207th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)
The 207th Infantry Division was a military major unit of the Wehrmacht.
Division history
Command:
- Lieutenant General. Carl von Tiedemann ( August 1939-December 1942 )
- Gene. Erich Hofmann (from January 1943)
Areas of application:
The 207 ID was set up in Stargard as a division of the third wave formation in August 1939. Place your first order was the border guard behind the 4th Army in Pomerania. During the invasion of Poland in September 1939, the 207th ID marched from Biitow by Berent and Karthaus up to Gdynia. After the conquest of Poland, the 207th ID remained until December 1939 there as an occupation force. After that, the unit was moved and reclassified to Westphalia.
1940, the 207th ID at the Fall Gelb was involved and gave Elten to Holland before and got over the IJssel and the Lower Rhine to Arnhem. You could take with Ede, Rhenen, Utrecht, Apeldoorn, Amsterdam and Scheveningen.
In the Battle of France, she was among the troops who should occupy Paris, the 207 ID, was not again summoned before reaching the target back to Holland. Inactivation of the Division took place in August 1940; on the training area large Born, she was allocated to the 207th, 281st and 285th Security Division.
The 207th Security Division was transferred to the Eastern Front and the army group subordinated to the north.
Structure
- Infantry Regiment 322
- Infantry Regiment 368
- Infantry Regiment 374
- Artillery Regiment 207
- Engineer Battalion 207
- Anti-Tank Division 207
- Reconnaissance Battalion 207
- News department 207
- Supply troops 207