Pomeranian Infantry Division

The Pommernland Infantry Division was a German infantry division of the Army in World War II , based in Köslin in Wehrkreis II .

Division history

The division was created by renaming the Infantry Division Köslin in February 1945. It was poorly equipped in terms of weapons. B. neither artillery nor anti-tank weapons .

After some fighting, the division had to move. a to Schievelbein and as part of the provisional corps group from Tettau (together with the Bärwalde infantry division ) to retreat to the Dievenow bridgehead and secure it for withdrawing German units. At the beginning of the division's front service, the von Tettau corps group was assigned to the 11th SS Panzer Army , and from March to the 3rd Panzer Army .

In March 1945 it was moved to the Rehberg area . Due to its strong decimation in previous battles with the Red Army , the association was dissolved on March 13, 1945 near Rehberg.

structure

• Pomeranian Regiment 1
• Pomeranian Regiment 2nd
• Pomeranian Regiment 3rd
• Artillery Regiment Pomerania

commander

• Colonel Peter Sommer : February 1945
• Lieutenant General Alexander von Zülow (1890–1948): February 1945 to March 1945, former commander of the 83rd Infantry Division
• Colonel Henning von Witzleben (* 1905): March 1945

Web links

• Bärwalde division / Köslin division / Pommernland division on EHRI portal from the Federal Archives

literature

• 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. 225, ISBN 978-0-8117-3437-0 .