86th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)

86th Infantry Division
active	August 26, 1939 to November 3, 1943
Country	German Empire
Armed forces	Wehrmacht
Armed forces	army
Branch of service	infantry
Type	Infantry Division
structure	structure
commander
list of	List of commanders

The 86th Infantry Division (86th ID) was a major unit of the army of the German Wehrmacht in World War II .

Division history

The 86th Infantry Division was set up on August 26, 1939 as part of the 2nd  wave of deployment in Military District VI (Münster) . First she was deployed in the Eifel , from June 1940 in France for a year, then she was transferred to the Eastern Front and assigned to the 9th Army .

On November 3, 1943, the 86th Infantry Division was disbanded due to heavy losses. The division staff, supply troops and other units were then used to set up the 361st Infantry Division . The remaining members of the 86th Infantry Division formed Division Group 86, which was  subordinate to Corps Division E.

Commanders

date	Rank	Surname
August 26, 1939	General of the Infantry	Joachim Witthöft
January 1, 1942	General of the artillery	Helmuth Weidling

structure

When it was first set up, the 86th ID was divided into

• Infantry Regiment 167,
• 184th Infantry Regiment,
• Infantry Regiment 216,
• Artillery Regiment 186 and
• Division units 186.

literature

• Georg Tessin : Associations and troops of the German Wehrmacht and Waffen SS in World War II 1939–1945. Sixth volume. The Land Forces 71–130 . Biblio-Verlag, Osnabrück 1972, ISBN 3-7648-0872-1 , pp. 86-91.

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Georg Tessin: Associations and troops of the German Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS in World War II 1939–1945. Sixth volume. The Land Forces 71–130 . Biblio-Verlag, Osnabrück 1972, ISBN 3-7648-0872-1 , p. 86.
2. ^ ^{A b} Georg Tessin : Associations and troops of the German Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS in World War II 1939–1945. Sixth volume. The Land Forces 71–130 . Biblio-Verlag, Osnabrück 1972, ISBN 3-7648-0872-1 , p. 87.