24th Army (Wehrmacht)

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24th Army

active October 1944 to May 1945
Country German Reich NSGerman Reich (Nazi era) German Empire
Armed forces Wehrmacht
Armed forces army
Type army
structure see structure
management
Commander in chief see list

The 24th Army / Army High Command 24 (AOK 24) was a command authority of the Army of the Wehrmacht during the Second World War .

history

Operation area:

The 24th Army was deployed on the Swiss border in October 1944 . It was from the Territorial Staff of the military district commands V formed. Apart from Reconnaissance Staff 8, it was not subordinate to any of its own units from February to April 1945. From March 1945 the 24th Army was known as "Fortress Alpen" (→  Alpenfestung ) and was temporarily subordinate to the 19th Army . The 19th Army was also an association with little more than division strength . They were made up of troops from headquarters , which were replenished with units from the Volkssturm and border security battalions. The 24th Army had the task of preventing a possible advance of the Allies over neutral Switzerland. It did not get beyond the stage of a pure rump force and surrendered in May 1945.

people

Commander of the 24th Army:
period of service Rank Surname
November 1944 to May 6, 1945 General of the Infantry Hans Schmidt
Chief of the General Staff of the 24th Army:
period of service Rank Surname
November 1944 to May 6, 1945 Lieutenant colonel Seitzinger
General Staff Officer (Ia) of the 24th Army:
period of service Rank Surname
November 1944 to May 6, 1945 Captain Charcoal burner

structure

  • Division No. 405
  • Combat group Friedrichshafen
  • Kampfgruppe Bodensee

literature

  • Charles B. MacDonald: The Last Offensive: The United States Army in World War II: The European Theater of Operations , Dover Publications, 2007, ISBN 978-0-486-45556-3 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Horst Boog , Richard Lakowski, Werner Rahn , Manfred Zeidler , John Zimmermann : The German Reich and the Second World War , Volume 10/1, The Collapse of the German Reich 1945 , Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt , ISBN 978-3-421-06237- 6 , p. 340