Schematic war organization of the Wehrmacht on April 6, 1941

The schematic war organization of the Wehrmacht on April 6, 1941 , shows the formation of the army and the air force of the Wehrmacht at the beginning of the attack on Yugoslavia and Greece .

The army was divided into two armies. The Luftwaffe provided an air fleet that was independent, but was supposed to work closely with the relevant army units. The divisions of the army belonged to different deployment waves , with the divisions of the 1st and 2nd deployment waves being the best equipped in terms of personnel and material.

army

2nd Army

• Commander in Chief: Colonel General Maximilian von Weichs
• Chief of the General Staff: Colonel i. G. Hermann von Witzleben
• First General Staff Officer : Lieutenant Colonel i. G. Gerhard Feyerabend

XXXXVI. Army Corps (motorized)	16th Infantry Division (motorized)	1st wave of deployment
	8th Panzer Division	204 Panzerkampfwagen (49 P II , 125 P 38t, 30 P IV)
	14th Panzer Division	124 armored fighting vehicles (45 P II, 51 P III, 20 P IV, 8 armored command vehicles)
XXXXIX. Mountain Corps	1st Mountain Division	1st wave of deployment
LI. Army Corps	132nd Infantry Division	11th wave of deployment
	183rd Infantry Division	7th wave of deployment
	Parts of the 101st Light Infantry Division	12. Wave of installation
LII. Army Corps	125th Infantry Division	11th wave of deployment
reserve	79th Infantry Division	2nd wave of deployment, was not used
	169th Infantry Division	7th wave of deployment, was not used
	197th Infantry Division	7th wave of deployment, was not used

12th Army

• Commander in Chief: Field Marshal Wilhelm List
• Chief of the General Staff: Major General Hans von Greifenberg
• First General Staff Officer: Colonel i. G. Josef Kübler

XXX. Army Corps	50th Infantry Division	1st wave of deployment
	164th Infantry Division	7th wave of deployment
XVIII. Mountain Corps	2nd Panzer Division	142 armored fighting vehicles (45 P II, 71 P III, 20 P IV, 6 armored command vehicles)
	5th Mountain Division
	6th Mountain Division
	72nd Infantry Division	2nd wave of deployment
XXXX. Army Corps (motorized)	73rd Infantry Division	2nd wave of deployment
	Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler	Armed SS
	9th Panzer Division	126 armored fighting vehicles (9 PI, 36 P II, 51 P III, 20 P IV, 10 armored command vehicles)
XI. Army Corps	76th Infantry Division	2nd wave of deployment
	198th Infantry Division	7th wave of deployment
L. Army Corps	46th Infantry Division	1st wave of deployment
reserve	16th Panzer Division	was not used

Panzer Group 1	XIV Army Corps (motorized)	5th Panzer Division	121 armored fighting vehicles (9 PI, 40 P II, 51 P III, 16 P IV, 5 armored command vehicles)
		11th Panzer Division	126 armored fighting vehicles (45 P II, 51 P III, 16 P IV, 14 armored command vehicles)
		60th Infantry Division (motorized)	2nd wave of deployment
	XXXXI. Army Corps (motorized)	SS Division Das Reich	Armed SS
		Greater Germany Infantry Regiment
reserve		4th Mountain Division	was not used
		294th Infantry Division	was not used

air force

Air fleet 4

• Commander in Chief: Colonel General Alexander Löhr
• Chief of the General Staff: Lieutenant General Günther Korten
• Actual strength: 971 aircraft (37 reconnaissance aircraft, 119 fighter planes, 280 dive fighter planes, 70 destroyer planes, 61 attack planes, 371 fighter planes)

directly subordinated	4th Squadron of Remote Reconnaissance Group 121	13 reconnaissance aircraft (10 Junkers Ju 88A , 3 Messerschmitt Bf 110 C)
	Staff, I. and III./KG 2 , III./KG 3	96 fighter planes (93 Dornier Do 17Z , 3 Junkers Ju 88A)
	Staff, I., II. And III./KG 51 , II./KG 4	109 fighter planes (81 Junkers Ju 88A, 28 Heinkel He 111P)
Aviator leader Graz	Staff / StG 3 , II./StG 77	42 dive fighters (42 Junkers Ju 87B)
	Staff and II./JG 54 , I./JG 27	68 fighters (68 Messerschmitt Bf 109E)
Pilot Arad	Staff I. and III./StG 77	88 dive combat aircraft (82 Junkers Ju 87B, 5 Messerschmitt Bf 109E, 1 Messerschmitt Bf 110C)
	I./ZG 26	33 destroyer aircraft (33 Messerschmitt Bf 110C / D)
	Stab, II. And III./JG 77 , III. and 4./JG 54	134 fighters (134 Messerschmitt Bf 109E)
VIII. Air Corps	2nd relay of the remote reconnaissance group 11	12 reconnaissance aircraft (12 Dornier Do 17P)
	7./LG 2	12 reconnaissance aircraft (12 Messerschmitt Bf 110C)
	Emergency Squadron 7
	Staff, I. and III./StG 2 , I./StG 3, I. StG 1	150 dive combat aircraft (72 Junkers Ju 87B, 42 Junkers Ju 87R)
	II./LG 2, 10./LG 2	61 attack aircraft (29 Messerschmitt Bf 109E, 32 Henschel Hs 123)
	II./ZG 26	37 destroyer aircraft (37 Messerschmitt Bf 110C / E)
	Staff, II. And III./JG 27, I./LG 2	112 fighters (112 Messerschmitt Bf 109E)
	I./LG 1	23 fighter planes (23 Junkers Ju 88A)
	IV./KG zbV 1	33 transport aircraft (33 Junkers Ju 53 / 3m)
Air Force Mission to Romania	III./JG 52	57 fighters (57 Messerschmitt Bf 109E)
Luftgaukommando XVII	Erg.Gru./JG 77, Erg.St./StG 2

See also

• Schematic war organization of the Wehrmacht on September 1, 1939
• Schematic war organization of the Wehrmacht on May 10, 1940
• Schematic war organization of the Wehrmacht on June 22, 1941
• Schematic war organization of the Wehrmacht on June 6, 1944

literature

• Percy E. Schramm (Ed.): War Diary of the High Command of the Wehrmacht , Volume 8, Volume II: 1940–1941. Bernard & Graefe Verlag für Wehrwesen, Frankfurt am Main, 1982, p. 1134.
• Detlef Vogel: The German Reich and the Second World War . The intervention of Germany on the Balkans , Volume 3, Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 1984, ISBN 3-421-06097-5 .

Web links

• Balkan Operations Order of Battle, German Forces, April 1941 on niehorster.org

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Detlef Vogel, p. 452
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} Thomas L. Jentz : Die deutsche Panzertruppe, Volume 1 , Podzun-Pallas-Verlag, ISBN 3-7909-0623-9 , p. 154.
3. ↑ Detlef Vogel, p. 450
4. ↑ Ulf Balke: The aerial warfare in Europe 1939-1941 . Bechtermünz Verlag, Augsburg 1998, ISBN 3-86047-591-6 , p. 408 (1057 pp.).