V Army Corps (Wehrmacht)

V Army Corps (V. Armeekorps) was a corps in the German Army during World War II.

For the equivalent formation in World War I, see V Corps (German Empire).
V. Armeekorps
ActiveOctober 1934 – 8 May 1945
Country Nazi Germany
BranchArmy
SizeCorps
EngagementsWorld War II
Commanders
Notable
commanders		Richard Ruoff

Commanders
  • Infantry General (General der Infanterie) Hermann Geyer, 16 May 1935 – 30 April 1939
  • Infantry General (General der Infanterie) Richard Ruoff, 1 May 1939 – 12 January 1942
  • Infantry General (General der Infanterie) Wilhelm Wetzel, 12 January 1942 – 1 July 1943
  • Infantry General (General der Infanterie) Karl Allmendinger, 1 July 1943 – 1 May 1944
  • Lieutenant-General (Generalleutnant) Hermann Böhme, 1 May 1944 – 4 May 1944
  • Lieutenant-General (Generalleutnant) Friedrich-Wilhelm Müller, 4 May 1944 – 2 June 1944
  • Infantry General (General der Infanterie) Dr. Franz Beyer, 2 June 1944 – 19 July 1944

Formation

The V corps was formed a Corps level formation of the 17th Army assigned to Army Group South. By 1943, the deteriorating situation on the Eastern Front forced the evacuation of the V corps along with the rest of 17th army to the Crimea. However, Red Army advances in the Dnieper Campaign forced more and more divisions to be diverted to the newly reconstituted 6th Army in an ultimately unsuccessful attempt to stem the onslaught. By October 1943, the whole of 17th army order of battle consisted of just two German and four Romanian divisions, all of which were under strength. During the course of the Crimean Offensive, the Red Army captured the Peninsula and marched the remnants of 17th army, including most of the V Corps, into captivity.[1]

After reformation

  • Artillery General (General der Artillerie) Dr. Ing. Kurt Wäger, 26 January 1945 – 8 May 1945

Area of operations
  • Western Front - September 1939 - May 1940
  • France - May 1940 - June 1941
  • Eastern Front, southern sector - June 1941 - May 1944
  • Crimea - May 1944 - July 1944 (bulk destroyed in May 1944; command disbanded in July 1944)[2]
  • Eastern Front - January 1945 - April 1945; command reestablished and then destroyed in the Halbe Pocket in April 1945

See also

Notes
  1. German Defense Tactics Against Russian Breakthroughs (PDF). Washington DC: United States Army Center of Military History. October 1951. pp. 41–55.
  2. Tessin, p. 284.
  • Georg Tessin. Verbände und Truppen der deutschen Wehrmacht und Waffen-SS 1939-1945. Volume 2. Osnabrück: Biblio Verlag, 1973

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

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