36th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)
The 36th Infantry Division, from August 3, 1944 36th Grenadier Division and the October 9, 1944 36 people Grenadier Division, was a military major unit of the Wehrmacht.
Division history
The 36th ID was set up on 1 October 1936 in Kaiserslautern and mobilized in August 1939 as part of the first wave. A reorganization to the 36th Infantry Division ( mot ) was carried out on 1 November 1940. In June 1941 the 36th took ( mot ) as part of Operation Barbarossa, the invasion of the Soviet Union in part. On 26 June 1941, the 36th destroyed along with armored divisions in the Battle of Dubysa a majority of Soviet tank forces in the Baltics. In July 1941, she broke through the Stalin Line and took the town of Ostrow as significant traffic point on the road to Leningrad.
As part of Army Group North, they fought at Leningrad. When the storm Ischorastellung in September 1941, shortly before the 36th Leningrad ( Motorised) played a major role. The IR 118 took it in collaboration with dive bombers, the tactically important Duderhof heights.
In December 1941, the Division had to withdraw to the positions of forest Klin to misslungenem attack on Moscow. In front arc of Klin broke in the section of the 36th ( Motorised) by Soviet Skibataillone that were fought in heavy combat. In 1942, she was the army group subordinated middle, defended, strengthened by the teaching Brigade ( mot ) 900, at polar temperatures and large losses due to frost Kalinin and the Volga reservoir ( Moscow Sea) and took in boron and Baranowa part in the costly Battle of Rzhev. In the winter of 1942/1943 she fought in the Association of the 3rd Panzer Army several Soviet offensives from at the height of Rzhev - Sytschowka. In the spring of 1943, she was involved in the development of the rear Gzhatsk position and participated in Operation Buffalo movement, the evacuation of the Rschewer front arc part. As of March 24, 1943, she served as a reserve of the 9th Army in Dorogobusch. On May 1, 1943, the Division was demotorisiert and fell back to the status of a normal infantry division. In November 1943, she was reinforced by annexing the divisional group 268.
In June 1944, the 36th was completely destroyed in Bagration Bobruisk in the operation during the Soviet summer offensive. On August 3, 1944, a reorganization 36th Grenadier Division, but the association was reclassified already on 9 October 1944 36th Volks Grenadier Division.
People
- Sergeant Herbert Rasch
Awards
A total of 25 members of the 36th were awarded the Knight's Cross and 109 with the German Cross in Gold.