88th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)
88th Infantry Division |
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active | December 1, 1939 to winter 1944/45 |
Country | German Empire |
Armed forces | Wehrmacht |
Armed forces | army |
Type | Infantry Division |
Installation site | Grafenwoehr Training Area |
The 88th Infantry Division (88th ID) was a major unit of the army of the German Wehrmacht during World War II .
Division history
The division was set up on December 1, 1939 in Military District XIII (Nuremberg) and armed with Czechoslovak booty weapons . At first it was subordinate to the 9th Army and from 1941 to the 7th Army . She was deployed on the Western Front. On December 23, 1941, she received reinforcements from the 205th Infantry Division .
In 1942 she came to the Eastern Front as part of the 2nd Army . The division took part in the battle of Kharkov . In the winter of 1942/43 it was used in the Battle of Voronezh . In the spring of 1943 she was withdrawn to Sumy , where she supported the Citadel company as part of the 4th Panzer Army . Then she was subordinated to the 8th Army and got into the Battle of the Dnepr .
As a result, she was pushed into the Cherkassy pocket by the 1st Ukrainian Front in early 1944 . In the winter of 1944/45 it was smashed with Army Group A during the Vistula-Oder operation .
Commanders
date | Rank | Surname |
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December 1, 1939 | Major general | Georg Lang |
February 2, 1940 | General of the Infantry | Friedrich Gollwitzer |
March 10, 1943 | Lieutenant General | Heinrich Roth |
November 5, 1943 | Lieutenant General | Georg von Rittberg |
January 8, 1945 | Major general | Carl Anders |
Well-known members of the division
- Klaus Hoheisel (1906–1998), was from 1962 to 1965, as Brigadier General of the Army of the German Armed Forces , Commander of the Army Officer School III
literature
- Andreas Schwarz (Ed.): Voronesh-Donstellung 1942/1943 . Traditionsverband 88. u. 323rd Infantry Division eV, Bayreuth, Bad Windsheim, Ansbach 1976.