181. Infanterie-Division (Wehrmacht) – Wikipedia

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181. Infantry-Division

181st Infanterie-Division Logo.svg
Active December 1, 1939 to May 8, 1945
Stands German Reich NS Deutsches Reich
Armed forces Wehrmacht
Partial dispute Grade
Troops Infantry
Type Infanteriedivision
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Location Braunschweig
Nickname Hannover Division
Second World War Operation Weser exercise; Belgrade operation
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The 181. Infantry-Division (181. id) was a large association of the army of the German Wehrmacht in World War II.

The 181st infantry division was set up from December 1, 1939 in the military district XI (Hanover) in the Braunschweig area. [first] From January 12, 1940, it was expanded into a full division with eight infantry battalions. [first]

The installation and training took place until March 1940. The 181st ID was used for the first time from April 9, 1940 during the Weser exercise as part of the group XXI when occupying Norway. There the division remained as a crew troop in the Association of the Army in Norway in the Greater Drontheim area until September 1943. The 181st ID then moved-but only with 2 Grenadier regiments and 5 battalions-from central oral paths to the Balkans to Montenegro, where it in the association the 2nd Panzer Army for coastal protection and partisan control was used. The 181st ID brought about reorganization and feeding on the status of a “division of new Art 1944”. [first]

For more than a year, the division conducted in the framework of the army groups F and E Winging battles with partisan associations and was essentially able to secure the assigned space. The withdrawal of the Wehrmacht from Greece, Albania and Macedonia brought lossy fights and withdrawals for the 181st ID in autumn 1944, which were also made more difficult by the less developed terrain and the weather. The Füsilier Regiment 334 was almost completely destroyed in Montenegro in October/November 1944 and had to be rebuilt from January 1945. [2] The 181st ID fought in Bosnia and Croatia until the end of the war in 1945. In May 1945, it resulted in the Tito Partisanes on the border with Celje at Celje and was taken to Jugoslav captivity. [2]

Integration and subordinate to the 181st ID [2]
Datum Army corps army Army group Scene
December 1939 to March 1940 set up in military circle XI – – Braunschweig
April to August 1940 Group XXI – – Norway
September to December 1940 XXXIII Group XXI – Drontheim
January 1941 to August 1943 Norway –
September 1943 Reserve –
October to November 1943 XXI 2. Panzer Army F Montenegro
December 1943 V. SS
January to September 1944 XXI
October to December 1944 AND
January 1945 Cypress Croatia
February to March 1945 XXI
April 1945 – AND
May 1945 69 – Southeast Styria
Structures of the 181st ID [first]
December 1, 1939 January 12, 1940 1. April 1944
Infantry-Regiment 334 Infantry-Regiment 334 Fusilier regiment 334 (two battalions)
Infantry-Regiment 349 Infantry-Regiment 349 Grenadier Regiment 363 (two battalions)
– Infantry-Regiment 359 Grenadier Regiment 359 (as III. Turk-Batillon)
Light artillery department 222 Artillery-Regiment 222
– – Divisions-Füsilier-Battalion 181
– Division units 222

On October 15, 1942, all infantry regiments were renamed Grenadier regiments.

Information after [3]

  • Georg Tessin: Associations and troops of the German Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS in World War II 1939–1945. Seventh band. The land forces 131–200. Biblio-Verlag, Osnabrück 1973, ISBN 3-7648-0872-1, pp. 207–211.
  1. ↑ a b c d Georg Tessin: Associations and troops of the German Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS in World War II 1939–1945. Seventh band. The land forces 131–200. Biblio-Verlag, Osnabrück 1973, ISBN 3-7648-0872-1, p. 207.
  2. ↑ a b c Georg Tessin: Associations and troops of the German Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS in World War II 1939–1945. Seventh band. The land forces 131–200. Page 207–210. Biblio-Verlag, Osnabrück 1973, ISBN 3-7648-0872-1, p. 208.
  3. ↑ Samuel W. Mitcham: German Order of Battle, Volume 1: 1st-290th Infantry Divisions in World War II. Stackpole, 2007, S. 234

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