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4th Mountain Division (Wehrmacht)

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Country
  
Nazi Germany

Type
  
Gebirgsjäger

Size
  
Division

Branch
  
Army

Role
  
Mountain warfare

Active
  
October 1940 – May 1945

The 4th Mountain Division (German: 4. Gebirgs Division) was established in October 1940. It took part in the 1941 Balkans Campaign and then joined Army Group South in Operation Barbarossa after it was already underway. In 1942 it participated in the failed attempt to seize the Caucasus in Operation Edelweiss under Army Group A. Following the operation's failure, the division was pushed back into the Kuban bridgehead on the Crimean Peninsula, the western Ukraine, Hungary, and Slovakia, surrendering to the Soviet forces near Czech Olomouc when the war ended in May 1945.

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Commanders

  • Generalleutnant Karl Eglseer, 23 October 1940 – 1 October 1941
  • Oberst Karl Wintergerst, 1 October 1941 – November 1941
  • Generalleutnant Karl Eglseer, November 1941 – 22 October 1942
  • Generalleutnant Hermann Kreß, 23 October 1942 – 12 August 1943
  • Generalleutnant Julius Braun, 13 August 1943 – 6 June 1944
  • Oberst Karl Jank, 6 Juni 1944 – 1 July 1944
  • Generalleutnant Friedrich Breith, 1 July 1944 – 23 February 1945
  • Oberst Robert Bader, 23 February 1945 – 6 April 1945
  • Generalleutnant Friedrich Breith, 6 April 1945 – 8 May 1945

    • Order of Battle

  • Gebirgsjäger-Regiment 13
  • Gebirgsjäger-Regiment 91
  • Gebirgs-Artillerie-Regiment 94
  • Panzerjäger-Kompanie 94
  • Gebirgs-Pionier-Bataillon 94
  • Aufklärungsabteilung 94
  • Nachrichten-Abteilung 94
  • Gebirgsjäger-Bataillon 94
  • Divisions-Einheiten 94

    • References

    4th Mountain Division (Wehrmacht) Wikipedia
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