1st Army (Wehrmacht)

The 1st Army / Army High Command 1 (AOK 1) was a major unit of the Army of the Wehrmacht during the Second World War .

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The 1st Army was set up on August 26, 1939 in Wehrkreis XII . During the attack on Poland, the army took up defensive positions on the Siegfried Line . During the western campaign , the army belonged to Army Group C and initially remained passive towards the Maginot Line . On June 14, 1940, it broke through the Maginot Line south of Saarbrücken and on June 19 north of Wörth . After the end of the Western campaign, the army remained in France . Until May 1942 it secured the demarcation line and then the Atlantic coast ( Atlantic Wall ) in southwest France. After the successful landing of the Allies ( Operation Overlord ) in June 1944, the 1st Army was pushed back to the western border of the German Reich . From March 15 to 24, 1945 ( Operation Undertone ) the 7th US Army attacked on a broad front and surrounded the 1st Army near Kaiserslautern . However, there was a breakthrough and the withdrawal to the Danube . On May 6, 1945 , the 1st Army surrendered near Munich .

Field Marshal Erwin von Witzleben : September 1, 1939 to October 26, 1940
Colonel General Johannes Blaskowitz : October 26, 1940 to May 1, 1944
General of the Panzer Troop Joachim Lemelsen : May 1 to June 2, 1944
Infantry General Kurt von der Chevallerie : June 2 to September 5, 1944
General of the tank troop Otto von Knobelsdorff : September 5 to October 30, 1944
General of the Infantry Kurt von Tippelskirch : October 30 to November 11, 1944 (m.st.Fb)
General of the tank troop Otto von Knobelsdorff: November 11th to November 30th, 1944
General of the Infantry Hans von Obstfelder : November 30, 1944 to February 28, 1945
General of the Infantry Hermann Foertsch : February 28 to May 6, 1945
General of the cavalry Rudolf Koch-Erpach : May 6th to May 8th 1945

Major General Friedrich Mieth : September 1, 1939 to February 5, 1940
Major General Carl Hilpert : February 5, 1940 to October 25, 1940
Major General Edgar Röhricht : October 25, 1940 to June 16, 1942
Major General Anton Reichard Freiherr von Mauchenheim called Bechtolsheim : June 16, 1942 to August 1, 1943
Colonel i. G. Gerhard Feyerabend : August 1, 1943 to September 10, 1944
Colonel i. G. Willi Mantey : September 10, 1944 to December 7, 1944
Major General Hellmuth Reinhardt : December 7, 1944 to February 20, 1945
Major General Wolfgang Hauser : February 20, 1945 to May 6, 1945

Georg Tessin : Associations and troops of the German Wehrmacht and Waffen SS in World War II 1939–1945. Volume 2. The Land Forces 1–5 . 2nd Edition. Biblio-Verlag, Bissendorf 1973, ISBN 3-7648-0871-3 .