Cycling Reconnaissance Brigade Norway

The wheeled reconnaissance brigade Norway (. Radf.Aufkl.Brig Norway) was a German reconnaissance - Brigade in the Second World War .

history

The brigade was set up in Norway in July 1944 and emerged from the Norway Cycle Reconnaissance Regiment (Radf. Aufkl.Rgt. Norway) formed in April 1944 from Reconnaissance Departments 95 and 233 through reclassification including the subordination of the necessary squadrons .

The unit was deployed in Lapland and later in Norway. Already on March 27, 1944, the Army High Command of the 20th Mountain Army ordered the Radf. Aufkl.Rgt. Norway is preferable to Ivalo immediately . Dittrich von Berlichingen (1911–1981), a descendant of Götz von Berlichingen , who was promoted from major to lieutenant colonel with effect from June 1, 1944 and in mid-1945 in the rank of colonel, led this unit in command, had been in command since regimental formation .

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Due to the generally poor condition of the associations in Norway in 1945, the members of which were mostly from the older age groups, the Radf. Aufkl.Brig. Deficiencies in the supply of weapons and equipment. So only the Radf. Aufkl.Brig. 120 machine guns type 42 and 1200 carbine 43 . On July 12, 1945, von Berlichingen still sealed the seal with the signature “Colonel and Commander” with an official seal of the “Radf. Aufkl.Rgt. Norway".

In Norway, the brigade went into Allied captivity . Colonel von Berlichingen was released from captivity in 1947 and from 1951 worked full-time at Deutsche Fiat AG in Heilbronn, where he also sat on the board.

literature

• Georg Tessin : Associations and troops of the German Wehrmacht and Waffen SS in World War II 1939–1945. Volume 4. The Land Forces 15–30. 2nd Edition. Biblio-Verlag, Osnabrück 1976, ISBN 3-7648-1083-1 , pp. 88-90.
• Samuel W. Mitcham, Jr. (2007a). 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 .
• Samuel W. Mitcham, Jr. (2007b). Panzer Legions: A Guide to the German Army Tank Divisions of WWII and Their Commanders. Mechanicsburg, PA, United States: Stackpole Books. ISBN 978-0-8117-3353-3 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Organization, structure, use, equipment of the Cycling Reconnaissance Regiment Norway / Cycling Brigade Norway and 10th Cycling Hunter Brigade. BArch RH 11-I / 41, Federal Archives , Military Archives Department
2. ^ Associations and units of the rapid troops and armored troops of the army. 1926-1945. BArch RH 39, Federal Archives, Military Archives Department.
3. ↑ Fritz Felgenhauer: Cavalry Regiment 11 and his reconnaissance departments (1938-1945), Schild-Verlag, 2002, p. 299 [1] [2]
4. ↑ German Soldiers' Yearbook , 1964, p. 241 [3]
5. ↑ A. Finland - Measures of building AOK 20 for "birch". In: Andreas Hillgruber : The war in Finland, Norway and Denmark. Addendum to the war diary of the High Command of the Wehrmacht (Wehrmacht command staff). 1940-1945. Volume IV / 1: B: War Diary 1944 Section 9, Part I, Bernard & Graefe, 1969, p. 23.
6. ↑ Part Two : The Conquest and Occupation of the German Empire. In: The collapse of the German Reich 1945 (= The German Reich and the Second World War . Vol. 10, edited by Rolf-Dieter Müller , Horst Boog , Jörg Echternkamp by the Military History Research Office). Commissioned by the Military History Research Office, 2 half-volumes, Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Munich 2008, p. 396. ISBN 978-3-421-06237-6 / ISBN 978-3-421-04338-2 .
7. ↑ https://ak-group.ru/forum/attachment.php?s=8e2c588a5b64df9b3ed9b7c555935f7a&attachmentid=205916&d=1514728575
8. ↑ Berlichingen-Jagsthausen, Dittrich Kurt Walter Robert von. In: Who's Who in Germany . R. Oldenbourg Verlag, 1974, p. 110.