52nd Field Training Division

The 52nd Field Training Division was a German infantry division during World War II .

Division history

The division was set up on December 3, 1943 from the staff of the 52nd Infantry Division and troops from other field training divisions, such as the 390th and 391st , for Army Group Center as part of the 23rd wave of deployment with stationing in Belarus . The formation was only once a shadow division and not as a proper division.

The division existed until its dissolution on April 12, 1944. The grenadier regiments were divided into the 131st , 31st and 331st Infantry Divisions . The staff assigned to Army Group North formed the staff for the 52nd Security Division .

commander

• Major General Albert Newiger , former commander of the 190th Infantry Division and 112th Infantry Division

structure

• Grenadier Regiment 565 with two battalions (from the 390th and 391st Field Training Division , also known as the Hermanns Regiment )
• Grenadier Regiment 566 with two battalions (from 390th Field Training Division )
• Grenadier Regiment 567 with two battalions (from 391st Field Training Division )
• Panzer-hunters were only as company available

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. 100 + 101, ISBN 978-0-8117-3416-5 .
• Nafziger, George F. (2000). The German Order of Battle Infantry in World War II; Greenhill Books, p. 548.

Web links

• 52nd Infantry Division / 52nd Field Training Division / 52nd Security Division on EHRI portal from the Federal Archives

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Burkhart Mueller-Hillebrand: Beginning of the campaign against the Soviet Union until the end of the war . ES Mittler, 1954, p. 149 ( google.de [accessed January 1, 2019]).