Panzer Division Norway

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Panzer Division Norway

active August 1943 to July 1, 1944
Country German Reich NSGerman Reich (Nazi era) German Empire
Armed forces Wehrmacht
Armed forces army
Branch of service Armored force
Type Panzer Division
structure structure
garrison Trandum
Commanders
list Commanders

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

history

division

The Panzer Division Norway was formed on August 25, 1943 at the Trandum military training area near Oslo (today Oslo-Gardermoen Airport ) from parts of the 25th Panzer Division left behind in Norway when the main part of this division was relocated from Norway to France there to prepare for deployment on the Eastern Front . The association, called a division for camouflage reasons, with only one tank battalion with 47 Panzerkampfwagen III already overtaken at that time , however, only had the combat strength of a regiment , because the assigned Panzergrenadierregiment was only battalion strength . There was no combat operation. The division was disbanded in July 1944, as the majority of its units had already been delivered to Denmark from May 1944 to re-establish the 25th Panzer Division, which had been destroyed in northern Ukraine in February 1944.

brigade

In Norway only the Panzer Brigade Norway , formed on July 13, 1944 in Trandum from its remnants, remained , which consisted of a small tank battalion and the Panzergrenadier battalion "Norway" (later renamed "Sturmbataillon Norway"). The staff of the brigade was formed from the personnel of the disbanded Panzer Brigade 21. The brigade was relocated to Narvik in January 1945 to counter a Soviet offensive in northern Norway. But she was never involved in fighting, capitulated with the XXXVI. Mountain Corps ( 20th Mountain Army ) and went into British captivity on May 10, 1945.

Commanders

period of service Rank Surname
August 25 to October 1, 1943 Lieutenant colonel Max to Waldeck and Pyrmont
October 1 to November 20, 1943 Major general Reinhold Gothsche
November 20, 1943 to June 11, 1944 Colonel Max Roth
June 11 to July 1, 1944 Major general Reinhold Gothsche
July 13, 1944 to May 8, 1945 (Brigade) Colonel Maetschke

Structure as "division"

  • Panzer Department Norway
  • Panzergrenadier Regiment Norway
  • Armored Artillery Division Norway
  • Panzerjäger department
  • Panzer Pioneer Battalion
  • News department
  • Supply troops

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 .

Web links

Notes and individual references

  1. ↑ Cf. Georg Tessin : Associations and troops of the German Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS in the Second World War 1939–1945 , Volume 14, Biblio-Verlag, Osnabrück 1980, ISBN 978-3-7648-1111-2 ; P. 176f.