719th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)
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719th Infantry Division |
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 Troop registration: Seated hare |
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| active | May 3, 1941 to April 1945 |
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| Armed forces | Wehrmacht |
| Armed forces | army |
| Branch of service | infantry |
| Type | Infantry Division |
| structure | See: Outline |
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| Please refer: | List of commanders |
The 719th Infantry Division was a large division of the Wehrmacht in the German Reich .
history
The division was set up on May 3, 1941 in military district III from soldiers from the Berlin - Potsdam area and moved as an occupying force to the Antwerp and Netherlands area. After the Allied invasion of Normandy and their advance on Belgium , the division took over a defense section in the area of the 1st Parachute Army near Antwerp and then defended the 15th Army on the Meuse-Scheldt Canal near Fort Merksem . In the course of the retreat , the division fought at Woensdrecht and Breda .
At the end of November 1944, the division was handed over to the 1st Army and was deployed in Oeting near Saarlautern . The division was wiped out in the retreat fighting in March / April 1945 in the Palatinate and was to be re-established on April 14, 1945 by the AOK 19 on the Upper Rhine from the remains of the 405th Division zbV. Soon after came the remnants of the division in Münsingen in American captivity .
Storage and operational areas
| date | corps | army | Army Group | Operational area |
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| May 3, 1941 | Reserve army | |||
| June 1941 | Kdr. D. German Troops Netherlands | Dordrecht , the Netherlands | ||
| July 1942 | LXXXVIII. | D. | ||
| May 1944 | B. | |||
| September 1944 | 1st Parachute Army | Antwerp | ||
| October 1944 | LXVII. | 15th Army | Fort Merxem , Woensdrecht , Breda | |
| December 1944 | reserve | Netherlands | ||
| February 1945 | LXXXV. | 1st Army | Œting , Saarlautern , Saarpfalz | |
| April 1945 | 19th Army | Münsingen |
structure
| 1941 | 1944 |
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Commanders
- May 3, 1941 Lieutenant General Erich Höcker
- January 10, 1944 Lieutenant General Max Horn
- February 15, 1944 Major General Carl Wahle
- July 30, 1944 Lieutenant General Karl Sievers
- September 30, 1944 General of the Infantry Felix Schwalbe
- December 22, 1944 Major General Heinrich Gäde
literature
- Lieutenant General Karl Sievers: Report on the commitment of the 719th Infantry Division in the Antwerp-Breda area, Sep 1944 (English)
- 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, ISBN 3-7648-1080-7 .
Web links
- Organizational History of 371st through 719th German Infantry, Security and Panzer Grenadier Divisions 1939–1945 (PDF; 385 kB), Nafziger Collection, Combined Armed Research Library.
