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Post by festung st malo » 04 Oct 2007, 13:30

KG Bacherer
Approximately, the remainders of the 77.ID are with the orders of Oberst Rudolf Bacherer. After the hard combat in Normandy, these elements were folded up on the sector Dinan/Saint-Malo… the 77.ID receives the command of kcVa “A1” on July 27. He are subordinates 602.Ost-Beats it., the 1220.Sicherung-battalion, as well as the elements of Festung Saint-Malo which includes/understands inter alia units of the 266.ID…
On July 29, the 77.ID receives the order to gather the elements isolated from the 5.FJD… it thus gathers a group made up of 7 officers and 537 warrant officers and troops.
On July 30, the 77.ID also takes under its orders some Sturmgeschütze of the 431.StuG.Abteilung…
On July 31, the 77.ID receives the order to form KG Bacherer.
KG includes/understands apparently two battalions of infantry survivors of the 77.ID, to which elements of Festungs-Stamm-Truppen are attached, probably some pieces of artillery coming from the 266.ID and the coastal batteries, and two battalions of Fallschirmjäger Ersatz und Ausbildung Rgt II (approximately 500 men)…
It is envisaged to reinforce it by elements of the 2.FJD, but the unfolding of the engagements towards Avranches and Pontorson will not leave time to these units to join KG Bacherer…
It is also possible that elements of the 91.ID, in protection along Sélune, joined KG…

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Post by festung st malo » 04 Oct 2007, 13:32

the kampfgruppe has to separate into 2 to see plusior elements on August 3 because 600 infantrymen of the 77 I.D like two 75 and a flak vierling are announced in reinforcement has chateauneuf ille & villaine has L paddle of August 4. on Tuesday 8 August a battalion of the 121 rgt of infantry u.s this fact of encircling by against attacks of this méme kampfgruppe, in the sector of pleurtuit.le August 12 its PC is announced to the battery of flak Le Bois Chauchard (PC of the gem. Flak-Abt.912).


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Post by Endzeit Jan » 07 Jun 2008, 20:29

Hi Guys
Kampfgruppe Feller
its new 9.Pz.Div.???? in Aufstellung
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Post by tom_deba » 05 May 2009, 00:36

Do you have information about Kampfgruppe Dorn operating in southern Poland in 1944?

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Post by Graham Clayton » 23 Jun 2009, 13:01

1)K/G Stempel
2)14 Panzer Division
3)25/6/41
4)End of June 1941?
5)108th Panzer Grenadier Regiment (minus 2nd battalion)
36th Panzer Regiment (minus one tank company)
3rd Artillery Regiment (one battalion)
607th Mortar Battalion (one battery)
60th Artillery Regiment (one battery)
4th Anti-tank battalion (one battery)
13th Motorized Engineer Battalion (2nd company)
6) Tanks, 210 mm mortars, 100 mm cannons, anti-tank guns,small arms
7)Attacking Soviet positions near Lutsk
8)Victor J Kaminer "The Bloody Triangle - The Defeat of Soviet Armour in the Ukraine, June 1941", Zenith Press, Mineapolis, 2008

1)K/G Falkenstein
2)14 Panzer Division
3)25/6/41
4)End of June 1941?
5)103rd Panzer Grenadier Regiment
36th Panzer Regiment (one company)
4th Artillery Regiment (2nd Battalion)
4th Anti-tank battalion (minus one battery)
6) 210 mm mortars, 100 mm cannons, anti-tank guns, small arms
7)Attacking Soviet positions near Lutsk
8)Victor J Kaminer "The Bloody Triangle - The Defeat of Soviet Armour in the Ukraine, June 1941", Zenith Press, Mineapolis, 2008

1)K/G Damerow
2)14 Panzer Division
3)25/6/41
4)End of June 1941?
5)108th Panzer Grenadier Regiment (one battalion)
4th Artillery Regiment (one battalion)
6) small arms, artillery
7)Defensive positions near bridge at Rozhsche
8)Victor J Kaminer "The Bloody Triangle - The Defeat of Soviet Armour in the Ukraine, June 1941", Zenith Press, Mineapolis, 2008

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Post by Graham Clayton » 11 Aug 2009, 07:47

