715th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)

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715th Infantry Division

Troop registration

Troop registration
active September 1941 to May 1945
Country German Reich NSGerman Reich (Nazi era) German Empire
Armed forces Wehrmacht
Armed forces army
Branch of service infantry
Type Infantry Division
structure structure
Installation site Military District V (Stuttgart)
Second World War Western Front
Italian Campaign
Eastern Front
management
list of Commanders

The 715th Infantry Division was an infantry division of the army of the German Wehrmacht during World War II .

commitment

The division was set up in Wehrkreis V (Stuttgart) in May 1941 as part of the 15th wave of formation and for a long time was stationed exclusively as an occupation force in France . There she was subordinated to the 7th Army until May 1942 and then to the 1st Army until June 1943 . When it was deployed in southern France from July 1943 to September 1943, the division was under the Felber Corps Group . From October 1943 to January 1944 the division was in Nice with the 19th Army .

Then the division, together with the newly formed 114th Jäger Division , the former 714th Infantry Division, was transferred to the 14th Army in Italy , where it was involved in heavy fighting at the Nettuno bridgehead during the Allied landing it has been severely decimated. This was followed by a refresh from the Wildflecken shadow division at the end of June 1944 . From August 1944 to February 1945 the division was under the 10th Army and was deployed around Rimini .

At the end of February 1945, the division was relocated to the area around Prague to refresh and the Grenadier Regiment 1256 was deployed.

In March 1945 she was transferred to the Eastern Front in Upper Silesia ( Loslau - Katowice area ) to the 1st Panzer Army and fought against the Red Army here . A retreat to Bohemia followed . The division was taken prisoner by the Soviets near Tábor in May 1945 .

In March 1945 Ferdinand Schörner brought charges against the Rohr division commander . He had not allowed soldiers from his division who had fled the enemy to be shot dead and refused to implement such an order. Schörner originally wanted to be shot by Rohr. The OKH mitigated the death sentence to demotion and frontline probation . Von Rohr was demoted to colonel . From April 1945 he took over command of Grenadier Regiment 697.

Commanders

structure

1941

  • 725 Infantry Regiment (Stuttgart)
  • 735 Infantry Regiment ( Ulm )
  • Artillery Division 671 with three batteries
  • Pioneer Company 715, built up to Pioneer Battalion 715 at the end of 1942
  • 715 News Company, built into 715 News Battalion at the end of 1942
  • Supply units 715

1945

  • Grenadier Regiment 725, in 1944 only refreshed with two battalions and from Grenadier Regiment Wildflecken 2
  • Grenadier Regiment 735, 1944 only with two battalions
  • Grenadier Regiment 774, set up in 1945 with two battalions from Grenadier Regiment 1256
  • Artillery Regiment 671, established in August 1943
  • Division units 715, including:
    • Panzerjäger -teilung 715, formed in March 1944 from Panzerjagd-Company 715
    • Engineer Battalion 715
    • 715 News Battalion
    • Divisions Fusilier Battalion 715, set up in July 1944 from parts of the Wildflecken shadow division

literature

  • Samuel W. Mitcham (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. ISBN 978-0-8117-3437-0 , pp. 196 + 197.
  • Georg Tessin : Associations and troops of the German Wehrmacht and Waffen SS in World War II 1939–1945. Volume 12. The Land Forces 631-800. Biblio-Verlag, Bissendorf 1975, pp. 179 + 180.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Der Spiegel , 1950, Volume 4, Issue 27–52, p. 8