14th Panzer Division (Wehrmacht)

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4th Infantry Division
14th Panzer Division

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active October 1934 to January 1943 and March 1943 to April 1945
Country German Reich NSGerman Reich (Nazi era) German Empire
Armed forces Wehrmacht
Armed forces army
Branch of service Armored force
Type Panzer Division
structure structure
garrison Dresden
Second World War Attack on Poland
Western campaign
German-Soviet war
Battle of Kharkov
Braunschweig company
Battle for Stalingrad
Defense against the Dnieper-Carpathian operation
Defense against the Lviv-Sandomierz operation
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The 14th Panzer Division (14th PD) was a major unit of the German Wehrmacht in World War II .

history

1934-1938

The division was set up under the code name Artillerieführer IV in October 1934 in Albertstadt , a district of Dresden . After the proclamation of military sovereignty in 1935, the association received its official designation 4th  Infantry Division on October 15 . Parts of the division were stationed 50 km east of Cologne and when the Rhineland was militarized in March 1936, they marched over the Rhine bridges into the western part of the Rhineland.

4th light infantry division 1939–1940

The 4th light infantry division took part in the attack on Poland and crossed the Polish border east of the town of Guttentag in Upper Silesia on September 1, 1939 . As part of the 10th Army, assigned to the IV Army Corps , the Polish fortifications at Lubliniec were breached. The advance took place in the area south of Czestochowa over the Warta through the small towns of Janow and Włoszczowa on Kielce , then in the south of the Łysa Góra Mountains past their eastern foothills via Opatów to the Vistula . During the fighting with declining units of the Polish army, the division occupied the city of Krasnik and reached the Wieprz river near Krasnystaw on September 18 . After the victory parade in the Lublin area , the division took positions on October 11 at Włodawa on the western bank of the Bug . After the detachment, the march back via Lublin to the Radom area , where she was loaded for home leave in early November and transported to Cologne . In January 1940 the division was barracked between Olpe and Gummersbach , where the personnel received further military training.

At the beginning of May 1940 the division crossed the Rhine and took up position for the western campaign in the Prüm area in the Eifel . The 4th Division initially served the 4th Army as a reserve and followed in southern Belgium via St. Vith - Houffalize - Bastogne - Rochefort. After crossing the Meuse , the advance took place via Chimay - Hirson and Saint-Quentin to Peronne on the Somme . Mobile units penetrated to the south of Dunkirk until the stop order from Berlin and the shortage of fuel forced the motorized units to take a break. The 4th Division only got into the first heavy fighting after the Somme crossing in the area of ​​the 6th Army . On June 6, the Division broke through at Marchélepot the Weygand Line , reached on 10 June, the Oise southwest of Compiegne and crossed the Marne in space Meaux. On June 17 and 18, 1940, the Loire Bridge was restored at Orléans and the advance continued on Romorantin on the Cher section, where on June 21, news of the armistice put an end to the war. In August 1940 the 4th light division was on the military training areas Königsbrück and Milowitz to be reclassified into the 14th Panzer Division .

1941-1943

Tanks of the 14th Division with the troop registration, the Othala rune , in the Ukraine in the summer of 1942

From March 1941 the division moved to Hungary . After a short assignment with the 2nd Army in the Balkan campaign in the association of the XXXXVI. Army Corps , the division joined Army Group South on the Volhynian border . In the association of the III. Army Corps of Panzer Group 1 took part in the Russian campaign from June 22nd . It formed a bridgehead over the Western Bug at Ustilug and occupied Vladimir Volynsk . After the Ikwa crossing, she also fell into the hands of Rovno in cooperation with the 13th Panzer Division . In July 1941 the breakthrough came via Schepetowka on Fastow . After the further advance to the Dnieper near Dnjepropetrovsk , the intervention in the kettle battle of Kiev took place at the beginning of September from the south via the bridgehead near Kremenchug . In October the division crossed the Don near Rostov and in December the Mius . At the beginning of 1942 she was near Kharkov , where she fought in the Battle of Kharkov in May . In August of that year she was assigned to Army Group B and the 6th Army . With this she was then destroyed in the Battle of Stalingrad in January 1943.

