XI Army Corps (Wehrmacht)

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Country Nazi Germany Size Corps		Branch Army

Active October 1936 – May 1945 Engagements World War IIInvasion of PolandSiege of Warsaw (1939)Battle of FranceOperation BarbarossaCase BlueBattle of StalingradBattle of KurskBelgorod-Khar'kov Offensive OperationLower Dnieper OffensiveDnieper–Carpathian OffensiveCherkassy PocketLvov–Sandomierz OffensiveBattle of Dukla PassUpper Silesian OffensivePrague Offensive Notablecommanders Karl StreckerErhard Raus

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

Commanders

Artillery General (General der Artillerie) Emil Leeb, 1 September 1939 – 1 March 1940

Infantry General (General der Infanterie) Joachim von Kortzfleisch, 1 March 1940 – 6 October 1941

Infantry General (General der Infanterie) Eugen Ott, 6 October 1941 – 10 December 1941

Infantry General (General der Infanterie) Joachim von Kortzfleisch, 10 December 1941 – 1 June 1942

Colonel-General (Generaloberst) Karl Strecker, 1 June 1942 – 2 February 1943

After reformation

Colonel-General (Generaloberst) Erhard Raus, 10 February 1943 – 1 November 1943

Artillery General (General der Artillerie) Wilhelm Stemmermann, 5 December 1943 – 18 February 1944

Infantry General (General der Infanterie) Rudolf von Bünau, 20 March 1944 – 16 March 1945

Artillery General (General der Artillerie) Horst von Mellenthin, 16 March 1945 – 20 March 1945

Infantry General (General der Infanterie) Rudolf von Bünau, 20 March 1945 – 6 April 1945

Infantry General (General der Infanterie) Friedrich Wiese, 6 April 1945 – 8 May 1945

Poland - September 1939 - May 1940

France - May 1940 - June 1941

Eastern Front, southern sector - June 1941 - October 1942

Stalingrad - October 1942 - February 1943

Eastern Front, southern sector - March 1943 - January 1944

Cherkassy - January 1944 - February 1944

Poland, Silesia & Czechoslovakia - April 1944 - May 1945

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