List of German corps in World War II This is a list of German Army corps that existed 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 ...

Army (Heer)

Infantry corps

I–IX

* I Army Corps * II Army Corps * III Army Corps * IV Army Corps * V Army Corps * VI Army Corps * VII Army Corps * VIII Army Corps * IX Army Corps

X–XIX

* X Army Corps * XI Army Corps * XII Army Corps *

XIII Army Corps XIII Army Corps (German: ''XIII. Armeekorps'') was a corps of the German Army during World War II. Made up of several divisions, which varied from time to time, it was formed in Nuremberg on 1 October 1937. Soon after the general mobilisation of ...

* XIV Army Corps * XV Army Corps * XVI Army Corps * XVII Army Corps * XVIII Army Corps *

XIX Army Corps The XIX Army Corps ( German: ''XIX. Armeekorps'') was an armored corps of the German Wehrmacht between 1 July 1939 and 16 November 1940, when the unit was renamed Panzer Group 2 (German: ''Panzergruppe 2'') and later 2nd Panzer Army (German: ''2. P ...

LX–LXIX

LXII Army Corps The LXII Army Corps (german: LXII. Armeekorps), initially known as the LXII Reserve Corps (german: LXII. Reservekorps, link=no), was an army corps of the German Wehrmacht during World War II. The formation was active between 1942 and 1944. Histor ...

* LXIII Army Corps * LXIV Army Corps * LXV Army Corps * LXVI Army Corps * LXVII Army Corps * LXVIII Army Corps * LXIX Army Corps

LXX–LXXIX

* LXX Army Corps * LXXI Army Corps * LXXII Army Corps * LXXIII Army Corps * LXXIV Army Corps * LXXV Army Corps * LXXVI Army Corps * LXXVIII Army Corps

LXXX–LXXXIX

* LXXX Army Corps * LXXXI Army Corps * LXXXII Army Corps * LXXXIII Army Corps * LXXXIV Army Corps * LXXXV Army Corps * LXXXVI Army Corps * LXXXVII Army Corps * LXXXVIII Army Corps * LXXXIX Army Corps

LXXXX–CI

* XC Army Corps * XCI Army Corps * XCVII Army Corps *

CI Army Corps The CI Army Corps (german: CI. Armeekorps), alternatively also referred to as Roman 101st Corps (german: röm. 101. Armeekorps, label=, link=no),The word Roman (German: ''römisch'') here indicates Roman numerals (i.e. the spelling of the number 101 ...

Motorised corps

* III Motorised Corps * XIV Motorised Corps * XV Motorised Corps * XVI Motorised Corps * XIX Motorised Corps * XXII Motorised Corps * XXXIX Motorised Corps * XXXX Motorised Corps * XXXXI Motorised Corps * XXXXVI Motorised Corps * XXXXVII Motorised Corps * XXXXVIII Motorised Corps * LVI Motorised Corps * LVII Motorised Corps

Panzer corps

III Panzer Corps III Army Corps was a corps level formation of the German Army during World War II. III Army Corps The III Corps was formed in October 1934 as III. Armeekorps. The corps took part in Fall Weiss, the 1939 invasion of Poland as a part of Army Gro ...

* IV Panzer Corps *

VII Panzer Corps The VII Panzer Corps (''VII Panzerkorps'', 7th Armoured Corps) was a panzer corps of Nazi Germany during World War II. History The headquarters were formed in East Prussia from the disbanded 49th Infantry Division under Army Group Centre on ...

XIV Panzer Corps XIV Panzer Corps (also: XIV Army Corps or XIV. ''Armeekorps'') was a corps-level formation of the German Army which fought on both the Eastern Front and in the Italian Campaign. History The XIV Panzer Corps was originally formed as the XIV Mot ...

XIX Panzer Corps The XIX Army Corps ( German: ''XIX. Armeekorps'') was an armored corps of the German Wehrmacht between 1 July 1939 and 16 November 1940, when the unit was renamed Panzer Group 2 (German: ''Panzergruppe 2'') and later 2nd Panzer Army (German: ''2. P ...

XXIV Panzer Corps The XXIV Army Corps (german: XXIV. Armeekorps) was a unit of the German Army during World War II. The unit was re-designated several times; originally being ''Generalkommando der Grenztruppen Saarpfalz'', later ''Generalkommando XXIV. Armeekorps'', ...

