Order of battle for the Battle of Berlin
This is the order of battle that took place on April 16, 1945, in the end stages of World War II, between the German Wehrmacht and the Soviet Red Army. This battle took place before the start of the Battle of the Oder–Neisse and concluded with the Battle in Berlin. Units are listed as they were deployed from North to South before the start of the Battle of the Seelow Heights.
Colonel General Gotthard Heinrici
General of Panzer Hasso von Manteuffel
- Swinemunde Corps - General of Infantry John Ansat
- XXXII Corps - General of Infantry Friedrich-August Schack
- Oder Corps - Obergruppenführer Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski
- XXXXVI Panzer Corps - General of Infantry Martin Gareis
General of Infantry Theodor Busse
- CI Corps - General of Artillery Wilhelm Berlin
- LVI Panzer Corps - General of Artillery Helmuth Weidling
- XI SS Panzer Corps - Obergruppenführer Matthias Kleinheisterkamp
- V SS Mountain Corps - Obergruppenführer Friedrich Jeckeln
Army Group Reserve
- III SS Panzer Corps - Obergruppenführer Felix Steiner
(Divisions later allocated to the 9th Army)
(Divisions later allocated to the 3rd Panzer Army)
Feldmarshal Ferdinand Schörner
General of Panzer Fritz-Hubert Gräser
(Later transferred to the 9th Army)
- V Corps - General of Artillery Kurt Wäger
General of Panzer Walther Wenck
- XX Corps - General of Cavalry Carl-Erik Koehler
- XXXIX Panzer Corps - Lt. Gen. Karl Arndt
(12 – 21 April 1945 under OKW with the following structure)
(21 – 26 April 1945 under 12th Army with the following structure)
- XXXXI Panzer Corps - Lt. Gen. Rudolf Holste
- XLVIII Panzer Corps - General of Panzer Maximilian von Edelsheim
Marshal Konstantin Rokossovsky
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Colonel General Ivan Fedyuninsky |
Colonel General Pavel Batov |
Colonel General Vasily Popov
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Colonel General Ivan Grishin |
Colonel General Vladimir Romanovsky |
Colonel General Vasily Volsky
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Marshal Georgy Zhukov
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Colonel General Pavel Belov |
Lieutenant General Stanislav Poplavsky |
Colonel General Franz Perkhorovich
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Colonel General Vasily Kuznetsov |
Colonel General Nikolai Berzarin |
Colonel Generall Vasily Chuikov
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Colonel General Vladimir Kolpakchi |
Colonel General Vyacheslav Tsvetayev |
Colonel General Mikhail Katukov
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Colonel General Semen Bogdanov |
Colonel General Alexander Gorbatov
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Marshal Ivan Konev
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Colonel General Vasily Gordov |
Colonel General Nikolay Pukhov |
Colonel General Alexey Zhadov
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Lt General Karol Świerczewski |
Colonel General Konstantin Koroteyev |
Colonel General Pavel Rybalko
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Colonel General Dmitry Lelyushenko |
Colonel General Alexander Luchinsky |
Lieutenant General Pyotr Shafranov |
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See also
References
- ^ Berlin 1945: End of the Thousand Year Reich Peter Antill. Osprey Publishing. 2005. p. 28. ISBN 978-1-84176-915-8.
- ^ Berlin 1945: End of the Thousand Year Reich Peter Antill. Osprey Publishing. 2005. p. 24. ISBN 978-1-84176-915-8.
- ^ http://niehorster.org/012_ussr/45-04-03_Berlin/_Front_2-Byelorussian.html
- ^ http://niehorster.org/012_ussr/45-04-03_Berlin/_Front_1-Byelorussian.html
- ^ http://niehorster.org/012_ussr/45-04-03_Berlin/_Front_1-Ukrainian.html