26th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (2nd Hungarian)

The 26th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS ( Hungarian No. 2 ), similar to the 25th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS " Hunyadi ," was set up on 23 December 1944, the military training area Neuhammer in Silesia. The Division in early January was postponed for further training and equipment after Sieddratz. The Division mainly comprised former members of the Hungarian army and Hungarian nationals who were recruited for the Division, together. In contrast to SS formations, which were composed of Germans or members of the so-called " Nordic race " led the Division the name: Waffen- SS instead of the ranks was also a weapons - prefixed.

The two Hungarian SS divisions formed in February 1945, the XVII. Weapons Army Corps ( Hungarian ), which, however, never came on the establishment phase out. The Soviet winter offensive in Silesia prevented the complete list of Division, which defected to the West, where they are the beginning of May 1945 resulted in the room Frankenburg American troops.

Structure

  • Waffen Grenadier Regiment of the SS 64 ( Hungarian No. 4)
  • Waffen Grenadier Regiment of the SS 65 ( Hungarian No. 5)
  • Waffen Grenadier Regiment of the SS 66 ( Hungarian No. 6)
  • Waffen- SS Artillery Regiment 26
  • Weapons - ski Battalion 26

Commanders

  • November 1944: SS -Sturmbannführer Rolf Tiemann
  • November 1944: January 1945 SS - Oberführer Zoltan Pisky
  • 23 - 29th January 1945: SS- Oberführer László Deák
  • 29 January to 19 March 1945: SS chief officer Berthold Maack
  • 21 March to 8 May 1945: SS-group leader Josef Grassy

Swell

  • Rolf Michaelis: The Grenadier divisions of the Waffen -SS Erlangen 1944, ISBN 3-930849-04-6, pp. 143-164.

4th "Polizei Panzer Grenadier Division " • 11 "North Country " • 16 " Reichsführer SS " • 17 " Götz von Berlichingen " • 18 " Horst Wessel " • 23 " Nederland " ( Dutch No. 1) • 28 " Wallonia " •

8 " Florian Geyer " • 22 • 37

27 " Langemarck " (Flemish No. 1) • 31 • 32 " 30 January " • 34 " Country Storm Nederland " ( Dutch No. 2) • 35th SS and Police Grenadier Division • 38 " Nibelungen "

6 "North" • 7 "Prinz Eugen"

33 ( Hungarian No. 3)

14 ( Galician No. 1) • 15 ( Latvian No. 1) • 19th ( 2nd Latvian ) • 20 ( Estonian No. 1) • 25 ( Hungarian No. 1) • 26 ( Hungarian No.. 2) • 29 " RONA " ( Russian No. 1) • 29 ( Italian No. 1) • 30 ( Russian No. 2) • 30 (White Ruthenian No. 1) • 33 " Charlemagne " ( French No. 1) • 36

13 " Handschar " ( Croat No. 1) • 21 " Skanderbeg " ( Albanian No. 1) • 23 "Kama " ( Croat No. 2) • 24 Karstjäger Division

  • SS Division
  • Foreign volunteer unit of the Waffen- SS
  • Hungarian Military History
  • German occupation of Hungary 1944-1945
  • Founded in 1944
  • Dissolved in 1945
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