391st Security Division (Wehrmacht)
The 391st Security Division eg V. , later division staff eg V. 391 , was a German infantry division in World War II .
Division history
The division was set up on March 23, 1944 by renaming the staff of the 391st Field Training Division near Vitebsk for the Army Group Center, which was in the process of being dissolved. The division was given the addition for special use .
During the entire war, the division was mainly used in East Prussia for security tasks in the rear army area, first with Army Group Center and then from October 1944 with Army Group A , and only used for front-line operations towards the end of the war. From February 1945 the division was led as a divisional staff eg V. 391 , now with the 9th Army , and deployed on the Oder . In April 1945 the division staff was to be replaced by the staff of the 337th Infantry Division from Danzig , but the division was taken prisoner by the Soviets in the Halbe pocket .
structure
- Grenadier Regiment 95 with alarm battalions 61 to 64
- Fahnenjunker Regiment 1233
- Artillery Regimental Staff 391
- Supply Regiment 391
Commanders
- Lieutenant General Albrecht Baron Digeon von Monteton : from formation until September 5, 1944, former commander of the 391st Field Training Division
- Major General Rudolf Sieckenius : from September 5, 1944 to February 1945
- Lieutenant General Alexander Goeschen : February 1945
- Major General Rudolf Sieckenius: March to April 28, 1945
literature
- Samuel W. Mitcham (2007). German Order of Battle. Volume Two: 291st - 999th Infantry Divisions, Named Infantry Divisions, and Special Divisions in WWII. PA; United States of America: Stackpole Books. ISBN 978-0-8117-3437-0 , p. 95.
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.
- 91st field training division / 391st security division zbV on EHRI portal from the Federal Archives
