Army Group North Ukraine

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Army Group North Ukraine
German: Heeresgruppe Nordukraine
Active	5 April 1944 – September 1944
Country	Nazi Germany
Branch	Heer ( Wehrmacht)
Type	Army Group
Size	400,542 (Spring 1944)^[1]
Engagements	World War II
Commanders
Notable commanders	Walter Model

The Army Group North Ukraine (German: Heeresgruppe Nordukraine) was a major formation of the German army in World War II.

History

It was created on 5 April 1944 by renaming Army Group South under Generalfeldmarschall Walter Model.^[2] In April 1944 it consisted of 1st Panzer Army and 4th Panzer Army. In the summer of 1944 it opposed the Red Army's 1st Ukrainian Front during the Lvov-Sandomir strategic offensive operation (13 July - 29 August 1944).^[3] In August 1944 the 4th Panzer Army and the 17th Army defended between Carpathian Mountains and the Pripyet swamps in Galicia. In September 1944 it was renamed to Army Group A.

The composition of the Army Group on 15 July 1944 was:^[4]

4th Panzer Army
1st Panzer Army
1st Hungarian Army
- VI Hungarian Corps
- XI Corps
- VII Hungarian Corps
- 2nd Hungarian Mountain Brigade
- 19th Hungarian Reserve Division
- 2nd Hungarian Panzer Division
- Kampfgruppe, 19th SS Panzer Grenadier Division

No.	Portrait	Commander	Took office	Left office	Time in office
1		Model, WalterGeneralfeldmarschall Walter Model (1891–1945)	31 March 1944	16 August 1944	138 days
2		Harpe, JosefGeneraloberst Josef Harpe (1887–1968)	16 August 1944	23 September 1944	38 days

No.	Portrait	Chief of Staff	Took office	Left office	Time in office
1		Busse, TheodorGeneralleutnant Theodor Busse (1897–1986)	1 April 1944	10 July 1944	100 days
2		Xylander, WolfGeneralmajor Wolf-Dietrich von Xylander (1903–1945)	10 July 1944	23 September 1944	75 days

Mitcham, Samuel W. (2007). The German Defeat in the East, 1944–45. Stackpole Military History. Stackpole Books.
Ziemke, Earl F. (2002). Stalingrad to Berlin: The German Defeat in the East. Washington, D.C.: Center of Military History, US Army. ISBN 9781780392875.