__NOTOC__The XXXVI Corps was a
German military formation in
World War II.
It was formed in October 1939 and took part in the
invasion of France. In August 1940 the corps was moved to southern Norway and from there to northern
Finland
Finland ( fi, Suomi ; sv, Finland ), officially the Republic of Finland (; ), is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It shares land borders with Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and Russia to the east, with the Gulf of Both ...
.
It took part 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 ...
in mid-1941. It was part of the German
AOK Norwegen (Army Norway) and was moved to northern Finland during June 1941. The XXXVI Corps took part in
Operation Polarfuchs
Operation Arctic Fox (German: ''Unternehmen Polarfuchs''; fi, operaatio Napakettu; Russian: ''Кандалакшская операция'') was the codename given to a World War II campaign by German and Finnish forces against Soviet North ...
aiming to advance through
Salla
Salla (''Kuolajärvi'' until 1936) ( smn, Kyelijävri) is a municipality of Finland, located in Lapland. The municipality has a population of
() and covers an area of of
which
is water. The population density is
.
The nearby settlement of ...
to
Kandalaksha
Kandalaksha (russian: Кандала́кша; fi, Kantalahti, also ''Kandalax'' or ''Candalax'' in the old maps; krl, Kannanlakši; sms, Käddluhtt) is a town in Kandalakshsky District of Murmansk Oblast, Russia, located at the head of Kanda ...
, and from there to
Murmansk
Murmansk ( Russian: ''Мурманск'' lit. " Norwegian coast"; Finnish: ''Murmansk'', sometimes ''Muurmanski'', previously ''Muurmanni''; Norwegian: ''Norskekysten;'' Northern Sámi: ''Murmánska;'' Kildin Sámi: ''Мурман ланнҍ ...
.
In November 1941 the corps was renamed the XXXVI Gebirgskorps (Mountain corps).
In late 1944 the corps had to fight its former allies during their
withdrawal from Finland. The corps was forced to retreat from Finland back to Norway. The corps stayed the rest of the war in Norway and surrendered there in May 1945.
Commanders
*
General of the Cavalry General of the Cavalry (german: General der Kavallerie) was a General officer rank in the cavalry in various states of which the modern states of German and Austria are successors or in other armies which used the German model. Artillery officers o ...
Hans Feige
Hans Feige (10 November 1880 – 17 September 1953) was a German General of the Infantry in the Wehrmacht during World War II.
Career
Feige joined the German Army in 1900. During World War I he served mainly in General Staff positions of var ...
(Mai 1940 - 30 November 1941)
* General of the Infantry
Karl Weisenberger (1 December 1941 - 10 August 1944)
* General of Mountain troops
Emil Vogel (10 August 1944 - 8 May 1945)
Area of operations
Organisation
Formations
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71st Infantry Division (to August 1940)
*
212th Infantry Division (to August 1940)
*
SS Division Nord (from June 1941 to July 1941, transferred to
Finnish III Corps)
*
169th Infantry Division
*
163rd Infantry Division (from 1942)
*
Finnish 6th Division (from June 1941 to 1942)
Units
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Panzer-Abteilung 211
Panzer-Abteilung 211 was a tank battalion of the German army during World War II. The battalion fought during Operation Silver Fox which was a combined German and Finnish offensive attempting to capture the Soviet port of Murmansk. The unit was d ...
*
Panzer-Abteilung 40
*
16. RajaJK (Finnish Border guard company)
*
26. RajaJK (Finnish Border guard company)
*
46. RajaJK (Finnish Border guard company)
References
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Military units and formations established in 1939
Military units and formations disestablished in 1945
1939 establishments in Germany