Thrower Brigade 1 (Wehrmacht)

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The launcher Brigade 1 was a German rocket launcher - Brigade in the Second World War .

history

Special staff Colonel Niemann and Commander of the Fog Troop 1

On March 5, 1942, the special staff Colonel Niemann (named after the later major general Otto Niemann ) was set up in Celle , Lower Saxony , in military district XI .

It was transferred to the Crimea with submission to the 11th Army . In May 1942 the unit was renamed Commander of Fog Troop 1 and this was involved in the conquest of the Kerch peninsula and Sevastopol . This was followed by the transfer to the Caucasus Front with subordination to the 1st Panzer Army with fighting in the Rostov area and in the Terek area . At the end of 1942 the individual regiments had to withdraw. In mid-1943, the two no longer combatable throwing regiments received a refresher in the Kharkov area and they participated in battles on the Donets . In July 1943, the regiments were involved in the Citadel operation. This was followed by the deployment of two regiments at the Mius position in the subordination to the 1st Panzer Army . This was followed by various changes of subordination of the individual regiments (2 regiments to the II. SS Panzer Corps ; then reunited in the 8th Army ). From August to September 1943, the large unit was involved in fighting in the area between Kharkov and Kiev , in late 1943 / early 1944 to take part in the Battle of Kiev and the Zhitomir-Berditschewer operation . Due to the losses and the different regimental subordinations, there was no closed brigade deployment, so that in March 1944 it was reclassified to Thrower Brigade 1 .

Thrower Brigade 1

This was followed by operations with the 8th Army and the 3rd Panzer Army . The unit was mainly deployed on the Eastern Front against the Red Army . In the summer of 1944 the association took part in the Doppelkopf company .

In November 1944 the brigade was renamed Volks-Werfer-Brigade 1 .

People's Thrower Brigade 1

The brigade took the XIII in late 1944 / early 1945 . and LXVII. Army Corps assigned to the 6th Panzer Army participated in the Battle of the Bulge .

Most of the brigade was captured by the Soviets on May 8, 1945 on the Hela peninsula in West Prussia . Part of the unit was able to embark on May 8, 1945 by ship to Schleswig-Holstein , but ultimately did not escape Soviet captivity.

Commanders

structure

May 1942

  • Heavy Thrower Regiment 1
  • Thrower Regiment 70
  • Throwing Department 1
  • Thrower Department 4

July 1942

  • Heavy Thrower Regiment 1
  • Thrower Regiment 52
  • Thrower Regiment 54
  • Thrower Training Regiment 1 (until August 1942)

November 1943

  • Heavy Thrower Regiment 1
  • Thrower Regiment 57
  • Thrower Training Regiment 1

March 1944

  • Thrower Regiment 1
  • Thrower Regiment 57

literature

  • George F. Nafziger: The German Order of Battle in WWII: Field, Railroad, Coastal, Flak & Self Propelled Artillery Units . 1994
  • 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.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gerd Niepold: Tank operations "Doppelkopf" and "Caesar," Kurland-Sommer ʼ44 . ES Mittler, 1987, ISBN 978-3-8132-0259-5 , pp. 88 ( google.de [accessed on January 12, 2019]).
  2. ^ Danny S. Parker: Hitler's Ardennes Offensive: The German View of the Battle of the Bulge . Pen & Sword Books Limited, 2016, ISBN 978-1-84832-972-0 , pp. 68 ( google.de [accessed January 12, 2019]).