Panzer Division Jueterbog

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Panzer Division Jueterbog

active February 1945 to March 1945
Country German Reich NSGerman Reich (Nazi era) German Empire
Armed forces Wehrmacht
Armed forces army
Type Panzer Division
structure structure
garrison Jüterbog military training area
Commanders
list Commanders

The Panzer Division Jüterbog was a major unit of the Army of the German Wehrmacht in World War II .

Division history

The Jüterbog tank division was set up on February 28, 1945 on the Jüterbog military training area south of Berlin as an alarm combat group for military districts III and IV . The personnel came from broken units of Army Group Center, replenished by alarm units and troop schools. The division only reached brigade strength.

The unit was marched in the direction of Bautzen and disbanded there on March 5, 1945. The already completed sub-elements of the division were taken over into the reorganization of the 16th Panzer Division .

structure

  • Rod
  • Tank department Jüterbog (staff, 2 Kp.)
  • Jüterbog Panzer Grenadier Regiment (staff, I. and II. Btl., Engineer and anti-aircraft company)
  • Jüterbog tank reconnaissance company
  • Jüterbog tank destroyer company
  • Jüterbog tank pioneer company
  • Jüterbog tank news company

literature

  • Samuel W. Mitcham Jr : The Panzer Legions: A guide to the German Army Tank Divisions of WWII and Their Commanders , Stackpole Military History, 2007, ISBN 978-0-8117-3353-3 .
  • Peter Schmitz, Klaus-Jürgen Thies, Günter Wegmann, Christian Zweng: The German Divisions 1941–1945 , Vol. 3, Biblio Verlag, Osnabrück 1996, ISBN 3-7648-2458-1 .
  • Rolf Stoves: The armored and motorized large German formations 1935–1945 . Nebel Verlag, 2003, ISBN 3-89555-102-3 (336 pages).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Rolf Stoves, p. 263