710th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)

710th Infantry Division
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active	May 1941 to May 1945
Country	German Empire
Armed forces	Wehrmacht
Armed forces	army
Branch of service	infantry
Type	Infantry division
Second World War	Norway Italian campaign Eastern Front
Commanders
Please refer:	Commanders

The 710th Infantry Division was a major unit of the Wehrmacht .

history

The division was set up in May 1941 as part of the 15th wave of deployment as a ground-based infantry division from replacement troops from Wehrkreis X (Hamburg) . In June / July 1941 she was first assigned to the Norwegian Army Command and from August to the LXX. Subordinated to the Army Corps and was entrusted as an occupation division with coastal protection tasks in southern Norway in the 235 km long Arendal coast in the provinces of Aust-Agder , Vestfold og Telemark and Viken .

The division was stationed in Norway until the end of 1944 before being withdrawn from Scandinavia and relocated to Italy . The arrival in Northern Italy was delayed due to Allied air raids on the Brenner Railway .

At the beginning of January 1945 it was subordinate to the LXXXVII. Army Corps of Army Group C and stood north of Ravenna near Lake Comacchio, initially facing the II. Canadian Corps and later the Italian Combat Group Cremona. At the beginning of February she was replaced by the 114th Jäger Division , which took over the narrow strip of land between Lake Comacchio and the Adriatic Sea from the 710th.

The division was then deployed in the Adriatic Coastal Operation Zone in the area between Palmanova and Udine . At the beginning of April 1945 she was transferred to the Eastern Front in Hungary to strengthen Army Group South in the fight against the Red Army .

In May 1945, the unit moved within the corps group Bünau into the room Pölten Sankt by Austria back and surrendered there, the US Army .

structure

In 1945 the division was structured as follows:

• Grenadier Regiment 730
• Grenadier Regiment 740
• Artillery Regiment 650
• Engineer Battalion 710
• Panzer Jäger Department 710
• Field Replacement Battalion 710
• Divisional News Department 710
• Divisional Supply Leader 710

people

Surname	rank	Beginning	The End
Theodor Petsch	General of the Infantry	May 3, 1941	November 1, 1944
Rudolf-Eduard Licht	Lieutenant General	November 1, 1944	April 15, 1945
Walter Gorn	Major general	April 15, 1944	May 8, 1945

literature

• William Jackson: The Mediterranean and Middle East: Volume VI Victory in the Mediterranean. Part III - November 1944 to May 1945. Naval & Military Press, Uckfield 2004 ISBN 1-845740-72-6 .
• Samuel W. Mitcham (2007a). 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. ISBN 978-0-8117-3437-0 .
• Mitcham, Samuel W., Jr. (2007b). Panzer Legions: A Guide to the German Army Tank Divisions of WWII and Their Commanders. Mechanicsburg, PA, United States: Stackpole Books. ISBN 978-0-8117-3353-3 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kjetil Korsnes, Olve Dybvig: Wehrmacht i Norge: Antall tysk personell from April 1940 to May 1945. Septentrio Academic Publishing, 2018, ISSN 2387-4597 p. 57 PDF
2. ↑ ^{a b} 710th Infantry Division. In: portal.ehri-project.eu. Retrieved February 7, 2020 . 
3. ^ William Jackson: The Mediterranean and Middle East: Volume VI Victory in the Mediterranean. Part III - November 1944 to May 1945. P. 132
4. ^ GWL Nicholson: The Canadians in Italy 1943-1945. Volume Two of the Official History of the Canadian Army in the Second World War. Department of National Defense, Ottawa 1957 pp. 650-653
5. ↑ Enzo Collotti, Renato Sandri, Frediano Sessi: Dizionario della Resistenza. Volume 1 Storia e geografia della Liberazione. Einaudi, Turin 2000 ISBN 88-06-14689-0 p. 216
6. ↑ 710 ID. In: German Historical Institute in Rome. Retrieved February 7, 2020 . 
7. ^ William Jackson: The Mediterranean and Middle East: Volume VI Victory in the Mediterranean. Part III - November 1944 to May 1945. pp. 233-234