160th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)

Infanterie-Division) was an infantry division of the German Heer during World War II.

As part of the German general mobilization on 26 August 1939, several staffs were activated to supervise the reserve units in each of the Wehrkreis military districts.

In occupied Denmark, the military installations were insufficient to properly accommodate all of the division's forces.

160 consisted of the following formations on 1 December 1941:[1] On 1 May 1942, Schünemann was replaced as divisional commander by Horst von Uckermann.

[2] On 1 October 1942, the Replacement Army was reorganized and several reserve units were deployed from occupied Denmark to Germany, where they once again joined the Division No.

160 gave up its replacement formations and was henceforth dedicated specifically to training tasks.

[2] On 26 October 1943, an order by the Allgemeines Heeresamt of the Wehrmacht gave instruction for the reorganization of several military formations, including Division No.

[2] The 160th Division in its various iterations was supervised by the following superior commands, each of which was presided over by Hermann von Hanneken:[1]

Christoph Graf zu Stolberg-Stolberg [ de ] , divisional commander of Division No. 160 between 1 July 1943 and 1 August 1943. In American captivity in 1945.
Hermann von Hanneken , commander of Wehrmacht occupation forces in Denmark between 1942 and 1945, in 1942