V. SS Volunteer Mountain Corps
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V. SS Mountain Corps |
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| active | July 1, 1943 to May 8, 1945 |
| Country |
.svg){kind=small} German Empire
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| Armed forces | Armed SS |
| Branch of service | Mountain troop |
| Type | Mountain Corps |
| Subordinate troops |
see structure |
| Installation site | Berlin |
| Second World War |
Partisan war in Yugoslavia
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| guide | |
| Commanding general | See list |
The V. SS Mountain Corps , from March 1944 the V. SS Volunteer Mountain Corps , was a major unit of the Waffen SS during World War II .
history
The General Command of the V. SS Mountain Corps was set up on July 1, 1943 in Berlin under SS-Obergruppenführer Artur Phleps . The formation of the corps troops took place at the Milowitz military training area near Prague . In October 1943 the corps was relocated to Bosnia , where it was subordinated to the 2nd Panzer Army under Lothar Rendulic and took over command of the 7th SS Volunteer Mountain Division “Prinz Eugen” and several army divisions. The corps was primarily used for operations against the Tito partisans . The headquarters were in Mostar . As a result of the Red Army operation in Belgrade , the corps had to withdraw from Bosnia in late 1944. It temporarily was under the Army Group E .
In February 1945, after the Red Army broke through the German Eastern Front on a broad front in the Vistula-Oder operation , the corps was relocated to the Frankfurt (Oder) / Guben area, where it was subordinated to the 9th Army of the Vistula Army Group . After the Battle of the Seelow Heights in April, the corps ended up in the Halbe pocket , from where only parts of it were able to break through to the west, in order to be taken prisoner at Tangermünde .
structure
- Corps troops
- Artillery commander of the 5th SS Mountain Corps
- SS News Department 105
- SS reconnaissance department 105
- SS Panzer Division 105
- SS assault gun division 105
- SS Artillery Department 105
- SS Flak Department 105
- SS thrower department 105
- SS medical department 105
- SS supply troops 105
- SS-Sturmbataillon V (from April 1945)
- SS assault gun department "Skanderbeg" (from April 1945)
- Subordinate divisions
- December 26, 1943: 7th SS Mountain Division , 181st Infantry Division , 369th Infantry Division (Croat.) , 118th Jäger Division , 1st Mountain Division
- September 16, 1944: 7th SS Mountain Division, 118th Jäger Division, 369th Infantry Division (Croat.)
- March 1, 1945: 391st Security Division z. b. V., 32nd SS Volunteer Grenadier Division “30. January " , Raegener division staff , fortress Frankfurt (Oder)
Commanding generals
- July 1, 1943 to September 21, 1944: SS-Obergruppenführer and General of the Waffen-SS Artur Phleps
- September 21 to October 1, 1944: SS Brigade Leader and Major General of the Waffen SS Carl Ritter von Oberkamp
- October 1, 1944 to March 1, 1945: SS-Obergruppenführer and General of the Waffen-SS Friedrich-Wilhelm Krüger
- March 1 to May 8, 1945: SS-Obergruppenführer and General of the Waffen-SS Friedrich Jeckeln
literature
- Roger James Bender, Hugh Page Taylor: Uniforms, Organization and History of the Waffen-SS. 5 volumes. Bender, San Jose CA 1971-1982.