COMPLETE ORDER OF BATTLE FOR GERMAN FORCES IN THE WEST-6/6/1944

OB West: GFM von Rundstedt 3.15.42 - 7.02.44
Chief of Staff: Genlt Blumentritt 9.24.42 - 9.09.44

Wehrmachtbefehlshaber Niederlande: General der Flieger Friedrich Christiansen 5.18.40 - 5.05.45
Chief of Staff: Genlt Heinz-Hellmuth von Wühlisch 12.01.42 - ??.??.45

LXXXVIII.Armeekorps: General der Infanterie Hans Wolfgang Reinhard 7.01.42 - 12.31.44
Chief of Staff: Oberst d.R i.G Curt Eichert Wiersdorff.

347.Infanterie-Division: Genlt Wolf Trierenberg 12.8.43 - 2.01.45
16.Luftwaffefeld-Division: Genmj Karl Sievers 11.05.43 - 8.01.44
719.Infanterie-Division: Genmj Carl Wahle

Heeresgruppe B: GFM Rommel 11.05.43 - 7.17.44
Chief of Staff: Genlt Hans Speidel

15.Armee: Genob Hans von Salmuth 8.01.43 - 8.25.44
Cos: Genlt Rudolf Hofmann 5.01.42 - 11.07.44

LXXXIX.Armeekorps: General der Infanterie Werner Freiherr von und zu Gilsa 6.01.43 - 11.23.44
Cos: Oberst i.G. Fritz Ulrich 4.16.43 - 8.10.44

70.Infanterie-Division: Generalleutnant Wihelm Daser 5.15.44 - 11.07.44
712.Infanterie-Division: Generalleutnant Friedrich Wilhelm Neumann 4.16.42 - 2.25.45
48.Infanterie-Division: Generalleutnant Karl Casper 1.01.44 - 5.??.45

LXXXII.Armeekorps: General der Artillerie Johann Sinnhuber 7.10.43 - 9.01.44
Cos: Oberst i.G. Rudolf Christoph Freiherr von Gersdorff

18.Luftwaffe-Feld-Division: Generalleutnant Joachim von Tresckow 2.01.44 - 10.??.44
47.Infanterie-Division: Generalleutnant Otto Elfeldt 2.01.44 - 6.??.44
49.Infanterie-Division: Generalleutnant Sigfrid Macholz 2.01.44 - 9.??.44

LXVII.Armeekorps: Genlt Alfred Gause 1-6-44 6-6-44 General der Infanterie Otto Sponheimer 6.06.44 - 12.17.44
Cos: Oberst i.G. Schaefer

344.Infanterie-Division: Generalleutnant Eugen-Felix Schwalbe 9.27.42 - 9.??.44
348.Infanterie-Division: Generalleutnant Paul Seyffardt

LXXXI.Armeekorps: General der Panzertruppe Adolf Kuntzen 5.??.42 - 9.04.44
Cos: Genmj Otto Zeltmann 10-4-42 3-44 Oberst i.G Hubert Wiese 3.??.44 - ??.??.??

245.Infanterie-Division: Generalleutnant Erwin Sander ??.??.43 - ??.??.44
17.Luftwaffe-Feld-Division: Generalleutnant Hans Kurt Hoecker 11.05.43 - 9.09.44
711.Infanterie-Division: Generalleutnant Josef Reichert 3.15.43 - 5.14.45

Armeereserve:

19.Luftwaffefeld-Division: Genlt Erich Baessler 10.12.43 - 7.15.44
84.Infanterie-Division: Genlt Erwin Menny 2.10.44 - 8.21.44
85.Infanterie-Division: Genlt Kurt Chill 2.01.44 - 9.??.44
182.Reserve-Infanterie-Division: Genlt Richard Baltzer
326.Infanterie-Division: Genlt Viktor von Drabich-Waechter 6.01.43 - 8.02.44
331.Infanterie-Division: Genmj Heinz Furbach 11.01.43 - 7.25.44
346.Infanterie-Division: Genlt Erich Diestel

7.Armee: Genob Friedrich Dollmann 10.25.39 - 6.29.44
Cos: Genmj Max Pemsel 5.01.43 - 8.28.44

LXXXIV.Armeekorps: General der Artillerie Erich Marcks 8.01.43 - 6.12.44
Cos: Oberstlt Friedrich von Criegern ??.??.43 - ??.??.44

