V Army Corps (Wehrmacht)

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V Army Corps (Wehrmacht)

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V Army Corps
V. Armeekorps

Active	October 1934 – 8 May 1945
Country	Nazi Germany
Branch	Army
Size	Corps
Engagements	World War II Battle of Belgium Battle of France Battle of Brody (1941) Battle of Uman Battle of Rostov (1942) Kuban bridgehead Crimean Offensive Battle of Halbe
Commanders
Notable commanders	Richard Ruoff

V Army Corps (V. Armeekorps) was a corps in the German Army during World War II.

Commanders

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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

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The V corps was formed a Corps level formation of the 17th Army assigned to Army Group South. By 1943, the deteriorating situation on the Eastern Front forced the evacuation of the V corps along with the rest of 17th army to the Crimea. However, Red Army advances in the Dnieper Campaign forced more and more divisions to be diverted to the newly reconstituted 6th Army in an ultimately unsuccessful attempt to stem the onslaught. By October 1943, the whole of 17th army order of battle consisted of just two German and four Romanian divisions, all of which were under strength. During the course of the 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

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In January 1945 a new V Army Corps was set up in Military District XIII, for which remnants of the staff of the 221st Security Division and the 20th Luftwaffe Storm Division were used, and deployed in the area of the 4th Panzer Army. On April 19, the V Corps with the 35th and 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

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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

Notes

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^ German Defense Tactics Against Russian Breakthroughs (PDF). Washington DC: United States Army Center of Military History. October 1951. pp. 41–55.
^ Tessin, p. 284.

Georg Tessin. Verbände und Truppen der deutschen Wehrmacht und Waffen-SS 1939-1945. Volume 2. Osnabrück: Biblio Verlag, 1973

External links

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

German Army corps (1934–1945)

Army
Armeekorps

I – IX	I II III IV V VI VII VIII IX

X – XIX	X XI XII XIII XIV XV XVI XVII XVIII XIX

XX – XXIX	XX XXI XXII XXIII XXIV XXV XXVI XXVII XXVIII XXIX

XXX – XXXIX	XXX XXXI XXXII XXXIII XXXIV XXXV XXXVIII XXXIX

XXXX – XXXXVIII	XXXX XXXXI XXXXII XXXXIII XXXXIV XXXXVI XXXXVII XXXXVIII

L – LIX	L LI LII LIII LIV LV LVII LIX

LXII – LXIX	LXII LXIII LXIV LXV LXVI LXVII LXVIII LXIX

LXX – LXXVIII	LXX LXXI LXXII LXXIII LXXIV LXXV LXXVI LXXVIII

LXXX – LXXXIX	LXXX LXXXI LXXXII LXXXIII LXXXIV LXXXV LXXXVI LXXXVII LXXXVIII LXXXIX

LXXXX – CI	LXXXX LXXXXI LXXXXVII CI

Panzer
Panzerkorps

I – XXXIX	III IV VII XIV XXIV XXXVIII XXXIX

XXXX – XXXXVIII	XXXX XXXXI XXXXVI XXXXVII XXXXVIII

LVI – LXXVI	LVI LVII LVIII LXXVI

Mountain
Gebirgskorps

Cavalry
Kavalleriekorps

Miscellaneous

Afrika Korps

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