Panzergrenadier-Division Kurmark

1. Deployment and Subordination:

The Panzergrenadier Division Kurmark was formed on January 31, 1945 from the Panzergrenadier
Replacement Brigade Greater Germany (Panzergrenadier-Ersatz-Brigade Großdeutschland) and
the Langkeit combat group, near Frankfurt / Oder.
The division was also called Panzer-Division Kurmark, which was actually incorrect.
The list was inadequate and incomplete. Shortly after its formation, the division was deployed in
the Frankfurt an der Oder area from the beginning of February 1945 in the Herzershof - Neu
Manschnow combat area to Burgwall near Frankfurt an der Oder. The first units of troops had
already been deployed on February 4th and 5th, 1945 against the Reitwein bridgehead and south
of Manschow.

The placement of troops around Seelower hoehen (Seelow Heights) 16 th of april 1945.
The division's main task was to recapture the militarily important Reitweiner Sporn and to destroy
the associated Neu Manschnow / Reitwein bridgehead. Numerous counterattacks by the division
on the hills in Podelzig, Mallnow and from the Oderbruch in the direction of Wuhden and Klessin
were unsuccessful. In addition, the division was threatened from the Lebus bridgehead from mid-
February 1945.
Only with the incorporation of the 712th Infantry Division in the southern sector of the front in the
Lebus area could the division's front sector be narrowed down. The Soviet troops managed to gain
several terrain gains in several attacks from the Reitwein bridgehead. There was heavy fighting
around Wuhden (March 12) and Klessin (March 23). At the end of March 1945, the badly
damaged division was removed from the front and then replenished with parts of other units in
the Lietzen to Schönfließ area.

The breakout of the Halbe pocket 28th of april – 2nd of may 1945.
In mid-April 1945 the division was deployed again as part of the 9th Army. She was trapped
southeast of Berlin in the Halbe pocket.
Remnants of the Kurmark Panzer Grenadier Division managed to break out to Jerichow on the
Elbe, where they surrendered to American troops at the end of the war.
2. Kommandeure (Commander):
31. Januar 1945 Generalmajor Willy Langkeit

3. Gliederung (Order of Battle):

Panzergrenadier-Division Kurmark 1945 Ostfront
Panzer-Regiment Kurmark;
I. Abteilung (1. - 4. Kompanien, with 1. Kompanie of Panzer-Jagd-Abt. 1551) (Never fully
equipped)
II. Abteilung was the attached I. Panther Abteilung/Panzer-Regiment Brandenburg (formerly I.
Abteilung/Panzer-Regiment 26) (5. - 8. Kompanien)

Panzergrenadier-Regiment Kurmark
I. Bataillon (formerly Alarmverband Schmelter,
I. Bataillon/Kampfgruppe Langkeit) (1. - 3., 4.[MG], 5.[Granatwerfer] Kompanien)
II. Bataillon (6. - 8., 9.[MG], 10.[Granatwerfer] Kompanien)
11.[Infantry Gun] Kompanie, 12.[Pioneer] Kompanie

Panzer-Füsilier-Regiment Kurmark
(formed from Fahnenjunker-Grenadier Regiment 1235 [Fahnenjunker-Schule I Dresden] in April
1945)

Panzer-Artillerie Regiment Kurmark

I. Abteilung (1. - 3. Batterie)
II. Abteilung (4. - 6. StuG Batterie)

Panzerjäger-Abteilung 151
(1 Company)

Panzer-Aufklärungs-Schwadron Kurmark
(gemischt, or mixed)

Pionier-Bataillon Kurmark
1. Panzerpionierkompanie
2. Pionerkompanie

Nachrichten-Kompanie
(Signals)

Heeres-Flak-Batterie

Attachments:
Fahnenjunker-Grenadier-Regiment 1234, 1235, 1239, 1241, & 1242

Panzer-Versorgungstruppen 151

4. Ersatz (replacements):
The Greater Germany Panzer Grenadier Replacement and Training Brigade (Panzer-Grenadier-
Ersatz- und Ausbildungs-Brigade Großdeutschland) was responsible for replacing the staff.