XXXXII Army Corps (Wehrmacht)

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XXXXII Army Corps (Wehrmacht)

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XXXXII. Armeekorps

Active	29 January 1940 – 23 January 1945
Country	Nazi Germany
Branch	Army
Size	Corps
Engagements	World War II Battle of France Operation Barbarossa Battle of the Kerch Peninsula Battle of the Dnieper Vistula–Oder Offensive

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

Commanders

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General der Pioniere Walter Kuntze, 29 January 1940 – 24 October 1941
Generalleutnant (Major General) Hans Graf von Sponeck, 24 October 1941 – 29 October 1941
General der Infanterie (Lieutenant General) Bruno Bieler, 30 October 1941 – 4/6 December 1941
Generalleutnant (Major General) Hans Graf von Sponeck, 4/6 December 1941 – 1 January 1942
- Graf von Sponeck, on leave, but still official commander of the 22nd Infantry Division, took over for Bieler (who had requested a short recovery leave on 1 December 1941) on c. 6 December 1941 ("charged with deputy leadership"), although arriving at the Corps headquarters on 4 December 1941.
General der Infanterie (Lieutenant General) Franz Mattenklott, 1 January 1942 – 22 June 1943
General der Infanterie (Lieutenant General) Anton Dostler, 22 June 1943 – July 1943
General der Infanterie (Lieutenant General) Franz Mattenklott, July 1943 – January 1944
Generalleutnant Theo-Helmut Lieb (acting), January 1944 – March 1944 (Corps destroyed)
General der Infanterie (Lieutenant General) Franz Mattenklott, 15 March 1944 – 14 June 1944
General der Infanterie (Lieutenant General) Hermann Recknagel, 14 June 1944 – 23 January 1945 (Killed in action)
Generalmajor Arthur Finger, 23 January 1945 – 27 January 1945 (Killed in action)

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The General Command XXXXII. Army Corps was created on 29 January 1940 in military district XIII. In 1940 the Corps took part in the western campaign.

In June 1941, it was transported to the Eastern Front and added to 9th Army. Here it fought in the Baltics and participated in the conquest of Tallinn and the Baltic islands. In October 1941 it was transferred to the Crimea, where it participated in the aftermath of the fighting on the peninsula. In the spring of 1942, it participated in the conquest of the fortress Sevastopol. From 19 August 1942 to April 1943, the Corps occupied the Crimea. By the end of April 1943, the corps was transferred to the Kharkov area. After heavy fighting in the upper Donets it participated in the Operation Citadel, the German offensive at Kursk. After their failure, defense and retreat battles followed to the Dnieper. The corps was destroyed in early March 1944 in the Battle of the Korsun–Cherkassy Pocket. The remainder served to refresh the 88th Infantry Division.

Reorganized on 15 March 1944, the XXXXII. Army Corps was again fully operational on 19 July 1944. It was subordinated to Army Group North Ukraine and fought in the area west of Lutsk. By the end of 1944, the corps had to withdraw to the Vistula, where it was involved in heavy fighting. In January 1945, the Corps was again destroyed and not rebuilt.

Source

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"XXXXII. Armeekorps". Lexikon der Wehrmacht. Retrieved 12 December 2021.

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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