3rd GEBIRGS DIVISION
Formed:
1st April 1938
Disbanded:
8th May 1945
Linage:
5th & 7th Divisions (Austrian Federal Army)
3. Gebirgs Division
Commanders:
Generaloberst Eduard Dietl 1st September 1939 to 14th June 1940
General der Gebirgstruppen Julius Ringel 14th June to 23rd October 1940
General der Gebirgstruppen Hans Kreysin 23rd October 1940 to 10th August 1943
Generalleutnant Egbert Picker 10th August to 26th August 1943
General der Infanterie Siegfried Rasp 26th August to 10th September 1943
Generalleutnant Egbert Picker 10th September to 29th September 1943
Generalleutnant August Wittmann 29th September 1943 to 3rd July 1944
Generalleutnant Paul Klatt 3rd July 1944 to 8th May 1945
Battles, Operations and Campaigns:
Operation Fall Grün
Znojmo
Operation Fall Weib
Kasina Wielka
Operation Weserübung
Narvik
Trondheim
Kirkenes
Operation Silberfuchs
Murmansk
Operation Unternehmen Wintergewitter
Nikopol
Served:
Poland
Norway
Finland
Russia
Romania
Hungary
Czechoslovakia
Unit Structure 26th August-1939:
Divisional Staff
138th Gebirgsjäger Regiment
139th Gebirgsjäger Regiment
112th Gebirgs Artillery Regiment
48th Gebirgs Panzer Abwehr Battalion (Motorised)
12th Gebirgs Reconnaissance Battalion
82nd Gebirgs Pioneer Battalion
68th Gebirgs Signals (Motorised)
68th Gebirgs Feld Ersatz Battalion
68th Gebirgs Supply Troop
