Corps group
Corps group , tank group and often just group was the name of an improvised group in the Wehrmacht . H. Temporary army . In contrast to a regular army, there was no Army High Command (AOK), the command of the corps group was taken over by the corps high command of one of the corps involved (after whose commander in chief the corps group was usually named).
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Panzergruppe Kleist was set up on March 5, 1940 under Colonel General von Kleist . Chief of the General Staff was Colonel Kurt Zeitzler . This tank group was the first such unit of the Wehrmacht to bundle armored and motorized troops in the form of several army corps and carried out the first operationally independent deployment of the tank troops in war history. It consisted of five armored divisions (half of the armored divisions of the Wehrmacht) and three motorized divisions and thus bundled around half of the battle tanks available for the attack on France. Were subject to:
- XIX. Corps of General Guderian ( 1st Panzer Division (Gen. Kirchner ), 2nd Panzer Division (Gen. Veiel ), 10th Panzer Division ((Gen. Schaal ), Infantry Regiment Greater Germany ))
- XLI. Corps of General Reinhardt ( 6th Panzer Division , 8th Panzer Division , 20th (motorized) Infantry Division ( from Wiktorin ))
- Formations directly subordinate to the Panzer Group
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Panzergruppe Guderian was set up on the orders of Hitler on May 28, 1940 and existed from June 1 to June 25, 1940 (the end of the western campaign ). The staff was from the General Command of the XIX. Corps formed. The commander-in-chief was General of the Panzer Troop Guderian 1 . Were subject to:
- XXXIX. Corps of General Schmidt (1st Panzer Division, 2nd Panzer Division, 29th (motorized) Infantry Division )
- XLI. Corps of General Reinhardt (6th Panzer Division, 8th Panzer Division, 20th (motorized) Infantry Division)
- Formations directly subordinate to the Panzer Group
- The Panzer Group Guderian was subordinated to the 12th Army under Colonel General List , which in turn was subordinate to Army Group A under Colonel General von Rundstedt .
1 (Guderian was appointed Lieutenant General and Commander-in-Chief of the XIXth Corps (then called Army Corps and abbreviated as AK) on February 4, 1938 , and promoted to Colonel General on July 19, 1940. On November 16, 1940, he was appointed Commander of the Panzer Group 2 and on October 5, 1941 as commander in chief of the 2nd Panzer Army.)
At the Army Group level there was the corresponding designation “ Army Group ” for an improvised, i.e. H. Temporary Army Group.
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