Stalingrad campaign

Battle for the suburbs
Tank of the 14th Division with the Othala rune emblem in Russia in 1942

The 14th Panzer Division was subordinate to the 4th Panzer Army under Colonel General Hermann Hoth and marched from the south towards Stalingrad . The division commander at the time was Lieutenant General Ferdinand Heim . On September 3, 1942, the 14th PD set out east of the Voroponovo train station on the attack sector in the direction of the village and against the defense lines of the Soviet 33rd Guards Rifle Division south of the Tsaritsa. The first advances of the 14th PD and 29th Infantry Division (motorized) were stopped by the 64th Soviet Army near Peschanka by intensive fire from Katyusha rocket launchers and Soviet attack aircraft on the night of September 4th to 5th, 1942 . Mortar hits caused great losses among the tank grenadiers who took cover in foxholes . On September 7, 1942, the associations of the XXXXVIII. Panzer Corps (14th PD, 24th PD and 29th Motorized Infantry Division ) to be regrouped under General of the Panzer Force Werner Kempf . On September 8, 1942, new fierce battles developed between the 14th PD and the Soviet 131st SD and the 33rd GSD in the Voroponowo and Pestschanka area. The Soviet troops stated that they had destroyed 18 German battle tanks. The Soviet troops were driven out of Pelschanke, but formed a new line of defense between Elschanka and Kuperosnoe. Furthermore, a mixed combat group from the 14th PD and the 29th Motorized Infantry Division smashed the 131st SD at the Goriana Poliana collective farm south of the suburb of Minnina. On September 12, 1942, the struggle for the Stalingrad suburbs reached its climax and the 14th PD was able to penetrate the positions of the Red Army at Elschanka and Kuporosnoe. It was not until September 16, 1942 that the positions could be broken up and the remnants of the Soviet 64th Army had to retreat northwards. Tank squadrons of the 14th PD supported the 29th Motorized Infantry Division in the heavy fighting around the sawmill and the Eletroles power station in the southern town of Stalingrad. On September 14, 1942, the 14th PD had a combat strength of four medium-strength (500-700 men) infantry battalions and an average (300-400) engineer battalion.

Use in the Stalingrad Lake District

On September 29, 1942, the 14th PD was withdrawn from the southern section, regrouped after a one-week rest period and was then supposed to take Astrakhan on the lower Volga , but this was not realized. Since a Soviet counter-offensive on the lake region 60 to 75 kilometers south of Stalingrad began from September 29th to 30th, 1942, the 14th PD and 29th Motorized Infantry Division were ordered from their areas of disposal in order to intervene in a localized manner. They managed to stabilize the front line.

Tractor factory

On October 13, 1942, the eve of the major attack on the Stalingrad tractor works , the 14th PD had to intervene with their 50 remaining battle tanks in the fighting for the Stalingrad industrial complexes in the northern part of the city; for this purpose they were assigned to the LI. Army Corps subordinated. The 14th PD (103rd and 108th Panzer Grenadier Regiment) was deployed within the Jaenicke group 400 to 800 meters northeast of the folder and was supposed to cross the railway lines and the Zhitomirsk-Balka and then break into the northern and central section of the tractor factory. The major attack began on October 14, 1942 at 7:30 a.m. after a large-scale bombing and artillery raid. With the help of the tanks, the 14th PD managed to penetrate the southern sector of the tractor plant and to unite with the Schulte combat group there. The violent advance of the Germans brought their combat units up to 300 meters from General Chuikov's army command post. According to estimates by the Red Army, 3,000 German and 10,000 Soviet soldiers fell during the attack on the tractor plant; Wehrmacht reports, however, state that there were 538 losses of German soldiers on October 14, 1942. The 14th PD only lost one of its 50 remaining tanks. On October 15, 1942, the fighting continued with undiminished severity. Although Chuikov lost around 50% of his defense strength in the tractor factory sector, numerous small groups of Red Army soldiers and armed workers continued to fight in the destroyed factory buildings. Parts of the Panzergrenadier Regiment 103 reached the Volga and had to dig in the vicinity of the oil tanks after nocturnal firefights. In reports of the OKW this was already rated as a resounding success.

“In Stalingrad, German tanks roll over fields of rubble, fighting the bunkers hidden in cellars and crushing the barricades made of rubble and broken iron girders as they advance against fortress-like factories. Where the troops can no longer lock up during the day, they continue their advances in the course of the night under the ghostly light of numerous flares against the Bolsheviks hidden deep in the shadows. The enemy defends himself desperately. Our tanks, and with them the bombs from the fighter planes, keep opening the storm lanes for the infantry who, according to reports from the OKW, stormed further blocks on October 7th. "

- Berliner Lokal-Anzeiger from October 9, 1942

The fighting in the Stalingrad industrial district was the bloodiest and most costly encounters during the entire Stalingrad Battle.