1)K/G Kuehne
2)N/A
3)14 September 1944
4)approximately 17 September 1944
5)Recruits from Adolf Hitler barracks at Wittlich, using half-track transport from SS 2nd Division "Das Reich"
6)Mortars, MG42 machine guns
7)Defensive action against 22nd Regiment of US 4th Division near Brandscheid
8)Charles Whiting "West Wall: The Battle for Hitler's Siegfried Line", Spellmount Publishing, Staplehurst, 1999, pp 37-39
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Post by hawkeye 1 » 21 Aug 2009, 02:53

Rudi S. wrote:Servus Michi,
sorry that I cannot find the infp on KG Nehring anymore. KG Nehring was before my assignment to the FBB.
Viele Grüsse aus Texas,
Rudi S.
I think the reason for not finding this Kampfgruppe is a Spelling mistake.
One of the first Kampfgruppen in the FBB was Kampfgruppe Nähring.
Led by Hauptmann Alfred Nähring.
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Post by hawkeye 1 » 21 Aug 2009, 03:35

hawkeye 1 wrote:
Rudi S. wrote:Servus Michi,
sorry that I cannot find the infp on KG Nehring anymore. KG Nehring was before my assignment to the FBB.
Viele Grüsse aus Texas,
Rudi S.
I think the reason for not finding this Kampfgruppe is a Spelling mistake.
One of the first Kampfgruppen in the FBB was Kampfgruppe Nähring.
Led by Hauptmann Alfred Nähring.
Regards
Falk
Kampfgruppe Nähring (Sep 1941 – Mar 1942)


Employed on security duties in the rear areas of HGr. Nord until December 1941. At Leningrad, Oranienbaum pocket.
Then split up and attached to a number of different formations under command of AOK 16 and AOK 18 with action around the Volkhov swamps, area Tschudowo and the Tichwin–Grusino log road.


Commanders
Hauptmann Alfred Nähring


Order of battle
Stab
Stabszug (LKW)
Pz-Kp (Pz 38(t) )
Pz.Späh-Zug
KradSchtz-Zug (s.MG)
Pz.Jäg-Zug (Pak 38 (mot.) )
Flak-Zug
Nachrichtenzug
San-Trupp
Werkstatt-Züge

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Re: German Kampfgruppen of WW2

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Post by Wohlau » 12 Jan 2010, 14:42

Kampfgruppe 'Sachs'/Kampfgruppe 'Sachsenheimer' [GenMj MAX SACHSENHEIMER, commander 17. Inf. Div.]
Formed Feb. 1945 Glogau-Breslau area, parts of the Kampfgruppe recaptured Dyhernfurth on 5.2.1945, then fightings in Maltsch-Neumarkt area untill 13/14. Februar (encirclement). Only 800 soldiers from the 17th Inf. Div. reached German lines through motorway near Kostenblut.

- Staff: Ia Mj BAILER, Ib Mj VON RUFFIN
- remnants of the 17. Inf. Div. (1000 soldiers had reached Oder river end Jan. 45r, units were then partly refilled in Glogau)
* Gren.-Rgt. 55 [Mj JACOBS]
* Gren.-Rgt. 95 (nearly totally destroyed) [Mj SEIFERT]
* Gren.-Rgt. 21 (nearly totally destroyed) [Mj JOOS]
* Art.-Rgt. 17 (despite heavy casualties the unit was not liquidated after the Vistula-Oder collapse)
* Nachr.-Abtl. 17
* Pi.-Abtl. 17
* Pz.-Jäg.-Abtl. 17
* divisional troops
- Bataillon (Kampfgruppe) 'von Wittenburg' (Rittmeister VON WITTENBURG) (formed from soldiers of Auf.- Ers. u. Ausb.- Abt. 8 in Oels)
- Heeres Unteroffiziers-Schule Nr. 6 für Infanterie (Pilsen)
- Heeres-Pionier-Bataillon ??
- Marschbataillon from Braunschweig
- Kampfgruppe 'Brunschlicht' [Offz. BRUNSCHLICHT]
* Hitlerjugend from Wehrertüchtigungslager Rehfelde, Volkssturm, Landesschützen
- Others (?)
Artillery:
- Flak-Abteilung ?? (from Breslau) [Hptm. ??] (8,8 cm)
- Vierlingsflak Batterie (2,0 cm)
- Others: the troop had heavy artillery (10,5 cm)

- Volkssturm (several battalions):
* Vlks. Btl. 67. from Militsch [Hptm. d.R. VON KEYSERLING] (no 1. Kp. and Stab)
* Vlks. Btl. 68. from Obernigk [prof. KAISSLING]
* Vlks. Btl. 72.
* Vlks. Btl. 49.
* Vlks. Btl. 21 from Liegnitz [PFLANZ]
* also Vlks. from Maltsch, Neumarkt, Dyhernfurth (?)
* others ??

