XIII. SS Army Corps
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XIII. SS Army Corps |
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| active | August 7, 1944 to May 8, 1945 |
| Country |
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| Armed forces | Armed SS |
| Type | Army Corps |
| Subordinate troops |
see structure |
| Installation site | Wroclaw |
| Second World War | Western front |
The XIII. SS Army Corps was a major unit of the Waffen SS in World War II .
history
The General Command XIII. SS Army Corps was set up on August 7, 1944 in Breslau under SS-Gruppenführer Hermann Prieß on the orders of the SS Leadership Main Office . It was (along with the XI. And XII.) One of three SS army corps that were set up at that time using army troops . For this purpose, the remains of the XXXV destroyed at Bobruisk . Army Corps and the Artillery Division Staff z. b. V. 312 transferred to the Waffen SS.
Before the completion of the formation, the corps was transferred to the western front , where it was used in the area of the 1st Army in the Diedenhofen - Metz area and was confronted with units of the 3rd US Army in the battle for Metz . In addition to army units, the 17th SS Panzer Grenadier Division "Götz von Berlichingen" was under her control . After the fall of Metz, the corps had to withdraw to the Siegfried Line in the Saar area .
At the end of December 1944, the corps was regrouped for the planned offensive operation Nordwind , which began on December 31st without any major success. Before the American operation Undertone , the corps had to retreat across the Rhine in March 1945 . After the Allies crossed the Rhine, the corps was given the task of defending the Neckar-Enz position . This resulted in the battle of Crailsheim in April , in which the US troops were temporarily held up. The corps was involved in the unsuccessful defense of Nuremberg and then withdrew via the Danube and Munich to the Northern Alps.
structure
Corps troops:
- Artillery Commander XIII. SS Army Corps
- SS News Department 113
- SS supply troops 113
Subordinate major associations:
| Deadline | Associations |
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| September 16, 1944 | |
| October 13, 1944 |
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| November 26, 1944 |
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| December 31, 1944 |
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| February 19, 1945 |
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| April 12, 1945 |
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Commanding generals
- August 1, 1944 to October 24, 1944: SS group leader and lieutenant general of the Waffen-SS Hermann Prieß
- October 24, 1944 until the end of the war: SS-Gruppenführer and Lieutenant General of the Waffen-SS Max Simon
Corps doctors (IVb)
- August 23, 1944 to November 15, 1944: SS Brigadefuhrer and Major General of the Waffen SS (San.) Oskar Hock
literature
- Joachim Brückner: End of the war in Bavaria 1945: Military district VII and the fighting between the Danube and the Alps. Rombach, Freiburg im Breisgau 1987. ISBN 3-7930-0190-3 .
- Karl Kunze: End of the war in Franconia and the battle for Nuremberg in April 1945 (= Nuremberg research , volume 28). Edelmann, Nuremberg 1995. ISBN 3-87191-207-7 .
- Gerhard Nestler, Hannes Ziegler (ed.): The Palatinate under the swastika: a German province during the National Socialist reign of terror. 2. through Aufl. Pfälzische Verlags-Anstalt, Landau 1997. ISBN 3-87629-253-0 .
Web links
- Online finding aid at archivesportaleurope.net
Individual evidence
- ↑ Andreas Kunz: Wehrmacht and defeat: the armed power in the final phase of the National Socialist rule 1944 to 1945. Oldenbourg, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-486-58388-5 , p. 123.