Army Group South Ukraine

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Army Group South Ukraine
German: Heeresgruppe Südukraine Romanian: Grupul de Armate Ucraina de Sud
Active	5 April – 23 September 1944
Country	Nazi Germany Romania (until 24 August 1944)
Allegiance	Nazi Germany
Branch	German Army Royal Romanian Army
Size	905,000 (500,000 Germans, 405,000 Romanians)^[1] 120 tanks + 280 assault guns^[2]^[3] 7,600 artillery pieces^[4] 810 aircraft^[5]
Engagements	Eastern Front Odessa Offensive First Jassy-Kishinev Offensive Second Jassy-Kishinev Offensive
Commanders
Notable commanders	Ferdinand Schörner Johannes Frießner

Army Group South Ukraine (German: Heeresgruppe Südukraine, Romanian: Grupul de Armate Ucraina de Sud) was a joint German-Romanian group on the Eastern Front during World War II.

Army Group South Ukraine was created on 5 April 1944 by renaming Army Group A.^[6] This army group saw action during the Jassy-Kishinev Operation and after taking heavy casualties was redesignated Army Group South (Heeresgruppe Süd) at midnight on 23 September 1944.^[7]^[a]

Geographically, Army Group South Ukraine – headquartered at Slănic-Moldova – held 392 miles (680 km) of front, of which 160 were held by Romanians.^[8] Its operational area covered all of Eastern Romania, from a line 40 km (25 miles) east of Bucharest.^[9]

Order of Battle, 15 August 1944 (Army HQ)

Sources:^[10]^[11]

Armeegruppe Dumitrescu – General Petre Dumitrescu
- Romanian Third Army – General Petre Dumitrescu (HQ – Bolgrad)
- Sixth Army – General der Artillerie Maximilian Fretter-Pico (HQ – Tarutino)
Armeegruppe Wohler – General der Infanterie Otto Wohler
- Eighth Army – General der Infanterie Otto Wohler (HQ – Roman)
- Romanian Fourth Army – General Gheorghe Avramescu (HQ – Bacău)

Commanders

No.	Portrait	Commander^[b]	Took office	Left office	Time in office
1		Schörner, FerdinandGeneralfeldmarschall Ferdinand Schörner (1892–1973)	31 March 1944	25 July 1944	86 days
2		Frießner, JohannesGeneraloberst Johannes Frießner (1892–1971)	25 July 1944	23 September 1944	90 days

Notes

^ Edwald Klapdor. 2011, Viking Panzers: The German 5th SS Tank Regiment in the East in World War II, pg 383 states that it was redesignated Army Group South on 15 September, 1944.
^ Army Group South Ukraine could not take major operational decisions without securing Ion Antonescu's approval.^[12]

Bibliography

Citations

^ David M. Glantz, Jonathan M. House, University Press of Kansas, Oct 16, 2015, When Titans Clashed: How the Red Army Stopped Hitler, Revised and Expanded Edition, p. 281
^ Samuel W. Mitcham Jr., Stackpole Books, Jan 23, 2007, The German Defeat in the East: 1944-45, p. 170
^ Command and General Staff School, 1985, Professional Journal of the United States Army, p. 57
^ Command and General Staff School, 1985, Professional Journal of the United States Army, p. 57
^ Command and General Staff School, 1985, Professional Journal of the United States Army, p. 57
^ Ziemke 2002, p. 286.
^ Ziemke 2002, p. 360.
^ Samuel W. Mitcham Jr., Stackpole Books, Jan 23, 2007, The German Defeat in the East: 1944-45, pp. 171-172
^ Mark Axworthy, London: Arms and Armour, 1995, Third Axis, Fourth Ally: Romanian Armed Forces in the European War, 1941–1945, p. 156
^ Samuel W. Mitcham Jr., Stackpole Books, Jan 23, 2007, The German Defeat in the East: 1944-45, pp. 164-165
^ Samuel W. Mitcham Jr., Stackpole Books, Jan 23, 2007, The German Defeat in the East: 1944-45, p. 172
^ Mark Axworthy, London: Arms and Armour, 1995, Third Axis, Fourth Ally: Romanian Armed Forces in the European War, 1941–1945, p. 158

References

Ziemke, Earl F. (2002). Stalingrad to Berlin: The German Defeat in the East. Washington, D.C.: Center of Military History, US Army. ISBN 9781780392875.
Klapdor, Ewald (2011). Viking Panzers: The German 5th SS Tank Regiment in the East in World War II. Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books.

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