The 45th Infantry Division (
German: 45. Infanterie-Division) was an infantry division of the army of Nazi Germany during World War II. Towards the end of the war, the division was reassembled into a second iteration, the 45th Volksgrenadier Division (45. Volksgrenadier-Division)
The destroyed 45th Division was again rebuilt as the "45th
Volksgrenadier Division" in the autumn of 1944 in
Poland, by renaming the short-lived 546th Grenadier Division (546. Grenadier-Division), which was then still in formation.[4] On 1 January, the division (then under
9th Army of
Army Group A) had a strength of 10,118 men.[5]: 504 The division fought at
Warsaw and
Radom in 1945, retreating through
Silesia to
Koniggratz, and finally to
Czechoslovakia, where it surrendered.[4]
Commanding officers
General der Infanterei
Friedrich Materna (1 April 1938 – 1 October 1940)
Generalmajor Gerhard Körner, (25 October 1940 – 27 April 1941)
Generalleutnant
Fritz Schlieper, (27 April 1941 – 27 February 1942)
Generalleutnant Fritz Kühlwein, (27 February 1942 – 25 April 1943)
Generalleutnant Hans Freiherr von Falkenstein, (25 April 1943 – 30 November 1943)
Generalmajor Joachim Engel, (30 November 1943 – 27 February 1944)
Generalmajor
Gustav Gihr, (27 February 1944 – 9 April 1944)
Generalmajor Joachim Engel, (9 April 1944 – ? June 1944)
Generalmajor
Richard Daniel, (19 July 1944 – March 1945)
Generalmajor Erich Hassenstein, (March 1945 – 2 May 1945)
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