By: David Prasse

 

Here is the ToE for the 113th Panzer Brigade dated 9/18/44-- one day before being committed to the offensive Battle for Arracourt. These numbers have
been collated from official German documents (including the ammo status
report of the Brigade), US accounts and German POW interrogations.

113th Pz Bde (Commander Saeckendorff)

Bde HQ ASSETS
- Bde staff 1/2 track mounted
1 251/6
2 251/3 -radio
- signal pltn (Opel Blitz truck)
- motorcycle (Kettenkrad) messenger pltn

113th PzGren Pioneer co.(motorized)
- 2 rifle pltns (6 LMG each)
- 1 Hvy Wpns Pltn
- 2 81mm mortars
- 2 HMG teams

113 recon Co. (remnants of 58th Recon Bn)
- Armored Car Pltn
- 3 SdKfz 222
- 2 SdKfz 234/1
- Half-track Pltn
- 1 SdKfz 250/10 (37mm AT)
- 2 SdKfz 250/1 (each with foot recon section)
- 2 SdKfz 7/1 quad 20mm AA

Arty Support 1198 Arty Bn attached for Arracourt (1/2 track towed)
- 2 3-gun batteries 152mm (ex-Soviet)
- 1 4-gun battery 150mm German

INFANTRY ASSETS

2113 Pz Gren Regt

- signals pltn (Opel Blitz)
- motorcycle (kettenkrad) pltn
- towed AT pltn
- 3 50mm AT - towed, truck
- HW company
- 1st Pltn - 3 150mm inf guns-towed, truck
- 2nd pltn - 3 75mm Inf guns-towed.truck
- 3rd pltn - 4 120mm mortars,truck
- AA pltn-towed,truck
- 8 20mm Flak 38 single barrel

- I & II Bn-motorized
- Administrative staff
- 3 rifle companies
- 3 rifle pltns with 6 LMGs each
- 1 HW pltn with 4 HMGs and 2 81mm mortars
- 1 HW company
- 3 75mm At,towed,truck
- 4 120mm mortar
ARMOR assets

- 2113th Pz Bn ( Pz Replacement Bn 35 )(45 Mk IV)
- Bn Hq/recon section
- 3 Pz Mk IV
- 3 MkIV kompanies 14 Pz IV each

- I Bn/130 Pz Lehr (44 Mk V)
- Bn Hq/recon section
- 2 Pz Mk V
- 3 Pz V kompanies 14 Mk V each

- Armored AA company
- 4 20mm WirbelWinds
- 4 37mm Flak/Pz IV Moebelwagen

- Workshop units
- Light workshop co.
- Hvy workshop co.

NOTES:

Armor Bns must be attached to Infantry battalions for communications--the
tanks did not have compatible radios to talk to Brigade HQ.

DEPLOYMENT for Battle orders 9/18/44

KG BROSE

- 2113 Pz Bde Hq(including the commander 113th Pz Bde)
- 2113 Bde Signals co.
- I Bn 2113 PzGrenReg
- I/130 Pz Bn (MkV)
- 1st Pltn Pioneers
- 1st Pltn HW co.(105mm Inf Guns)
- 1st section towed AA guns (4 20mm)

KG FEISS

- 2113th PzGrenReg Hq
- II Bn/2113 PzGrenReg
- 2113 Pz Bn (MkIV)
- 2nd Pltn Poineers
- 3rd Pltn HW co.(120mm mortars)
- 2nd section towed AA co.

RESERVE

- Recon co.
- HW pltn Pioneer co.
- 2nd Pltn HW co.(75mm Inf Gun)

Here is the list of commanders of the 113th Pz Bde as of 9/18/44-- (just
before the Battle for Arracourt)

113th Pz Bde Col Freiherr von Saeckendorf (KIA 9/21/44)

2113th Pz Gren Reg Col Brose
I Bn Capt Schrader(Capt Kirschner during battle)

1 kompanie 1st Lt Winkler
2 kompanie 1st Lt Mauff
3 kompanie 1st Lt Lange
4 kompanie 1st Lt Rebel

II Bn Capt Feisse

5 kompanie 1st Lt Sadder
6 kompanie 1st Lt Schmidt (9/22/44-Lt Rausche)
7 kompanie
8 kompanie 1st Lt Dietrich (captured 3hrs into battle
9/19/44)

Pioneer kompanie 1st Lt Maier

Spearhead organization for this unit

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