Army group
Army group was the name for a large improvised unit in the German military. The English name army group refers to an army group , which includes several armies.
First World War
The "army group" referred to a part of an army of usually two to three corps , which was grouped under an improvised staff for standardization. Army groups were set up ad hoc for certain operational tasks and usually quickly disbanded. Few of them gained greater importance due to their long-term existence, for example in 1914 with the siege of Antwerp .
Examples:
- Army group Beseler
- Army group Gallwitz
- Army group Gronau
- Army group Marwitz
- Army group Litzmann
- Army group Exactly
Second World War
In the Wehrmacht, an army group was an improvised army group that was set up for a limited period. In contrast to a regular army group, there was no army group command, the command of the army group was taken over by the army high command (AOK) of one of the armies involved (after whose commander in chief the army group was usually named). The armies involved could belong to different states.
At the corps level there was the corresponding designation " corps group ", "group" or "tank group" for an improvised army.
- Army group A
- Army Group Guderian ( 2nd Panzer Army , 2nd Army ; 1941)
- Army Group Kleist ( 1st Panzer Army , 17th Army ; 1942)
- Weichs Army Group ( 2nd Army , 4th Panzer Army , 2nd Hungarian Army ; 1942)
- Ruoff Army Group ( 17th Army , 3rd Romanian Army ; 1942)
- Army Group Hoth ( 4th Panzer Army , 4th Romanian Army ; 1942/43)
- Army Group G (later Army Group G ; 1st Army , 19th Army ; 1944)
- Army group Raus / Heinrici ( 1st Panzer Army , 1st Hungarian Army ; 1944/45)
- Army Group Wöhler ( 8th Army , 4th Romanian Army and 2nd / 1st Hungarian Army ; 1944)
- Army group Fretter-Pico / Balck ( 6th Army , 2nd and 3rd Hungarian Army ; 1944/45)
- Army Group Student ( 1st Parachute Army , 15th Army ; 1944)
Army groups under allied command were:
- Antonescu Army Group ( 3rd and 4th Romanian Army ; 1941)
- Army Group Dumitrescu ( 3rd Romanian Army , 6th Army ; 1944)
- Army Group Liguria ( Army Liguria , 14th Army ; 1944/45)
Deviating from this, the following were also designated as army groups:
- Felber Army Group (LXXXIII. Army Corps with liaison staff to the 4th Italian Army; 1942/43)
- Army Group Frießner (later Narva Army Division ; 1944)
- Army / Army Group Blumentritt (former Army Group Student; 1945)
- Army group Steiner (also 11th SS Panzer Army; 1945)
- Wenck Army Group
- Army group of pliers
- Army group Hollidt
- Army group Christiansen
- Army Group Liguria
- Army group Lanz
- Army group hole
- Army group of Manteuffel
- Army group Mattenklott
- Army group Narva
- Army group Nikopol
- Army Group Normandy
- Army group Spree
- Army group Straube
- Army Group South Greece
- Army Group 2
- Army Group XXI
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- Military history research office : German military history in 6 volumes ISBN 3-88199-112-3
- Hermann Cron: History of the German Army in the World War 1914–1918 . Berlin 1937