9th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)

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9th Infantry Division

9th Infantry Division Logo.svg
active October 1934 to the end of April 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
Installation site to water
Second World War Raid on Poland , Kuban bridgehead , Operation Jassy-Kishinev
Commanders
list of Commanders

The 9th Infantry Division was a large unit of the army of the German Wehrmacht .

Division history

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The 9th Infantry Division was set up in Gießen in October 1934 under the code name "Infanterieführer V" . The division kept the code name until October 15, 1935. Its infantry regiments were formed from IR 15 of the 5th Division of the Reichswehr .

In August 1939, the division was mobilized as part of the 1st wave of deployment in preparation for the attack on Poland . From 1941 the division took part in the war against the Soviet Union . In 1942, after fighting for Isjum , Rostov-on-Don and Bataisk, she was deployed with the V Corps between Rostov and the Caucasus in the area around Krasnodar . In 1943 the 9th Infantry Division fought for holding positions in the Kuban bridgehead ; from there she had to withdraw via the Crimea to Zaporozhye and Nikopol in the Ukraine .

In August 1944, the 9th Infantry Division, now assigned to Army Group South Ukraine , was destroyed near Kishinev . The 9th Volksgrenadier Division was formed from the remains .

people

Division commanders of 9th ID
period of service Rank Surname
April 1, 1934 to October 1, 1934 Colonel / Major General Erwin Oßwald
October 1, 1934 to March 7, 1936 Major General / Lieutenant General Erich Lüdke
March 7, 1936 to November 4, 1938 Lieutenant General Erwin Oßwald
November 4, 1938 to August 1, 1940 Lieutenant General George of Apell
August 1, 1940 to January 6, 1941 Major General / Lieutenant General Erwin Vierow
January 6, 1941 to August 20, 1943 Major General / Lieutenant General Siegmund Freiherr von Schleinitz
August 20, 1943 to May 1, 1944 Major General / Lieutenant General Friedrich Hofmann
May 1, 1944 to June 16, 1944 Colonel Otto-Hermann Briicker
June 16 to August 29, 1944 Colonel / Major General Werner Gebb
November 1, 1944 to April 1945 Colonel / Major General Werner Kolb
General Staff officers (Ia) of 9 ID
period of service Rank Surname
August 1, 1936 to April 1, 1938 major Max Bork
1939 to July 1940 Lieutenant colonel Julius Lynker
July 10, 1940 to July 5, 1942 major Hans-Georg von Tempelhoff
July 5, 1942 to May 1, 1943 Lieutenant colonel Leo Hepp
May 1, 1943 to March 1, 1944 major Arnold Tamm
March 1 to August 1944 major Helmut Schwenninger

Awards

A total of 18 members of the 9th ID were awarded the Knight's Cross and 81 the German Cross in Gold.

structure

Changes in the structure of the 9th ID from 1939 to 1944
1939 1942 1943-1944
36th Infantry Regiment Grenadier Regiment 36
57th Infantry Regiment Grenadier Regiment 57
116th Infantry Regiment 116th Grenadier Regiment
9th Artillery Regiment
Engineer Battalion 9
Anti-tank department 9 Panzerjäger detachment 9
Reconnaissance Department 9 Cycling department 9 Fusilier Battalion 9
Observation Department 9 -
News Department 9
Field Replacement Battalion 9
Supply units 9

The Artillery Regiment 9 consisted of the I. – III. Department and the I./Artillery-Regiment 45. On May 19, 1942 the I./Artillerie-Regiment 45 was formed, regrouped from the IV./Artillery-Regiment 9.

Well-known members of the division

literature

  • Georg Tessin : Associations and troops of the German Wehrmacht and Waffen SS in World War II 1939–1945. Volume 3: The Land Forces 6-14 . 2nd Edition. Biblio-Verlag, Bissendorf 1974, ISBN 3-7648-0942-6 .
  • Hans Reimer: Memories of the 36th Infantry Regiment , self-published, Bad Vilbel, 1975.

Remarks

  1. ↑ became a prisoner of war
  2. ^ Up to 1935 Giessen Infantry Regiment
  3. ↑ released in December 1939 by the army