Hitler Youth units raised in defence of Germany 1945

[Germanicus]

Dear HJ Research

I have compiled the following information whilst researching the Volkssturm.

Any positive comments or additional information would be appreciated.

HITLERJUGEND

Panzervernichtungs-Brigade Hitlerjugend 1
I/ Panzervernichtungs-Brigade Hitlerjugend 1
II/ Panzervernichtungs-Brigade Hitlerjugend 1
III/ Panzervernichtungs-Brigade Hitlerjugend 1
IV/ Panzervernichtungs-Brigade Hitlerjugend 1

Panzervernichtungs-Brigade Hitlerjugend 2
I/ Panzervernichtungs-Brigade Hitlerjugend 2
II/ Panzervernichtungs-Brigade Hitlerjugend 2
III/ Panzervernichtungs-Brigade Hitlerjugend 2
IV/Panzervernichtungs-Brigade Hitlerjugend 2

Panzervernichtungs-Brigade Hitlerjugend Westmark
I/Panzervernichtungs-Brigade Hitlerjugend Westmark
II/Panzervernichtungs-Brigade Hitlerjugend Westmark
III/Panzervernichtungs-Brigade Hitlerjugend Westmark
IV/Panzervernichtungs-Brigade Hitlerjugend Westmark

Panzervernichtungs-Brigade Hitlerjugend Hessen-Nassau
I/Panzervernichtungs-Brigade Hitlerjugend Hessen-Nassau
II/Panzervernichtungs-Brigade Hitlerjugend Hessen-Nassau
III/Panzervernichtungs-Brigade Hitlerjugend Hessen-Nassau
IV/Panzervernichtungs-Brigade Hitlerjugend Hessen-Nassau

Panzervernichtungs-Brigade Hitlerjugend Egerland

Panzervernichtungs-Brigade Hitlerjugend Lützow [Gau Wartheland]

Panzervernichtungs-Brigade Hitlerjugend Oberschlesien

Panzervernichtungs-Ersatz-Brigade Hitlerjugend
I/Panzervernichtungs-Ersatz-Brigade Hitlerjugend
II/Panzervernichtungs-Ersatz-Brigade Hitlerjugend
III/Panzervernichtungs-Ersatz-Brigade Hitlerjugend
IV/Panzervernichtungs-Ersatz-Brigade Hitlerjugend

Panzervernichtungs-Ersatz-Brigade Hitlerjugend Voigt

Panzer-Nahkampf-Brigade 1 Hitlerjugend
I/Panzer-Nahkampf-Brigade 1 Hitlerjugend
II/Panzer-Nahkampf-Brigade 1 Hitlerjugend
III/Panzer-Nahkampf-Brigade 1 Hitlerjugend
IV/Panzer-Nahkampf-Brigade 1 Hitlerjugend

Panzer-Nahkampf-Brigade 2 Hitlerjugend
I/Panzer-Nahkampf-Brigade 2 Hitlerjugend
II/Panzer-Nahkampf-Brigade 2 Hitlerjugend
III/Panzer-Nahkampf-Brigade 2 Hitlerjugend
IV/Panzer-Nahkampf-Brigade 2 Hitlerjugend

Panzervernichtungs-Brigade Hitlerjugend Kurhessen

Panzervernichtungs-Regiment Hitlerjugend Gebeit 21 Baden

Regimentsgruppe der Hitlerjugend Hirsch [Breslau]

Hitlerjugend-Regiment Berlin - Halsinsel Hela
Hitlerjugend-Regiment Frankfurt/Oder
Hitlerjugend-Regiment Fuerstenwalde
Hitlerjugend-Regiment Köln
Hitlerjugend-Regiment Niederschlesien 1

Freiwilligen-Regiment Siebenbürgen

Heeres-Hitlerjugend-Kampf-Verband I
Heeres-Hitlerjugend-Kampf-Verband II
Heeres-Hitlerjugend-Kampf-Verband III

