- Balkans Campaign German order of battle
During
World War II , Operation Marita was the German invasion ofGreece andYugoslavia on6 April ,1941 .Order of Battle for Operation Marita
6 April 1941 –3 May 1941 * Reserves directly commanded by the
OKH
** 4th Panzer Division ("Generalmajor"Willibald Freiherr Von Langermann und Erlenkamp )
** 12th Panzer Division ("Generalmajor"Josef Harpe )
** 19th Panzer Division ("Generalmajor"Otto von Knobelsdorff )
** 100th Light Division ("Generalleutnant"Werner Sanne )
** 101st Light Division ("Generalleutnant"Erich Marcks )* Second Army ("Generaloberst" Maximilian Reichsfreiherr Von Weichs zu Glon)
** 49th Mountain Corps ("General der Mountaintruppen"Ludwig Kübler )
** 1st Mountain Division ("Generalmajor"Hubert Lanz )
** 51st Army Corps ("General der Infantry"Hans-Wolfgang Reinhardt )
*** 132nd Infantry Division ("Generalleutnant"Rudolf Sintzenisch )
*** 183rd Infantry Division ("Generalleutnant"Benignus Dippold )
** 46th Army Corps (motorized) ("General der Panzertruppen" Heinrich von Vietinghoff Gennant Scheel)
*** 8th Panzer Division ("Generalmajor"Erich Brandenberger )
*** 14th Panzer Division, ("Generalmajor"Friedrich Kühn )
*** 16th Infantry Division (motorized), ("Generalmajor"Siegfried Henrici )* Second Army reserve:
** 52nd Army Corps ("General der Infantry"Kurt von Briesen )
*** 169th Infantry Division ("Generalmajor"Kurt Dittmar )
*** 197th Infantry Division ("Generalleutnant"Hermann Meyer-Rabingen )
*** 125th Infantry Division ("Generalleutnant"Willi Schneckenburger )* 12th Army ("Generalfeldmarschall"
Wilhelm List )
** 40th Army Corps (motorized) ("Generalleutnant"Georg Stumme )
*** 9th Panzer Division ("Generalmajor"Alfred Ritter von Hubicki )
*** 1st SS Brigade (motorized) "Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler" ("SS-Obergruppenführer"Josef Dietrich )
*** 73rd Infantry Division ("Generalmajor"Bruno Bieler )
** 18th Mountain Corps ("General der Mountaintruppen")Franz Böhme
*** 2nd Panzer Division ("Generalleutnant"Rudolf Veiel )
*** 5th Mountain Division ("Generalleutnant"Julius Ringel )
*** 6th Mountain Division ("Generalleutnant"Ferdinand Schörner )
*** 72nd Infantry Division ("Generalleutnant"Franz Mattenklott )
*** 125th Infantry Regiment
** 30th Army Corps ("General der Artillerie"Otto Hartmann )
*** 50th Infantry Division ("Generalleutnant"Karl-Adolf Hollidt )
*** 164th Infantry Division ("Generalmajor"Johannes Folttmann )* 12th Army reserve
** 50th Army Corps ("General der Kavallerie"Georg Lindemann )
*** 46th Infantry Division ("Generalmajor"Karl Kriebel )
*** 16th Panzer Division ("Generalmajor"Hans-Valentin Hube )* Panzer Group 1 ("Generaloberst"
Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist )
** 14th Army Corps (motorized) ("General der Infanterie"Gustav Anton von Wietersheim )
*** 5th Panzer Division ("Generalleutnant"Gustav Fehn )
*** 11th Panzer Division ("Generalleutnant"Ludwig Crüwell )
*** 4th Mountain Division ("Generalleutnant"Karl Eglseer )
*** 294th Infantry Division ("Generalleutnant"Otto Gabke )
** 41st Army Corps (motorized) ("Generalleutnant"Georg-Hans Reinhardt )
*** 2nd SS Division "Das Reich" ("SS-Gruppenführer"Paul Hausser )
*** Infantry Regiment (motorized) "Großdeutschland" ("Oberst"Wilhelm-Hunold von Stockhausen )
** 11th Army Corps ("General der Infanterie"Joachim von Kortzfleisch )
*** 60th Infantry Division (motorized) ("Generalmajor"Friedrich-Georg Eberhardt )
*** 76th Infantry Division ("Generalleutnant"Maximilian de Angelis )
*** 198th Infantry Division ("Generalmajor"Otto Röttig )ee also
See
Operation Castigo andOperation Demon .
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