Balkans Campaign German order of battle

Balkans Campaign German order of battle

During World War II, Operation Marita was the German invasion of Greece and Yugoslavia on 6 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 and Operation Demon.


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