Hitlerjugend-Kampfgruppe Bann 129
Hitlerjugend-Kampfgruppe Bann 198 Berlin

Hitlerjugend-Kampfgruppe Festung Breslau
Hitlerjugend-Kampfgruppe Gutschke Hirschberg
Hitlerjugend-Kampfgruppe Heerstraße
Hitlerjugend-Kampfgruppe Pichelsdorf
Hitlerjugend-Kampfgruppe Reichssportfeld
Hitlerjugend-Kampfgruppe Stünke

Hitlerjugend-Bataillon Bauen von Stellungen
Hitlerjugend-Bataillon Königsberg
Hitlerjugend-Bataillon Konne
Hitlerjugend-Bataillon Mecklenburg
Hitlerjugend-Bataillon Murswiek
Hitlerjugend-Bataillon Sachsisches
Hitlerjugend-Bataillon Stehen Schießen
Hitlerjugend-Bataillon Stettiner
Hitlerjugend-Bataillon Ware
Hitlerjugend-Bataillon Werwolf
Hitlerjugend-Bataillon Wiener

Panzer-Nahkampf-Bataillon Hitlerjugend 1[Reutlingen]

Panzer-Zerstörer-Bataillon Hitlerjugend Franken

Panzervernichtungs-Bataillon Hitlerjugend Moselland

Hitlerjugend-Panzerjagdkommando Bann 21

Hitlerjugend-Panzerjagd-Trupp Bann 6

Hitlerjugend-Panzervernichtungs-Bataillon 19

Jagd-Bataillon Hitlerjugend Braunschweig 1
Jagd-Bataillon Hitlerjugend Braunschweig 2
Jagd-Bataillon Hitlerjugend Braunschweig 3
Jagd-Bataillon Hitlerjugend Braunschweig 4

Panzervernichtungs-Kompanie Hitlerjugend 10/41

Hitlerjugend-Panzer-Nahkampf-Gruppe Schliesen

Hitlerjugend-Panzervernichtungs Lehrgang Teuplitz-Beelitz

Hitlerjugend-Trupp Bann 37

Hitlerjugend-Verteidiger Magdeburgs

Hitlerjugend Volkssturm, die Rekrutierung und Ausbildung im Wehrertüchtigungslager Dreetz

Volkssturm und Hitlerjugend-Grüppchen Magdeburg

Volkssturm und Hitlerjugend-Einheit Neben

Hitlerjugend-Einheit Bann 556
Hitlerjugend-Einheit Berlin Nr. 55
Hitlerjugend-Einheit Uess
Hitlerjugend-Einheit vom Sitz der Reichsleitung
Hitlerjugend-Einheit Auflösungserscheinungen 127
Hitlerjugend-Einheit zum Bahnhof
Hitlerjugend-Einheit Großenhainer

Hitlerjugend-Kampf-Einheit Beier

Hitlerjugend-Einsatz Berlin-Spandau
Hitlerjugend-Einsatz Luckenwalde
Hitlerjugend-Einsatz Muehlen-Osterode
Hitlerjugend-Einsatz Pyritz Pommern

Hitlerjugend-Jagd-Kommando I Frankfurt/Oder
Hitlerjugend-Jagd-Kommando II Frankfurt/Oder

Hitlerjugend-Sturm Weisskirchen

Hitlerjugend-Kompanie Dischler
Hitlerjugend-Kompanie Kleist
Hitlerjugend-Kompanie Ritter von Halt
Hitlerjugend-Kompanie Rossdeutscher
Hitlerjugend-Kompanie Stüwe 33
Hitlerjugend-Kompanie Thurow
Hitlerjugend-Kompanie Unruh
Hitlerjugend-Kompanie zbV. von der Knödelhütte

Hitlerjugend-Bau-Trupp 2 Jauer

Hitlerjugend-Standarte 107

Hitlerjugend-Bann Lager 363 Litzmannstadt
Hitlerjugend-Bann Lager Berlin-Reichssportfeld
Hitlerjugend-Bann Lager Sternberg

