269th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)

The 269th Infantry Division was a major unit of the Wehrmacht, which was set up as a division of the 4th wave formation on 26 August 1939.

Division history

Areas of application:

  • Germany: October to December 1943
  • France: From January to June 1940
  • Denmark: July 1940 to March 1941
  • East Prussia: From April to May 1941
  • Kurland: June 1941
  • Eastern front, northern sector: June 1941 to November 1942
  • Norway: December 1942 to October 1944
  • France: November 1944 to January 1945
  • Ore Mountains and Silesia February to May 1945

The 269 ID was set on 26 August 1939 as a division of the fourth wave in Military District X in Hamburg.

After the Polish campaign the 269th ID was moved to the Western Wall, to fight in Belgium and France. In 1940, the battalions III. / IR 469, III. / IR 489, III. / IR 490 and III. / AR 269 delivered and replaced to replenish the 131st Infantry Division. In June 1941, the 269th ID took part in Operation Barbarossa, the invasion of the Soviet Union. She was placed under the Army Group North, fought in Kurland and in the area of Lake Ladoga. The Winter 1941/1942 spent the Division at the highly competitive Wolchowstellung. The Grenadier Regiment 490 had dissolved because of heavy losses on December 2, 1942 and the survivors will be distributed to the other division units. The division was moved to the coast assurance to Bergen ( Norway), up to the Fourth Division / Artillery Regiment 269, which was parked in the 69th Infantry Division and continue Leningrad besieged. In 1944, a relocation to France with fighting in the Vosges and Colmar against advancing Allied troops. In January 1945 took a regiment of the 269th ID along with the 198th Infantry Division and the 106th Panzer Grenadier Brigade " Feldherrenhalle " from the bridgehead Alsace at the failed operation solstice Strasbourg part. The rest of the 269th ID was reinstated on the Eastern Front and was awarded the contract to keep at Ohlau a bridgehead over the Oder. End of the war, the existing of only one battle group remnants of the Division were in the Ore Mountains and came in May 1945 in Breslau in Soviet captivity.

People

Division commanders

  • Simon Casimir Prinz zur Lippe- Biesterfeld (* September 24, 1900 in Potsdam, † 9 December 1980 )

Structure

  • Infantry Regiment 469
  • Infantry Regiment 489
  • Infantry Regiment 490
  • Artillery Regiment 269
  • Engineer Battalion 269
  • Field Replacement Battalion 269
  • Anti-Tank Division 269
  • Reconnaissance Battalion 269
  • Infantry Divisions - news department 269
  • Infantry division supply officer 269
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