Gun factory "Barricades"

After the spectacular successes in the tractor factory, on October 16, 1942, Paulus ordered the combat groups of the LI. Army corps to be regrouped to destroy the Soviet positions north of the “Barricades” gun factory. For this purpose, the 14th PD had to move further south to the zone around the stadium and Sculpturnaya Street. The tank grenadiers were at the time opposite the railway line and Tramwainaya Street. The PzGren Regiment 108 was initially held in reserve. In the early hours of the morning a heavy tank battle developed west of Tramwainaya Street with camouflaged T-34 tanks of the Soviet 84th Panzer Brigade. Katyusha rocket launchers prevented the break-in by German storm troops. By noon, 16 Soviet tanks were destroyed and 17 Germans on the side of the 14th PD. The order was to take half of the “Barricades” gun factory by noon. Around 4 p.m., the central factory street was taken by “Barrikady”. On the night of October 16-17, 1942 regrouping took place again; The 108th Panzer Grenadier Regiment together with the 64th Motorcyclist Battalion received the Skulpturny Park and the Balka around Kaluschskaja Street as an operational area, the 103rd Panzer Grenadier Regiment received Tramwainaja Street. For this purpose, the Panzer Grenadier Regiment 108 was subordinated to the 24th Panzer Division. The aim was to include Soviet associations in the Skulpturny Park and in the Sormosk district. After achieving the objectives, the 108 Panzer Grenadier Regiment was to be returned to the 14th PD. Only one tank squadron with only five tanks under Lieutenant Hans W. Messerschmidt could be made available to support the Panzer Grenadiers. In the morning hours of October 17, 1942, the 14th PD destroyed the defense line of the Soviet 138th SD and was able to separate two rifle regiments. The railway connection in the southwest of the gun factory was reached around noon. The western shock wedge with the 108th Panzer Grenadier Regiment also reached the target area without major resistance. The heaviest fighting developed with the trapped units in the trenches, foxholes and earth bunkers in the Skulpturny Park, which lasted for three days. In the course of the completely chaotic and confusing battles, the 103rd Panzer Grenadier Regiment was able to establish itself in the southwest sector of "Barrikady". At the end of October 17, 1942, the 14th PD had only 19 operational battle tanks left. On October 18, 1942, the 305th Infantry Division, together with the remaining tanks of the 14th PD, continued their clean-ups in the depths of the “Barricades” gun factory, which resulted in extremely brutal battles with Soviet riflemen and engineers in the crevices, rooms and collapsed factory halls expanded. The closer they got to the Volga, the more intense and precise the Soviet artillery fire became. The fighting against the 308th SD in the Somorsk district also continued. The protracted and extremely tough battles prevented the achievement of the daily objectives. The 95th SD was able to hold the bread factory and the Balkas southeast of “Barrikady”.

Chuikov described the severity of the fighting on October 18:

“We felt not only that our own ranks were thinning out and our strength dwindling, but that the enemy could not continue his insane attacks indefinitely. They will drown in their own blood. The opponent's material reserves are also exhausted. The Air Force has reduced its attack flights from three thousand to one thousand a day. Despite the enormous losses, Paul does not give up his plan to take the city. Some inexplicable forces drive the enemy to keep attacking. Fresh tank and infantry units appear and, regardless of their losses, roll forward against the Volga. It seems as if Hitler is ready to sacrifice all of Germany for a single city. But the Germans were no longer what they used to be. Even the fresh troops and reinforcements were aware of the importance of the Battle of Stalingrad. "

