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31st SS Volunteer Grenadier Division Batschka
Active 1944 - 1945
Country Nazi Germany Nazi Germany
Allegiance Adolf Hitler
Branch Flag Schutzstaffel.svg Waffen SS
Type Grenadier
Size Division
Nickname Corn Division

The 31st SS Volunteer Grenadier Division Batschka. was formed from Germans, Hungarians and Volksdeutsche in September 1944. By November 1944 it was in action on the Hungarian Front In January 1945 it was sent to Austria and reformed as a type 45 Division; only two Battalions in each Regiment and only three platoons in each Company. [1]

It then joined the 17th Army in Silesia where it was surrounded by the Red Army and surrendered near Koeniggraetz in May 1945. [1]

Commander

[2]

According to Pencz Lombard was O/C until the Divisions destruction in 1945

Order of battle

  • SS Volunteer Grenadier Regiment 78
  • SS Volunteer Grenadier Regiment 79
  • SS Volunteer Grenadier Regiment 80 (this unit was destroyed and reformed using SS Police Regiment Brixen in 1945)
  • SS Artillery Regiment 31
  • SS Füsilier Battalion 31 (this unit was destroyed in Hungary and replaced using Hungarian SS Grenadier Battalion "Szalasi" in March 1945)
  • SS Signals Battalion 31
  • SS Nachschub Troop 31
  • SS Panzerjäger Battalion 31
  • SS Pionier Battalion 31
  • SS Kranken Transport Company 31
  • SS Vetinerary Company 31[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c German Order of Battle, Volume 3 By Samuel W. Jr Mitcham p.188
  2. ^ "sacich". http://www.serbianna.com/columns/savich/070.shtml. Retrieved 2009-02-16.  
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31st SS Volunteer Grenadier Division was formed in October 1944 from conscripted volksdeutsche (mainly from the Bačka region of Serbia) around a cadre from the disbanded Kama division.

It fought briefly against the Soviets in Hungary in November 1944 where it suffered heavy losses. After refitting, it saw action in Silesia during the final months of the war.

According to some sources this division was named Böhmen-Mähren while others claim that the name was Batschka.

Commanders==

SS-Brigadeführer Gustav Lombard (1 Oct 1944 - ? Apr 1945)

SS-Brigadeführer Wilhelm Trabandt (? Apr 1945 - 8 May 1945)

Chief of Staff

SS-Sturmbannführer Otto Reuter (? - 1 Mar 1945)

Quartermaster

SS-Obersturmführer Anton Büntgen (1 Oct 1944 - ? 1945)

SS-Obersturmführer Johannes Schnör (1 Mar 1945 - ?)

==Area of operations



Hungary & Czechoslovakia (Oct 1944 - May 1945)

Manpower strength

Dec 1944 11.000

Order of battle

  • SS-Freiwilligen Grenadier Regiment 78
  • * I SS-Freiwilligen Grenadier Battalion
  • * II SS-Freiwilligen Grenadier Battalion
  • * III SS-Freiwilligen Grenadier Battalion
  • SS-Freiwilligen Grenadier Regiment 79
  • * I SS-Freiwilligen Grenadier Battalion
  • * II SS-Freiwilligen Grenadier Battalion
  • * III SS-Freiwilligen Grenadier Battalion
  • SS-Freiwilligen Grenadier Regiment 80
  • SS-Artillerie Regiment 31
  • * SS-Artillerie Battalion I
  • * SS-Artillerie Battalion II
  • * SS-Artillerie Battalion III
  • * SS-Artillerie Battalion IV
  • SS-Füsilier-Bataillon 31
  • SS-Nachrichten-Abteilung 31
  • SS-Nachschub-Truppen 31
  • SS-Panzer-Jäger-Abteilung 31
  • SS-Pionier-Bataillon 31
  • SS-Kranken-Transport-Kompanie 31
  • SS-Veterinär-Kompanie 31
  • Feldpostamt




















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