19th Army (Wehrmacht)
The 19th Army / Army High Command 19 (AOK 19 ) was a major unit of the Army of the Wehrmacht during the Second World War. She was supreme command each alternating Army Corps as well as many special forces.
History
The army was on 26 August 1943 conversion of the General Command LXXXIII. Army Corps (also Army Group Felber ) situated in the south of France, first commander was General der Infanterie Georg von Soden star. Your area of responsibility encompassed the entire French Mediterranean coast. She led in September 1943 in their area, the measures of the event axis, concerning the Italian occupation zone in the south of France, by.
In August 1944, the army was forced to withdraw through the Rhône Valley to the north after the Allied landings in southern France. Parts stayed back to defend the ports of Toulon and Marseille, but had to give up after a few days. From September to November, the army could their positions in the Burgundian Gate ( Belfort Gap ) and defend in the Vosges, but was then pushed back by attacking the French 1st Army and the U.S. 7th Army on a beachhead in Alsace.
While the company Nordwind in January 1945 took parts of the army participated in a failed attempt to recapture Strasbourg. According to the company's attitude to the bridgehead in Alsace was broken within two weeks. By early April trench warfare followed on the Upper Rhine, the Allies succeeded to the crossing of the river.
End of April 1945, the associations of the army were largely wiped out in the Black Forest, the rest driven back to the northern Alps in the region of Vorarlberg / Tyrol, where the Army High Command surrendered on May 6.
Supreme Commander
- Infantry General Georg von Soden Star - August 26, 1943 to June 28, 1944
- Infantry General Friedrich Wiese - 29 June to 15 December 1944
- General der Infanterie Siegfried Rasp - 15 Dec, 1944 to February 15, 1945
- Infantry General Hermann Foertsch - FEBRUARY 15 bis February 28, 1945
- General of Infantry Hans von Obstfelder - 1 March to 26 March 1945
- General of Panzer troops Erich Brandenberger - MARCH 26 bis May 6, 1945
Chief of the General Staff
- Lieutenant General Walter Botsch - August 26, 1943 to January 1, 1945
- Colonel Kurt Brandstädter - JANUARY 1 bis 6 May 1945
Structure
Imputed army troops
- Higher Artillery Commander 321 (from September 1944)
- Corps news department 445 ( until December 1943 Army Intelligence Department 532)
- Commander of the Army supply troops 445
- Commander of the rear army area 536 (as of December 1944 )
Imputed Army Corps
- Corps Knieß
- IV Luftwaffe Field Corps
- Corps Knieß
- IV Luftwaffe Field Corps
- LXII. reserve Corps
- LXXXV. Army Corps z.b.V.
- IV Luftwaffe Field Corps
- LXII. reserve Corps
- LXXXV. Army Corps z.b.V.
- IV Luftwaffe Field Corps
- LXIV. Army Corps
- LXVI.Armeekorps
- LXXXV. Army Corps z.b.V.
- IV Luftwaffe Field Corps
- LXIV. Army Corps
- LXIII. Army Corps
- Lxxxx. Army Corps
- LXIV. Army Corps
- LXIII. Army Corps
- LXIV. Army Corps
- For Administrative Order: XIV SS Corps, XVIII. SS - Army Corps
- XVIII. SS - Army Corps
- LXIV. Army Corps
- XVIII. SS - Army Corps
- LXIV. Army Corps
- LXXX. Army Corps
In addition, the army was under as of January 1945, the so-called 24th Army, but was merely a sham army.