Bread factory

Heavy rains from October 19 to October 22, 1942 led to a reduction in major operational activities. Heim's 14th PD received the order to conquer the bread factory in the south of "Barrikady" and its multi-storey key building. In the meantime, the combat strength of the regiments had sunk to battalion level with a maximum of 1500 to 2000 soldiers. On October 19, 1942, the 14th PD had only eleven tanks left. The combat strength of the four infantry regiments was medium-strong (500-700 men). As a prerequisite for the attack on the steel mill "Red October", the reinforced Jäger Regiment should take 54 heavily fortified enemy defense nodes on October 21, 1942 and deal with the 14. Unite PD at the railway line. One destination of this company was the canteen on the corner of Kommunalnaja and Kizliarskaya Streets in the south of Kazakhstan, two blocks north of the railway line and 600 meters northwest of the “Red October” steelworks. The canteen was defended by the Soviet 1st Battalion of the 685th SD (193rd SD) against three infantry companies of the "Weber" group. This skirmish dragged on for a whole day and caused 20 dead and 131 wounded; in addition, seven out of ten tanks in the Schulte group were destroyed when they tried to break into a Soviet minefield. When planning the attack on the “Red October” steelworks on October 23, 1942, the forces of the 14th PD (a total of three combat groups from Panzergrenadier Regiment 103, Panzergrenadier Regiment 108, Panzer Regiment 36 with twelve tanks and Motorcyclist Battalion 64) received the order to break into the railway line northwest of the bread factory and to take the “high-rise” in the middle of grid square 72a, after which they should advance through the Balkas to the Volga. The result of this operation was a gain of 100 meters of land and almost the destruction of the Soviet 347th SR, then the German attack collapsed. The resistance of the Soviet 193rd SD prevented the unification of the 14th PD with the 79th ID. On October 25th, the LI. Army corps ordered to repeat this attack with the same goals. The division boundary between the 14th PD and the 79th ID was on Zentralnaja Strasse between the two factory complexes. The 64th Motorcycle Battalion again advanced against the Soviet positions of the 161st SR / 95th SD, while the two Panzergrenadier regiments tried in vain to destroy two rifle regiments of the Soviet 308th SD in the Balkas around Stalnaya Street . Oppenländer said in the meantime that his 305th Infantry Division was no longer able to carry out major operations and had to cover the left flank of the 14th PD. The forces of the 14th PD also turned out to be too weak and exhausted to take full possession of the bread factory and its surrounding Balkas. In a dramatic combat operation, the 2nd Battalion of the Panzer Grenadier Regiment 103 under Captain Erich Domaschk , which had proven itself during the fighting in the tractor factory, almost reached the Volga via a balka after overcoming the first Soviet line of defense SD knocked off. The motorcyclists also broke into the lines of the 161st SR and were able to conquer a small section of the multi-storey administration building. However, after a counter-attack, this area had to be abandoned again.

Lieutenant General Ferdinand Heim reported to the headquarters of the LI on October 24, 1942. Army Corps on the severity of the losses suffered:

“9 o'clock bread factory, the division's trench strength is now around 750 soldiers. The division commander believes that no significant progress can be made without reinforcements. "

- Lieutenant General Ferdinand Heim

During the heavy fighting in the bread factory, one of Heim's combat troops succeeded in driving a butt wedge between the 308th and 193th SD and captured the command post from Gurtjew. General Schmechotworow of the 193rd SD put together a group of ten submachine gun shooters and personally led the search for the missing Gurtjew, who was then found in his hiding place. At the end of the day only 40 grenadiers of the 103rd Panzer Grenadier Regiment survived; the entire 14th PD had no more than eleven tanks. As a result, the front arch of the 62nd Army between the “Barricades” gun factory and the “Red October” steelworks was slightly dented and the 14th PD stood on Maschinnaya Street.

"Army Group B: Artillery interference fire on both sides south of Stalingrad. The 79th Infantry Division captured the railroad on the western edge of the metallurgical plant (1st target) and advanced with shock troops towards the center of the plant. The large workshops were taken. Fights are still going on. 14th Panzer Division cleared out pockets of resistance in the bread factory. According to unconfirmed reports, a raiding party from the 79th Infantry Division pushed through to the Volga. Weather in the Stalingrad area: changeable cloudy, cool, dry. "

