Panzer-Division Kempf
The armored unit Prussia / Panzer Division Kempf was an improvised mixed force of the Army of the Wehrmacht and the SS Verfügungstruppe in World War II, which was specially designed for the Polish campaign. It consisted of units of all branches, but had only half the number of troops was then a conventional armored division.
History
Since no budget moderately armored unit was in the exclave of East Prussia comprehensive military district I, the formation of an improvised armored Association was provided in the planning for "Fall Weiss ". To this end, the rod and an armored regiment of the peacetime stationed in Stuttgart 4th Armoured Brigade were used under Major General Werner Kempf. There were also additional parked parts of the army as well as associations of SS Verfügungstruppe. The division thus also served as an experiment to test the interaction of the Wehrmacht and SS troops available. The staff arrived in the summer of 1939 on the military training area Stablack; the subordinate units were antransportiert in July and August, partly by sea and partly by rail. The arrival of the associations was explained by their participation in the celebrations of the 25th anniversary of the battle of Tannenberg. Instead, the dressing was placed the end of August in the room Neidenburg, opposite the Polish Mława position, in position.
Function of the association was to support the left wing of operating from East Prussia 3rd Army in overcoming the border fortifications and the extraction of transitions over Narew and Bug to attack from the northeast, the capital city of Warsaw can. The Division was involved in the Battle of Mława, the Battle of Warsaw and the Battle of Modlin. After a final victory parade in Neidenburg on October 7, it was dissolved.
The Inspector of the SS - Verfügungstruppe, SS- group leader Paul Hausser, accompanied the Division throughout the campaign. Directly after he set up the first division of the later Waffen-SS, the SS Division available.
Structure
- Rod (of 4th Armoured Brigade ) Panzer - Regiment 7
- SS regiment " Germany " ( mot )
- SS Artillery Regiment
- II. / Artillery Regiment 47
- SS Reconnaissance Battalion
- Anti-Tank Division 511
- Engineer Battalion 505 ( mot )
- News department ( mixed)
- 2./SS-Fla-MG-Bataillon