716.Infanterie-Division: Genmj/Genlt Wilhelm Richter 4.01.43 - 9.??.44
352.Infanterie-Division: Genlt Dietrich Kraiss 11.06.43 - 8.02.44
709.Infanterie-Division: Generalleutnant Karl-Wilhelm von Schlieben 12.12.43 - 6.23.44
319.Infanterie-Division: Genmj/Genlt Rudolf graf von Schmettow 9.01.43 - 2.27.45
Ostregimentstab 752: Oberst Julius Coretti 4.??.44 - 7.??.44

74.Armeekorps: General der Infanterie Erich Straube 8.01.43 - 12.17.44
Cos: Oberst Meissner Oberst, i.G. Ludwig Zoellner (no dates are given for both of them)

77.Infanterie-Division: Genlt Rudolf Stegmann 5.01.44 - 6.18.44
266.Infanterie-Division: Genlt Karl Spang 6.01.43 - 8.8.44

XXV.Armeekorps: General der Artillerie Wilhelm Fahrmbacher 5.01.42 - 6.12.44
Cos: Oberst i.G Robert Bader 8.01.43 - 12.25.44

343.Infanterie-Division: Genlt Erwin Rauch 2.01.44 - 9.18.44
265.Infanterie-Division: Genlt Walther Duevert 6.01.43 - 7.27.44
275.Infanterie-Division: Genlt Hans Schmidt(jr) 12.10.43 - 6.??.44

Armeereserve:

30.Schnelle-Brigade: Oberstleutnant freiherr von und zu Aufsess
91.Luftlande-Division: Genmj Wihelm Falley 4.25.44 - 6.06.44
243.Infanterie-Division: Genlt Heinz Hellmich 1.10.44 - 6.17.44

II.Fallschirmjäger-Korps: General der Fallschirmjäger Eugen Meindl

3.fallschirmjäger-Division: Genlt Richard Schimpf 2.17.44 - 3.08.45
5.fallschirmjäger-Division: Genlt Gustav Wilke 4.01.44 - 8.??.44

Armeegruppe G: (as of 9.10.44 Heeresgruppe) Genob Johannes Blaskowitz 5.03.44 - 9.21.44
Cos: Genmj Heinz von Gyldenfeld 5.05.44 - 10.15.44

1.Armee: General der Panzertruppe Joachim Lemelsen 5.03.44 - 6.04.44, General der Infanterie Kurt von der Chevallerie 4-6-44 5-9-44
Cos: Genmj Gerhard Feyerabend 11.05.43 - fall 1944

LXXX.Armeekorps: General der Artillerie Curt Gallenkamp 7.01.42 - 8.10.44
Cos: Herbert Koestlin ??.??.43 - ??.??.44

158.Reserve-Infanterie-Division: Genlt Ernst Haeckel 5.01.42 - 12.10.44
708.Infanterie-Division: Genlt Hermann Wilck 3.01.42 - 8.15.44

LXXXVI.Armeekorps: General der Infanterie Hans von Obstfelder 8.25.43 - 11.30.44
Cos: Oberst d.R i.G. Helmuth von Wissmann

159.Reserve-Infanterie-Division: Genlt Hermann Meyer-Rabingen 9.20.42 - 6.20.44
276.Infanterie-Division: Genlt Kurt Badinski 12.10.43 - 8.21.44

19.Armee: General der Infanterie Georg von Sodenstern 8.13.43 - 6.30.44
Cos: Genmj Walter Botsch 8.11.43 - 1.01.45

IV.Luftwaffe-Feldkorps: General der Flieger Erich Petersen 1-8-43 5-5-45 (changed to XC.Armeekorps)

272.Infanterie-Division: Genlt Friedrich August Schack 12.15.43 - 11.??.44
277.Infanterie-Division: Genlt Albert Praun 4.12.44 - 8.10.44
271.Infanterie-Division: Genlt Paul Danhauser 12.10.43 - 10.??.

44 LXXXV.Armeekorps: General der Infanterie Baptist Kniess
Cos: Oberstltnt Rudolf von Oppen Oberst i.G. Behle (no dates are given)

338.Infanterie-Division: Genlt Rene de l'Homme de Courbiere 1.05.44 - 9.18.44
244.Infanterie-Division: Genlt Hans Schaefer 4.14.44 - 8.28.44

LXII.Reserve-Armeekorps: General der Infanterie Ferdinand Neuling 9.15.42 - 8.18.44
Cos: Oberst i.G. Rudolf Meinshagen ??.??.43 - ??.??.44

242.Infanterie-Division: Johannes Baessler 7.20.43 - 8.26.44
157.Reserve-Infanterie-Division: Genlt Karl Pflaum 9.20.42 - ??.??.??

