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

German Army The German Army (, "army") is the land component of the armed forces of Germany. The present-day German Army was founded in 1955 as part of the newly formed West German ''Bundeswehr'' together with the ''Marine'' (German Navy) and the ''Luftwaf ...

during World War II.

Operations

The LV. Army Corps was created on 6 January 1941 in military district V (Stuttgart). It participated in Operation Barbarossa as part of the 6th Army. It fought in the

Battle of Brody (1941) The Battle of Brody (other names in use include Battle of Dubna, Battle of Dubno, Battle of Rovne, Battle of Rovne-Brody) was a tank battle fought between the 1st Panzer Group's III Army Corps and XLVIII Army Corps (Motorized) and five mec ...

and Battle of Kiev (1941). On 24 October 1941, it reached the city of Charkov 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 Nikolay Pavlovich Pukhov (; –March 28, 1958) was a Soviet Army colonel general and a Hero of the Soviet Union who commanded troops during World War II. Pukhov fought in World War I as a junior officer, afterwards joining the Red Army and fight ...

) 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 and Heeresgruppe B and maintained the connection with the XXXV Army Corps of the

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. In early 1943, the Corps was defeated in the Voronezh–Kastornoye operation and withdrew towards

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, where it suffered further defeats in Operation Kutuzov and the Battle of Smolensk. By the end of 1943, the Corps had withdrawn to Rahachow in Belarus, where the front stabilised.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. In January 1945, it fought against the Soviet East Prussian Offensive, ending the war defending the harbor city of Pillau.

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 : (10 March 1943 - 4 October 1943) * Generalleutnant

Friedrich Herrlein __NOTOC__ Eckner's reception in Lübeck in 1925. Top row far right Friedrich Herrlein (27 April 1889 – 28 July 1974) was a German general (General der Infanterie) in the Wehrmacht during World War II who commanded the LV Corps. He was a recip ...

: (5 October 1943 - 1 January 1944) * Generalleutnant

Horst Großmann __NOTOC__ Horst Großmann (19 November 1891 – 4 May 1972) was a German general in the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany during World War II who commanded the 6th Infantry Division. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Lea ...

: (1 January 1944 - 1 May 1944) * General der Infanterie

: (1 May 1944 - 5 February 1945) * Generalleutnant

Kurt Chill Kurt Chill (1 May 1895 – 5 July 1976) was a German general during World War II who commanded the LV. Armeekorps. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross of Nazi Germany. Awards and decorations * Knight's Cross of the Iron ...

: (6 February 1945 - 30 April 1945)

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