75th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)

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75th Infantry Division

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active August 26, 1939 to spring 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
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

Division commanders of the 75th ID:
period of service Rank Surname
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
General staff officers (Ia) of the 75th ID:
period of service Rank Surname
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

Changes in the structure of the 75th ID from 1939 to 1945
1939 1942 1943-1945
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

  1. ^ 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.