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Encyclopedia > 19th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (2nd Latvian)
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The 19th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (2nd Latvian) was formed in 1943 when the 2nd Latvian SS Volunteer Brigade was upgraded to a division. They fought the Red Army until the the war ended in the Kurland pocket. Image File history File links Size of this preview: 110 × 130 pixelsFull resolution (110 × 130 pixel, file size: 9 KB, MIME type: image/gif) (All user names refer to it. ... 1943 (MCMXLIII) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1943 calendar). ... Red Army flag The Workers and Peasants Red Army (Russian: Рабоче-Крестьянская Красная Армия, Raboche-Krestyanskaya Krasnaya Armiya; RKKA or usually simply the Red Army) were the armed forces first organized by the Bolsheviks during the Russian Civil War in 1918 and that in 1922 became the army of the Soviet Union. ... Courland, Kurland, Couronia, or Curonia, a former Baltic province of the Teutonic Order state in Livonia (ca. ...

Contents

Lineage

  • May 1943 - October 1943: Latvian SS Volunteer Brigade
  • October 1943 - January 1944: 2nd Latvian SS Volunteer Brigade
  • January 1944 - May 1944: 19th Latvian SS Volunteer Division
  • May 1944 - May 1945: 19th Waffen-Grenadier Division of the SS (2nd Latvian)

Commanders

Corporal Alfrēds Riekstiņš, Unterscharführer of the Waffen-SS
  • January 7th, 1944 - March 15th, 1994: SS-Gruppenführer Hinrich Schuldt
  • March 15th, 1994 - April 13th, 1944: SS-Standartenführer Friedrich-Wilhelm Bock
  • April 15th, 1944 - May 8th, 1945: SS-Obergruppenführer Bruno Steckenbach

Image File history File links A_Riekstins. ... Corporal is a rank in use in some form by most militaries, police forces or other uniformed organizations around the world. ... Waffen-Unterscharführer der SS (Corporal) Alfrēds Riekstinš Arm shield, Latvian SS Volunteer Legion Born January 30, 1913 in Matkule, Tukuma county, Latvia. ... Waffen-SS recruitment poster; Volunteer to the Waffen-SS The Waffen-SS was the armed wing of the Schutzstaffel. ...

Chief of staff

  • ??, 1944 - March 1st, 1945: SS-Sturmbannführer Hans Koop

Areas of operation

March 1944 - May 1945: Eastern front, northern sector


Manpower strength

  • December 1943: 8033
  • June 1944: 10592
  • December 1944: 9396

Knight's Crosses

12 Knight's Crosses were awarded to soldiers of the division. The Iron Cross (German: Eisernes Kreuz) is a military decoration of Germany which was established by King Friedrich Wilhelm III of Prussia and first awarded on 10 March 1813. ...


Order of battle

  • 42nd SS Infantry Regiment Voldemars Veiss
  • 43rd SS Infantry Regiment Heinrich Schuldt
  • 44th SS Infantry Regiment
  • 19 SS Artillery Regiment
  • 19 SS Fusilier Detachment
  • 19 SS Tank Destroyer (Panzerjäger) Detachment
  • 19 SS FlaK Detachment
  • 19 SS Pioneer Detachment
  • 19 SS Logistics Detachment
  • 19 SS Medical Detachment
  • 19 SS Field Post Office
  • 19 SS Signals Detachment


Panzerjäger (German tank-hunters) are German armoured fighting vehicles of the Second World War. ...

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