32nd SS Volunteer Grenadier Division 30 Januar
The 32nd SS Volunteer Grenadier Division " 30 January, " was set up on 30 January 1945, command of 26 January 1945, on the SS training area Kurmark from troops of the Reserve Army and the battle group Schill. The division fought initially in parts, and later as an association, on the Eastern Front and was wiped out in the Halbe pocket. Small parts of the breakthrough to the 12th Army. This resulted on 3 May 1945 American troops in Tangermünde.
Installation and use
Originally, the Division had been planned as a Panzergrenadier division, due to the acute shortage of combat vehicles and fuel but it was still reclassified in the statement of Grenadier Division. The staff came mostly from spare units of the army, which were subject to Himmler in his capacity as Commander of the Replacement Army. The division was added, with others from the guards of the dissolved concentration camp.
The established already in the summer of 1944 for the suppression of the Slovak uprising SS Volunteer Grenadier Regiment 86 " Schill " formed the basis of the new division and was and by from January 25, 1945 at the military training area Kurmark ( in Love Rose in Brandenburg) from teaching staff recruits, front holidaymakers and the training and replacement battalions 1, 9 and 16 established SS Volunteer Grenadier Regiment 87 " Electorate " supplements. The SS Volunteer Grenadier - Regiment 88 was formed of the Order Police, army members and Volkssturm in March from a battle group of SS leaders School of Economic and Management Service and parts of the I. / SS-Polizei - Regiment 34.
The SS Artillery Regiment 32 was set up on 30 January 1945, on the SS training area Kurmark and consisted mainly of units of the SS Artillery Training and Replacement Regiment Prague.
The SS Pioneer Battalion 32 was formed by members of the SS Pioneer School Hradischko who had already served in the SS- Regiment " Schill " and filled with Hungarians and Romanians.
The anti-tank company of the SS Regiment " Schill " formed together with the SS-Panzer Jäger- Division 16 of the 16th SS Panzer Grenadier Division " Reichsführer SS " SS Tank Destroyer Division 32, which thus more than 22 assault guns III and 9 Sturmhaubitzen 42, at a nominal thickness of 14 Stugs, decreed.
In mid-March was z.b.V. the Flak Abteilung of the SS Main Office, which was temporarily used as an SS - Flak Abteilung 550 in the V. SS Mountain Corps, subordinated to the division.
In February 1945, all available troops were ordered to the front, as well as the already -formed units of the 32nd SS Volunteer Grenadier Division " 30 January, " especially the engineer battalion and units of the regiment " Schill ". The division until the end of February was used as a closed association. In March, the division came in Vogelsang against superior Soviet forces for use until it was ordered as an Army Reserve in the room Seelow on 12 April 1945. The attack of the Red Army on the Seelow Heights ultimately led to the inclusion of the 9th Army, and the 32th SS Division. In the night from 28 to 29 April, the remnants of the Division from the Halbe pocket broke out and were able to 3 May penetrate to Tangermünde, where they surrendered to the 102nd Infantry Division.
Proposed Outline
- SS Volunteer Grenadier Regiment 86 " Schill "
- SS Volunteer Grenadier Regiment 87 " Electorate "
- SS Volunteer Grenadier - Regiment 88
- SS Volunteer Artillery Regiment 32 SS Panzer Jäger- Division 32
- SS - Fusilier Battalion 32
- SS Flak Abteilung 32
- SS Pioneer Battalion 32
- SS - news department 32
- SS Field Replacement Battalion 32
Commanders
- 30 January to 5 February 1945: SS - Standartenführer Johannes Muhlenkamp
- 5th - 17th February 1945: SS- Standartenführer Joachim Richter
- 17 February to 15 March 1945: SS Lieutenant Adolf Ax
- 15 March to 8 May 1945: SS - Standartenführer Hans Kempin