719th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)

The 719th Infantry Division was a major unit of the Wehrmacht in the German Reich.

History

The Division was established on 3 May 1941 at the Military District III from soldiers of the room Berlin-Potsdam and moved as an occupation force in the Antwerp area and the Netherlands. After the Allied invasion of Normandy and its advance on Belgium, the division took over a defense section in the region of the 1st Parachute Army at Antwerp and then defended at the 15th Army on the Meuse-Scheldt Canal at Fort Merxem. During the withdrawal, the division fought at Woensdrecht and Breda.

The division in late November 1944, delivered to the 1st Army and came in at Oeting Saarlautern used. The division was wiped out in the fighting retreat in March / April 1945 in the Palatinate and should be on 14 April 1945 by the AOK 19 on the Upper Rhine from remnants of the 405th Division zbV be reorganized. Soon after, the remainder of the division at Münsingen fell into American captivity.

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Structure

• Infantry Regiment 723

• Grenadier - Regiment 723

• Infantry Regiment 743

• Grenadier - Regiment 743

• Grenadier - Regiment 766

• Ordnance Department 663

• Artillery Regiment in 1719

• Reconnaissance Company 719

• Fusilier Battalion 719

• Anti-tank company 719

• Tank Destroyer Division 719

• Pioneer Company 719

• Engineer Battalion 719

• News Company 719

• News department 719

• Sanitary department 719

• Field Replacement Battalion 719

Commanders

• May 3, 1941 Lieutenant General Erich cusp
• January 10, 1944 Lieutenant General Max Horn
• July 30, 1944 Lieutenant General Karl Sievers
• September 30, 1944 Infantry General Felix Schwalbe
• December 22, 1944 Major General Henry Gäde