XXX Army Corps (Wehrmacht)
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XXX Army Corps (Germany)
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German XXX. Corps (XXX. Armeekorps) was a corps in the German Army during World War II.
In 1939/40, the corps carried out border surveillance at the German West Border and then took part in the
Jassy–Kishinev Offensive in August 1944. A second deployment followed as the 30th Army Corps z.bV. in the Netherlands in 1944/45.[1]
Commanders
- General der Artillerie Otto Hartmann, 26 August 1939 - 25 March 1941
- Generalleutnant Eugen Ott, 25 March 1941 - 10 May 1941
- General der Infanterie Hans von Salmuth, 10 May 1941 – 27 December 1941
- General der Artillerie Maximilian Fretter-Pico, 27 December 1941 – 4 July 1944
- General der Kavallerie Philipp Kleffel, 4 July 1944 - 16 July 1944
- Generalleutnant Georg-Wilhelm Postel, 16 July 1944 - 31 August 1944. (POW - Corps destroyed)
Second formation:
- Generalleutnant Erich Heinemann 26 October 1944 - 15 November 1944
- Generalleutnant Joachim von Tresckow 15 November 1944 - 23 November 1944
- Generalleutnant Friedrich-Wilhelm Neumann 23 November 1944 - 16 December 1944
- General der Kavallerie Philipp Kleffel, 16 December 1944 - 25 April 1945
- Generalleutnant Arnold Burmeister 25 April 1945 - 8 May 1945
Area of operations
- Germany : September 1939 – May 1940
- France : May 1940 – July 1940
- Poland : July 1940 - January 1941
- Balkans : January 1941 - June 1941
- Eastern Front, southern sector – June 1941 – August 1944 (Corps destroyed)
- Netherlands and North-western Germany : November 1944 - May 1945
See also
Citations
- ^ Tessin, p. 282–283
Bibliography
- Tessin, Georg. Verbände und Truppen der deutschen Wehrmacht und Waffen–SS im Zweiten Weltkrieg 1939–1945 [Units and Troops of the German Military and Waffen-SS in the Second World War 1939–1945] (in German). Vol. 4: Die Landstreitkräfte 15–30 (Ground Units 15–30). Osnabrück: Biblio.
External links
- "XXIII. Armeekorps". Lexikon der Wehrmacht. Retrieved 14 December 2019.