Order of battle for the Battle of Berlin
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.
Berlin operation
Germans[1]
Army Group Vistula
Colonel General Gotthard Heinrici
Third Panzer Army
General of Panzer Hasso von Manteuffel
- Swinemunde Corps - General of Infantry John Ansat
- 2nd Naval Division
- 402nd Naval Division
- XXXII Corps - General of Infantry Friedrich-August Schack
- Voigt Infantry Divisions
- 281st Infantry Divisions
- 549th Volksgrenadier Division
- Oder Corps - Obergruppenführer Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski
- Klossek Infantry Divisions
- 610th Infantry Divisions
- XXXXVI Panzer Corps - General of Infantry Martin Gareis
- 547th Volksgrenadier Division
- 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
- 391st Security Division
Army Group Reserve
- III SS Panzer Corps - Obergruppenführer Felix Steiner
(Divisions later allocated to the 9th Army)
(Divisions later allocated to the 3rd Panzer Army)
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 Kurt Wäger
- 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)
- Clausewitz Panzer Division
- 84th Infantry Division
- Hamburg Reserve Infantry Division
- Meyer Infantry Division
- XXXXI Panzer Corps - Lt. Gen. Rudolf Holste
- Von Hake Infantry Division
- 199th Infantry Division
- V-Weapons Infantry Division
- XLVIII Panzer Corps - General of Panzer Maximilian von Edelsheim
- 14th Flak Division
- Kampfgruppe Leipzig
- Kampfgruppe Halle
Soviets[2]
2nd Belorussian Front[3]
Marshal Konstantin Rokossovsky
2nd Shock ArmyColonel General Ivan Fedyuninsky
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65th ArmyColonel General Pavel Batov
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70th ArmyColonel General Vasily Popov
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49th ArmyColonel General Ivan Grishin
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19th ArmyColonel General Vladimir Romanovsky
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5th Guards Tank ArmyColonel General Vasily Volsky
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1st Belorussian Front[4]
Marshal Georgy Zhukov
61st ArmyColonel General Pavel Belov
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1st Polish ArmyLieutenant General Stanislav Poplavsky
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47th ArmyColonel General Franz Perkhorovich
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3rd Shock ArmyColonel General Vasily Kuznetsov
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5th Shock ArmyColonel General Nikolai Berzarin
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8th Guards ArmyColonel Generall Vasily Chuikov
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69th ArmyColonel General Vladimir Kolpakchi
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33rd ArmyColonel General Vyacheslav Tsvetayev
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1st Guards Tank ArmyColonel General Mikhail Katukov
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2nd Guards Tank ArmyColonel General Semen Bogdanov
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3rd ArmyColonel General Alexander Gorbatov
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1st Ukrainian Front[5]
Marshal Ivan Konev
3rd Guards ArmyColonel General Vasily Gordov
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13th ArmyColonel General Nikolay Pukhov
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5th Guards ArmyColonel General Alexey Zhadov
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2nd Polish ArmyLt General Karol Świerczewski
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52nd ArmyColonel General Konstantin Koroteyev
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3rd Guards Tank ArmyColonel General Pavel Rybalko
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4th Guards Tank ArmyColonel General Dmitry Lelyushenko
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28th ArmyColonel General Alexander Luchinsky
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31st ArmyLieutenant General Pyotr Shafranov
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1st Guards Cavalry Corps
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References
- Berlin 1945: End of the Thousand Year Reich Peter Antill. Osprey Publishing. 2005. p. 28. ISBN 978-1-84176-915-8.
- Berlin 1945: End of the Thousand Year Reich Peter Antill. 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
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