XII. SS Army Corps
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XII. SS Army Corps of |
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| active | August 1, 1944 to April 1945 |
| Country |
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| Armed forces | Armed SS |
| Type | Army Corps |
| Subordinate troops |
See outline |
| Installation site | Silesia |
| commander | |
| list of | Commanding Generals |
The XII. SS Army Corps was a major unit of the Waffen SS in World War II . It consisted of a general command to which various Wehrmacht or SS divisions were subordinated, and was used on various fronts in 1944 and 1945.
history
The XII. SS Army Corps of the Waffen SS was formed on August 1, 1944 in Silesia from the remains of the combat group von Gottberg and the LIII. Army Corps set up and then subordinated to the 3rd Panzer Army . As of September 1944, there was in the 1st Parachute Army used in the West, later in the 15th Army on the Western Wall and the Rurfront . The corps was wiped out and destroyed in the Ruhr basin in April 1945 .
Commanding generals
- August 1, 1944 SS-Obergruppenführer and General of the Waffen-SS Matthias Kleinheisterkamp
- August 6, 1944 SS-Obergruppenführer and General of the Waffen-SS Curt von Gottberg
- October 18, 1944 SS-Obergruppenführer and General of the Waffen-SS Karl Maria Demelhuber
- October 20, 1944 Infantry General Günther Blumentritt
- January 20, 1945 Lieutenant General Fritz Bayerlein
- January 29, 1945 Lieutenant General Eduard Crasemann
structure
- September 16, 1944
- 548th Grenadier Division
- 7th Panzer Division
- March 1, 1945
- 176th Infantry Division
- 183rd People's Grenadier Division
- 338th Infantry Division
- Panzer Lehr Division
literature
- Rolf Stoves: The armored and motorized large German formations 1935–1945 . Ed. Dörfler im Nebel-Verlag, Eggolsheim 2003, ISBN 3-89555-102-3 .