Ferdinand von Schill Infantry Division

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The Ferdinand von Schill Infantry Division was a German infantry division during World War II .

Division history

The division was set up on April 10, 1945, initially as a partially motorized combat group Burg from students from the Burg Assault Gun School in Burg near Magdeburg for Military District XI . It is the last established division of the Third Reich and with around 10,000 men was the largest remaining division of the Wehrmacht at that time.

Division coat of arms was a windmill .

The Burg Kampfgruppe was renamed the Ferdinand von Schill Infantry Division on April 20, 1945 and placed under the 12th Army (Wenck Army). So it fought on the Elbe and took part in the battle for Potsdam . The unit suffered heavy losses in fighting south of Berlin and in May 1945 was only taken into prisoner-of-war Allied captivity ( POW camp near Düsseldorf ), but was transferred to Soviet captivity a short time later . The command of the association was the major (later lieutenant colonel ) and later brigadier general of the Bundeswehr, Alfred Müller .

The division was named after the Prussian officer Ferdinand von Schill .

structure

  • Grenadier Regiment Schill 1
  • Grenadier Regiment Schill 2
  • Schill 3rd Artillery Regiment
  • Storm Brigade Schill
  • Assault Gun Brigade 394, previously Training Brigade III
  • Fusilier Battalion Schill
  • News Department Schill
  • Schill Pioneer Company

literature

  • Günther W. Gellermann: The Wenck Army. Hitler's last hope. Bernard & Graefe, Bonn 2005, ISBN 3-7637-5870-4 , pp. 42-44
  • 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. P. 209, ISBN 978-0-8117-3437-0 .

credentials

  1. ↑ a b c Sam A. Mustafa: The Long Ride of Major Von Schill: A Journey Through German History and Memory . Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2008, ISBN 978-0-7425-5743-7 , pp. 232 ( google.de [accessed on July 14, 2019]).
  2. ^ Franz Thomas, Günter Wegmann: The knight's cross bearers of the German Wehrmacht 1939–1945 . Biblio Verlag, 1985, ISBN 978-3-7648-1447-2 , pp. 221 ( google.de [accessed on July 14, 2019]).
  3. ↑ Sam A. Mustafa: The Long Ride of Major Von Schill: A Journey Through German History and Memory . Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2008, ISBN 978-0-7425-5743-7 ( google.de [accessed July 14, 2019]).
  4. ^ Franz Thomas, Günter Wegmann: The knight's cross bearers of the German Wehrmacht 1939-1945 . Biblio Verlag, 1985, ISBN 978-3-7648-1447-2 , pp. 205 ( google.de [accessed on July 14, 2019]).