Guestrow Infantry Division
The Infantry Division Güstrow was a German infantry division of the Army during World War II . The unit consisted mainly of members of the Reich Labor Service (RAD) .
Division history
The RAD Division No. 4 "Güstrow" was set up on April 29, 1945 among others from the 696th Grenadier Regiment of the 340th Infantry Division , members of the Fahnenjunkerschule VI and other units as an infantry division, e.g. V. 4 , and a short time later Renamed in Wehrkreis III after the place of installation, the city of Güstrow in Mecklenburg . The division's training was not completed before the end of the war. The division, assigned to the Vistula Army Group , surrendered to the British Army in West Mecklenburg in May 1945 and was taken prisoner of war .
The commander was the city commander of Güstrow, Colonel Ernst Nobis .
structure
- Grenadier Regiment Güstrow 1
- Grenadier Regiment Güstrow 2
- Grenadier Regiment Güstrow 3
- Artillery Regiment Güstrow
- Fog thrower department Güstrow
- News Battalion Güstrow
- Division Fusilier Battalion Güstrow
- Pioneer Battalion Güstrow
commander
- Colonel Nobiz, former commander of the disbanded 131st Infantry Division
literature
- Jean-Denis Lepage: Hitler's Armed Forces Auxiliaries - An Illustrated History of the Wehrmachtsgeigte, 1933–1945. McFarland, 2015, p. 79 + p. 88
- 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. 49 + 215, ISBN 978-0-8117-3437-0 .
- Josef Pechmann: The RAD infantry division "Friedrich Ludwig Jahn" . Army history Museum - employee history. Inst., 1994, p. 66.
