Oddíl těžkých stíhačů tanků 653 [1943-1945]

653rd Heavy Tank Destroyer Battalion
schwere Panzerjäger-Abteilung 653
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Název:
Name:		 Oddíl těžkých stíhačů tanků 653 653rd Heavy Tank Destroyer Battalion
Originální název:
Original Name:		 schwere Panzerjäger-Abteilung 653
Datum vzniku:
Raised/Formed:		 01.04.1943
Předchůdce:
Predecessor:		 Oddíl těžkých útočných děl 197 197th Heavy Assault Gun Battalion
Datum zániku:
Disbanded:		 07.05.1945
Nástupce:
Successor:		 - -
Nadřízené velitelství:
Higher Command:		 08.06.1943-16.12.1943 Pluk těžkých stíhačů tanků 656
 08.06.1943-16.12.1943 656th Heavy Tank Destroyer Regiment
Dislokace:
Deployed:		 31.03.1943-DD.MM.RRRR Bruck an der Leitha, ? /

Velitel:
Commander:		 01.04.1943-DD.08.1943 Steinwachs, Heinrich (Major)
DD.08.1943-01.04.1944 Baumunk, Georg (Major)
01.04.1944-15.04.1945 Grillenberger, Rudolf (Major)
15.04.1945-07.05.1945 Fromme, Rolf (Major)
Podřízené jednotky:
Subordinated Units: 		DD.MM.RRRR-DD.MM.RRRR
DD.MM.RRRR-DD.MM.RRRR
Čestný název:
Honorary Name:		 DD.MM.RRRR-DD.MM.RRRR
DD.MM.RRRR-DD.MM.RRRR
Vyznamenání:
Decorations:		 DD.MM.RRRR
Poznámka:
Note:		 jednotka generálního štábu (Heerestruppe) General Staff Unit (Heerestruppe)
Zdroje:
Sources:		 Georg TESSIN: Verbände und Truppen der deutschen Wehrmacht und Waffen SS im Zweiten Weltkrieg 1939
www.lexikon-der-wehrmacht.de
de.wikipedia.org
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velitelé:
Major Heinrich Steinwachs (1.4.1943 - ?.8.1943)
Major Georg Baumunk (?.8.1943 - 1.4.1944)
Major Rudolf Grillenberger (1.4.1944 - 15.4.1945)
Major Rolf Fromme (15.4.1945 - 8.5.1945)

Adjutant First Lieutenant Kurt Scherer
Orderly officer Lieutenant Hermann Knack

Staff company (Hptm. Konnak)
Group leader (3x SPW)
Reconnaissance platoon (7x SPW)
Reconnaissance and engineer platoon (3x SPW)
Anti-aircraft platoon (3x Fla-Vierlingen on SPW)
Anti-tank platoon (8x anti-aircraft guns on tank chassis)
Vehicle repair squadron
Combat team
Medical squadron
Squadron for administration and supplies
Ration train
Baggage train

1st tank destroyer company (leader Oberleutnant Werner Haberland)
Group leader, 2x Jagdpanzern VI Jagdtiger
1st tank destroyer platoon, 4x Jagdpanzern VI Jagdtiger (leader Leutnant Knippenberg)
2nd tank destroyer platoon, 4x Jagdpanzern VI Jagdtiger (leader Oberfeldwebel Koss)
3rd tank destroyer platoon, 4x Jagdpanzern VI Jagdtiger (leader Oberfeldwebel Kinnberger)
Vehicle repair squadron
Combat unit I with armored recovery vehicles & 2x ammunition tanks
Combat train II
Baggage train

2nd tank destroyer company (leader Oberleutnant Robert Wiesenfarth)
Group leader, 2x Jagdpanzern VI Jagdtiger
1st tank destroyer platoon, 4x Jagdpanzern VI Jagdtiger (leader Leutnant Braun)
2nd tank destroyer platoon, 4x Jagdpanzern VI Jagdtiger (leader Leutnant Feineisen)
3rd tank destroyer platoon, 4x Jagdpanzern VI Jagdtiger (leader Leutnant Zwack)
Vehicle repair squadron
Combat unit I with armored recovery vehicles & 2x ammunition tanks
Combat train II
Baggage train

3rd tank destroyer company (Lieutenant Franz Kretschmer)
Gruppe Führer, 2x Jagdpanzern VI Jagdtiger
1st tank destroyer platoon, 4x Jagdpanzern VI Jagdtiger (leader Oberfeldwebel Issler)
2nd tank destroyer platoon, 4x Jagdpanzern VI Jagdtiger (leader Oberfeldwebel Schwarz)
3rd tank destroyer platoon, 4x Jagdpanzern VI Jagdtiger (leader Leutnant Goeggerle)
Vehicle repair squadron
Combat unit I with armored recovery vehicles & 2x ammunition tanks
Combat train II
Baggage train

Supply Company (leader Captain Helmut Ulbricht)
Group leader
Medical squadron
Repair squadron
Tank repair groups
Recovery squadron with four recovery Panthers
Fuel squadron
Ammunition squadron
Administration Squadron

Workshop company (First Lieutenant Dipl.Ing. Karl Schulte)
Group leader
1st workshop platoon
2nd workshop platoon
3rd recovery platoon
Armory
Intelligence equipment workshop
convoy



zdroj:
en.wikipedia.org
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the numbers of destroyed units, which sPzJäg653 destroyed in 5.11.1944:

582 tanks
344 PT works
133 works (various)
103 PT rifles
3 aircraft
3 armored vehicles
3 assault cannon

source:
de.wikipedia.org
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Status of sPzJägAbt653 as of 1.4.1944:

equipment
 table state
 actual state
 difference/deficit
rifles
 639
 620
 19
pistols
 375
 354
 21
submachine guns
 128
 118
 10
flamethrower weapons
 54
 37
 17
MG 34
 60
 51
 9
2 cm Flakvierling 38
 4
 4
 -
Ferdinand
 31
 30
 1
motorcycles
 24
 23
 1
motorcycles-side
 6
 6
 -
Kübelwagen
 41
 38
 3
freight
 71
 56
 15
Maultier-truck
 11
 25
 +14
semi-tracked tractors
 29
 22
 7
tractors
 11
 9
 2
Bergepanzer Tiger (P)
 2
 2
 -
Bergepanther
 2
 1
 1
Munitionspanzer III
 4
 2
 2
Sd.Kfz.251/8
 1
 1
 -


source:
de.wikipedia.org
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Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross
Kretschmer, Franz 17.12.1943
Teriete, Heinrich 22.07.1943


German Cross in gold
Flintrop, Wilhelm 27.04.1945
Göttelmann, Herbert 21.11.1943
Konnak, Bernhard 26.12.1943
Kuntze, Eberhard 21.10.1943
Meigen, Friedrich-Wilhelm, 06.09.1943
Ulbricht, Hellmut 13.12.1944


The Combat History of German Heavy Anti-Tank Unit 653 in World War II, Karlheinz Münch, JJ. Fedorowicz Publishing, 1997, ISBN: 0-921991-37-1
Author's own notes
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