| Battle of Hegra Fortress | | Part of the Norwegian Campaign | | Date | April 15 to May 5, 1940 | | Location | Hegra, Norway | | Result | Hegra Fortress capitulated May 5 after all other Norwegian forces in southern Norway had laid down their arms. | | | Combatants |
 Norway |
 Nazi Germany | | Commanders | Major
Hans Reidar Holtermann | ? | | Strength | | 200-300 volunteer soldiers | ? | | Casualties | | 6 KIA, ca. 30 WIA | 5-20 KIA,
unknown number of wounded | Hegra fortress (Norw., Hegra festning) is a small mountain fortress in Hegra, Stjørdal, in the county of Nord-Trøndelag, Norway. German battle cruisers in a Norwegian port in June 1940 The Norwegian Campaign led to the first direct confrontation between the military forces of the Allies — United Kingdom and France against Nazi Germany in World War II. The primary reason for Germany seeking the occupation of Norway was Germanys...
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1940 (MCMXL) was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1940 calendar). ...
Hegra is a small place in the middle of Norway, located in Stjørdal. ...
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The German military occupation of Norway started when German forces invaded Norway on April 9, 1940 and ended on May 10, 1945, after the capitulation of German forces in Europe. ...
Combatants Norway Germany Commanders Birger Eriksen Heinrich Woldag Strength 3 280 mm coastal guns number of 150-57 mm coastal guns 6 533 mm land based torpedo tubes 1 heavy cruiser 1 pocket battleship 1 light cruiser 3 torpedo boats 8 minesweepers Casualties None 1 heavy cruiser sunk 1 pocket...
Combatants Norway Germany Commanders Oliver Møystad Eberhard Spiller Strength 100+ 100 Casualties 3 wounded 2 killed, ? wounded Midtskogen farm is situated approximately 5 kilometers west of the town Elverum at the mouth of the Østerdalen valley in southern Norway. ...
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Fortifications (Latin fortis, strong, and facere, to make) are military constructions designed for defensive warfare. ...
Hegra is a small place in the middle of Norway, located in Stjørdal. ...
County Nord-Trøndelag District Stjørdalen Municipality NO-1714 Administrative centre Stjørdal Mayor (2005) Johan Arnt Elverum (Sp) Official language form Neutral Area - Total - Land - Percentage Ranked 117 938 km² 913 km² 0. ...
County NO-17 Region Trøndelag Administrative centre Steinkjer County mayor Inger Lise Gjørv Area - Total - Percentage Ranked 6 22,412 km² 6. ...
Hegra Fortress gained international recognition when in 1940 it withstood repeated German assualts, and in early May was one of the two last strongholds of Norwegian resistance in southern Norway, the other being Vinjesvingen. The Battle of Vinjesvingen took place in May of 1940 in Telemark county, Norway. ...
Norwegian force
The Norwegian defenders were 200-300 volunteer soldiers, most of them from the area Hegra/Stjørdal/Trondheim, equipped with small arms (Krag-Jørgensen rifles) and Madsen-/Colt-machine guns. The fortress also had artillery, four 10,5 cm and two 7,5 cm positional pieces of reasonably modern make in half-turrets; as well as some 8,4 cm field artillery guns of 19th Century manufacture. One Brick volunteers help at a soup kitchen. ...
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Hegra is a small place in the middle of Norway, located in Stjørdal. ...
County Nord-Trøndelag District Stjørdalen Municipality NO-1714 Administrative centre Stjørdal Mayor (2005) Johan Arnt Elverum (Sp) Official language form Neutral Area - Total - Land - Percentage Ranked 117 938 km² 913 km² 0. ...
County Sør-Trøndelag District Municipality NO-1601 Administrative centre Trondheim Mayor (2005) Rita Ottervik (AP) Official language form Neutral Area - Total - Land - Percentage Ranked 258 342 km² 322 km² 0. ...
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The Krag-Jørgensen is a repeating bolt action rifle designed by the Norwegians Ole Herman Johannes Krag and Erik Jørgensen in the late 19th century. ...
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German force The attacking force was the German/Austrian 138. Gebirgsjaegerregiment (a part of the 3. Gebirgsdivision), which landed in Trondheim on April 9. Later, from about April 25, the Germans started to substitute the 138. Gbg.Rgt. with other Wehrmacht units. The German 3rd Mountain Division was raised from the Austrian 5th and 7th Divisions. ...
County Sør-Trøndelag District Municipality NO-1601 Administrative centre Trondheim Mayor (2005) Rita Ottervik (AP) Official language form Neutral Area - Total - Land - Percentage Ranked 258 342 km² 322 km² 0. ...
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Battle From April 15, 1940 to May 5, 1940, Hegra Fortress was attacked and besieged by the invading Germans. During the first week the attacks included infantry assaults; however in the last two weeks attacks consisted mostly of heavy artillery fire and bombing from the air, as well as aggressive patrolling. April 15 is the 105th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (106th in leap years). ...
1940 (MCMXL) was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1940 calendar). ...
May 5 is the 125th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (126th in leap years). ...
1940 (MCMXL) was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1940 calendar). ...
Hegra fortress (Norw. ...
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Casualties Six Norwegian soldiers were killed in action, about 30 wounded. In the first years after World War II the number of Germans KIA was wildly exaggerated in folklore, some spoke of hundreds of dead, but later this number has been reduced to a probably more correct number, between five and twenty Wehrmacht soldiers KIA at Hegra. Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki TÅjÅ Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000...
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German battle cruisers in a Norwegian port in June 1940 The Norwegian Campaign led to the first direct confrontation between the military forces of the Allies — United Kingdom and France against Nazi Germany in World War II. The primary reason for Germany seeking the occupation of Norway was Germanys...
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