95th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)
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95th Infantry Division |
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| active | 1939 to February 1945 |
| Country |
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| Armed forces | Wehrmacht |
| Armed forces | army |
| Branch of service | infantry |
| Type | Infantry Division |
| structure | structure |
| Strength | 15,000 debit |
| Installation site | Hammelburg |
| Nickname | Devil division |
| Commanders | |
| list of | Commanders |
The 95th Infantry Division (95th ID) was a major military unit of the Wehrmacht .
history
Areas of application
- Siegfried Line : September 1939 to May 1940
- France : May to December 1940
- Germany : December 1940 to January 1941
- Poland : January to July 1941
- Eastern Front , Southern Section: July 1941 to December 1942
- Eastern Front, Central Section: December 1942 to June 1944
The division was set up in 1939 as part of the 5th wave of deployment in military districts IX and VI at the Wildflecken and Hammelburg military training areas . The field usability was only achieved in November 1940, before it was used to secure the border at the Siegfried Line . In June 1940 it penetrated the Maginot Line near Merzig . In 1941 she worked as an occupying force in France. In July 1941 she was transferred to the Eastern Front and took part in the Battle of Kiev . In October 1941 she fought near Bryansk and Kursk . In 1942 she was involved in heavy fighting near Kursk, Voronezh and Gschatzk and was deployed in the Rzhev front arc in autumn. In 1943 the Red Army involved the division in defensive battles near Jelnja , later near Brjansk, Gomel and east of Bobruisk . During the winter of 1943/1944 the division had to be restructured. As a result, it was renamed a new type 44 division. In spring 1944 she fought again near Bobruisk until she was destroyed near Vitebsk in June 1944 . The division had to be removed from the order of operations of the 3rd Panzer Army and transferred to Corps Department H. On September 10, 1944, she was ready for action again and in East Prussia was placed under the remnants of the defeated Army Group Center. In the winter of 1944 she still fought near Tauroggen and the Memel until she capitulated in February 1945 near Pillau and Hela .
War crimes
The division was involved in war crimes in Belarus ( Spring Festival Company ). Villages were searched and burned down. The civilian population was either forcibly recruited for labor service or shot on suspicion of being partisans.
Commanders
| period of service | Rank | Surname |
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| September 25, 1939 to February 8, 1942 | Lieutenant General | Hans-Heinrich Sixt von Arnim |
| February 8 to March 1, 1942 | Lieutenant General | Eduard Aldrian |
| March 1 to May 10, 1942 | Lieutenant General | Hans-Heinrich Sixt von Arnim |
| May 10 to September 6, 1942 | Lieutenant General | Friedrich Zickwolff |
| September 6 to September 27, 1942 | Lieutenant General | Friedrich Karst |
| September 27, 1942 to December 10, 1943 | Major General / Lieutenant General | Edgar Röhricht |
| December 9, 1943 to January 27, 1944 | Major general | Gustav Gihr |
| January 27 to May 2, 1944 | - | unknown |
| May 2 to June 28, 1944 | Major general | Herbert Michaelis |
| June 30 to July 1944 | Major general | Joachim-Friedrich Lang |
| September 10, 1944 to April 16, 1945 | Major general | Joachim-Friedrich Lang |
Awards
A total of 17 members of the division were awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross and 71 people were awarded the German Cross in Gold. Knight's Cross bearer
| Rank | Surname | unit | Award date |
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| Lieutenant General | Hans-Heinrich Sixt from Armin | Division commander 95th ID | September 22, 1941 |
| Colonel | Siegfried Runge | Regimental commander IR 279 | December 20, 1941 |
| major | Josef-Georg Mulzer | Battalion Commander PiBtl. 195 | September 7, 1943 |
| Medical sergeant | Franz Schmitz | Group leader 3rd Kp./GR 279 | September 13, 1943 |
| major | Otto Frank | Battalion Commander I. Btl./GR 278 | October 18, 1943 |
| major | Josef-Georg Mulzer | Battalion commander PiBtl 195 | January 10, 1944, RK with oak leaves |
| Captain | Ludwig Hoyer | Battalion Commander III. Btl./GR 278 | February 23, 1944 |
| lieutenant | Friedrich Fischer | Company commander 6th Kp./GR 278 | April 7, 1944 |
| Sergeant | Bernhard Sanders | Group leader 7th Kp./GR 278 | April 7, 1944 |
| Corporal | Kurt Reuter | Group leader 6th Kp./GR 279 | May 4, 1944 |
| Lieutenant General | Edgar Röhricht | Division commander 95th ID | May 15, 1944 |
| Sergeant Major | Cosmas Wolf | Kp troop leader 3rd Kp./GR 279 | January 25, 1945 |
| Captain | Wilhelm Büsing | Battalion Commander I. Btl./GR 280 | February 28, 1945 |
| major | Othmar Pollmann | Regimental commander GR 279 and IIa (division adjutant) 95th ID | February 28, 1945, RK with oak leaves |
| Captain | Wendelin mirror | Battalion Commander I. Btl./GR 279 | February 28, 1945 |
| Captain | Hubert Schmidt | Battalion Commander I. Btl./GR 280 | March 5, 1945 |
| lieutenant | Manfred Groebe | Platoon leader StabsKp./GR 278 | March 17, 1945 |
structure
| 1939 | 1942 | 1943-1945 |
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| 278th Infantry Regiment | Grenadier Regiment 278 | |
| 279th Infantry Regiment | Grenadier Regiment 279 | |
| 280th Infantry Regiment | Grenadier Regiment 280 | |
| Artillery Regiment 195 | Artillery Regiment 195 | |
| - | Fast department 195 | Fusilier Battalion 95 |
| Anti-tank department 195 | - | Panzerjäger detachment 195 |
| - | Field Replacement Battalion 195 | |
| Engineer Battalion 195 | ||
| Reconnaissance Division 330 | ||
| News Department 195 | Divisional News Section 330 | |
| Supply units 195 | Division Supply Leader 330 | |
literature
- Karl Knoblauch: Battle and Fall of the 95th Infantry Division: Chronicle of an Infantry Division from 1939–1945 in France and on the Eastern Front , Flechsig Verlag, 2008, ISBN 978-3-88189-771-6 .
- Dieter Pohl : The rule of the armed forces. German military occupation and local population in the Soviet Union 1941–1944. Oldenbourg Verlag, 2011, ISBN 978-3-596-18858-1 .
- Georg Tessin : Associations and troops of the German Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS in World War II 1939–1945 , Volume 6: The land forces. No. 71-130. 2nd Edition. Osnabrück 1979. VI, 336 pages. ISBN 3-7648-1172-2 .
- Willy Peter Reese: Strangely Strange to Me: Russia 1941–44, Claassen Verlag, Munich 2003, ISBN 9783546003452 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Pohl: The rule of the armed forces.
- ↑ fallen in action.
- ^ During the First World War, Pour le Merite carrier on August 30, 1918 as a captain and battalion commander in the 2nd Marine Infantry Regiment.
- ↑ Pearl divers to the book
- ↑ Reese was from September 28, 1941 to July 1944 (missing) as a soldier in Infantry Regiment 279 and was part of an anti-tank gun team
