IV Army Corps (Wehrmacht)

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IV Army Corps

IV Army Corps emblem.svg

Troop registration number of the IV Army Corps of the Wehrmacht
active October 1, 1934 to January 31, 1943
July 20, 1943 to October 10, 1944
Country German Reich NSGerman Reich (Nazi era) German Empire
Armed forces Wehrmacht
Type army
Butcher Second World War
attack on Poland
Western campaign
Battle of Stalingrad

The IV Army Corps of the German Wehrmacht was a major military unit that was used in World War II . Deployed on the Eastern Front from 1941 , the General Command was temporarily referred to as the Swedish group after its commander . After the destruction in the Stalingrad pocket from December 1942 as Gkdo. z. b. V. Mieth reorganized and on July 20, 1943 again designated as General Command IV Army Corps. Also known as the Mieth group between May / July 1944 .

history

Lineup

In October 1934 the General Command of the IV Army Corps was formed from the 4th Division in Wehrkreis IV in Dresden . At the beginning of the Second World War, the IV Army Corps was part of the 10th Army .

1939/40

In September 1939, the major formation with the assumed took 4th and 46th Infantry Division at the Poland attack part. From May 10, 1940, the corps participated in the case of Yellow as part of the 6th Army in the western campaign . The 7th , 18th and 35th Infantry Divisions were subordinate to this . In the red case , the corps acted with the 19th and 30th Infantry Divisions as a reserve for Army Group B in the second meeting and was pulled forward in the course of the first fighting. On May 11th, the Albert Canal was crossed, the Demer section crossed at Tienen , and from May 13th the Dyle position was attacked and breached on May 16th. With the 7th, 18th, 31st and 35th Infantry Divisions, the corps tried on May 20th and 21st. to break through the English positions on the Scheldt on both sides of Tournai in vain . For three days, the IV. Corps was bound off the eastern front of Lille , while on May 22nd it was on the right wing of the XI. Army corps managed to form a bridgehead on the north bank of the Scheldt southwest of Oudenarde . After regrouping, the IV. Corps was drawn to Bossuyt on the south bank of the Lys and deployed against the enemy positions at Tourcoing . On June 25, 1940, the 4th and 33rd Infantry Divisions were subordinate to the Corps Command . On the left wing, the 31st Infantry Division stood on May 24th in the space between Halluin and Menin; the crowd crossed the Lys on both sides of the Courtrai . While the 14th and 18th Infantry Divisions bypassed Courtrai in the north, the 31st Division reached the breakthrough to the west at Menin. In the continuation of the attack on the Ypres Canal between the IV. And XI. Army Corps, the Xth Army Corps , into whose area the 14th Division passed, inserted. The General Command waived the possible advance to Kemmelberg in order to support the breakthrough of the 6th Army via Roulers to the coast with the right wing . The previously tenacious resistance of the enemy forces in front of the IV Corps front gave way completely on the morning of May 29th because of the runoff on the Dunkirk pocket. After the fighting was over, the corps remained in France as an occupying force as part of the 12th Army until May 1941. At the end of December 1940 the 24th , 58th and 208th Infantry Divisions were under the corps .

1941

The IV Army Corps was on the Eastern Front from June 1941 to October 1944 . At the beginning of Operation Barbarossa it was subordinate to the 17th Army as part of Army Group South and operated via Rawa Ruska on Lemberg . On June 27th, the 24th , 295th and 262nd infantry divisions were subordinate to the corps in the front and the 71st and 97th light divisions in the second meeting. Advancing north of Tarnopol on Proskurow , the Schwedler group stood in the Belaya Tserkov area at the end of July . Together with the XXXXIV. Army Corps took over cover of the southern Dnieper bank between Kanev and Cherkassy during the Battle of Kiev . At the end of 1941 the corps was engaged in trench warfare in the upper Mius area , and the 9th , 76th and 94th Infantry Divisions were subordinate to it .

