Neha Patil (Editor)

XXVIII Army Corps (Wehrmacht)

Updated on
Edit
Like
Comment
Share on FacebookTweet on TwitterShare on LinkedInShare on Reddit
Country
  
Nazi Germany

Size
  
Corps

Branch
  
German Army

Active
  
20 May 1940 – 25 April 1945

Engagements
  
06/41 - 06/41 Lithuanian frontier 06/41 - 07/41 Düna River 07/41 - 09/41 Old Russian frontier 07/41 - 09/41 Advance to Leningrad 09/41 - 06/42 Leningrad defensive 12/41 - 06/42 Lakes Ilmen and Lagoda 07/42 - 01/44 Defense of AG North 01/44 - 04/44 northern Russia 04/44 - 07/44 Defense of AG North 08/44 South Estonia 08/44 - 09/44 Väike Emajõgi - Gauja line 09/44 - 01/45 Memel 02/45 - 04/45 Samland and Pillau

Similar
  
American Free Corps, III Army Corps, Luftflotte 5, Schalburg Corps, 18th Army

The XXVIII Army Corps (German designation XXVIII. Armeekorps) was a corps which served in Nazi Germany's Wehrmacht during World War II. The corps was created on May 20, 1940 in Wehrkreis (Military Region) III. During the war, the corps was subordinated to the German 6th, 16th, 18th, and 3rd Panzer Armies. In 1945, the corps was briefly named Armeeabteilung Samland (Corps Task Force Samland). The corps fought in Samland until annihilated in late April 1945.

Contents

Order of battle

Following is the organization of the corps when it was part of the Eighteenth Army of Army Group North early in 1944:

January 1944

  • Commander: General of the Artillery (Germany) Herbert Loch
  • [12th Luftwaffe Field Division (Germany)]] under Major-General Gottfried Weber
  • 23rd Field Infantry Regiment
  • 24th Field Infantry Regiment
  • 12th Field Artillery Regiment
  • German 13th Air Force Field Division under Lieutenant-General Helmuth Reymann
  • 25th Field Infantry Regiment
  • 26th Field Infantry Regiment
  • 13th Field Artillery Regiment
  • German 21st Infantry Division under Lieutenant-General Gerhard Matzky
  • 3rd Infantry Regiment
  • 24th Infantry Regiment
  • 45th Infantry Regiment
  • 21st Artillery Regiment
  • 96th Infantry Division (Germany) under Lieutenant-General Richard Wirtz
  • 283rd Infantry Regiment
  • 284th Infantry Regiment
  • 287th Infantry Regiment
  • 196th Artillery Regiment
  • 121.Infanterie-Division under Major-General Helmuth Priess
  • 405th Infantry Regiment
  • 407th Infantry Regiment
  • 408th Infantry Regiment
  • 121st Artillery Regiment

    • Commanding officers

  • General der Infanterie Walter Graf von Brockdorff-Ahlefeldt, 1 June 1940
  • General der Artillerie Peter Weyer, 20 June 1940
  • General der Infanterie Mauritz von Wiktorin, 25 November 1940
  • General der Artillerie Herbert Loch, 27 October 1941
  • General der Infanterie Gerhard Matzky, 28 March 1944
  • General der Infanterie Hans Gollnick, 20 May 1944

    • References

    XXVIII Army Corps (Wehrmacht) Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA