75th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)
75th Infantry Division |
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active | August 26, 1939 to spring 1945 |
Country | German Empire |
Armed forces | Wehrmacht |
Armed forces | army |
Branch of service | infantry |
Type | Infantry Division |
structure | structure |
Strength | 15,000 debit |
Installation site | Schwerin |
Commanders | |
list of | Commanders |
The 75th Infantry Division was a major military unit of the Wehrmacht from 1939 to 1945 .
Division history
The 75th Infantry Division (ID) was set up on August 26, 1939 as a division of the 2nd wave of formation from the 12th Infantry Division . Following border security tasks in the Saar-Palatinate, the division was deployed in Poland from mid-1940, and in 1941 it was subordinated to the 6th Army in the run-up to Operation Barbarossa . With this, the division advanced to the Ukraine , was first in Kiev, then until mid-1942 in the vicinity of Belgorod in use.
Then the 75th Infantry Division was subordinate to various armies and was reclassified several times. It was used from 1942 in the Voronezh area and later on the western edge of the Kursk Arc. Later during the retreats through northern Ukraine. She was involved in fighting in the Cherkassy Kessel Battle and the Kamenets-Podolski Kessel Battle , also known as the Hube Kessel. After retreats across the Carpathians and Beskids to Upper Silesia , the division was broken up by the Red Army near Mährisch Ostrau in April 1945 . It was disbanded and the remaining soldiers were transferred to another infantry division.
people
period of service | Rank | Surname |
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August 26, 1939 to September 5, 1942 | Lieutenant General | Serious hammer |
5th - 12th September 1942 | Lieutenant General | Erich Diestel |
September 15, 1942 to July 9, 1944 | Lieutenant General | Helmuth Beukemann |
July 10, 1944 to April 5, 1945 | Major general | Karl Arning |
April 6 to May 1945 | Major general | Lothar Berger |
May 8th to May 8th 1945 | Colonel | Gerhard Matthaiss |
period of service | Rank | Surname |
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August 26, 1939 to February 5, 1940 | major | Erich Helmdach |
February 5 to October 3, 1940 | Captain | Friedrich Schildknecht |
October 3, 1940 to December 1, 1942 | Lieutenant colonel | Kurt von One |
December 1, 1942 to August 20, 1944 | Lieutenant colonel | Max of resentment |
September 1, 1944 to May 1945 | Lieutenant colonel | Hans Schiele |
structure
1939 | 1942 | 1943-1945 |
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172nd Infantry Regiment | Grenadier Regiment 172 | |
202nd Infantry Regiment | Grenadier Regiment 202 | Fusilier Regiment 202 |
222 Infantry Regiment | 222 Grenadier Regiment | |
Reconnaissance Department 175 | Cycling Department 175 | Fusilier Battalion 75 |
Artillery Regiment 175 (in four divisions) |
Artillery Regiment 175 | |
Engineer Battalion 175 | ||
Anti-tank department 175 | Panzerjäger detachment 175 | |
News Department 175 | ||
Supply units 175 | ||
- | Field Replacement Battalion 175 |
literature
- Georg Tessin : Associations and troops of the German Wehrmacht and Waffen SS in World War II 1939–1945 . Volume 6: The Land Forces 71–130 . Biblio-Verlag, Osnabrück 1972, ISBN 3-7648-0872-1 , pp. 24-28.
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Georg Tessin : Associations and troops of the German Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS in World War II 1939–1945 . Volume 6: The Land Forces 71–130 . Biblio-Verlag, Osnabrück 1972, ISBN 3-7648-0872-1 , p. 24 f.