302nd Static Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)

The 302nd Infantry Division was a major unit of the Army of the German Wehrmacht.

Division history

Areas of application:

• Western Front: 1941-1942
• Eastern Front: 1942-1944

The 302 ID was erected from parts of the 75th ID, 292 ID and home guard battalions on 12 November 1940 as indigenous Division [A 1] of the 13 -up shaft in Ostmecklenburg. After working on the Western Front in occupied France, including participation in the defense of the allied landing company at Dieppe in August 1942, completed on 10 October 1942, the transformation into a front suitable Infantry Division and shortly after the transfer to the Eastern Front after Woroschilowgrad in the Donets region, where it was initially placed under the army Group Don, and then the army Group South. In December 1943, a reclassification to a new kind of so-called Division 44 was carried out by sub- position in the Army Group South Ukraine the 302nd ID as part of Operation Jassy - Kishinev in Tighina / Romania was destroyed in August 1944. Survivors were integrated into the 76th or 15th ID ID.

People

Structure

Changes in the structure of the 302 ID 1940-1944