Army Group B

Flag for the Commander in Chief of Army Group 1941–1945

Army Group B (German: Heeresgruppe B) was the title of three German Army Groups that saw action during World War II.

Commanders

Western Front

12 October 1939 to August 1940 Generalfeldmarshall Fedor von Bock

Eastern Front

August 1942 to February 1943 Generaloberst Maximilian von Weichs

Northern Italy/Northern France

14 July 1943 Generalfeldmarschall Erwin Rommel
19 July 1944 Generalfeldmarschall Günther von Kluge
17 August 1944 to April 1945 Generalfeldmarschall Walter Model

Chiefs of Staff

12 October 1939 - 9 May 1941 General Hans von Salmuth
20 May 1941 General Hans von Greiffenberg

Eastern Front

August 1942 - 20.5.1943 General Georg von Sodenstern

Order of battle

Army Group HQ troops

537th Signals Regiment
605th Signals Regiment (2nd list)

Subordinated units

Date	Subordinated commands
1939
November 1939	4th Army, 6th Army, 18th Army
1940
May 1940	6th Army, 18th Army
June 1940	9th Army, 6th Army, 4th Army, Panzer Group Kleist
July 1940	7th Army, 4th Army
August 1940	7th Army, 4th Army, 6th Army
September 1940	18th Army, 4th Army, 6th Army
1941
January 1941	18th Army, 4th Army, 17th Army, 2nd Panzer Group, Military commander in the General Government
May 1941	9th Army, 4th Army
1942
August 1942	2nd Army, Hungarian 2nd Army, Italian 8th Army, XXIX Army Corps, 6th Army, 4th Panzer Army
September 1942	2nd Army, Hungarian 2nd Army, Italian 8th Army, 6th Army, 4th Panzer Army
October 1942	2nd Army, Hungarian 2nd Army, Italian 8th Army, 4th Panzer Army, Romanian 3rd Army, Romanian 4th Army
November 1942	2nd Army, Hungarian 2nd Army, Italian 8th Army, Romanian 3rd Army, 6th Army, 4th Panzer Army, Romanian 4th Army
December 1942	2nd Army, Hungarian 2nd Army, Italian 8th Army
1943
January 1943	2nd Army, Hungarian 2nd Army, Italian 8th Army, Army Detachment Fretter-Pico
February 1943	2nd Army, Army Detachment Lanz, Italian 8th Army, Hungarian 2nd Army
September 1943	LI Army Corps, II SS Corps, LXXXVII Army Corps
December 1943	in disposal of the OKW in Denmark
1944
May 1944	7th Army, 15th Army, Wehrmacht commander in the Netherlands
June 1944	7th Army, 15th Army, Wehrmacht commander in the Netherlands, Panzer Group West
August 1944	1st Army, 5th Panzer Army, 7th Army, 15th Army, Wehrmacht commander in the Netherlands
September 1944	7th Army, 1st Parachute Army, 15th Army
November 1944	7th Army, 5th Panzer Army, Student Army Group
December 1944	7th Army, 5th Panzer Army
1945
January 1945	7th Army, 5th Panzer Army, 6th Panzer Army, 15th Army
February 1945	7th Army, 5th Panzer Army, 15th Army
April 1945	15th Army, 5th Panzer Army, Army Detachment von Lüttwitz

References

Bibliography

Builder, Carl H., Bankes, Steven C. & Nordin Richard, Command concepts: a theory derived from the practice of command and control, RAND, Santa Monica, CA, 1999

Army Groups of the Wehrmacht

Army Group A Army Group Africa Army Group B Army Group C Army Group D Army Group Don Army Group E Army Group F Army Group G Army Group H Army Group Courland Army Group Centre Army Group North Army Group Oberrhein Army Group Ostmark Army Group North Ukraine Army Group South Army Group South Ukraine Army Group Vistula

Battle of Stalingrad

Operations

Nazi Germany	Donnerschlag Winter Storm

Soviet Union	Uranus Little Saturn Koltso

Formations

Army groups
and fronts

	B Centre Don

	Don Southwestern Stalingrad Voronezh

Armies

Axis	German 4th Panzer German 6th Hungarian 2nd Italian 8th Romanian 3rd and 4th

	1st Guards 2nd Guards 3rd Guards 21st 51st 62nd 64th 65th

Corps

Tank	1st 4th 13th 16th 24th 26th

others	4th Mechanised 13th Mechanised 3rd Guards Cavalry 4th Cavalry 8th Cavalry

Divisions

Panzer	6th 14th 16th 17th 22nd 24th

Infantry	3rd Motorised 29th Motorised 60th Motorised 5th 44th 71st 76th 79th 94th 100th 113th 295th 297th 305th 371st 376th 384th 389th

Guards Rifle	13th 15th 33rd 35th 36th 37th 39th

Rifle	38th 45th 62nd 64th 91st 93rd 95th 112th 138th 157th 169th 173rd 181st 193rd 196th 204th 214th 221st 248th 284th 302nd 308th 422nd

others	414th Anti-Tank 149th Artillery 60th Cavalry 81st Cavalry

Notable participants

Nazi Germany	Adolf Hitler Alexander Edler von Daniels Hermann Göring Wilhelm Hoffman Hermann Hoth Hans-Valentin Hube Erwin König (apocryphal) Erich von Manstein Friedrich Paulus Wolfram von Richthofen Arthur Schmidt Walther von Seydlitz-Kurzbach Karl Strecker

Romania	Constantin Constantinescu-Claps Petre Dumitrescu Mihail Lascăr

Other Axis members	Viktor Pavičić (Croatia) Italo Gariboldi (Italy) Gusztáv Jány (Hungary)

Soviet Union	Joseph Stalin Hazi Aslanov Vasily Badanov Vasily Chuikov Nikolay Dyatlenko Sasha Filippov Peter Gitelman Vasily Grossman Nikita Khrushchev Nikolay Krylov Dmitry Lelyushenko Rodion Malinovsky Yakov Pavlov Alexander Rodimtsev Konstantin Rokossovsky Alexander Shcherbakov Semyon Timoshenko Aleksandr Vasilevsky Nikolay Voronov Erich Weinert Andrei Yeremenko Vasily Zaytsev Aleksey Zhadov Georgy Zhukov

Significant locations

Barmaley Fountain Barrikady Factory Grain Elevator Gumrak Kalach Mamayev Kurgan Pavlov's House Pitomnik Airfield Red October Steel Factory River Don River Volga Tatsinskaya Airfield Tsaritsa Gorge Tractor Plant

In memoriam

The Motherland Calls Stalingrad Madonna Sword of Stalingrad Battle of Stalingrad in popular culture

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