LVII Panzer Corps was a

panzer corps A panzer corps (german: Panzerkorps) was an armoured corps type in Nazi Germany's ''Wehrmacht'' during World War II. The name was introduced in 1941, when the motorised corps (''Armeekorps (mot)'' or ''AK(mot)'') were renamed to panzer corps. Pan ...

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 ...

. This corps was activated in Augsburg in February 1941 as the LVII Army Corps, for the

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, which commenced on June 22, 1941. It fought in the

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and in the Battle of Moscow. On 21 June 1942, the Corps was renamed LVII Panzer Corps . It fought at Rostov, and then in the

Battle of the Caucasus The Battle of the Caucasus is a name given to a series of Axis and Soviet operations in the Caucasus area on the Eastern Front of World War II. On 25 July 1942, German troops captured Rostov-on-Don, Russia, opening the Caucasus region of t ...

. It fought south-west of Stalingrad and then retreated along the Don. In 1943 it was active in the Donets region and in Kursk. It retreated over the Romanian border before being attached to the

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and transferred to the south of Hungary. There it fought in the

Battle of Budapest The Siege of Budapest or Battle of Budapest was the 50-day-long encirclement by Soviet and Romanian forces of the Hungarian capital of Budapest, near the end of World War II. Part of the broader Budapest Offensive, the siege began when Budap ...

and ended the war in Silesia.

Commanders

* General of the Tank Troops (''General der Panzertruppe'')

Adolf-Friedrich Kuntzen __NOTOC__ General Adolf-Friedrich Kuntzen (26 July 1889 – 10 July 1964) was a German general in the Wehrmacht during World War II who commanded the LXXXI Army-Corps under Erwin Rommel in Normandy in 1944. He saw service in World War I, and ...

- From 15 February 1941 to 15 November 1941. * General of the Tank Troops (''General der Panzertruppe'')

Friedrich Kirchner Friedrich Kirchner (26 March 1885 – 6 April 1960) was a German general during World War II who commanded 1st Panzer Division and the LVII Panzer Corps. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords. Ca ...

- From 15 November 1941 to 12 January 1942 * General of the Tank Troops (''General der Panzertruppe'') Adolf-Friedrich Kuntzen - From 12 to 31 January 1942 * General of the Tank Troops (''General der Panzertruppe'') Friedrich Kirchner - From 31 January 1942 to 30 November 1943 * General of the Tank Troops (''General der Panzertruppe'')

Hans-Karl Freiherr von Esebeck Hans-Karl Freiherr von Esebeck (10 July 1892 – 5 January 1955) was a German general who commanded the 15th Panzer Division in the Afrika Korps. Esebeck had knowledge of and was sympathetic to the anti-Hitler conspiracy in the military. He was a ...

- From 30 November 1943 to 19 February 1944 * General of the Tank Troops (''General der Panzertruppe'') Friedrich Kirchner - From 19 February 1944 to 25 May 1944 * Infantry General (''General der Infanterie'') Franz Beyer - From 25 May 1944 to 2 June 1944 * * General of the Tank Troops (''General der Panzertruppe'') Friedrich Kirchner - From 2 June 1944 to 8 May 1945

Area of operations

* Eastern Front, central sector - From June 1942 to July 1944 * Southern Hungary - From July 1944 to January 1945 * Silesia - From January 1945 to May 1945

source

LVII. Panzerkorps on lexikon-der-wehrmacht.de
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