Fortress Division Warsaw (Wehrmacht)

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The Fortress Division Warsaw was a major unit of the Army of the German Wehrmacht in World War II, the Army Group A .

Division history

The division was set up in early January 1945 in the Polish capital of Warsaw to defend the same against the Red Army as part of the strategy of permanent positions .

The dissolving division, subordinate to the 9th Army , was initially enclosed in Warsaw (on January 16, the defense consisted of only four battalions of the fortress division) and later, after the city was captured, on January 18, 1945 the Red Army almost completely destroyed. Then the remaining parts of the Warsaw Fortress Division united with the 73rd Infantry Division to strengthen the defense of the Thorn Fortress . Previously, the commander of the 9th Army, Smilo von Lüttwitz , had given up the defense of the city without a higher order, which dissolved the cohesion of the troops. The commander of the fortress division Weber was then transferred to the Führer Reserve , sentenced to parole at the front and no longer received any military command.

The division was officially disbanded on January 27, 1945.

structure

  • Fortress Regiment 8
    • 1st Battalion (formerly Fortress Infantry Battalion 1401)
    • 2nd / 3rd battalion
    • 4th Battalion (formerly Fortress MG Battalion 24)
    • Panzerjäger-Company 17
  • Fortress Regiment 88
    • 1st Battalion (formerly Landesschützen-Bataillon 238)
    • 2nd battalion (formerly Landeswehr battalion Weckerle)
    • 3rd battalion
    • 4th Battalion (formerly Fortress MG Battalion 25)
    • Panzerjäger-Company 16
  • Fortress Regiment 183
    • 1st / 2nd / 3rd / 4th battalion
  • Fortress Artillery Regiment 1320
    • Fortress Grenade Launcher Battalion 22nd
    • Fortress Grenade Launcher Battalion 23rd
  • Fortress Engineer Battalion 67
  • Intelligence Force 1320
  • Resupply Troops 1320

commander

literature

  • Hans Jürgen Pantenius: Last battle on the Eastern Front: from Döberitz to Danzig 1944/1945: Memory and experience of a young regimental commander . Mittler ES + Sohn GmbH, 2002, et al. P. 101
  • Mitcham, Samuel W., Jr. (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. P. 235, ISBN 978-0-8117-3437-0 .

reference

  1. ^ Peter Gosztony, Working Group for Defense Research: Stalin's Foreign Armies . Bernard & Graefe, 1991, ISBN 978-3-7637-5889-0 , pp. 231 ( google.de [accessed October 20, 2018]).
  2. ^ Hans Jürgen Pantenius: Last battle on the Eastern Front: from Döberitz to Danzig 1944/1945: Memory and experience of a young regimental commander . Mittler ES + Sohn GmbH, 2002, ISBN 978-3-8132-0741-5 , p. 118 ( google.de [accessed October 20, 2018]).