- Army High Command on October 24, 1942

Paul instructed his divisions to repeat their operations in the vicinity of the “Barricades” gun factory and “Red October” steelworks on a smaller scale in order to conserve forces. These actions turned into a "painfully" difficult, protracted and pointless operation with little success in the Balka south of the gun factory and the dense network of partially destroyed buildings in the bread factory. While the attacks of the 79th Infantry Division stagnated in the factory halls in the steelworks "Red October", Heim's Panzer Division continued its efforts to finally get the bread factory and the tactically important buildings in the area under control on October 25, 1942. The 64th Motorcyclist Battalion made progress with an enterprise in the second building in the eastern part of the factory. The first attack collapsed in heavy artillery defensive fire and only in the second storm could the building complex be taken. The southern part was recaptured by the Red Army after a brief and violent counterattack. Both Panzergrenadier regiments had shrunk to company size and Gurtjev's two rifle regiments consisted of barely 200 soldiers who dug themselves into the Balka south of the bread factory. The Panzergrenadiers approached the Volga River within a few ten meters, with all company commanders falling and the leading combat group consisting of only 20 soldiers. On the same day, the also heavily weakened 305th Infantry Division gained ground under Oppenländer in the northeast sector of the gun factory. Chuikov later noticed that the infantrymen who were newly brought up to the Stalingrad front were hardly used to the extremely tough hand-to-hand combat. Though the opposing stormtroopers had a five-fold superiority, they were unable to take the heavily defended halls. On October 26, 1942, the combat strength sank to four weak infantry battalions with 300 to 400 soldiers. After 36 hours of uninterrupted firefight, it seemed for a brief moment that the LI. Army Corps succeeded in splitting the Soviet 62nd Army between the “Barricades” gun factory and the “Red October” steelworks. On that day, a mixed combat group under Lieutenant Joachim Stempel was able to completely take over the second administration building of the bread factory. Stempel's tank grenadiers took advantage of the confusion among the Soviet soldiers and moved through the Khwost-Balka between the bread factory and Stalnaya Street towards the Volga River. The riflemen of the 685th SR were dispersed and destroyed until they rallied again in the Glubokaya-Owrag Gorge north of the Matrosnaya Strait. The cluster of houses at the mouth of the Balka and a few hundred meters north of the ferry pier could be conquered. This operation reduced the number of soldiers from Stempel's unit to forty. The ferry terminal was only weakly defended by wounded Soviet sailors. Stempel urgently requested supplies and received eighty 18- to 19-year-old infantrymen who had never fired a shot before. After another 48 hours of fighting, most of them were killed or seriously wounded. The Soviet 62nd Army also deployed fresh troops from the 193rd SD and forced the Panzer Grenadiers to withdraw from the area they had won.

“Army Group B: In Stalingrad itself, strong enemy counter-attacks against the metallurgical plant from the south and northeast were repulsed. Other parts could be cleaned in the bread factory. To the north of it, further nests of resistance were cleared out in the backyard in cellars and corridors. "

- Situation report of the Army High Command on October 26, 1942

The heavy losses on both sides brought the fighting in this sector to a temporary halt. The Wehrmacht High Command ignored the failure of this operation and reported on October 27, 1942:

"In Stalingrad, German attack groups penetrated their section east of the bread factory as far as the Volga and stole large areas of the city from the enemy."

- OKW on October 27, 1942

The attempt to conquer the ferry pier was continued from October 28th to 29th, 1942, occasional submachine gun shooters were able to work their way up the steep bank again and again, but were always violently rejected in close combat. In spite of increasing casualties and fewer and fewer tanks available, the violent exploration attempts were relentlessly continued. The 14th PD steadily increased its thrust wedge and pushed the regiments of the 193rd SD back onto the line of Umanskaya Street, about three blocks from the north end of the bread factory, the 109th Guards Rifle and 10th Rifle Regiment moved one block south the Maschinnaya Street pressed against the Volga. The division reported that on October 27, 1942, 13 soldiers died, 77 were wounded and two were missing, on October 28, 22 killed, 106 wounded and seven missing, and on 29, 15 killed, 81 wounded and ten missing. The number of missing persons was due to the chaotic close combat at close range and the numerous Soviet counter-attacks; many of the soldiers were not found again. On October 24th the 14th PD still consisted of 1,640 soldiers, on October 25th there were only 750. On October 31st, 1942 the 14th PD had only eleven tanks and was hardly operational.

