6th Division (Austria)

6th Division
6. Division
Active 1920–1938
Country  Austria
Branch Austrian Bundesheer
Type Light infantry
Role Mountain warfare
Headquarters Innsbruck
Commanders
Notable
commanders
Eugen Beyer

The 6th Division (German: 6. Division; before 1935 the 6th Brigade, 6. Brigade) was a division of alpine troops in the Austrian Bundesheer of the First Austrian Republic. Headquartered in Innsbruck, it drew from Carinthia, Salzburg, Tyrol, and Vorarlberg. After the Anschluss of Austria by Nazi Germany in 1938, it was folded into the 2nd Mountain Division of the Wehrmacht. Eugen Beyer was its last commander.

The units permanently assigned to the division were:

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