122nd Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)

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Country Nazi Germany Type Infantry		Branch Army Size Division

Active 7 October 1940 – 8 May 1945 Engagements World War II Operation Barbarossa Siege of Leningrad Demyansk Pocket Battle of Narva (1944) Courland Pocket

The 122nd Infantry Division (German: 122. Infanterie-Division) was a German division in World War II. It was formed on 5 October 1940

Commanding officers

Generalleutnant Siegfried Macholz, 5 October 1940 – 8 December 1941

Generalleutnant Friedrich Bayer, 8 December 1941 – 17 February 1942

Generalleutnant Siegfried Macholz, 17 February 1942 – 1 August 1942

Generalleutnant Kurt Chill, 1 August 1942 – 10 October 1942

Generalleutnant Gustav Hundt, 10 October 1942 – November 1942

Generalleutnant Siegfried Macholz, November 1942 – 1 December 1942

Generalmajor Adolf Westhoff, 1 December 1942 – 8 January 1943

Generalmajor Adolf Trowitz, 8 January 1943 – 15 May 1943

Generalleutnant Alfred Thielmann, 15 May 1943 – 27 June 1943

Generalleutnant Kurt Chill, 27 June 1943 – 1 February 1944

Generalmajor Johann-Albrecht von Blücher, 1 February 1944 – 4 February 1944

Generalmajor Hero Breusing, 4 February 1944 – 25 August 1944

General der Infanterie Friedrich Fangohr, 25 August 1944 – 20 January 1945

Generalmajor Bruno Schatz, 20 January 1945 – 8 May 1945

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