Operation Hubertus

During Operation Hubertus in November 1942, the 14th PD remained in the sector between the “Barricades” gun factory and the “Red October” steelworks opposite the northern Volga ferry pier, the defense of which the Soviet 62nd Army had cost a lot of blood. A mixed combat group was formed from the 14th PD, 79th ID and 24th PD, which was to form the spearhead of the operation. The combat group Seydel with 13 tanks was formed from the 14th PD; the two remaining infantry battalions were each filled with 700 soldiers and fought on November 5, 1942 against the 95th SD on Lenin Prospect. Overall, the 14th PD only played a subordinate role during Operation Hubertus and its main task was to support the 305th Infantry Division under Steinmetz. The Seydel group received the order to secure the right flank of the 305th Infantry Division. On November 13, the remaining eight tanks of the 14th PD, together with the 305th ID and the storm pioneers, were supposed to defeat the trapped Soviet 138th SD in their bridgehead "Lyudnikows Island". Operation Hubertus brought only minimal gains in terrain and ultimately brought an enormous weakening of the worn-out associations in the Stalingrad industrial complexes. On November 16, 1942, the 14th PD received the order to prepare for a rapid withdrawal from its area of ​​operations, as counter-attacks were feared on other sections of the Stalingrad front, which would make a mobile defense necessary. During this time the Seydel group had to fend off a series of heavy counter attacks by the 95th SD on the Balka south-east of the bread factory. Until the start of the Soviet Uranium operation on November 19, 1942, the 14th PD tank grenadiers were engaged in combat in their section between the bread factory and the Volga.

Re-establishment

After the destruction in Stalingrad, the division of Army Group D was reorganized from March to August 1943 in southern France . In September 1943 he was relocated to the Ukraine , this time to the Krywyj Rih area .

1944-1945

From January to March 1944, the division was at Cherkassy , and then withdrew across the Prut with the Army Group South Ukraine . The retreat to Courland took place via Iași through Romania , Hungary , Bohemia and Moravia and Poland . In June the offensive of the Soviet armed forces began to wipe out the German front and separated Army Group North from Army Group Center. The Army Group North withdrew to the newly created HKL between Riga and south of Libau, which it defended (renamed Army Group Courland from January) until the surrender. The 14th PD was stationed near Preekuln and was used as a "fire brigade" by the 18th Army with its few remaining Tiger tanks, assault guns and PzKpfw IV. After six battles of Courland, in which the Baltic ports of Libau and Windau were defended, the division surrendered on May 9, 1945 with the entire Kurland Army Group and went into captivity under Colonel-General Hilpert (16th Army) and Mountaineer General Volckamer von Kirchensittenbach . Over 40 generals, 8,000 officers, over 180,000 soldiers and nearly 14,000 Latvian volunteers were taken prisoner.

structure

4th Infantry Division
1936 		14th Panzer Division
1941 		14th Panzer Division
1943
  • 36th Panzer Regiment
  • Rifle Brigade 14
    • Rifle Regiment 103rd
    • Rifle Regiment 108
  • Artillery Regiment 4th
  • I./ Artillery Regiment 40
  • Artillery Regiment 4
  • Army Flak Department 276
  • Reconnaissance Department 40
  • Panzer Reconnaissance Division 14
  • Panzerjäger detachment 4
  • Panzer Pioneer Battalion 13
  • News Department 4
  • News Department 4
  • Supply Troops 4
  • Tank supply troops 4

Commanders

4th Infantry Division

14th Panzer Division

Realignment

  • Colonel / Major General Friedrich Sieberg - April 1 to October 29, 1943
  • Colonel Karl-Max Grässel - October 29 to October 30, 1943
  • Colonel / Major General Martin Unrein - October 30, 1943 to March 23, 1944
  • Colonel Karl-Max Grässel - March 23 to May 7, 1944
  • Major General Martin Unrein - May 7 to September 1, 1944
  • Colonel Werner Mummert - September 1 to September 5, 1944
  • Colonel Oskar Munzel - September 5 to November 25, 1944
  • Major General Martin Unrein - November 25, 1944 to February 10, 1945
  • Colonel Friedrich-Wilhelm Jürgen - February 19 to March 22, 1945
  • Colonel Paul Lüneburg - March 22 to March 25, 1945
  • Colonel Karl-Max Gräßel - March 25, 1945 until surrender

Well-known members of the division

literature

  • 14th Panzer Division. In: Veit Scherzer (Ed.): German troops in the Second World War. Volume 4, Scherzers Militaer-Verlag, Ranis / Jena 2008, ISBN 978-3-938845-14-1 , pp. 441-476.
  • Samuel W. Mitcham : German Order of Battle. Panzer, Panzer Grenadier, and Waffen SS Divisions in World War II. Stackpole Books, 2007, ISBN 978-0-8117-3438-7 .
  • David M. Glantz: Armageddon in Stalingrad: September – November 1942 (The Stalingrad Trilogy, Volume 2). University of Kansas Press, Lawrence 2009, ISBN 978-0-7006-1664-0 .
  • Georg Tessin : Associations and troops of the German Wehrmacht and Waffen SS in World War II 1939–1945. Volume 2. The Land Forces 1–5 . 2nd Edition. Biblio-Verlag, Bissendorf 1973, ISBN 3-7648-0871-3 .
  • Georg Tessin : Associations and troops of the German Wehrmacht and Waffen SS in World War II 1939–1945. Volume 3: The Land Forces 6-14 . 2nd Edition. Biblio-Verlag, Bissendorf 1974, ISBN 3-7648-0942-6 .
  • The Federal Archives contain further sources on the history of the division; see. here