XXXVIII Panzer Corps The German XXXVIII Corps (''XXXVIII Armeekorps'') was a German army corps during World War II.'' On 8 January 1945, the XXXVIII Corps was redesignated as the XXXVIII Tank Corps (''XXXVIII Panzerkorps''). Commanders * Field Marshal (''Generalfel ...

XXXIX Panzer Corps The XXXIX Panzer Corps (german: XXXIX.Panzerkorps, also previously designated the ''XXXIX.Armeekorps (mot)'') was a German panzer corps which saw action on the Western and Eastern Fronts during World War II. Operational history The Corps whose ...

XL Panzer Corps XXXX Panzer Corps was a tank corps in the German Army during World War II. History The XXXX. Armeekorps was formed on 26 January 1940 in Lubeck in the Wehrkreis X. It took part in the invasions of France and Greece before being sent to the Easte ...

XXXXI Panzer Corps XXXXI Panzer Corps (also written as: XLI Panzer Corps) was a Panzer (armoured) corps in the German Army during World War II. Operational history The corps was originally formed, as the XXXXI Corps, on 5 February 1940 in ''Wehrkreis'' VIII (Sile ...

XLVI Panzer Corps XXXXVI Panzer Corps (46th) was a tank corps of the German Army during World War II that participated in the invasion of Yugoslavia. The Corps was created as the XXXXVI Army Corps and converted to a Panzer Corps on 21 June 1942. The Panzer Corps ...

XLVII Panzer Corps XLVII Panzer Corps (also: 47th Panzer Corps or XXXXVII. ''Panzerkorps'' or XXXXVII Panzer Corps) was a panzer corps of the German Army in World War II that was formerly designated as XLVII Corps. Various formations of the corps fought in the Fren ...

XXXXVIII Panzer Corps XXXXVIII Panzer Corps (also: XXXXVIII Army Corp or XXXXVIII. Armeekorps), was a corps-level formation of the German Army which saw extensive action on both the Eastern and Western Fronts during World War II. History The corps was originally f ...

LVI Panzer Corps LVI Panzer Corps was a panzer corps in the German Army during World War II. This corps was activated in February 1941 as the LVI Army Corps (mot.), for the German invasion of the Soviet Union, which commenced on 22 June 1941. Erich von Manstein ...

LVII Panzer Corps LVII Panzer Corps was a panzer corps in the German Army during World War II. This corps was activated in Augsburg in February 1941 as the LVII Army Corps, for the German invasion of the Soviet Union, which commenced on June 22, 1941. It fought in ...

* LVIII Panzer Corps *

LXXVI Panzer Corps The LXXVI Panzer Corps (''LXXVI Panzerkorps'', 76th Armoured Corps) was a panzer corps of Nazi Germany during World War II. The headquarters were formed in France under Army Group D on 29 June 1943 as LXXVI Army Corps but renamed a month later. I ...

Panzer Corps Feldherrnhalle The Panzerkorps ''Feldherrnhalle'' was a German panzer corps that fought on the Eastern Front during the Second World War. History The Panzerkorps Feldherrnhalle was formed on 27 November 1944 by redesignating ''IV. Armeekorps'' which had be ...

* Panzer Corps Großdeutschland

Mountain corps

* XV Mountain Corps *

XVIII Mountain Corps XVIII. ''Armeekorps'' was formed in Salzburg, Austria, on 1 April 1938, following the Anschluss of Austria into the German Reich. During the life of the XVIII. Armeekorps, they took part in the Polish campaign, Fall Weiss, and the campaign in t ...

* XIX Mountain Corps * XXI Mountain Corps * XXII Mountain Corps * XXXVI Mountain Corps *

XXXXIX Mountain Corps XXXXIX Mountain Corps was a mountain corps of the German Army during World War II that participated in the invasion of Yugoslavia. In June 1941, it participated in Operation Barbarossa as part of Army Group South. It fought in the Battle of Uma ...