Hitlerjugend-Bann Ordensburg Kroessinsee Pommern

Hitlerjugend-Lager 121 Karbitz Aussig
Hitlerjugend-Lager 50 - 70 Brandenburg
Hitlerjugend-Lager Altenberg bei Dresden
Hitlerjugend-Lager Bad Warmbrunn
Hitlerjugend-Lager Bad-Ems
Hitlerjugend-Lager Baecheltal Reisengebirge
Hitlerjugend-Lager Dessdorf Hecklenburg
Hitlerjugend-Lager Eldaxen A Deister
Hitlerjugend-Lager Fettweiss Dueren
Hitlerjugend-Lager Hommloh bei Baern
Hitlerjugend-Lager Luhatschowitz
Hitlerjugend-Lager Prag Meseritz
Hitlerjugend-Lager Ruedersdorf
Hitlerjugend-Lager Salzwedel
Hitlerjugend-Lager Schoppinitz Oberschlesien
Hitlerjugend-Lager St. Martin Oberdonau
Hitlerjugend-Lager Tschaslau
Hitlerjugend-Lager Usedom Heringsdorf
Hitlerjugend-Lager Waldalgesheim Baden
Hitlerjugend-Lager Werslitz

Hitlerjugend-Landdienstlager Boldin
Hitlerjugend-Landdienstlager Buessow

Hitlerjugend-Lehrgang Lager Bistritz

Hitlerjugend-Notdienst Berlin-Lichterfelde

Hitlerjugend-Segelfluggruppe Prag

Hitlerjungend-Angehörige Magdeburg im Volkssturm

Hitlerjugend-Ausbildungs Lager Beuthen Eisenberg
Hitlerjugend-Ausbildungs Lager Heringsdorf

Panzerjagdkommando Krause

Panzerjagdverband Döberitz
Panzerjagdverband Munster

 

[Germanicus]

I was going over notes at home and realised I had written down the following which maybe of interest to some.

HJ Volkssturm-Kompanie 491

HJ-Panzervernichtungs-Kompanie 10/41 (HJ from Danzig)

Reutlingen district, three Hitlerjugend volunteer Kompanies were raised and included in the 1. Panzer-Nahkampf-Bataillon

Five Hitlerjugend bataillones, with a strength of 2,750 boys, were in the process of being raised and trained in the Bavarian Ostmark by 22 April

This Panzervernichtungs-Brigade consisted of members of the Hitler Youth districts of Bayreuth and Middle Franconia.

Four battalions of Hitler Youth from Hessen-Nassau, with over 1,600 boys, were waiting for their combat orders in the area of Waldmünchen, and a further four battalions of Panzervernichtungs-Brigade Westmark, with 2,000 Hitler Youth, were in their quarters in Dingolfing.

Panzervernichtungs-Brigade Hitlerjugend (Oberbannführer Kern) and also of the Panzervernichtungs-Ersatzbrigade-Hitler-Jugend (Oberbannführer Ohlendorf).

Each of these brigades had four battalions with the field post numbers 43711, 44625, 45422, 46319. The staff had the field post number 42797

Hitlerjugend-Jagd-Bataillon 4 of this brigade covered the bridge over Havel in Havelberg.

According to Holzträger there was also Hitlerjugend-Panzervernichtungs-Brigade 2

Hitlerjugend-Kampfgruppe Stünke

1st Brunswick Jagd-Bataillon (Oberbannführer Stünke) came from the HJ units quartered at the teacher training college and the Volkswagen factory.
The mobilisation of the 2nd Brunswick Jagd-Bataillon (Bannführer Zachau), 4th HJ Jagd-Bataillon followed soon after.

