42nd Jäger Division (Wehrmacht)

42nd Hunter Division
Troop registration
active	November 1943 to April 1945
Country	German Empire
Armed forces	Wehrmacht
Armed forces	army
Branch of service	Infantry Division
Type	Hunter Division
structure	Jäger Regiment 25 Jäger Regiment 40
Second World War	Margarethe company Battle of the Neretva
management
list of	Commanders

The 42nd Jäger Division was a German infantry division during World War II .

Division history

187th Division (Wehrmacht) and Division No. 187 (Wehrmacht)

In November 1939, the 187th Division, located in Linz, was formed in Wehrkreis XVII from the replacement force of Wehrkreis XVII set up in April 1939 and renamed Division No. 187 a month later.

187th Reserve Division

Division No. 187 was renamed the 187th Reserve Division in September 1942. By increasing hostilities the United Association of Austria to was Zagreb , Croatia , in the Army Group E transferred.

42nd Hunter Division

The division was formed on December 22, 1943 in Slavonski Brod , Croatia, from the 187th Reserve Division and carried out operations against partisans. The division was then part of the Margarethe company . From May 1944 to July 1944 the association was used in Yugoslavia . One regiment took part in the battle of the Neretva . Subsequently, the transfer to Italy followed first with the 14th and then with the 10th Army . She suffered heavy losses while retreating across the Po River . The division capitulated to British units in April 1945 at Belluno in northern Italy .

structure

1940

• Infantry Replacement Regiment 45 ( Krummau / Moldau) with three battalions
• 130th Infantry Replacement Regiment (Linz) with three battalions
• Infantry Replacement Regiment 462 ( Gmunden ) with three battalions
• Artillery Replacement Regiment 45 ( Wels ) with two divisions
• Panzerjäger-Ersatz -teilung 17 ( Freistadt )
• Pioneer Replacement Department 86 ( Melk )
• Driver replacement department 17 and 45 ( Enns )

1944

• Jäger Regiment 25
• Jäger Regiment 40
• Artillery Regiment 142
• Panzerjäger detachment 142
• Reconnaissance Division 142
• Engineer Battalion 142
• Hunter Division News Department 142

Commanders

• Major General Walther Graeßner : from November 1939 to February 1940
• Major General / Lieutenant General Konrad Stephanus (1880–1961): February 1940 to August 1942
• Lieutenant General Josef Brauner von Haydringen (1886–1954): August 1942 to April 1944
• Major General / Lieutenant General Walter Jost : April 1944 to April 1945

Well-known members of the division

• General Otto Mitlacher (1907–1986): from March 1944 to September 1944 as first general staff officer (Ia)

literature

• Mitcham, Samuel W., Jr. (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. Pp. 244 + 245, ISBN 978-0-8117-3437-0 .
• Georg Tessin (1974). Associations and troops of the German Wehrmacht and Waffen SS in World War II 1939–1945. Ninth volume. The land forces 281-370. Biblio-Verlag, Osnabrück, ISBN 3-7648-0872-1 .

Web links

• 1th through 199th German Infantry, Security, and Panzer Grenadier Divisions. Organizations and Histories 1939–1945 Nafziger Collection, Combined Armed Research Library.
• 42nd Jäger Division on the EHRI portal from the Federal Archives