V. Army Corps (Wehrmacht)

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The V Army Corps was a major military unit of the German Wehrmacht , which was deployed in the west at the beginning of the Second World War and on the Eastern Front from 1941 . Between October 1942 and June 1943 the general command was called Gruppe Wetzel , from July 1943 as Gruppe Allmendinger .

history

Lineup

The 5th Army Corps was formed from the 5th Division of the Reichswehr in Stuttgart in October 1934 .

1939

General Command V was mobilized at the beginning of the war at the end of August 1939 and organized the defensive defense on the Siegfried Line between Aachen and Eupen-Malmedy . Subordinate to the only briefly existing Army Division A (General von Hammerstein-Equord ), the 22nd , 225th and 263rd Infantry Divisions were assigned to the Corps during the Seated War .

1940

With the beginning of the campaign in the west ( Fall Gelb May 1940) the V Army Corps were subordinate to the 251st and 253rd Infantry Divisions . Forming the right wing of the 4th Army , the troops north of the Meuse followed the 16th. Panzer Corps (Hoeppner) following the advance on Namur . During the second phase of the campaign ( Fall Rot ) in June 1940, the 5th Army Corps was assigned to the 6th Army on the Upper Somme , subordinate to the 62nd and 94th Infantry Divisions . After the Aisne crossing was enforced, the advance towards Paris followed .

1941

In April 1941, while still in the section of the 16th Army as an occupying power in northern France, the 12th and 30th Infantry Divisions were assigned to the General Command . In May 1941, the V Army Corps under Infantry General Richard Ruoff was moved from the west to East Prussia. On June 22nd, the troops took part in Operation Barbarossa , in the formation of Panzer Group 3 , the attack took place from the Suwałki area . The troops of the General Command were soon assigned to the 9th Army and deployed via Lida on Novogrodek to seal the northern front of the Bialystok and Minsk pocket:

At the beginning of July the V Army Corps advanced further across the Dnieper to Jarzewo during the Battle of Smolensk . From mid-August there were defensive battles against the Soviet 30th and 19th Armies in the area north of Duchowschtschina , where the 8th Army Corps on the right was severely harassed. After Operation Typhoon began , the V Army Corps accompanied the LVI's advance in early October 1941 . Army corps (motorized) against the northern front of the forming Vyazma basin . On October 23, the troops stood in front of the Moscow protective position at Fedorovskoye and clashed with the XXXXVI. Army Corps (motorized) advance to Khimki by December . In mid-December, after the Soviet counter-offensive, retreat battles followed via Wolokolamsk into the Moshaisk area , where the 5th Corps of the 4th Panzer Army was subordinated.

1942/43

At the beginning of January 1942, the 23rd, 35th and 106th Infantry Division and temporarily the 6th Panzer Division were subordinate to the General Command. In June 1942, the command left the positions on the central section and, after the troops had been refreshed, switched to the Army Group South as a command command . At the end of July 1942, the corps was under the command of the Ruoff Army Group (AOK 17) together with the LVII in the course of the German summer offensive . Panzer Corps (General Kirchner ) in the Rostov-on-Don area , assigned to the 73rd , 198th and 125th Infantry Divisions . In August 1942 the Kuban was crossed and the attack on the port city of Novorossiysk began . Between October 1942 and June 1943 the command was called Gruppe Wetzel .

In the spring of 1943 the large association was together with the XXXXIV. , XXXXIX. and LII. AK trapped in the Kuban bridgehead . In addition to the 9th and 73rd Infantry Divisions , the Wetzel group was also tactically subordinate to the Romanian Cavalry Corps. In July 1943 the general command was designated Group Allmendinger , now subordinate to the 9th Infantry Division, the 4th Mountain Division , the Bünau Combat Group ( 73rd Infantry Division ) and the Romanian 1st Mountain Division.

In September to early October 1943, the Brunhild company evacuated the Taman peninsula and the 17th Army was returned to the Kerch peninsula .

1944

On April 12, 1944, the Soviet breakthrough took place on the isthmus between Parpatsch and Feodosia . The V Corps, which at this time the 73rd and the 98th Infantry Division was assigned and the Romanian 3rd Mountain Division, was unable to stop the collapse of the Soviet army coast to the central Crimea and 200 km is needed to Sevastopol decline . Together with the XXXXIX. Mountain Corps occupied the fortress front. The Soviet general assault on the fortress began on April 16, and the Soviet general assault began on May 9. On May 12th, the remnants of the 17th Army marched into captivity; in addition to the prisoners, 57,500 soldiers were killed and wounded. The remnants of the staff of General Command V and the evacuated troops across the Black Sea were in Wehrkreis VIII for the establishment of the new General Command of XI. SS Army Corps used.

