19th PANZER DIVISION
Formed:
1st November 1940
Disbanded:
8th May 1945
Headquarters:
Hanover
Linage:
19th Infantry Division
19th Panzer Division
Commanders:
Generalleutnant Otto von Knobelsdorff 1st November 1940 to 6th January 1942
Oberst Gustav Schmidt 6th January 1942 to 20th April 1942
Generalleutnant Gustav Schmidt 6th January 1942 to 7th August 1943
Oberst Oskar Sörgel 8th August 1943 to 17th August 1943
Oberst Hans Källner 18th August 1943 to 24th March 1944
Oberst Walter Denkert 24th March 1944 to 30th April 1944
Generalleutnant Hans Källner 1st May 1944 to 20th March 1945
Generalmajor Hans-Joachim Deckert 20th March 1945 to 8th May 1945
Battles, Operations and Campaigns:
Operation Barbarossa
Bialystok
Minsk
Operation Typhoon
Donets Basin
Operation Citadel
Kiev
Kamenets-Podolsky Pocket
Warsaw
Sandomierz Bridgehead
Served:
Germany
Russia
Holland
Poland
Czechoslovakia
Unit Structure Mid-1943:
Divisional Staff
27th Panzer Regiment
73rd Panzergrenadier Regiment
74th Panzergrenadier Regiment
19th Panzer Artillery Regiment
272nd Army Flak Battalion
Reconnaissance Battalion
19th Panzerjäger Battalion
19th Panzer Pioneer Battalion
19th Panzer Signals Battalion
19th Feld Ersatz Battalion
19th Supply Troop
19th Truck Park
Medical and Administration Companies