 

[Germanicus]

Panzervernichtungs-Brigade Hitlerjugend Lützow [Gau Wartheland]
Panzervernichtungs-Ersatz-Brigade Hitlerjugend Voigt
Freiwilligen-Regiment Siebenbürgen
IN A RAGING INFERNO Combat Units of the Hitler Youth 1944-45 Hans Holztrager

Hitlerjugend-Bataillon Wiener
http://www.argus.bundesarchiv.de/ns19/index.htm?kid=E07CFB9C742E49AB89BA692E6F5D1208

Hitlerjugend-Kompanie Unruh
Hitlerjugend-Kompanie Kleist
404 Not Found

Hitlerjugend-Bataillon Konne
Hitlerjugend-Bataillon Sachsisches
Hitlerjugend-Bataillon Ware
http://startext.net-build.de:8080/b...archType=any&searchVolumes=all&page=2#Treffer
http://startext.net-build.de:8080/b...605-bba7-42ea-a600-ba981de6c08e&searchPos=120

Regimentsgruppe der Hitlerjugend Hirsch [Breslau]
Hitler-Jugend troops with boys as young as 12 were widely used in the battle of Berlin as cannon fodder to buy a few hours to Nazi criminals busily fleeing to Switzerland, Argentina or Urugway

Hitlerjungend-Angehörige Magdeburg im Volkssturm
http://f15919.nexusboard.de/t143f6-RE-Die-Verteidiger-Magdeburgs-Truppenteile-und-Volkssturm.html

Hitlerjungend-Kampfgruppe Stünke
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werwolf_(Freischärlerbewegung)

1. Panzer-Nahkampf-Bataillon Hitlerjugend [Reutlingen]
http://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic.php?t=38157&highlight=panzerjagdbrigade

Hitlerjugend-Bataillon Stehen Schießen
Hitlerjugend-Bataillon Bauen von Stellungen
http://www.heimatverein-sendenhorst...1980-1999/maerz-1945-ein-letztes-gefecht.html

Hitlerjugend-Kompanie zbV. von der Knödelhütte
http://www.unterirdisch-forum.de/forum/showthread.php?t=4810

Hitlerjugend-Einheit zeigt Auflösungserscheinungen 127
http://tweedewereldoorlog.startpagi...74/10494470/re-bereitschaftlager-apollensdorf

Hitlerjugend-Einheit Uess
http://www.jahrbuch-daun.de/VT/hjb2004/hjb2004.38.htm

Hitlerjugend-Einheiten Großenhainer
http://www.blu-fredelsloh.de/archiv/alternativen/Politische Jugend in Grossenhain.pdf

Hitlerjugend-Einheit zum Bahnhof
Hitlerjugend-Regiment Köln
http://www.verfassungen.de/de/de33-45/index.htm

Hitlerjugend-Kampfgruppe Pichelsdorf
Hitlerjugend-Kampfgruppe Heerstraße
http://www.feldgrau.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=14647

Hitlerjugend-Kampfgruppe Reichssportfeld
http://www.forum-der-wehrmacht.de/index.php/Thread/11176-Division-Spandau/

Hitlerjugend-Einheit vom Sitz der Reichsleitung
http://www.locbook.com/blp#pid=l106605

Panzervernichtungsregiment der Hitlerjugend 21 Baden
Kriegsgefangenenlager - Stadt Tuttlingen
http://www.tuttlingen.de/ceasy/modules/.../main.php5?id

Panzervernichtungsregiment Hitlerjugend Gebiet Baden
http://rhein-neckar-wiki.de/Hitlerjugend

 

[Germanicus]

The following are from from Georg Tessins Register der Namensverbände; Volkssturm; Hitlerjugend; Verbündete. : Band 17.

They are taken from Deutsches Rotes Kreuz Vermisstenbildliste Book AZ.

If there are any spelling mistakes, I apologise in advance. Some letters are very hard to read.

Hitlerjugend-Ausbildungs Lager Beuthen Eisenberg
Hitlerjugend-Ausbildungs Lager Heringsdorf

Hitlerjugend-Bann 129 Berlin-Koepenik
Hitlerjugend-Bann 201
Hitlerjugend-Bann 775 Hikldburghausen Thuer
Hitlerjugend-Bann 83 Gefologschaft 34 Nieste

Hitlerjugend-Bann Dienststelle Ortelsburg

Hitlerjugend-Bann Lager 363 Litzmannstadt
Hitlerjugend-Bann Lager Berlin-Reichssportfeld
Hitlerjugend-Bann Lager Sternberg

