . The Land Forces 371-500 . Biblio-Verlag, Bissendorf 1975, ISBN 3-7648-1002-5 , p. 34 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
- Karl Lang, History of the 384th Infantry Division 1942–1944 , self-published, 2nd edition 1982.
