14th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)
The 14th Infantry Division and later the 14th Infantry Division ( mot ) was a military major unit of the Wehrmacht.
Division history
Areas of application:
- Poland: September 1939 to May 1940
- France: From May to August 1940
- Germany: August 1940 to June 1941
- Eastern Front, Central Section: June 1941 to January 1945
The 14th ID was set up on 1 October 1934, which runs until October 15, 1935 code name " Commander of Leipzig " in Leipzig. The infantry regiments were formed from the 11th Regiment of the 4th Saxon Reichswehr division. 1936 moved to the barracks from military training area Koenigsbrueck to Naumburg. In 1939, she experienced her first use in combat in Poland. It was then in 1940 moved to the Western Front and took part in the Battle of Dunkirk. On November 15 1940 the engine and was renamed in the 14th Infantry Division ( Motorized ). On the eastern front, the 14th ID ( mot ) of Army Group Centre was subordinated and marched from Brest- Litovsk to the strategically important runway Smolensk - Moscow. During the operation typhoon they came up to the Moskva - Volga Canal shortly before Moscow, the attack remained lying by the sudden onset of winter and drop in temperature. A highlight was the battle for the front bow of Klin in November / December 1941. Between 1942 and the spring of 1943, the 14th ID ( mot ) was involved in the costly Battle of Rzhev. In March 1943 their positions were abandoned as part of Operation Buffalo movement and formed a new Abfanglinie near Smolensk. On June 30, 1943, she was reorganized as the 14th Panzer Grenadier Division. In the summer of 1943, she retired on the Desna until after Roslawl and fought until 1944 Suchowka Arch near Vitebsk / Belarus. During the Soviet Operation Bagration the 14 PGD was destroyed as a reserve of the 4th Army, together with the Army Group Centre in the room Borisov- Beresino -Minsk. In late summer 1944, the 14 PGD had to be repositioned, stretched across the Niemen fighting in East Prussia back and surrendered to the Red Army in Stutthof. Elements of the division came in a British internment camp in Schleswig -Holstein.
Commanders
Awards
A total of 24 members of the 14th ID were awarded the Knight's Cross and 148 with the German Cross in Gold.
Structure
Changes in the structure of the 14 ID/14. ID ( mot ) 1939-1943