XI Army Corps (Wehrmacht)

For the equivalent formation in World War I, see XI Corps (German Empire).

XI Army Corps
XI. Armeekorps
Active	October 1936 – May 1945
Country	Nazi Germany
Branch	Army
Size	Corps
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-Kharkov Offensive Operation Lower Dnieper Offensive Dnieper–Carpathian Offensive Cherkassy Pocket Lvov–Sandomierz Offensive Battle of Dukla Pass Upper Silesian Offensive Prague Offensive
Commanders
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

Area of operations

• 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

See also

• List of German corps in World War II

Bibliography

• Tessin, Georg. Verbände und Truppen der deutschen Wehrmacht und Waffen–SS im Zweiten Weltkrieg 1939–1945 [Units and Troops of the German Military and Waffen-SS in the Second World War 1939–1945] (in German). Vol. 2: Die Landstreitkräfte 6–14 (Ground Units 6–14). Osnabrück: Biblio.

External links

"XI. Armeekorps". Lexikon der Wehrmacht. Retrieved 21 January 2011.