9th SS Panzer Division "Hohenstaufen"
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SS Panzergrenadier Division 9 |
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 Troop registration |
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| active | February 1, 1943 to May 8, 1945 |
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.svg){kind=small} German Empire
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| Armed forces |
 Armed SS
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| Branch of service | Armored force |
| Type | Panzer Division |
| structure | See outline |
| garrison | Berlin-Lichterfelde |
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German-Soviet War German Western Front 1944/1945 |
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| list of | Commanders |
The 9th SS Panzer Division "Hohenstaufen" was a Panzer Division of the Waffen-SS during the Second World War .
history
Lineup
The division was set up on February 1, 1943 in Berlin-Lichterfelde as SS Panzergrenadier Division 9 . At first it consisted only of members of the substitute units of the SS Panzer Grenadier Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler , but was filled with volunteers from all parts of the German Reich . In the spring of 1943 the association was first relocated to the Mailly-le-Camp military training area near Reims , and then to Ypres in April 1943 . Here she was given the honorary name Hohenstaufen .
Calls
After the formation, the Panzer Division was first ordered to southern France in March 1944, but then transferred to the 4th Panzer Army in the south of the Soviet Union in April 1944 , where it was deployed in the Kamenez-Podolsk area. After three months at the front in the east, after the invasion of Normandy in June 1944 , the division was handed over to the II SS Panzer Corps and deployed on the invasion front. British troops set out from Tilly to attack Caen on June 28, 1944 , but were repulsed by parts of the 9th SS Panzer Division Hohenstaufen, preventing Caen from being captured.
In August 1944, the 9th SS Panzer Division took part in a counterattack on the US Army units that had broken through at Avranches . Shortly afterwards, the entire German 7th Army and the II. SS Panzer Corps were surrounded by the Allies in the Falaise pocket . In fighting with heavy losses, the 9th SS Panzer Division managed to break through the enemy lines between Mortain and Domfront . The worn-out division was then transferred to the Arnhem area to refresh .
During Operation Market Garden in September 1944, alarm units of the division were used together with those of the 10th SS Panzer Division "Frundsberg" against the Allied airborne troops at Oosterbeek west of Arnhem . The combat groups of the SS divisions succeeded in breaking the resistance of the British and Polish paratroopers and finally on September 22, 1944, Arnhem was completely taken back into possession.
Both divisions were relocated to Westphalia in October to refresh their equipment and tanks . From the beginning of December 1944, the 9th SS Panzer Division was there in readiness for the Battle of the Bulge , in which it participated as part of the 6th Panzer Army , before the entire army was relocated to Hungary to relieve Budapest .
After the failure of the company, the division withdrew to Austria in March 1945 , where it was the XXII. Army Corps of the 2nd Panzer Army was subordinated. After the surrender at Steyr , the members of the division went into US captivity and were transferred to the former Ebensee concentration camp on Lake Traunsee in July 1945 .
Areas of application
- February 1943 to March 1944 France ( formation of the division )
- April to June 1944 Southern Russia ( The division was used to relieve the units of the 1st Panzer Army that were enclosed in the area around Kamenets-Podolsk )
- June to August 1944 France ( Prevention of the capture of Caen by the British )
- September to December 1944 Netherlands ( participation in the fighting for the greater Arnhem area )
- December 1944 to February 1945 Belgium ( ready for the Ardennes Offensive )
- February to March 1945 Hungary ( target was the attack on the Danube and the relief of Budapest )
Outline 1944
- SS Panzer - Regiment 9
- SS Panzer Grenadier Regiment 19th
- SS-Panzer-Grenadier-Regiment 20
- SS Panzer Artillery Regiment 9
- SS Flak Artillery Division 9
- SS assault gun - division 9
- SS Panzer Reconnaissance Department 9
- SS Panzerjäger Division 9
- SS Panzer Pioneer Battalion 9
- SS Panzer News Department 9
- SS supply units 9
Commanders
- February 1943 to March 1943 SS-Gruppenführer and Major General of the Waffen-SS Wilhelm Bittrich
- June 29, 1944 to July 10, 1944 SS-Standartenführer Thomas Müller (in charge of the tour)
- July 1944 SS standard leader Sylvester Stadler
- August 1944 SS-Oberführer Friedrich-Wilhelm Bock
- September to October 10, 1944 SS-Obersturmbannführer Walter Harzer
- October 10, 1944 to May 1945 SS-Oberführer Sylvester Stadler
Former soldiers
literature
- Wolfgang Fleischer, Richard Eiermann: The last year of the Waffen SS. May 1944 - May 1945. Podzun-Pallas, Wölfersheim-Berstadt 1997, ISBN 3-7909-0612-3 .
- Herbert Fürbringer, 9th SS Panzer Division Hohenstaufen. Editions Heimdal, Bayeux 1984. ISBN 2-902171-17-X .
- Robert J. Kershaw: Arnhem '44. No snow falls in September. The failed air landing near Arnhem in 1944. Motorbuch-Verlag, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-613-01942-6 .
- Jean Mabire: Panzers SS in l'enfer normand. Les divisions "Hohenstaufen" et "Frundsberg" pendant l'été 1944. (Collection Témoignages pour l'histoire) Grancher, Paris 2001, ISBN 2-7339-0734-4 .
- 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 .
- Wilhelm Tieke: In the firestorm of the last years of the war, II. SS Panzer Corps with 9th and 10th SS divisions Hohenstaufen and Frundsberg. 2nd edition, Osnabrück 1978.
Web links
- Literature on the 9th SS Panzer Division "Hohenstaufen" in the catalog of the German National Library
- History of the 9th SS Panzer Division Hohenstaufen (English) ( Memento from May 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
Footage
- Richard Attenborough, The Arnhem Bridge, published 1977
Individual evidence
- ^ Herbert Fürbringer: 9th SS Panzer Division Hohenstaufen . Bayeux 1984, p. 532.