Order of battle IRGD, 10th May 1940
The Infantry Regiment GrossDeutschland was probabbly (together with
the Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler) the most powerful motorized infantry of
the German Army on May, 10th, 1940. Each infantry platoon had 4 combat
squads and an AT rifle. In addition to the 3 infantry battalions, the I.R.G.D
had a heavy weapon battalion instead of an heavy weapon company. This 4th
battalion had:
- one light infantry gun
company (13th company) with 6 75mm infantry guns
- one anti-tank company
(12th company) with 12 37mm AT guns
- one heavy infantry gun
company (15th company) with 4 150mm infantry guns
- one assault gun company
(16th company) with 6 Sturmgeschutz StuG III (in May 1940, the StuG III
is an experimental tank and only 3 units had been issued with a battery
of 6 StuG II for combat testing of the new material).
In addition, the I.R.G.D had received a motorized assault engineer battalion:
SturmPioneer Abteilung 43 with 3 assault companies and 1 bridge company.
| IRGD
(Graf v. Schwerin) |
Nachschubkolonne | Nachrichtenzug | Kradzug | Musikzug |
| I Abteilung
(Föllmer) |
1 kompanie (Schwarzrock)
12 le MG 3 le GrWf |
2 kompanie (Kolb)
12 le MG 3 le GrWf |
3 kompanie (Fabich)
12 le MG 3 le GrWf |
4 kompanie (Hänert)
12 s MG 6 s GrWf |
| II Abteilung
(Föst) |
5 kompanie (Schneider)
12 le MG 3 le GrWf |
6 kompanie (v. Courbière)
12 le MG 3 le GrWf |
7 kompanie (Wackernagel)
12 le MG 3 le GrWf |
8 kompanie (Bethke)
12 s MG 6 s GrWf |
| III Abteilung
(Garski) |
9 kompanie (Westphal)
12 le MG 3 le GrWf |
10 kompanie (v. Harder)
12 le MG 3 le GrWf |
11 kompanie (Krüger)
12 le MG 3 le GrWf |
12 kompanie (Grosser)
12 s MG 6 s GrWf |
| IV schweres Abteilung
(Schneider) |
13 kompanie (v. Massow)
6 le InfG 7.5cm |
14 kompanie (Beck)
12 Pak 3.7cm 4 le MG |
15 kompanie (März)
4 s InfG 15cm |
16 kompanie (v. Egloffstein)
6 Sturmgeschutze 7.5cm |
Luftlandeunternehmen NIWI in green.