Web links

Commons : 14th Panzer Division  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

References and comments

On the pages of the book:

  • David M. Glantz: Armageddon in Stalingrad: September – November 1942 (The Stalingrad Trilogy, Volume 2). University of Kansas Press, Lawrence 2009.
  1. ↑ p. 1, 30-32.
  2. ↑ pp. 64-65.
  3. ↑ pp. 67, 70, 71, 73.
  4. ↑ p. 77.
  5. ↑ pp. 79-81, 89-91.
  6. ↑ pp. 93-94, 112.
  7. ↑ p. 129
  8. ↑ p. 151.
  9. ↑ p. 231.
  10. ↑ pp. 136, 240, 256, 345-346, 348.
  11. ↑ pp. 353, 355, 372.
  12. ↑ pp. 377-379.
  13. ↑ pp. 384, 386-387.
  14. ↑ p. 391.
  15. ↑ pp. 393-395.
  16. ↑ pp. 401-402.
  17. ↑ pp. 404-406.
  18. ↑ pp. 410-413.
  19. ↑ pp. 416-417.
  20. ↑ p. 419.
  21. ↑ pp. 421-423.
  22. ↑ pp. 425-427.
  23. ↑ pp. 427-428.
  24. ^ Pp. 429, 431, 434.
  25. ↑ p. 460.
  26. ↑ p. 437.
  27. ↑ pp. 467-469, 471, 474.
  28. ↑ pp. 478-479.
  29. ↑ p. 483.
  30. ↑ pp. 487-489.
  31. ↑ p. 491.
  32. ↑ pp. 491-492.
  33. ↑ pp. 492-495.
  34. ↑ pp. 497-500.
  35. ↑ p. 504.
  36. ↑ pp. 505-507.
  37. ↑ p. 509.
  38. ↑ p. 512.
  39. ↑ pp. 514-518.
  40. ↑ p. 541, 611.
  41. ↑ p. 615.
  42. ↑ pp. 618-619, 622.
  43. ↑ pp. 626, 628-629.
  44. ↑ pp. 636-637.
  45. ↑ p. 662.
  46. ↑ p. 684.
  47. ↑ p. 686.
  48. ↑ p. 697.

Further evidence

  1. ^ Janusz Piekałkiewicz: Stalingrad. Anatomy of a battle. Heyne, Munich 1993, p. 261.
  2. ^ Piekałkiewicz: Stalingrad. Anatomy of a battle. Heyne, Munich 1993, p. 235.
  3. ↑ Loess gorge / erosion channel
  4. ^ Janusz Piekałkiewicz: Stalingrad. Anatomy of a battle. Heyne, Munich 1993, p. 320.
  5. ↑ in the original: “continued a painfully difficult, prolonged, and generally futile struggle to clear 62nd Army's forces from the remainder of the Barrikady and Krasnyi Oktiabr Factories and the irksome salient between. This generated numerous vicious small-scale attacks designed to expel Soviet forces from the infamous ravine south of the Barricady Factory, from the Bread Factory, and from the dense network of partially destroyed buildings between the two factories. "In David M. Glantz: Armageddon in Stalingrad: September – November 1942. (The Stalingrad Trilogy, Volume 2). University of Kansas Press, Lawrence 2009, p. 497.
  6. ↑ which, however, did not correspond to the facts.
  7. ^ Janusz Piekałkiewicz : Stalingrad. Anatomy of a battle. Heyne, Munich 1993, p. 327.
  8. ^ Peter N. Schmitz: 4th Infantry Division . In: The German divisions 1939–1945: Army, land-based navy, air force, Waffen-SS . tape I . Biblio, Osnabrück 1993, ISBN 978-3-7648-2421-1 , p. 275 .
  9. ↑ a b Scherzer 2008; P. 441.