565th People's Grenadier Division

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The 565th Volksgrenadier Division was a major combat unit of the German Wehrmacht in World War II .

Mission history

The division was set up on August 26, 1944 in the 32nd wave of formation at the Milowitz military training area from the Moravia infantry division and parts of the 78th Sturm division in military district XIII . Still in the formation phase, the division was called in on September 15, 1944 in Prague to form the 246th Volksgrenadier Division .

The commandant of the division was Colonel Gerhard Wilck , who also took over the leadership of the successor association.

structure

  • Grenadier Regiment 1153, later as Grenadier Regiment 352 to the 246th Volksgrenadier Division
  • Grenadier Regiment 1154, later as Grenadier Regiment 404 to the 246th Volksgrenadier Division
  • Grenadier Regiment 1155, later as Grenadier Regiment 689 to the 246th Volksgrenadier Division
  • Artillery Regiment 1565, later as Artillery Regiment 246 to the 246th Volksgrenadier Division

literature

  • Georg Tessin : Associations and troops of the German Wehrmacht and Waffen SS in World War II 1939–1945 . 2nd Edition. tape 7 . The Land Forces 131–200 . Biblio-Verlag, Bissendorf 1979, ISBN 3-7648-1173-0 .
  • Norbert Kannapin: The German field post: Organization u. Location 1939-1945 . Biblio-Verlag, 1979, pp. 82 + 164.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Samuel W. Mitcham: German Order of Battle: 291st-999th Infantry divisions, named infantry divisions, and special divisions in World War II . In: German Battle Order . 1st edition. tape 2 . Stackpole Books, Mechanicsburg 2007, ISBN 978-0-8117-3437-0 , pp. 162 ( google.de [accessed on February 29, 2020]).
  2. ^ Aachen History Association: Journal of the Aachen History Association . Aachen History Association, 1962, p. 41 ( google.de [accessed on February 29, 2020]).