19th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)
West campaign War against the Soviet Union
The 19th Infantry Division and later the 19th Panzer Division, was a major unit of the Army of the German Wehrmacht.
Division history
The 19th Infantry Division was on October 1, 1934 - situated in the Military District VI in Hannover - under the pseudonym artillery leader VI, whom she retained until 15 October 1935. The infantry regiments were formed from the 17th Infantry Regiment of the 6th Division of the Reichswehr. Since the reallocation of military districts in 1936 it belonged to the Military District XI. In August 1939, the mobilization was carried out as part of the first wave formation. During the invasion of Poland, the division fought in the Association of the XI. Army Corps, 10th Army, among others, in the Battle of the Bzura and Warsaw. After border security tasks in the west, she joined in May 1940 as part of the 6th Army from the room Viersen to attack across the Meuse at. After the rise over the lion up in the room Ypres it was ordered for the second part of the campaign in the room Roubaix. They led through Douai to Paris before, where a parade was held on 16 June, and finally crossed the Loire at Blois. At times, as an occupying force in France, the division end of September 1940 returned to their homeland.
On November 1, 1940, she was restructured and renamed the 19th Panzer Division. The Infantry Regiment 59 was doing the realigned 20th Panzer Division, the horse-drawn elements of the division to the 131 Infantry Division. She took as part of the 3rd Panzer Group, Army Group Center, the attack on the Soviet Union in part and fought in the battle of encirclement in Białystok and Minsk, the 4th Army was subordinated during the Battle of Bryansk, with them during the Battle of Moscow, the Moscow protective position reached. At the onset of the Soviet counter-offensive was pushed back into the room Juchnow - Sukhinichi. Later it was used in the Bryansk area and at the 2nd Panzer Army in the Orel area until she was transferred in December 1942 due to development of the situation in the south of the Eastern Front to Army Group South in the room Kupjansk. During operation citadel in July 1943, she was under the III. Panzer Corps of Army Detachment Kempf. In the following retreat fighting in the Ukraine, they suffered heavy losses.
She fought during the Battle of the Dnieper River as part of the 4th Panzer Army near Kiev before in December 1943 had to withdraw to Zhitomir itself. Subsequently, it was used in space Shepetovka and came in March 1944 with the 1st Panzer Army in the cauldron of Kamenetz -Podolsk. In June 1944 she was transferred to the Netherlands, but sent back after the start of Operation Bagration on the Eastern Front, where it was used to stabilize the front of Army Group Centre in the room Grodno - Bialystok. Pursued by the Red Army, she pulled then back to Warsaw. In November 1944, she was transferred as a reserve of Army Group A to Radom, where she came to the Baranov bridgehead in the fighting used. Before the Soviet Vistula-Oder operation, she had to retreat to Silesia in January 1945, in March as a result of the Upper Silesian operation into the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, where they surrendered in May.
People
Structure
- Panzer - Regiment 27 I II department
- Infantry Regiment 59 I. III. battalion
- Infantry Regiment 73 I. III. battalion
- Infantry Regiment 74 I. III. battalion
- Panzer Grenadier Regiment 73 I. II Battalion
- Panzer Grenadier Regiment 74 I. II Battalion
- Artillery Regiment 19 I. III. department I. Department / Artillery Regiment 55
- Panzer Artillery Regiment 19
- Observation Division 19
- Reconnaissance Battalion 19
- Armored Reconnaissance Battalion 19
- Antitank Department 19
- Tank Destroyer Division 19
- Army anti-aircraft artillery battalion 272
- Engineer Battalion 19
- Panzer Pioneer Battalion 19
- Infantry Divisions News Department 19
- Panzer news department 19
- Infantry division supply officer 19
- Panzer supply troops 19
Changes in the structure of the 19th Infantry Division from 1934 to 1940