Korpsabteilung

As Corps Detachment provisional major units of the German Wehrmacht in Division size were called, were erected in the years 1943 and 1944.

List

During the German - Soviet war, the associations of the German Wehrmacht in 1943 suffered great losses during the year. This mainly concerned the German infantry divisions, who faced the increased artillery and tank used by the Red Army increasingly defenseless. The losses could not be replaced by new soldiers in many divisions, so their use strengths and combat power plummeted drastically.

With effect from 2 November 1943 as three decimated division was established to corps departments therefore for the first time. This Corps divisions were called " Infantry Division new kind of" divided, with the regiments were designated as divisional groups. However, it led to the enemy deception the command character of corps. In order to preserve the tradition and to facilitate an eventual re-installation, led the three divisional groups, the number and the spare units of the Division from which they had emerged. The artillery regiment and the other divisional troops continued the tradition of the first number and the three output divisions, which was also the headquarters of the Corps Detachment. As a result of further deteriorating war situation, a re-installation of the divisions was utopian. All surviving Corps divisions were later renamed infantry divisions and extinguished the numbers and traditions of each 2nd and 3rd Division origin.

In Army Group South, the Corps divisions "A", "B" and "C" were the Corps departments "D" and "E" placed at the Central Army Group. In March 1944, the Corps Detachment "F" was formed at the Army Group South Ukraine. The last time Corps departments "G" and "H" were formed after the disastrous defeat of Army Group Centre in the summer of 1944. (→ Operation Bagration )

List of corps departments

• Corps Detachment "A": from the 161, 293 and 355 emerged Infantry Division, was renamed on 27 July 1944 in 161st Infantry Division and destroyed after the August 20, 1944 in Iasi ( Jassy - Kishinev Operation → )
• Corps Detachment "B " emerged from the 112th, 255th and 332nd Infantry Division was destroyed in the period from January 24 to February 17, 1944 during the Battle of Korsun boiler
• Corps Detachment "C": from the 183rd, 217th and 339th Infantry Division formed was destroyed during the Lviv - Sandomierz operation in a vessel at Brody on 22 July 1944, found the proposed name change to 183 Infantry Division not take more.
• Corps Detachment "D": merging the 56th and 262nd Infantry Division was during the Soviet attack on Vitebsk on 22 June, 1944 to June 28, 1944 almost smashed (→ Operation Bagration ) and four weeks later with a Grenadier Brigade and two grenadier regiments reorganized, renamed on September 10, 1944 in 56th Infantry Division
• Corps Detachment "E " from the 251st, 137th and 86th Infantry Division formed was used in Belarus and Poland and renamed on October 16, 1944 in 251st Infantry Division
• Corps Detachment "F": After the 62nd Infantry Division, the remnants of the 38th Infantry Division had been fed already made ​​this division with the 123rd Infantry Division in March a new Corps Detachment. This was renamed on 20 July 1944 in 62nd Infantry Division and destroyed after the August 20, 1944 at Jassy
• Corps Detachment "G " formed in July 1944 from the remnants of the 299th, 260th and 337th Infantry Division in East Prussia, was renamed on 1 September 1944 in 299th Infantry Division
• Corps Detachment "H": in July 1944 emerged from the 95th, 197th and 256th Infantry Division and deployed in Lithuania, was renamed on 10 September in the 95th Infantry Division