Panzergruppe West: General der Panzertruppe Leo Geyr freiherr von Schweppenburg 1.24.44 - 7.05.44
Cos: Generalmajor Sigismund-Hellmut Ritter und Edler von Dawans 12.01.43 - 6.10.44, Genlt Alfred Gause 6.16.44 - 9.13.44

I.SS-Panzerkorps: Obergruppenfuhrer Josef "Sepp" Dietrich 7.27.43 - 10.24.44
Cos: Oberst der Waffen-ss Fritz Kraemer

1.SS-Panzer-Division: SS-Oberfuhrer/Brigadefuhrer Theodor Wisch 7.??.43 - 8.20.44
17.SS-Panzergrenadier-Division: SS-Oberfuhrer Werner Ostendorff 11.26.43 - 6.18.44
Panzer-Lehr-Division: Generalmajor Fritz Bayerlein 1.10.44 - 1.20.45

LVIII.Reserve-Panzerkorps: General der Panzertruppe: Walter Krueger 1.01.44 - 3.25.45
Cos: Oberst Eberhard Thunert 10-8-43 12-6-44, Oberst i.G. Hans-Juergen Dingler 6.12.44 - ??.??.??

189 Reserve-Infanterie-Division: Generalleutnant Richard von Schwerin 10.01.43 - 9.25.44
2.SS-Panzer-Division: SS Brigadefuehrer Heinz Lammerding 12.09.43 - 7.26.44
9.Panzer-Division: Generamajor Erwin Jolasse 7.22.43 - 9.16.44

The LXVI-Reserve-Armeekorps was also attached to the XXXXVII.Panzerkorps: General der Panzertruppe Hans freiherr von Funck 3.05.44 - 9.03.44
2.Panzer-Division: Generalleutnant Heinrich freiherr von Luettwitz 2.01.44 - 9.05.44
21.Panzer-Division: Generalmajor Edgar Feuchtinger 5.15.43 - 5.??.45
116.Panzer-Division: Generalleutnant Gerhard Graf von Schwerin 5.01.44 - 12.??.44
11.Panzer-Division: Genmj Wend von Wietersheim 8.10.43 - 4.??.45

 

HEHEHEH-Thought you guys might like this, It seems that you are all interested in German OOBs at the moment. I'm not into them all that much myself but this seemed like a mighty good one to share with all of you...

 

Good going Ryan. Also, Ive got a nice Heinrich Hoffmann press pic of Friedrich Christiansen--he is wearing an NSFK Generals uniform. He was a General in that and the Luftwaffe at the same time. He is also a Pour le Mreite recipient.

 

Very nice-I love seeing pics of Pour Le Merite and Ritterkreuz recipients...

 

When I next see Gary--ill see if he can post that pic and a new one I just bought today.

The new one shows a Frainch Colonial Soldier (who is non-caucasian) with his head sticking out of a tent made from Zeltbahns.

You might ask: "Whats so special about that?"

Well......there is a painted sige erected by the Germans who put it next to the tent in which this man was placed. The sign reads: "Sensation des Tages! Gefangener Neger vom Westfeldzug zu Sehenf" and I think it gives a date.

Apparently--for a German to see a live Frainch Colonial Soldier, I guess this POW was some sort of major attraction--or a novelty.

 

Really good stuff!!! I love things like that! And this one is particulary good, because it has the names of the chiefs of staff!!! Thanks, Panzerknacker.

 

NO PROBLEM FRIEDRICH-glad it is appreciated...

Carl, yes I saw that pic last week on the Wehrmacht Awards forum. 2 things struck me as rather odd about it-One, I cant speak German so I can't undertsand the sign-and secondly, the soldier in question looks like he is merely inmakeup, It doesnt look like he is an actual black soldier-i just thought It was a group of German soldiers playing a prank for a laugh with some captured French equipment...

 

OK. Let me do some research and then I will come with some pictures later. (Mischievous Friedrich...)

 

Hi Ryan--I looked at it closely--he definately is colored. I think he is Senegalese--who were very tough apponents of the Germans. Rarely did a man from Senegal surrender--they usually fought to the death.

When the Dunkirk evacuation was happening--it was Senegalese units who stayed behind and continously oon the front lines. Now I know some Frainch units stayed behind as well as many British units. It was mainly the Senegalese who fought to the last bullet--and death.

Basically the sign reads: "Sensation of the Day" (for a more proper word) Black Prisoner from the Western Army. I know this isnt an exact translation but, its the best I can do.

[ 27 September 2002, 03:34 PM: Message edited by: C.Evans ]

 

This will really be a help. This is really neat. Will definitely use this in the future.