Showing posts with label 5 Infanterie-Division 260. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 5 Infanterie-Division 260. Show all posts

Sunday, December 4, 2022

Divisionskommandeur Hans Schmidt during Barbarossa

From left to right: Oberst Gustav Wenninger (Kommandeur Infanterie-Regiment 470 / 260.Infanterie-Division) and Generalleutnant z.V. Hans Schmidt (Kommandeur 260. Infanterie-Division). The picture was taken during Unternehmen Barbarossa (German invasion to Soviet Union), summer of 1941.


Oberst Gustav Wenninger (Kommandeur Infanterie-Regiment 470 / 260.Infanterie-Division) using field telephone.


Source :
https://www.forum-der-wehrmacht.de/index.php?thread/45807-bilder-meines-gro%C3%9Fvaters-heribert-gihr-angeh%C3%B6riger-der-260-infanteriedivision-1/&pageNo=5

Thursday, November 17, 2022

Divisionskommandeur Hans Schmidt on Phone


Generalleutnant z.V. Hans Schmidt (in the phone) as the commander of 260. Infanterie-Division (1 September 1939 - 1 January 1941). This picture is in Stephan Nowak's personal collection and comes from a photo album belonging to his grandfather, Heribert Gihr, a soldier who served in 1.Kompanie / Nachrichten-Abteilung 260 / 260.Infanterie-Division.

Source :
https://www.forum-der-wehrmacht.de/index.php?thread/45807-bilder-meines-gro%C3%9Fvaters-heribert-gihr-angeh%C3%B6riger-der-260-infanteriedivision-1/

Thursday, April 15, 2021

Divisionskommandeur Walther Hahm with His Subordinates

Generalleutnant Walther Hahm (Kommandeur 260. Infanterie-Division) with his driver Erwin Müller (left) and Obergefreiter Michael Korn (right). The picture was taken on 16 May 1943 at the Divisionsgefechtsstand (Division Command Post) in Uspech, Russia.

Source :
Thomas Korn photo collection
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hahm_May1943_2.jpg

Monday, December 21, 2020

Walther Hahm and Walther Graeßner

 

 
From left to right: Generalmajor Walther Hahm (Kommandeur 260. Infanterie-Division) and General der Infanterie Walther Graeßner (Kommandierender General XII. Armeekorps) at a briefing in the Eastern Front, 1942. Hahm received the Ritterkreuz des Eisernen Kreuzes on 15 November 1941 as Oberst and Kommandeur Infanterie-Regiment 480 / 260.Infanterie-Division, and then added the Eichenlaub #676 to his Ritterkreuz on 9 December 1944 as Generalleutnant and Kommandeur 389. Infanterie-Division; Graeßner received the Ritterkreuz on 27 October 1941 as Generalleutnant and Kommandeur 298. Infanterie-Division.


Source :
https://forum.axishistory.com/viewforum.php?f=5