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XI Army Corps
XI. Armeekorps

Active	October 1936 – May 1945
Country	Nazi Germany
Branch	Army
Size	Corps
Engagements	World War II Invasion of Poland Siege of Warsaw (1939) Battle of France Operation Barbarossa Case Blue Battle of Stalingrad Battle of Kursk Belgorod-Kharkov Offensive Operation Lower Dnieper Offensive Dnieper–Carpathian Offensive Cherkassy Pocket Lvov–Sandomierz Offensive Battle of Dukla Pass Upper Silesian Offensive Prague Offensive
Commanders
Notable commanders	Karl Strecker Erhard Raus

Military unit

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

Commanders

Artillery General (General der Artillerie) Emil Leeb, 1 September 1939 – 1 March 1940
Infantry General (General der Infanterie) Joachim von Kortzfleisch, 1 March 1940 – 6 October 1941
Infantry General (General der Infanterie) Eugen Ott, 6 October 1941 – 10 December 1941
Infantry General (General der Infanterie) Joachim von Kortzfleisch, 10 December 1941 – 1 June 1942
Colonel-General (Generaloberst) Karl Strecker, 1 June 1942 – 2 February 1943

After reformation

Colonel-General (Generaloberst) Erhard Raus, 10 February 1943 – 1 November 1943
Artillery General (General der Artillerie) Wilhelm Stemmermann, 5 December 1943 – 18 February 1944
Infantry General (General der Infanterie) Rudolf von Bünau, 20 March 1944 – 16 March 1945
Artillery General (General der Artillerie) Horst von Mellenthin, 16 March 1945 – 20 March 1945
Infantry General (General der Infanterie) Rudolf von Bünau, 20 March 1945 – 6 April 1945
Infantry General (General der Infanterie) Friedrich Wiese, 6 April 1945 – 8 May 1945

Area of operations

Poland - September 1939 - May 1940
France - May 1940 - June 1941
Eastern Front, southern sector - June 1941 - October 1942
Stalingrad - October 1942 - February 1943
Eastern Front, southern sector - March 1943 - January 1944
Cherkassy - January 1944 - February 1944
Poland, Silesia & Czechoslovakia - April 1944 - May 1945

Citations

Tessin, p. 191

Bibliography

Tessin, Georg. Verbände und Truppen der deutschen Wehrmacht und Waffen–SS im Zweiten Weltkrieg 1939–1945 [Units and Troops of the German Military and Waffen-SS in the Second World War 1939–1945] (in German). Vol. 2: Die Landstreitkräfte 6–14 (Ground Units 6–14). Osnabrück: Biblio.

External links

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

German Army corps (1934–1945)

Army
Armeekorps

I – IX	I II III IV V VI VII VIII IX

X – XIX	X XI XII XIII XIV XV XVI XVII XVIII XIX

XX – XXIX	XX XXI XXII XXIII XXIV XXV XXVI XXVII XXVIII XXIX

XXX – XXXIX	XXX XXXI XXXII XXXIII XXXIV XXXV XXXVIII XXXIX

XXXX – XXXXVIII	XXXX XXXXI XXXXII XXXXIII XXXXIV XXXXVI XXXXVII XXXXVIII

L – LIX	L LI LII LIII LIV LV LVII LIX

LXII – LXIX	LXII LXIII LXIV LXV LXVI LXVII LXVIII LXIX

LXX – LXXVIII	LXX LXXI LXXII LXXIII LXXIV LXXV LXXVI LXXVIII

LXXX – LXXXIX	LXXX LXXXI LXXXII LXXXIII LXXXIV LXXXV LXXXVI LXXXVII LXXXVIII LXXXIX

LXXXX – CI	LXXXX LXXXXI LXXXXVII CI

Panzer
Panzerkorps

I – XXXIX	III IV VII XIV XXIV XXXVIII XXXIX

XXXX – XXXXVIII	XXXX XXXXI XXXXVI XXXXVII XXXXVIII

LVI – LXXVI	LVI LVII LVIII LXXVI

Mountain
Gebirgskorps

Cavalry
Kavalleriekorps

Miscellaneous

Afrika Korps

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