Hitlerjugend-Bann Ordensburg Kroessinsee Pommern

Hitlerjugend-Bau-Trupp 2 Jauer

Hitlerjugend-Einheit Berlin Nr. 55

Hitlerjugend-Einsatz Berlin-Spandau
Hitlerjugend-Einsatz Luckenwalde
Hitlerjugend-Einsatz Muehlen-Osterode
Hitlerjugend-Einsatz Pyritz Pommern

Hitlerjugend-Jagd-Kommando II Frankfurt/Oder

Hitlerjugend-Kampf-Einheit Beier

Hitlerjugend-Kampfgruppe Bann 198 Berlin
Hitlerjugend-Kampfgruppe Festung Breslau
Hitlerjugend-Kampfgruppe Gutschke Hirschberg

Hitlerjugend-Lager 121 Karbitz Aussig
Hitlerjugend-Lager 50 - 70 Brandenburg
Hitlerjugend-Lager Altenberg bei Dresden
Hitlerjugend-Lager Bad Warmbrunn
Hitlerjugend-Lager Bad-Ems
Hitlerjugend-Lager Baecheltal Reisengebirge
Hitlerjugend-Lager Dessdorf Hecklenburg
Hitlerjugend-Lager Eldaxen A Deister
Hitlerjugend-Lager Fettweiss Dueren
Hitlerjugend-Lager Hommloh bei Baern
Hitlerjugend-Lager Luhatschowitz
Hitlerjugend-Lager Prag Meseritz
Hitlerjugend-Lager Ruedersdorf
Hitlerjugend-Lager Salzwedel
Hitlerjugend-Lager Schoppinitz Oberschlesien
Hitlerjugend-Lager St. Martin Oberdonau
Hitlerjugend-Lager Tschaslau
Hitlerjugend-Lager Usedom Heringsdorf
Hitlerjugend-Lager Waldalgesheim Baden
Hitlerjugend-Lager Werslitz

Hitlerjugend-Landdienstlager Boldin
Hitlerjugend-Landdienstlager Buessow

Hitlerjugend-Lehrgang Lager Bistritz

Hitlerjugend-Notdienst Berlin-Lichterfelde

Hitlerjugend-Panzer-Nahkampf-Gruppe Schliesen

Hitlerjugend-Panzervernichtungs Lehrgang Teuplitz-Beelitz

Hitlerjugend-Regiment Berlin - Halsinsel Hela
Hitlerjugend-Regiment Fuerstenwalde

Hitlerjugend-Segelfluggruppe Prag

Hitlerjugend-Standarte 107

Hitlerjugend-Sturm Weisskirchen

 

[Joe B]

Thank you so much for taking the time and effort to post this . You sir are an asset to this forum .

 

[Germanicus]

Dear kriegsmodell

My respects and thank you for your kind words. I have been meaning to post information for some time now.

I am hoping to build upon the data I have supplied. I would be most appreciative if others shared their data. I have more information to offer and I will do so before the week is over.

I must say the forum for hj-research layout is most impressive and the information supplied by members is most superb, especially on an obscure topic such as the << Hitlerjugend>>.

Most respectfully

Mark

 

[crack]

I'll echo what Joecool said, great information. great research. I had no idea that so many HJ formations were formed. I thought this would have been solely down to the RJF but clearly the Gebiete and even Bann seem to have formed HJ "units".

 

[Garry]

Hi Mark,

Great stuff. I'm going through my books etc and will post anything I find that might be of use. I'll make a small start below.


Panzerjagdbataillon Karl Gutschke

This one doesn't appear to be on your list.

Commander: Oberstammführer Karl Gutschke from Glogau.
Strength: 300 enlisted Hitler Youth war volunteers (Kriegsfreiwillige)

In early April 1945 this unit received marching orders from Feldmarschall Schörner. During the ensuing action Gutschke was killed and his "men" left stranded as their home town had been evacuated.



Panzerjagdkommando Krause.

