41st Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)
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41st Infantry Division |
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 Division badge of the 41st Infantry Division |
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| active | January 1945 to February 3, 1945 |
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| Armed forces | Wehrmacht |
| Armed forces | army |
| Type | Infantry Division |
| structure | see structure |
| Second World War | Eastern Front |
The 41st Infantry Division was a large association of the Army of the German Wehrmacht in World War II .
history
The 41st Fortress Division was set up on December 11, 1943 in Bruck an der Mur in Defense District XVIII with its home base in Schweidnitz from the staff of the 39th Infantry Division .
The division was used in Greece since January 1944 to defend the Peloponnese as an important link between northern and southern Greece.
In June 1944, six soldiers of the division were sentenced to death by a field court for undermining military strength and executed. The soldiers had discussed a leaflet written by German defectors asking them to desert without reporting it to a superior.
In September 1944, the division's two regiments were supplemented by the 733 Grenadier Regiment. When the Germans withdrew from Greece in the autumn of 1944, the division provided the rear protection in Army Group F and got into disputes with British units. These continued when they withdrew to Serbia and Croatia .
In January 1945 the fortress division in the Slavonski Brod area was upgraded to an infantry division and was now run as the 41st Infantry Division . She fought between the Drava and Save rivers with the 7th SS Volunteer Mountain Division “Prinz Eugen” against Soviet units, but also against Tito partisans. The division remained active on the southern part of the Eastern Front until the end of the war.
In early May 1945 the association surrendered to the Yugoslav troops in the Zabok area .
Commanders
| Rank | Surname | date |
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| Major general | Franz Krech | December 11, 1943 until his death on April 27, 1944 |
| Major General / Lieutenant General | Franz Benicke | April 27 to August 1, 1944 |
| Major General / Lieutenant General | Wolfgang Hauser | August 1, 1944 until dissolution |
structure
1943:
- Fortress Infantry Regiment 938 (Fortress Infantry Battalion III./999 and 1008)
- Fortress Infantry Regiment 965 (Fortress Infantry Battalion II., IV. And VII./999)
- Fortress Infantry Battalion 1009
- Fortress Infantry Battalion 1012
- Army Coastal Artillery Regiment 919 (Division 819 and 820)
- Army Flak Artillery Department 309
- Division units 141
1944:
- Grenadier Regiment 938, later Grenadier Regiment 1231
- Grenadier Regiment 965, later Grenadier Regiment 1232
- Grenadier Regiment 733 (of the 133rd Fortress Division ), later Grenadier Regiment 1230
- Fortress Infantry Battalion 1009, later to Grenadier Regiment 1231
- Fortress Infantry Battalion 1012
- Army Coastal Artillery Regiment 919
- Army Flak Artillery Battalion 309
- Division units 141
- from January 1945: Panzerjäger Battalion 141, formerly Athens Alarm Regiment
literature
- Samuel W. Mitcham (2007). German Order of Battle. Volume One: 1st - 290th Infantry Divisions in WWII. PA; United States of America: Stackpole Books. Pp. 86 + 87, ISBN 978-0-8117-3416-5 .
Web link
- 41st Fortress Division / 41st Infantry Division on EHRI portal from the Federal Archives
credentials
- ^ A b Norbert Kannapin: The German field post: Organization u. Location 1939-1945 . Biblio-Verlag, 1979, ISBN 978-3-7648-1169-3 , pp. 65 ( google.de [accessed on September 14, 2019]).
- ↑ Wolfram Wette: Nazi era: The betrayed . In: The time . April 24, 2008, ISSN 0044-2070 ( zeit.de [accessed September 14, 2019]).
