7. dobrovolnická horská divize SS Prinz Eugen [1943-1945]

7. SS-Freiwilligen-Gebirgs-Division Prinz Eugen

A Brief History of the 7th Volunteer Mountain Division SS Prinz Eugen



The order to create a volunteer mountain division was issued on March 1, 1942 and stipulated that the officers of the new division were to be mainly former officers of the Habsburg army who lived in the Balkans. The first commander was an officer of the Romanian army of German origin Arthur Phleps.
Weapons had to be borrowed from German post units and supplemented with other firearms captured by the enemy. Poorly equipped division, was deployed in October 1942 to fight against Tito's partisans under the name Volunteer Mountain Division SS Prinz Eugen.
In December 1942, the division fought in the Zagreb-Karlovac area and at the end of March the following year moved to the western part of Montenegro. In an effort to prevent the expansion of guerrilla operations in Bosnia-Herzegovina, the division first sent battalion-sized groups to the Sarajevo area. In the end, the whole division served there.


After the Collapse [http: //www.valka.cz/topic/view/11637/Mussolini-Benito] Mussolini's[/url] regime in July 1943 and the surrender of Italy in September of that year, the division participated in the disarmament of the Italians in northern Yugoslavia and operations to conquer the islands of Brač, Hvar and Korčula and the Pelješac peninsula. The months spent in anti-guerrilla operations culminated in May 1944 in Operation Capture Tito at his headquarters in Drvar, during which the division, now named the 7th Volunteer Mountain Division SS Prinz Eugen, crushed the 1st Guerrilla Division.


The advance of the Soviet and Bulgarian troops of Eastern Yugoslavia led the division into heavy fighting, especially in the area of Niš, where it covered the withdrawal of the German Army Groups E from Greece. Then the division began its own retreat with Yugoslavia.


In January 1945, the division went from defensive to offensive and attacked guerrilla units. However, she suffered heavy losses in the successful attack. Within XXXIV. army corps for special use then retreated north through Zagreb and Cejli, where the remnants of the division were forced in May 1945 to surrender to the Yugoslavs.



source: own archive ...


edited by FiBe (2013-JAN-31)

Insignie

Jako znak pro příslušníky 7. dobrovolnické horské divize SS Prinz Eugen sloužila tvz. Odalova runa.

Příslušníky byly především banátští Němci a Volksdeutsche ze Srbska, Rumunska a Maďarska.

Operace
Balkán
leden 1942 – duben 1945
Rakousko
duben 1945 – květen 1945

organizace:
SS-Freiwilligen-Gebirgs-Jäger-Regiment 13 "Artur Phleps"
SS-Freiwilligen-Gebirgs-Jäger-Regiment 14 "Skanderbeg"
SS-Freiwilligen-Gebirgs-Artillerie-Regiment 7
SS-Panzer-Abteilung 7
SS-Gebirgs-Panzerjäger-Abteilung 7
SS-Kavallerie-Abteilung 7
SS-Sturmgeschütz-Abteilung 7
SS-Flak-Abteilung 7
SS-Gebirgs-Nachrichten-Abteilung 7
SS-Freiwilligen-Gebirgs-Aufklärungs-Abteilung 7
SS-Panzer-Aufklärungs-Zug
SS-Radfahr-Bataillon
SS-Radfahr-Aufklärungs-Abteilung 7
SS-Gebirgs-Pionier-Bataillon 7
SS-Kradschützen-Bataillon 7
SS-Nachschub-Kompanie 7
SS-Wirtschafts-Bataillon 7
SS-Sanitäts-Abteilung 7
SS-Freiwilligen-Gebirgs-Veterinär-Kompanie 1/7 und 2/7
SS-Freiwilligen-Gebirgs-Kriegsberichter-Zug 7
SS-Propaganda-Zug
SS-Feldgendarmerie-Trupp 7
SS-Feldersatz-Bataillon 7
SS-Instandsetzungs-Abteilung 7
SS-Wehrgeologisches Bataillon
Divisionstruppen 7


zdroj: http://www.lexikon-der-wehrmacht.de

Spousta fotek SS divize "Prinz Eugen" zde.

Límcové výložky divize




Zdroj: http://fremd.sweb.cz/o3.htm

source:
histomil.com

December 1943, Bosnia, during the vianoc vzadnie honors powdery mildew kamarádom ktorí have fallen in battle against partisánom.