Raegener Infantry Division

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The Raegener Infantry Division (also Kampfgruppe Raegener ) was a German infantry division during World War II .

Division history

The division was named after its only commander, Major General Adolf Raegener , who was promoted to Lieutenant General at the beginning of March 1945 . The division was set up as an alarm unit on February 4, 1945 to occupy the Oder position , more precisely the area between the Küstrin-Berlin motorway and Frankfurt an der Oder . It arose mainly from the remaining troops of the 433rd Infantry Division and the 463rd Infantry Division, but also from alarm, police units and Volkssturm .

Together with troops from the Kurmark Panzer Grenadier Division and the 26th Panzer Division , the Reitwein bridgehead was attacked when the division was deployed . Due to the lack of field communication in the Raegener infantry division, there were considerable limitations in combat power, especially at night, and civilian telecommunications were even forced to be used.

The division was broken up in April 1945 on the Oder. The remaining units were to be reorganized together with the remnants of the 286th Infantry Division to form the Training Division 286 , which was not finally completed.

structure

  • Grenadier Regiment Fischer
  • Grenadier Regiment Becker (from the Police Rifle Regiment 34)
  • Petersdorf Grenadier Regiment
  • Raegener tank destroyer company
  • Raegener Fusilier Company
  • Raegener Pioneer Company
  • Field Replacement Battalion Raegener Division

literature

  • Samuel W. Mitcham (2007a). German Order of Battle. Volume One: 1st - 290th Infantry Divisions in WWII. PA; United States of America: Stackpole Books. P. 336, ISBN 978-0-8117-3416-5 .
  • Samuel W. Mitcham (2007b). 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. 121, 226 + 227, ISBN 978-0-8117-3437-0 .
  • Le Tissier, Tony. Zhukov at the Oder: The Decisive Battle for Berlin. Greenwood Publishing Group, 1996. ISBN 0-275-95230-4 .

credentials

  1. ^ A b Norbert Kannapin: The German field post: Organization u. Location 1939-1945 . Biblio-Verlag, 1979, ISBN 978-3-7648-1169-3 , pp. 88 ( google.de [accessed October 8, 2018]).
  2. ↑ a b Germany (West) Military History Research Office, Rolf-Dieter Müller, Horst Boog, Jörg Echternkamp: The collapse of the German Reich 1945 . Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 2008, ISBN 978-3-421-06237-6 , pp. 594 ( google.de [accessed October 8, 2018]).