Kommandeure:

• GenLt. Heinrich Trettner, 4.10.43 - 4.5.45

Ia:

• Maj Walter Gericke, 11.43 - 22.1.44
• Maj Arnold von Roon, 22.1.44 - 16.1.45
• Maj Siegfried Vehlow, 16.1.45 - 5.45

Formation begun 5.11.43 (to be completed 1.2.44) in Venedig (Venice), from the following units: I./FJR.2, II./FJR.6 and I./Luftlande-Sturm-Regiment 1 (all ex. 2. Fallschirm-Jäger-Division). A large number of Italian paratroopers from the Divisions Dembo and Folgore joined the new division. The new division consisted of the following units:

• Fallschirm-Jäger-Regiment 10
• Fallschirm-Jäger-Regiment 11
• Fallschirm-Jäger-Regiment 12
• Fallschirm-Panzer-Jäger-Abteilung 4
• Fallschirm-Artillerie-Regiment 4
• Fallschirm-Flak-Abteilung 4
• Fallschirm-Pionier-Bataillon 4
• Fallschirm-Luftnachrichten-Abteilung 4
• Fallschirm-Sanitäts-Abteilung 4
• Fallschirm-Granatwerfer-Bataillon 4, from 6.44
• Fallschirm-Feldersatz-Bataillon 4, from 11.44

Formation was completed February 1944, and the division went into combat at Anzio, under I.FsAK / AOK.14. The division remained in Italy until the end, and served under the following headquarters:

12.43	Heeresgruppe C	while forming in Venice-Padua-Treviso area
1.44 - 5.44	I.FsAK / AOK.14	Anzio/Nettuno
6.44 - 7.44	I.FsAK / AOK.14	Rome, Viterbo, Perugia, Siena and Florens
8.44 - 11.44	I.FsAK / AOK.14	Rimini
12.44 - 3.45	I.FsAK / AOK.10	Bologna, Via Emilia
4.45	reserve / AOK.10	Ferrara, Verona, Vicenza and Bozen

5.45, surrendered between Viacenza and Bozen.

NOTE: The division did not have its own artillery after June 1944.

Replacement troops were provided by Fallschirm-Ersatz-Bataillon 1 in Aschersleben.

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