- lt. Pionier-Sturmboot-Kp. 906 [Oblt. RÖHRIG] [only for Dyhernfurth action]

Not sure whether directly under Sachsenheimer's command, but these fought in the area:
- Kampfgruppe 'Deutsch' - ??
- Kampfgruppe 'Regimer' / Regnimer(?)- ??
- Kampfgruppe 'Belger' - ??

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Post by Hecht » 29 Mar 2010, 20:29

KG Haupt.Helbinger was in Slovenia in 1944 but I could not find additional infos about it (very likely part of the HSSPF Triest).

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Post by Brad Hunter » 02 Dec 2010, 18:26

Kampfgruppe "Kiehl" - Panzerarmee Afrika Kampfstaffel – Col. Kiehl
Formation - 05/42, just prior to "Case Venezia"
Surrendered, Tunisia, 05/43
Kampfgruppe "Kiehl" - Panzerarmee Afrika Kampfstaffel
--HQ – 5 x Pz II
--2./606. Heer Fla-Abteilung (sfl) - 8 x SdKfz 10/4, 2 x SdKfz 7/1
--1 Zug/39. Panzerjager-Abteilung (mot.) - 3 x 50mm Pak
--1 Zug/33. Pionier-Bataillon (mot.) – 3 x Pionier-Gruppe
--1 PanzerSpah-Zug/3. Panzeraufklarungs-Abteilung – 4 x SdKfz 222
--beute Panzer-Kompanie – 12 x M3 Stuart (added 06/42, 3 left when the unit surrendered)
--(various numbers of 8.8cm Flak attached periodically)
NARA documentation (I don't have the citation handy atm)

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Post by frodo » 18 Sep 2016, 18:55

1) Kampfgruppe Weißhuhn (Hauptmann Arthur Weißhuhn)
2) Panzergrenadierregiment 433
3) 07.11.1942
4) Date of Dispersion ?
5) unit staff and 2 companies
6) TOE ?
7) safeguarding and defense of Halfaya Pass during retreat from El Alamein
8) War Diary 164. leichte Afrikadivision

1) Kampfgruppe Driver (Hauptmann Helmut Driver)
2) I./Panzergrenadierregiment 382
3) 07.11.1942
4) Date of Dispersion ?
5) unit staff and 3 companies
6) TOE ?
7) safeguarding and defense of Capuzzo Station during retreat from El Alamein
8) War Diary 164. leichte Afrikadivision
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Post by jony663 » 28 Nov 2016, 04:50

For a novice here, what are the best English sources, books and websites, for Western Europe Kampfgruppen in WW2?

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Post by Dunnigan » 29 Nov 2016, 20:30

jony663 wrote:For a novice here, what are the best English sources, books and websites, for Western Europe Kampfgruppen in WW2?
That's not an easy question to answer. There's no definitive book or website because Kampfgruppen by nature were ad hoc varied by campaign, current unit strength, and where it was assigned.

Are you interested in the composition of the Kampfgruppen in Southern (i.e. Italy) and Northwest Europe (France, Low Countries, Germany) in 1943-1944?

General histories may cite Kampfgruppen by name but will often not describe their composition. Campaign or battle accounts may describe them in detail but may vary in the level of detail of their composition (i.e. "KGr. XYZ had a panzer company and a panzergrenadier battalion" but won't say which ones). Sources that would probably have the most detail for the KG composition are after action reports, unit histories, and the like, but these are not always readily available and sources like Kriegstagebuch (KTB) are on microfilm and you have to pour over them to find what you are looking for.

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Re: German Kampfgruppen of WW2

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Post by jony663 » 30 Nov 2016, 13:55

My interest is in NW Europe 1944. Normandy until around Arnhem.

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