49th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)

Infanterie Division) was a military formation of the German Heer (Army) which served during the later years of the Second World War.

On 1 February 1944, the 191st Reserve Division was reorganised in the Boulogne-sur-Mer area of Militärverwaltung in Belgien und Nordfrankreich (Military Administration in Belgium and Northern France).

In mid-August 1944 the division was relocated to Paris and eventually back into the Low Countries, and was smashed at the Battle of Mons (near the Albert Canal) by the 21st Army Group.

Soon (on or about 4 September) Macholz (who had commanded the division since its formation) was replaced by Lt Gen Erich Baessler.

[1][2] The division was soon back in action north of Aachen, but was withdrawn after the city fell and was disbanded shortly afterwards (on 23 November 1944).