Hamburg Infantry Division
The Hamburg Infantry Division was a German infantry division during World War II .
Division history
The Hamburg Infantry Division , originally set up as the 324th Infantry Division, was set up on March 4, 1945 as a so-called alarm division in the course of the 34th wave of deployment at very short notice until March 8, 1945. The preparation took place in Military District X . On March 10, 1945 it was renamed the Hamburg Infantry Division .
The division staff was sent directly to Essen and formed the newly established division there, e.g. 618 . In the division zbV 618, which officially only existed for a few days, the remaining combat units of the former Hamburg infantry division were combined.
The division's regiments were first sent to Wesel and assigned to other units there, without the sending division being disbanded. The regiments fought at the beginning of April in Army Group B assigned to the Lüttwitz Army Department for Essen.
Around April 15, 1945 the division in the Ruhr basin was destroyed together with the army department. The remaining troops then went into American captivity.
The commanding officer was Major General / Lieutenant General Walter Steinmüller , former commander of the 331st and 346th Infantry Divisions .
structure
- Grenadier Regiment 558 (later Grenadier Regiment Hamburg 1) with two battalions each
- Grenadier Regiment 559 (later Grenadier Regiment Hamburg 2) with two battalions each
- Artillery Regiment 324 with two battalions each
- Fusilier Battalion 324
- Engineer Battalion 324
- News Battalion 324
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. ISBN 978-0-8117-3437-0 . Pp. 28, 185 + 186, 215 + 216.
- Georg Tessin : Associations and troops of the German Wehrmacht and Waffen SS in World War II 1939–1945. Volume 14. The Land Forces. Name associations. The air force. Flying bandages. Flak deployment in the Reich 1943–1945. Biblio-Verlag, Bissendorf 1980. p. 112
Individual evidence
- ↑ Steven J. Zaloga: Downfall 1945: The Fall of Hitler's Third Reich . Bloomsbury Publishing, 2016, ISBN 978-1-4728-1144-8 , pp. 40 ( google.de [accessed December 25, 2019]).
- ^ Norbert Kannapin: The German field post: Organization u. Location 1939-1945 . Biblio-Verlag, 1979, ISBN 978-3-7648-1169-3 , pp. 160 ( google.de [accessed December 25, 2019]).