1945

In January 1945 a new 5th Army Corps was set up in Military District XIII, for which remnants of the staff of the 221st Security Division and the 20th Air Force Field Division were used and deployed in the area of ​​the 4th Panzer Army . At the beginning of March 1945 the general command between Fürstenberg and Forst was assigned the 275th and combat groups 72nd and 342nd Infantry Divisions . On April 16, the attack of the 1st Ukrainian Front (Marshal Konew ) broke through south of Forst over the Neisse section held by the V Corps towards Cottbus . On April 19, the V Corps with the 35th and 36th SS Grenadier Divisions , as well as the 275th and 342nd Infantry Divisions, which had been pushed north to the Spreewald, were subordinated to the 9th Army , which had also been cut off . On April 28, General Busse ordered the breakout of the 9th Army from the Halbe pocket, which was surrounded by the Soviet armies . The point to the west led the 21st Panzer Division under the command of the XI. SS Army Corps ( Kleinheisterkamp ), the V Army Corps organized the southern flank protection. The way via Zossen and Baruth led on May 1st in the Beelitz area to join the front of the XX. Army Corps . About 25,000 German soldiers and about 5,000 civilians came south of Potsdam to the 12th Army under General Wenck , with whom they went into western captivity over the remains of the destroyed Elbe bridge from Tangermünde .

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Commanding general

  • General of the Infantry Hermann Geyer , May 16, 1935 to April 30, 1939
  • Infantry General Richard Ruoff , May 1, 1939 to January 12, 1942
  • Lieutenant General / General of the Infantry Wilhelm Wetzel , January 12, 1942 to July 1, 1943 (initially commissioned with leadership, regular from February 1942)
  • General of the Infantry Karl Allmendinger , July 1, 1943 to May 1, 1944
  • Lieutenant General Hermann Böhme , May 1, 1944 to May 4, 1944 (in charge of the tour)
  • Lieutenant General Friedrich-Wilhelm Müller , May 4, 1944 to June 2, 1944 (in charge of the tour)
  • General of the Infantry Franz Beyer , June 2 to July 19, 1944 (in charge of leadership)
  • General of the Artillery Kurt Waeger , January 26 to May 8, 1945

Chief of the General Staff

  • Major General Walther Fischer von Weikersthal , October 6, 1936 to August 26, 1939
  • Colonel i. G. Edgar Röhricht , August 26 to October 6, 1939
  • Major General Karl Allmendinger, October 15, 1939 to October 24, 1940
  • Colonel i. G. Arthur Schmidt , November 1, 1940 to March 25, 1942
  • Colonel i. G. Hans Speidel , March 25 to June 1, 1942
  • Colonel i. G. Helmuth Voelter , June 1, 1942 to October 1, 1943
  • Lieutenant Colonel i. G. Harald Helms, October 1, 1943 to February 15, 1944
  • Colonel i. G. Leo Hepp , February 15 to July 24, 1944
  • Colonel i. G. Karl-Geert Klostermann , January to March 1945
  • Lieutenant Colonel i. G. Paul Jordan , March to April 20, 1945
  • Colonel i. G. Paul Bergengrün, April 20 to May 1945

literature

  • Percy E. Schramm (Ed.): War diary of the High Command of the Wehrmacht , Bernard & Graefe Verlag für Wehrwesen, Frankfurt am Main 1965.
  • Volume I: 1940/41 edited by Hans-Adolf Jacobsen .
  • Volume II: 1942 edited by Andreas Hillgruber , Bernard & Graefe Verlag für Wehrwesen, Frankfurt am Main 1965.
  • Volume III: 1943 edited by Walther Hubatsch , Bernard & Graefe Verlag für Wehrwesen, Frankfurt am Main 1965.
  • Georg Tessin : Associations and troops of the German Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS in the Second World War 1939-1945 , volume. 2, Frankfurt / Main and Osnabrück 1966, p. 284.
  • Carl Wagener : Army Group South , Podzun Verlag, Bad Nauheim 1972.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Schramm: OKW war diary Volume I (hardcover edition), map supplement, front position August 31, 1939
  2. ↑ Volker D. Heydorn: The Soviet deployment in the Bialystoker balcony and the Wolkowysk boiler, Verlag für Wehrwissenschaften, Munich 1989, card insert No. 8, 9 and 11
  3. ^ C. Wagener: Heeresgruppe Süd, Podzun Verlag, pp. 307-310
  4. ↑ C. Wagener: Army Group South, Podzun Verlag, p. 312
  5. ↑ Schramm: OKW -KTB, Volume IV, of Battle S.1896
  6. ↑ Tony Le Tissier: The fight for Berlin 1945, Bechtermünz Verlag 1997, p. 77
  7. ↑ Tony Le Tissier: The fight for Berlin 1945, Bechtermünz Verlag 1997, pp. 190–196

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