V Army Corps (Wehrmacht)

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For the equivalent formation in World War I, see V Corps (German Empire).
V Army Corps
V. Armeekorps
Army
SizeCorps
EngagementsWorld War II
Commanders
Notable
commanders		Richard Ruoff

V Army Corps (V. Armeekorps) was a corps in the

German Army during World War II
.

Commanders

  • Infantry General (General der Infanterie) Hermann Geyer, 16 May 1935 – 30 April 1939
  • Infantry General (General der Infanterie) Richard Ruoff, 1 May 1939 – 12 January 1942
  • Infantry General (General der Infanterie) Wilhelm Wetzel, 12 January 1942 – 1 July 1943
  • Infantry General (General der Infanterie) Karl Allmendinger, 1 July 1943 – 1 May 1944
  • Lieutenant-General (Generalleutnant) Hermann Böhme, 1 May 1944 – 4 May 1944
  • Lieutenant-General (Generalleutnant) Friedrich-Wilhelm Müller, 4 May 1944 – 2 June 1944
  • Infantry General (General der Infanterie) Dr. Franz Beyer, 2 June 1944 – 19 July 1944
  • Artillery General (General der Artillerie) Dr. Ing. Kurt Wäger, 26 January 1945 – 8 May 1945

First formation

The V corps was formed a

Crimean Offensive, the Red Army captured the Peninsula and marched the remnants of 17th army, including most of the V Corps, into captivity.[1]

Second formation

In January 1945 a new V Army Corps was set up in Military District XIII, for which remnants of the staff of the

36th SS Grenadier Divisions and the 275th and 342nd Infantry Divisions
, were subordinated to the 9th Army, which was surrounded by the Red Army.
When on April 28, General Busse ordered the 9th Army to break out of the
Halbe pocket, the V Army Corps organized the protection of the southern flank. The Corps suffered heavy casualties and the survivors went into western captivity by crossing the destroyed Elbe bridge at Tangermünde
.

Area of operations

  • Western Front - September 1939 - May 1940
  • France - May 1940 - June 1941
  • Eastern Front, southern sector - June 1941 - May 1944
  • Crimea - May 1944 - July 1944 (bulk destroyed in May 1944; command disbanded in July 1944)[2]
  • Eastern Front - January 1945 - April 1945; command reestablished and then destroyed in the Halbe Pocket in April 1945

See also

Notes

  1. Washington DC: United States Army Center of Military History
    . October 1951. pp. 41–55.
  2. ^ Tessin, p. 284.
  • Georg Tessin. Verbände und Truppen der deutschen Wehrmacht und Waffen-SS 1939-1945. Volume 2. Osnabrück: Biblio Verlag, 1973

External links

"V. Armeekorps". Lexikon der Wehrmacht. Retrieved 21 January 2011.

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