LV Army Corps (LV. Armeekorps) was a corps in the German Army during

World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposing ...

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The LV. Army Corps was created on 6 January 1941 in military district V (Stuttgart). It participated in

Operation Barbarossa Operation Barbarossa (german: link=no, Unternehmen Barbarossa; ) was the invasion of the Soviet Union by Nazi Germany and many of its Axis allies, starting on Sunday, 22 June 1941, during the Second World War. The operation, code-named after ...

as part of the 6th Army. It fought in the Battle of Brody (1941) and

Battle of Kiev (1941) The First Battle of Kiev was the German name for the operation that resulted in a huge encirclement of Soviet troops in the vicinity of Kiev during World War II. This encirclement is considered the largest encirclement in the history of warfar ...

. On 24 October 1941, it reached the city of

Charkov Kharkiv ( uk, Ха́рків, ), also known as Kharkov (russian: Харькoв, ), is the second-largest city and municipality in Ukraine.

of which commander General Vierow became governor. On December 27, the corps was hastily transferred to Maloarkhangelsk in the area northeast of Kursk, where the city of Liwny was lost on December 25 by a Soviet counteroffensive. In 1942 the corps, now under the 2nd Army, was located in the region east of Maloarchangelsk in defensive/contention battles with the 13th Soviet Army (General Nikolai Pukhov) in the spring of 1942. In June 1942, the Corps advanced towards Liwny, but was halted and converted to trench warfare. In July 1942, the Corps as the left wing of the 2nd Army, was positioned on the border of

Heeresgruppe Mitte Army Group Centre (german: Heeresgruppe Mitte) was the name of two distinct strategic German Army Groups that fought on the Eastern Front in World War II. The first Army Group Centre was created on 22 June 1941, as one of three German Army for ...

and

Heeresgruppe B Army Group B (German: ') was the title of three German Army Groups that saw action during World War II. Operational history Army Group B first took part in the Battle of France in 1940 in Belgium and the Netherlands. The second formation of ...

and maintained the connection with the XXXV Army Corps of the

2nd Panzer Army The 2nd Panzer Army (german: 2. Panzerarmee) was a German armoured formation during World War II, formed from the 2nd Panzer Group on October 5, 1941. Organisation Panzer Group Guderian (german: Panzergruppe Guderian) was formed on 5 June 19 ...

. In early 1943, the Corps was defeated in the Voronezh–Kastornoye operation and withdrew towards Oryol, where it suffered further defeats in

Operation Kutuzov Operation Kutuzov was the first of the two counteroffensives launched by the Red Army as part of the Kursk Strategic Offensive Operation. It commenced on 12 July 1943, in the Central Russian Upland, against Army Group Center of the German '' He ...

and the Battle of Smolensk. By the end of 1943, the Corps had withdrawn to

Rahachow Rahachow or Rahačoŭ ( be, Рагачо́ў, ; russian: Рогачёв, Rogachyov, also transliterated Rogachev; pl, Rohaczów; yi, ראגאטשאוו, ''Rogatshov'', ) is a town in the Gomel Region of Belarus. It is center of Rahachow Distric ...

in Belarus, where the front stabilised. In 1944, the Corps suffered heavy casualties during the Bobruysk Offensive and Osovets Offensive as part of

Operation Bagration Operation Bagration (; russian: Операция Багратио́н, Operatsiya Bagration) was the codename for the 1944 Soviet Byelorussian strategic offensive operation (russian: Белорусская наступательная оп ...

. In January 1945, it fought against the Soviet East Prussian Offensive, ending the war defending the harbor city of

Pillau Baltiysk (russian: Балти́йск; german: Pillau; Old Prussian: ''Pillawa''; pl, Piława; lt, Piliava; Yiddish: פּילאַווע, ''Pilave'') is a seaport town and the administrative center of Baltiysky District in Kaliningrad Oblast, Ru ...

Commanders

* General der Infanterie

Erwin Vierow __NOTOC__ General Erwin Vierow (15 May 1890 – 1 February 1982) was a general in the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany during World War II. Between the wars he served on the General Staff of the Reichswehr and in the infantry and by the outbreak of Worl ...

: (6 January 1941 - 13 February 1942) * General der Infanterie

Erich Jaschke Erich Jaschke (11 May 1890 – 18 October 1961) was a general in the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany during World War II who commanded the 20th Infantry Division and late the LV. Army Corps. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross ...

: (10 March 1943 - 4 October 1943) * Generalleutnant Friedrich Herrlein : (5 October 1943 - 1 January 1944) * Generalleutnant Horst Großmann : (1 January 1944 - 1 May 1944) * General der Infanterie Friedrich Herrlein : (1 May 1944 - 5 February 1945) * Generalleutnant Kurt Chill : (6 February 1945 - 30 April 1945)

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