87th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)

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Country Nazi Germany Type Infantry Garrison/HQ Altenburg		Branch Army Size Division
Active 26 August 1939 – 8 May 1945

The German 87th Infantry Division was created on 26 August 1939 in Altenburg. The division went into captivity in the Courland pocket.

Commanding officers

Generalleutnant Bogislav von Studnitz, 26 August 1939

General der Artillerie Walther Lucht, 17 February 1942

Generalleutnant Bogislav von Studnitz, 1 March 1942

Generalleutnant Werner Richter, 22 August 1942

General der Artillerie Walter Hartmann, 1 February 1943

Generalleutnant Mauritz Freiherr von Strachwitz, 22 November 1943

Generalleutnant Gerhard Feyerabend, August 1944

Generalmajor Helmuth Walter, September 1944

Generalleutnant Mauritz Freiherr von Strachwitz, 16 January 1945

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