Order of battle for the Battle of Berlin
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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.
Germans[1][]
Army Group Vistula[]
Colonel General Gotthard Heinrici
Third Panzer Army[]
General of Panzer Hasso von Manteuffel
- - General of Infantry
- 2nd Naval Division
- XXXII Corps - General of Infantry Friedrich-August Schack
- 281st Infantry Divisions
- 549th Volksgrenadier Division
- - Obergruppenführer Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski
- XXXXVI Panzer Corps - General of Infantry Martin Gareis
- 1st Naval Division
Ninth Army[]
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
- 303rd ‘Döberitz’ Infantry Division
- 169th Infantry Division
- 712th Infantry Division
- Kurmark Panzergrenadier Division
- V SS Mountain Corps - Obergruppenführer Friedrich Jeckeln
- 286th Infantry Division
- 32nd SS Grenadier Division
Army Group Reserve[]
- III SS Panzer Corps - Obergruppenführer Felix Steiner
(Divisions later allocated to the 9th Army)
- 11th SS Panzergrenadier Division
- 23rd SS Panzergrenadier Division
(Divisions later allocated to the 3rd Panzer Army)
- 27th SS Grenadier Division
- 28th SS Grenadier Division
Army Group Centre[]
Feldmarshal Ferdinand Schörner
Fourth Panzer Army[]
General of Panzer Fritz-Hubert Gräser
(Later transferred to the 9th Army)
- V Corps - General of Artillery
- 35th SS Police Grenadier Division
- 36th SS Grenadier Division
- 275th Infantry Division
- 342nd Infantry Division
- 21st Panzer Division
Twelfth Army[]
General of Panzer Walther Wenck
- XX Corps - General of Cavalry Carl-Erik Koehler
- Theodor Körner RAD Infantry Division
- Ulrich von Hutten Infantry Division
- Ferdinand von Schill Infantry Division
- Scharnhorst Infantry Division
- 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
Soviets[2][]
2nd Belorussian Front[3][]
Marshal Konstantin Rokossovsky
2nd Shock Army[]Colonel General Ivan Fedyuninsky
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65th Army[]Colonel General Pavel Batov
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70th Army[]Colonel General Vasily Popov
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49th Army[]Colonel General Ivan Grishin |
19th Army[]Colonel General Vladimir Romanovsky
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5th Guards Tank Army[]Colonel General Vasily Volsky
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Front Reserve[]
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1st Belorussian Front[4][]
Marshal Georgy Zhukov
61st Army[]Colonel General Pavel Belov
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1st Polish Army[]Lieutenant General Stanislav Poplavsky
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47th Army[]Colonel General Franz Perkhorovich
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3rd Shock Army[]Colonel General Vasily Kuznetsov
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5th Shock Army[]Colonel General Nikolai Berzarin
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8th Guards Army[]Colonel Generall Vasily Chuikov
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69th Army[]Colonel General Vladimir Kolpakchi |
33rd Army[]Colonel General Vyacheslav Tsvetayev
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1st Guards Tank Army[]Colonel General Mikhail Katukov
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2nd Guards Tank Army[]Colonel General Semyon Bogdanov
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3rd Army[]Colonel General Alexander Gorbatov
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Front Reserves[]
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1st Ukrainian Front[5][]
Marshal Ivan Konev
3rd Guards Army[]Colonel General Vasily Gordov
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13th Army[]Colonel General Nikolay Pukhov
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5th Guards Army[]Colonel General Alexey Zhadov
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2nd Polish Army[]Lt General Karol Świerczewski
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52nd Army[]Colonel General Konstantin Koroteyev
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3rd Guards Tank Army[]Colonel General Pavel Rybalko
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4th Guards Tank Army[]Colonel General Dmitry Lelyushenko
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28th Army[]Colonel General Alexander Luchinsky |
31st Army[]Lieutenant General Pyotr Shafranov
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See also[]
References[]
- ^ Berlin 1945: End of the Thousand Year Reich . Osprey Publishing. 2005. p. 28. ISBN 978-1-84176-915-8.
- ^ Berlin 1945: End of the Thousand Year Reich . 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
- World War II orders of battle
- Battle of Berlin