Těžký tankový oddíl SS 501 [1944-1945]

501st SS Heavy Tank Battalion
schwere SS-Panzer-Abteilung 501
     
Název:
Name:
Těžký tankový oddíl SS 501 501st SS Heavy Tank Battalion
Originální název:
Original Name:
schwere SS-Panzer-Abteilung 501
Datum vzniku:
Raised/Formed:
22.09.1944
Předchůdce:
Predecessor:
Těžký tankový oddíl SS 101 101st SS Heavy Tank Battalion
Datum zániku:
Disbanded:
08.05.1945
Nástupce:
Successor:
- -
Nadřízené velitelství:
Higher Command:
22.09.1944-08.05.1945 Zvláštní jednotky říšského vedení SS
22.09.1944-08.05.1945 Special Units of SS Reich Leadership
Dislokace:
Deployed:
DD.MM.RRRR-DD.MM.RRRR ?

Velitel:
Commander:
22.09.1944-20.03.1945 Westernhagen, Heinz von (SS Obersturmbannführer)
20.03.1945-08.05.1945 Kling, Heinrich (SS Sturmbannführer)
Podřízené jednotky:
Subordinated Units:
22.09.1944-08.05.1945 Štábní rota
22.09.1944-08.05.1945 1. těžká tanková rota
22.09.1944-08.05.1945 2. těžká tanková rota
22.09.1944-08.05.1945 3. těžká tanková rota
22.09.1944-08.05.1945 4. rota
22.09.1944-08.05.1945 Zásobovací rota
22.09.1944-08.05.1945 Dílenská rota
22.09.1944-08.05.1945 Staff Company
22.09.1944-08.05.1945 1st Heavy Tank Company
22.09.1944-08.05.1945 2nd Heavy Tank Company
22.09.1944-08.05.1945 3rd Heavy Tank Company
22.09.1944-08.05.1945 4th Company
22.09.1944-08.05.1945 Supply Company
22.09.1944-08.05.1945 Workshop Company
Čestný název:
Honorary Name:
-
-
Vyznamenání:
Decorations:
-
Poznámka:
Note:
vyzbrojen tanky Pz.Kpfw. VI Ausf. E Tiger a Pz.Kpfw. VI Ausf. B Tiger Equipped with Pz.Kpfw. VI Ausf. E Tiger and Pz.Kpfw. VI Ausf. B Tiger
Zdroje:
Sources:
Georg TESSIN: Verbände und Truppen der deutschen Wehrmacht und Waffen SS im Zweiten Weltkrieg 1939—1945. Elfter Band: Die Landstreitkräfte 501—630, Biblio Verlag, Osnabrück, 1975
www.lexikon-der-wehrmacht.de
http://www.axishistory.com/index.php?id=2024
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In the autumn of 1944, along with the renaming of the body, the equipment was renewed and the men were replenished. The unit regrouped in the area between Bielefeld and Sennelager. In mid-October, the first new Tiger II tanks arrived, and in November the squad leader, SS Obersturmbannführer Heinz von Westernhagen, returned from medical treatment. By early December the detachment was ready for further deployment. Each of the three tank companies had 14 tanks (4 tanks in each of the three platoons, the commander's tank and the tank of the staff squad leader). The remaining three tanks were divided between the squad leader, his aide-de-camp (SS untersturmführer Eduard Kalinowsky) and the liaison officer (SS Obersturmführer Dollinger).


The commander of the 1st Company was Obersturmführer SS Jürgen Wessel. His platoon leaders were untersturmführer SS Rolf Henniges, untersturmführer SS Heinz Buchner and oberscharführer SS Jürgen Brandt. The second company was commanded by Hauptsturmführer SS Rolf Möbius. The platoons of the second company were commanded by untersturmführer SS Georg Hantusch, untersturmführer SS Walter Hahn and hauptscharführer SS Georg Lötzsch. Hauptsturmführer SS Heinz Birnschein led the third company. His platoons were led by Thomas Amselgruber, untersturmführer SS Winfried Lukasius and Hauptscharführer SS Rolf von Westernhagen. It was not a coincidence of names. Rolf was the brother of the squad leader.


The fourth company was commanded by Hauptsturmführer SS Wilhelm Spitz. The company consisted of an armoured reconnaissance platoon, an engineer platoon, two anti-aircraft platoons (each with four self-propelled guns). The commander of the staff and supply company was SS Obersturmführer Paul Vogt. The company was subordinated to a medical platoon. Among other things, the company provided fuel and ammunition. The Workshop Company, headed by SS Obersturmführer Gottfried Klein, was responsible for repairing machines.




Source:
http://www.ss501panzer.com
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July 1943
I.SS-Panzerkorps formed in Berlin - 3 companies of SS Panzer Regiment 1 formed in Sennelager - the future core of the Abteilung.

August 1943
Transfer to Verona, Italy

October 1943
On October 22, Schwere SS-Panzer Abteilung 101 was formed at Mailly le Camp, France. 27 Tigers

November 1943
1st and 2nd companies (kompanie) assigned to the 1SS Panzer Division Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler with which they remained until April 1944; 3rd company and staff remained at Mailly le Camp?

April 1944
Rest of unit also assigned to LSSAH until September; combat strength: approx. 42 tanks

June 1944: heavy fighting in Normandy


June 6: Allied invasion of Normandy; unit at full combat strength with 37 combat-capable Tiger Is and 8 under repair .
7 June: units ordered to move to Bretteville-sur-Odon
June 8: Allied air attack damages several Tigers; unit still 250km from combat area.
12 June: unit weakened by air attacks and mechanical failures arrives in combat area, Villers-Bocage. It begins fighting alongside the 12th SS Panzer Division Hitlerjugend and the Army's Panzer Lehr and 21st Panzer Divisions.
13 June: 4 Tiger and PzKpfw IV tanks, under the command of tank ace Michael Wittman, repel the entire British 7th Panzer Division. Wittman was promoted to the rank of Hauptsturmführer and received the Swords to the Knight's Cross for his actions. Wittman traveled to Berghof to personally receive this decoration from the hands of the Führer.
16 June: the unit lost 38 men
26 June: fighting for Grainville
29 June: fight for Hill 112

[July 1944: 1st Company moved to Paderborn to take delivery of the first Tiger II tanks.
3 July: combat strength: 11 Tiger I's and 19 in short-term repair
10 July: Michael Wittman took command of the unit
17 July: rest & replenishment at Granville; combat strength: 17 operational Tiger I
25 July: temporarily assigned to Kampfgruppe Wünsche


[August 1944: 1st Company received 14 Tiger II tanks .


6 August: unit in position at Grimboq Halte
August 8: Tank ace Michael Wittman killed at Gaumesnil near Caen. His final score: 138 tanks, 132 guns.
14 August: combat strength: 6 Tiger I tanks, Falaise
20 August: encirclement in the Falaise Pocket, escape from encirclement
23 August: 1st Company, together with the 18th Luftwaffe Field Division, counterattacked at Guitrancourt

September 1944: 2nd and 3rd Companies armed with 37 Tiger II tanks in the SS-PAnzer Ersatz Abteilung at Augustdorf. Abteilung is renamed 501


December 1944: offensive in the Ardennes; unit receives 30 Royal Tigers
16 December: the battalion launched an offensive as part of Kampfgruppe Pieper belonging to the I.SS-Panzerkorps of the 6th SS Panzer Army; however, part of the unit could operate independently.
19 December: reached the area of Stoumont, Belgium
20 December: unit surrounded
24 December: the crews abandoned their tanks and began an infantry retreat into Germany
27 December: unit with few remaining tanks transferred to Oerlinghausen?

January 1945: rest and replenishment in the Cologne area - received 45 new Royal Tigers

February 1945
15 February: transferred to Gyö, Hungary; combat strength: 19 Tigers II.
25 February: heavy fighting on the Hron bridgehead: number of tanks: 4

[March-May 1945: the unit disbanded; its tanks were destroyed or abandoned during the chaotic retreat to Austria.
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Tiger Ausf. B 223 z 2. roty / s.SS-Pz.Abt 501, Kampfgruppe Peiper





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