1942

During the Fall Blau summer offensive , the corps advanced from the Artemovsk area south of the Donets to Voroshilovgrad at the end of June 1942 as part of the Ruoff Army Group . Subordinated to the 4th Panzer Army from the beginning of August , the corps followed the advance of XXXXVIII with the 94th and 371st Infantry Divisions . Panzer Corps via Kotelnikowo to the Aksai sector. From October 1942 to January 1943 the unit fought in the Battle of Stalingrad . As the northernmost corps of the 4th Panzer Army, it got into the Stalingrad pocket itself and was therefore also subordinated to the 6th Army on November 22nd. At the end of December, he was subordinate to the 371st and 297th Infantry Divisions as well as the Romanian 20th Infantry Division. Together with the other units of the enclosed 6th Army, the IV Army Corps was almost completely destroyed, remnants fell into Soviet captivity.

1943

At the end of January 1943, the corps at the Hollidt Army Department was reorganized as General Command zbV Mieth . Deployed in April 1943 in the middle section of the Mius , the corps was under the control of the 3rd Mountain Division , the 304th and 335th Infantry Divisions . On July 20, 1943, the General Command Mieth was renamed General Command IV Army Corps again during the defensive battles of the Soviet Donets-Mius Offensive . In the autumn of 1943 the corps was together with the XXIX. Army corps in the southern Dnieper bridgehead from Nikopol were assigned to the 3rd Mountain Division, the 101st Jäger-, remnants of the 258th and the 302nd Infantry Divisions .

1944

In the spring of 1944, the corps fought in the section of the 6th Army with Army Group South Ukraine and had to fight its way back to the Prut . In the summer of 1944, part of the 8th Army , the 376th and 79th Infantry Divisions and the Romanian 11th Division were subordinate to the association . After the major attack by the 2nd Ukrainian Front on August 20, 1944, the corps was almost completely destroyed in the Battle of Jassy .

In October 1944, the IV. Panzer Corps was set up as a successor group from the staff of the commander in Eastern Hungary and the Storm Division Rhodes, which was renamed the Panzer Corps Feldherrnhalle before the end of the year . This corps was deployed in 1945 as part of the 8th Army (General Kreysing ) in Hungary and in the Gran area on the Hron sector and surrendered after the Bratislava-Brno operation at the end of the war in Slovakia .

guide

Commanding general

Chiefs of the General Staff

  • Major General Friedrich Olbricht , October 1935 - November 10, 1938
  • Major General Walter Model , November 10, 1938 - October 24, 1939
  • Colonel Otto Beutler, October 25, 1939 - June 20, 1942
  • Colonel Johannes Steffler, June 20, 1942 - December 1942
  • Colonel Johannes Crome, December 1942 - February 1943
  • Colonel Franz Jais, October 10-31, 1943
  • Colonel Diermayer, November 1, 1943 - February 15, 1944
  • Colonel Günther Siedschlag, February 15 - October 1944

Corps doctors

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ General Swiss Military Journal Volume 124, 1957, pp. 39–51
  2. ↑ Percy E. Schramm (Ed.): War Diary of the High Command of the Wehrmacht, 8th volumes, Volume I: 1940/41 edited by Hans-Adolf Jacobsen , Bernard & Graefe Verlag für Wehrwesen, Frankfurt am Main 1965, appendix: respective war organization.
  3. ^ Percy E. Schramm (Ed.): War diary of the High Command of the Wehrmacht, 8th volumes, Volume II: 1942 edited by Andreas Hillgruber, Bernard & Graefe Verlag für Wehrwesen, Frankfurt am Main 1965, appendix: respective war organization.
  4. ↑ Percy E. Schramm (Ed.): War diary of the High Command of the Wehrmacht, 8th volumes, Volume III: 1943 edited by Walther Hubatsch, Bernard & Graefe Verlag für Wehrwesen, Frankfurt am Main 1965, appendix: respective war organizations.