XI Army Corps (Wehrmacht)

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Country Nazi Germany Size Corps		Branch Army

Active October 1936 – May 1945 Engagements World War II Invasion of Poland Siege of Warsaw (1939) Battle of France Operation Barbarossa Case Blue Battle of Stalingrad Battle of Kursk Belgorod-Khar'kov Offensive Operation Lower Dnieper Offensive Dnieper–Carpathian Offensive Cherkassy Pocket Lvov–Sandomierz Offensive Battle of Dukla Pass Upper Silesian Offensive Prague Offensive Notable commanders Karl Strecker Erhard 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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