371. Infanterie Division

[Manfred]

Hello,

I'm looking for informations about:

371. Infanterie Division
Grenadier Regiment 671
Feld Ersatz Bataillion 371
Grenadier Ersatz und Ausbildungs Batallion 350

My Grandfather served in this forces and died at the end of WW2 near Krakau.

Thanks in advance.

Manfred

[seeker36340]

http://www.skalman.nu/third-reich/heer- ... iv-371.htm

[Ralf371]

Dear Manfred,

welll it took nearly 2 years to find your entry here. My grandfather served in

371. Infanterie-Division
Grenadier-Regiment 671

,too.

I started a website (http://www.371id.de) about this division, because I didn't find any further information about it in the net or in books.

Maybe we can exchange some information or pictures.


Does somebody else know something about the unit?


Ralf


P.S. Do You Speak German?

[Janusz]

Hello

About 371 Infanterie Division:

......Однако 25 января гитлеровцы попытались ликвидировать наш плацдарм на западном берегу Пшемши. Они ввели в бой дополнительно части 371-й пехотной дивизии, батальон «фольксштурма» и один из сводных батальонов. Но 92-я и 286-я дивизии 115-го стрелкового корпуса нашей армии отбили все контратаки врага и уже на следующий же день овладели городом Мысловице. А части 43-го корпуса тем временем уже вплотную подошли к городу Сосновец.

Tekst from: http://militera.lib.ru/memo/russian/kat ... is/06.html

So from this tekst 371 ID was in this time in the area betwen Mysłowice and Sosnowiec in POland.
This is next to Katowice

See you and sorry for my english
Janusz

[Janusz]

Hello

Maybe somebody can help me with the commander list below??

If somebody can something add to this list please respond.
The best of course will be informations from the end of 1944 or the begining 1945
but from the other time are very usefull to.

371 ID
Major Peter Karpiński - Ia ( February 1945)
- IIa ????????

Commander 671 Grenadier Regiment - Oberstleutnant Valentin Dietz - 26.01.1045
Commander 670 Grenadier Regiment - Oberst Pruss - 07.02.1945
Commander 669 Grenadier Regiment - Major Brinkmann - 07.02.1945
Commander Artillery Regiment - Oberst Valtinat - 23.01.1945
Panzerjäger-Abteilung 371
Pionier-Bataillon 371
Nachrichten-Abteilung 371
Sanitäts-Abteilung 371
Feldersatz-Bataillon 371
Versorgungs-Regiment 371

Janusz

[Kelvin]

Who was the last commander of this division and what was the fate of this commander ?

[Janusz]

Hello

371.ID Generalleutnant Hermann Niehoff 10.VII.1944 – 2.III.1945

371.ID Generalmajor Rolf Scherenberg 2.III.1945 – 8.V.1945

History of Rolf Scherenberg:
http://www.lexikon-der-wehrmacht.de/Per ... Rolf-R.htm

Soursec of this info:
http://www.dws.org.pl/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=122726

Janusz

[HeinrichFrey]

Hello Manfred!
You should buy "Die Anlagenbänder zu den Kriegstagebüchern der 6. Armee" from Florian von und zu Aufseß, Selbstverlag Schwabach 2006 or David M. Glantz: Armageddon in Stalingrad: September-November 1942 (The Stalingrad Trilogy, Volume 2). University of Kansas Press, Lawrence 2009 and David M. Glantz with Jonathan M. House, To the Gates of Stalingrad: Soviet-German Combat Operations, April-August 1942 (The Stalingrad Trilogy, Volume I), University of Kansas Press, Lawrence 2009. There is also a third Volume available.

[Janusz]

Heinrich

Does this book describing fighting in 1945 to ??If not all please write whitch describing it

Best regards
Janusz

[HeinrichFrey]

Hello Janusz!
Sorry, but the documentations end in February `43. The 371th ID surrendered as far as I know in April `45 to soviet troops in Silesia.
The official documentations are more than rare in Germany from autumn `44 till the end. We had 2.5 million soldiers missing in action, mostly in the east. Only 1.2 million cases had been solved until now.

[Janusz]

Thanks for info about book :))

Do you know maybe who was - IIa Officer 371 ID ??? (1944 or 45 )

Janusz

[HeinrichFrey]

Hello Janusz,
I think You should ask Ralf. But the documents of this time are very rare...

[Rossano]

Thanks for info about book :))

Do you know maybe who was - IIa Officer 371 ID ??? (1944 or 45 )

Janusz

IIa was Maj. Ernst Rehbein
Who was the Ia 12.43-2.44 ? (Still v.Lindeq. ?) Who was the Ic from 4.43 ? Do You
have more staff officers(O1,O2,O3,III,IVa,IVb,IVc,V,WuG,Kodina,Kdt. St.Qu.) ?
Rossano

[Janusz]

Hello

Rossano i dont have this informations but i ask my friends about it. I am interested in only 1945.

You wrote that: IIa was Maj. Ernst Rehbein

It was in 1945 or before? Could you write source this info??

Regards

Janusz
ps. In january 1945 this division fighting nex to Auschwitz.From north Auschwitz exactly