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The 22nd Air Landing Infantry Division was a
German infantry division in World War II.
History
Created as 22.Infanterie-Division in 1935, one
regiment participated in the invasion of Poland; the rest of the division stayed in
garrison on the West Wall in case of a preemptive French
attack. The division retrained as
22.Luftlande-Infanterie-Division (Air Landing
Infantry Division) for rapid tactical deployment to captured
enemy airbases and performed in that role during the invasion of the Netherlands
suffering heavy losses, and afterward advanced into France operating as ordinary
ground infantry. Though
planned for use in its air-landing role for the Battle of
Crete, it was replaced by another division at the last minute.
It joined Army Group South in Operation Barbarossa (1941),
attacking from Romania and,
operating exclusively as ordinary ground infantry, helped storm Sevastopol in the Crimea (1942).
The unit was thereafter transferred to Crete for garrison duty and mop-up operations in
the Aegean, playing a
major role in the Battle of Leros. On 26 April 1944 the
divisional commander, Generalmajor Heinrich
Kreipe, was abducted by a British Special Operations
Executive team led by Major Patrick Leigh Fermor. Kreipe's car
was ambushed on the way from Knossos to the divisional headquarters at Ano Archanes and he was taken
cross-country over the mountains to the south coast where they were
picked up by a British vessel near Rodakino 14 May. This operation
was later portrayed in the novel and the film Ill Met
by Moonlight (1957).
Withdrawn to the mainland in autumn 1944, the
22.Luftlande-Infanterie-Division spent the rest of the war in
anti-partisan operations in southeastern
Europe. Renamed
22.Volksgrenadier-Division in March 1945, and was captured by Yugoslav
forces in May.
Commanders
- Generalleutnant Hans Graf von Sponeck (1 Sep 1939
- 10 Oct 1941)
- General der Infanterie Ludwig Wolff (10 Oct 1941 - 1 Aug
1942)
- General der Infanterie Friedrich-Wilhelm Müller (1
Aug 1942 - 15 Feb 1944)
- Generalmajor Heinrich Kreipe (15 Feb 1944 - 26 Apr
1944)
- Generalleutnant Helmut Friebe (1 May 1944 - 4 April 1945)
Orders of
Battle
May 1940 -
Fall Gelb
- Divisionstab
- 47.Infanterie-Regiment
- 16.Infanterie-Regiment
- 65.Infanterie-Regiment
- 22.Artillerie-Regiment
- 22.Panzerabwehr-Abteilung
- 22.Aufklärungs-Abteilung
- 22.Feldersatz-Battalion
- 22.Nachrichten-Battalion
- 22.Pionier-Battalion
July 1944 -
Crete
- Divisionstab
- 16.Grenadier-Regiment
- 47.Grenadier-Regiment
- 65.Grenadier-Regiment
- 22.Artillerie-Regiment
- 22. Panzerjäger-Abteilung
- 22.Aufklärungs-Abteilung
- 22.Flak-Bataillon
- 22.Nachrichten-Bataillon
- 22.Pionier-Bataillon
- 22.Feldersatz-Bataillon
See also
References
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