Training Division 464 (Wehrmacht)

The 464 training division was a German infantry division during World War II .

Division history

Division No. 464

This Saxon division was set up as Division No. 464 on September 23, 1942 in Wehrkreis IV in Chemnitz as part of the transfer of replacement divisions 154 and 174 to reserve divisions and took over the remaining replacement units of the former replacement divisions. In addition, additional replacement and training units were assigned to the division and remained in the deployment region as part of the Home Army.

At the beginning of 1943, the division's military court carried out three executions in the Halle penitentiary . B. for "fornication among men", represented by the Reich Court Martial.

Replacement Division 464

In late 1944, the division was refreshing to spare Division 464 upgraded.

Training Division 464

The 464 Training Division, also the 464th Training Division , was formed on March 26, 1945 in Torgau by renaming the 464 replacement division and was transferred to the front as part of the Home Army a short time later as part of the Ostrogoth movement . The unit was deployed against the Red Army in the 4th Panzer Army in April 1945 in the eastern Saxon area of Zittau / Bautzen , was supplemented by the Volksgrenadier Division 545 and was taken prisoner by the Americans in Saxony in May 1945 .

structure

Grenadier Replacement and Training Regiment 14 ( Leipzig )
Grenadier Replacement Regiment 534 ( Zwickau )
Artillery Replacement Regiment 24 ( Altenburg )
Motor vehicle replacement and training department 4
Engineer Replacement Battalion 14
Construction Pioneer Replacement and Training Battalion 4
Driving replacement and training department 4
Rocket Launcher Training Regiment 1 (from March 1945)

Commanders

Colonel / Major General Wolfgang Hauser : from the establishment to July 27, 1944
Lieutenant General Rudolf von Tschudi : July 27 to August 27, 1944, former commander of the 333rd Infantry Division
Lieutenant General Rudolf Pilz : August 27, 1944 to April 1945, first commander of the 333rd Infantry Division and previously commander of the 203rd Security Division
Major General Eugen Theilacker : April 1945
Lieutenant General Otto Heidkämper : until the division surrendered

literature

Samuel W. Mitcham (2007). German Order of Battle. Volume Two: 291st - 999th Infantry Divisions, Named Infantry Divisions, and Special Divisions in WWII. PA; United States of America: Stackpole Books, pp. 131-132, ISBN 978-0-8117-3437-0 .

Individual evidence

↑ Claudia Bade, Lars Skowronski, Michael Viebig: Nazi military justice in the Second World War: Discipline and repression instrument in a European dimension . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2014, ISBN 978-3-8470-0372-4 ( google.de [accessed October 6, 2019]).
↑ Michael Eberlein, Norbert Haase, Sächsische Gedenkstätten Foundation in Memory of the Victims of Political Tyranny: Luxembourg Forced Recruits in the Torgau-Fort Zinna Wehrmacht Prison, 1943-1945 . Sächsische Gedenkstäaten Foundation in memory of the victims of political tyranny in cooperation, 1996, ISBN 978-3-9805527-0-7 , p. 19 ( google.de [accessed on October 6, 2019]).

[1] Claudia Bade, Lars Skowronski, Michael Viebig: Nazi military justice in the Second World War: Discipline and repression instrument in a European dimension . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2014, ISBN 978-3-8470-0372-4 ( google.de [accessed October 6, 2019]).

[2] Michael Eberlein, Norbert Haase, Sächsische Gedenkstätten Foundation in Memory of the Victims of Political Tyranny: Luxembourg Forced Recruits in the Torgau-Fort Zinna Wehrmacht Prison, 1943-1945 . Sächsische Gedenkstäaten Foundation in memory of the victims of political tyranny in cooperation, 1996, ISBN 978-3-9805527-0-7 , p. 19 ( google.de [accessed on October 6, 2019]).