XXXXIV. Army Corps (Wehrmacht)

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The XXXXIV. (44th) Army Corps was a major unit of the Wehrmacht , which was used during the Second World War in June 1940 in the western campaign and in the following year 1941 until August 1944 on the southern eastern front .

history

The General Command XXXXIV. AK was set up on April 15, 1940 in Wehrkreis XVII and took part in the western campaign as part of the 6th Army . After the breakthrough over the Aisne , the advance to the Loire and the occupation of Orléans followed . In July 1940 the corps was transferred to the General Government (Poland) and placed under the 4th Army there .

1941

Subordinated to the 6th Army after the start of Operation Barbarossa (June 1941), the XXXXIV fought. Army Corps with the 9th , 262nd , 297th and 57th Infantry Divisions assigned to the western Bug near Sokal and Kristinopol . During the tank battle near Dubno-Lutsk-Rivne in the Brody area, the troops were exposed to strong counter-attacks by the Soviet 15th Mechanical Corps. After they had been defended, the advance towards Kasatin was continued.

In August 1941, the corps was during the Battle of Uman the Panzer Group 1 placed under and moved to the local battles for Dnieper before. In September 1941, assigned to the 17th Army , the corps, as part of the Schwedler group, secured the Dnieper section in the Cherkassy area with the 68th and 297th Infantry Divisions during the Battle of Kiev .

1942

In January 1942, Tymoshenko's general attack by troops from the southern front (under Malinovsky ) in the Isjum area pushed the corps back across the Donets. In the following battle of Kharkov , the corps took part in the successful counter-offensive "Fridericus" from May 17, and was assigned the 97th and 101st light divisions and the 384th infantry divisions . During the German summer offensive in July 1942, the corps penetrated from the Slavyansk area over the lower Don near Konstantinovsk into the Caucasus . After the advance towards Maikop it tried in vain to break through to Tuapse to the Black Sea.

1943

In the spring of 1943 the general command was withdrawn to the Kuban bridgehead . In July 1943, pushed back further to the Taman Peninsula , the General Command was subordinate to the 97th and 101st Jäger Divisions , the 79th, 98th , and 125th Infantry Divisions as well as several Romanian divisions. After the Kuban bridgehead had been cleared, the General Command was reassigned to the 6th Army at the beginning of October 1943 in the lower Dnieper bend during the fighting in the Nogai steppe.

1944

On March 13, 1944, the city of Kherson and on March 28, Nikolayev, were lost to troops of the 4th Ukrainian Front . During Operation Jassy-Kishinev (August 1944) the last commanding general, Müller , was subordinate to the 62nd , 258th , 282nd and 335th Infantry Divisions . As part of the 6th Army, the corps was attacked by troops from the 3rd Ukrainian Front from the Dubossary area , pushed back to Kishinev and smashed in the local pocket.

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Commanding generals
rank Surname From To
General of the Infantry Friedrich Koch April 15, 1940 December 10, 1941
Lieutenant General Otto Stapf January 1, 1942 January 26, 1942
General of the artillery Maximilian de Angelis January 26, 1942 November 30, 1943
Lieutenant General Friedrich Köchling November 30, 1943 January 15, 1944
General of the artillery Maximilian de Angelis January 15, 1944 July 1944
Lieutenant General Ludwig Muller July 1944 August 1944

Allegations

literature

  • Carl Wagener : Army Group South , Podzun Verlag, Bad Nauheim 1972

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Percy E. Schramm (Ed.): War diary of the High Command of the Wehrmacht, 8th volumes, Volume I: 1940/41 edited by Hans-Adolf Jacobsen, Bernard & Graefe Verlag für Wehrwesen, Frankfurt am Main 1965, war organization p. 1135