116th Panzer Division (Wehrmacht)

The 116th Panzer Division was a major unit of the German army in World War II.

History

The 116th Panzer Division in France was established in March 1944 from the remnants of the 16th Panzer Grenadier Division and the 179th Reserve Panzer Division. After she was almost completely destroyed in the invasion front, it has been refreshed in the Eifel. The division took part in the fighting around Aachen, Hurtgenwald and at the Battle of the Bulge.

The division surrendered in April 1945, before U.S. troops in the Ruhr pocket.

Structure

  • Panzer - Regiment 16
  • Panzer Grenadier Regiment 60
  • Panzer Grenadier Regiment 156
  • Armored Reconnaissance Battalion 116
  • Panzer Artillery Regiment 146
  • Army anti-aircraft artillery battalion 281
  • Tank Destroyer Division 228
  • Panzer Pioneer Battalion 675
  • Panzer news department 228
  • Field Replacement Battalion 146
  • Panzer troops supplies 66

Commanders

  • Major General Gerhard Müller --- Auftstellung - April 30, 1944
  • General of Panzer troops Gerhard Graf von Schwerin --- 1 May to 31 August 1944
  • Colonel Heinrich Voigt Berger (MFB ) --- 1 to 13 September 1944
  • Major General Siegfried von Waldenburg --- September 14, 1944 - Capitulation

Others

  • In Vossenack (municipality Hurtgenwald ) recalls a stained glass window, donated by " Family Association Former member of the Greyhound Division ( 116 Pz Div ) eV ", to the fallen soldiers of the division that was involved here in the fall of 1944 in the heavy fighting. The Division of arms was integrated into this church window on the left side of the nave. In addition to the Cemetery Vossenack there is a monument to the Greyhound Division. There, meet annually in October Veterans Division to a memorial service, at which also participates in a delegation of the German Army from August village.
  • The coat of arms shows the dog allegedly " Sascha ", which in the spring of 1943, members of the predecessor association, the former 16th Infantry Division ( Motorised), was running up starving in the Kalmyk steppe. The coat of arms of the 116th Panzer Division was shown in the Armed Forces until 2004 in the arms of the mechanized infantry battalion 212.
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