162nd Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)


The 162nd Infantry Division was a infantry division of the Wehrmacht during World War II.

History

The division saw its first action in Operation Barbarossa as part of the XX Army Corps. It advanced over Bialystok and Smolensk to Moscow, where it was dissolved on 23 December 1941, after its destruction in the Battles of Kalinin and Rzhev.
The Division's command served for the formation of the 162nd Turkoman Division in 1942.
The Division's only commander was Generalleutnant Hermann Franke.