This is on your list but I found a little info on it. This Panzerjagdkommando took part in action to defend Stettin allowing the recovery of wounded and the evacuation of refugees. Withdrawn to Pyritz where they were once again employed in defence. These actions resulted in 16 dead.


HJ Regiment Berlin: raised by Gebietsführer Otto Hamann as part of the III Volkssturm wave. The regiment included Hitlerjugend-Kampfgruppe Bann 129 and Hitlerjugend-Kampfgruppe Bann 198. Possible that all of HJ Banne in Berlin had contingents which would mean those two plus:
Bann 200
Bann 199
Bann 155
Bann 61
Bann 37
Bann 21
Bann 6
Bann 201



Panzervernichtungs-Brigade 1

On your list obviously but I thought I would add a little from the two sources: This unit was raised at the beginning of April 1945 and consisting of boys aged 15 to 17 led by the last remaining HJ officers. The boys were sourced from:

Adolf Hitler Schools
NPEA
WEL (pre-military training camps)
Lehrerbildungsanstalten (teacher training college)

Commander: RJF Chief of Staff Helmut Möckel until his death in a car accident then Reichsjugendführer Axmann. Effectively in control however was Oberbannführer Otto Kern as Axmann had to remain in Berlin.

Uniform: olive green in the style of Organisation Todt and equipped with bicycles to permit easy movement in small groups.
Training: February and March 1945 at the training areas Wünsdorf and Zossen.
Assignment: to be attached to AOK 9 reserves and positioned 30-50km behind the FEBA to defend the Berlin/Frankfurt (Oder) Autobahn.

With a strength of 600 the Panzervernichtungsbrigade 1 would later go on to be involved in the successful defence of the Pichelsdorfer Bridge in Berlin. At this time it was referred to by Axmann as "Kampfgruppe Schlünder".



Panzervernichtungsbrigade 2: this is not mentioned by Axmann in his autobiography or by Günter Kaufmann (friend of Schirach and author of "Ein Jugendführer in Deutschland" 1993. They consistently mention only one brigade. The info in this post comes from those two books incidentally.


Final battles in Berlin:

From your list:
Hitlerjugend-Kampfgruppe Pichelsdorf (see Panzervernichtungs-Brigade 1 and Kampfgruppe Schlünder above)
Hitlerjugend-Kampfgruppe Heerstraße. (Panzervernichtungs-Brigade 1 and other small groups fought on and around Heerstrasse in the lead-up to the defence of the Pichelsdorfer bridges which were in the vicinity).

Not on your list:
Kampfgruppe Schlünder (see defence of the Pichelsdorfer bridges above).

What I mean is, all three of the above could well have been the same entity at different points in the battle for Berlin and after hasty reorganisations.

 

[WARNACH]

good evening
the HJ Kampftruppen and their combat history is still an area that could use a lot more of research.
Historic sources are scarce and (longtime) postwar interviews with men who were in 1945 only boys with no knowledge about the general situation whatshowever, lead to confusing and contradicting information.
Recently I started to dig into the Panzer Nahkampf Brigade Hitlerjugend.
Very soon it became clear that unit designations were not consistent used (like Garry already wrote).
Even on HG Weichsel documents the "Panzer Nahkampf Brigade Hitlerjugend" suddenly becomes the "Panzerjagd Brigade Hitlerjugend".
The partial combat histories of these units in the classic sources like Axmann, Holzträger, Gellermann and Buddrus, when looked at closely using (and comparing) dates, maps, MIA-data and even death cards leads one to believe the "Panzer Nahkampf Brigade HJ", the "1. Panzer Vernichtungs Brigade Hitlerjugend", "the Panzerjagd Brigade HJ"or even the "Brigade Axmann" are in fact IMHO all names for the same unit (at least when we speak of the HJ-Brigade active on the Oderfront east of Berlin and in the west of Berlin (Spandau/Charlottenburg)
It even becomes more complex when the Brigade became split up with (most likely) the III Battalion remaining in the Olympic Village in Berlin where it became merged with other units becomming the Kampfgruppe Schlunder.
Reactions are welcome.
Regards