* LI Mountain Corps * Norwegen Mountain Corps

Reserve corps

* LXI Reserve Corps * LXII Reserve Corps * LXIV Reserve Corps * LXVI Reserve Corps * LXVII Reserve Corps * LXIX Reserve Corps

Miscellaneous corps

Afrika Korps The Afrika Korps or German Africa Corps (, }; DAK) was the German expeditionary force in Africa during the North African Campaign of World War II. First sent as a holding force to shore up the Italian defense of its African colonies, the ...

* I Cavalry Corps * I Military Police Corps * II Military Police Corps * III Military Police Corps

Höheres Kommando z.b.V.

Höheres Kommando z.b.V. XXXI The Höheres Kommando z.b.V. XXXI (en : Higher Command for Special Duties XXXI) was a special Corps in the German Army during World War II. History The Corps was formed on 15 October 1939 in Deutsch-Krone from the Border Protection Unit "Grenzs ...

* Höheres Kommando z.b.V. XXXII * Höheres Kommando z.b.V. XXXIII * Höheres Kommando z.b.V. XXXIV * Höheres Kommando z.b.V. XXXV * Höheres Kommando z.b.V. XXXVI * Höheres Kommando z.b.V. XXXVII * Höheres Kommando z.b.V. XXXXV * Höheres Kommando z.b.V. LIX * Höheres Kommando z.b.V. LX * Höheres Kommando z.b.V. LXV * Höheres Kommando z.b.V. LXX * Höheres Kommando z.b.V. LXXI

Waffen-SS (Schutzstaffel)

SS infantry corps

VI SS Corps VI SS Army Corps (Latvian) or VI. SS-Freiwilligen-Armeekorps (Lettisches) (German) was a unit of the Waffen SS during World War II. It was formed in October 1943, to command the Latvian Waffen SS divisions. It fought in the northern sector of the ...

* X SS Corps *

XI SS Corps The XI SS Corps (German: ''XI. SS-Armeekorps'' later ''XI. SS-Panzerkorps'') was a Waffen-SS corps created on July 24, 1944 in southern Poland on the basis of the remains of the headquarters of the defeated V Army Corps and employed on the Easte ...

XII SS Corps The XII SS Army Corps was a German corps of the Waffen-SS. It saw action on both the Western and Eastern Fronts during World War II. Formation It was formed on 1 August 1944 in Silesia from the remains of the ''Kampfgruppe von Gottberg'' and th ...

XIII SS Corps XIII SS Army Corps was formed August 1944 at Breslau. It was moved to France and the Western Front. By the end of April 1945, some XIII Corps operated in Czechoslovakia where they encountered the 97th Infantry Division. Others fought north of th ...

* XIV SS Corps *

XVI SS Corps The XVI SS Army Corps was a short-lived corps of the Waffen-SS, which was formed in January 1945 in Pomerania. The core of the corps was the 1st Latvian SS Division. It fought in the Piła Piła (german: Schneidemühl) is a city in northwest ...

XVIII SS Corps XVIII SS Army Corps was formed in December 1944 on the Upper Rhine from the remnants of 3 Wehrmacht Infantry Divisions. In January 1945, the Corps joined the 19th Army until the end of the War. It fought on the upper reaches of the Rhine between ...

SS Panzer corps

* I SS Panzer Corps *

II SS Panzer Corps The II SS Panzer Corps was a German Waffen-SS armoured corps which saw action on both the Eastern Front (World War II), Eastern and Western Front (World War II), Western Fronts during World War II. It was commanded by Paul Hausser during the Thir ...

III (Germanic) SS Panzer Corps The III (Germanic) SS Panzer Corps (''III. (germanisches) SS-Panzerkorps'') was a German Waffen-SS armoured corps which saw action on the Eastern Front during World War II. The ''(germanische)'' (lit. Germanic) part of its designation was granted ...

IV SS Panzer Corps The IV SS Panzer Corps was a panzer corps of the Waffen-SS of Nazi Germany which saw action on the Eastern Front and in the Balkans during World War II. History The Panzerkorps was formed in August 1943 in Poitiers, France. The formation was o ...

* VII SS Panzer Corps

SS miscellaneous corps

V SS Mountain Corps __NOTOC__ V SS Mountain Corps was a Waffen-SS formation that existed in later periods of World War II. The Corps fought against Yugoslav Partisans in the Balkans as part of 2nd Panzer Army from October 1943 to December 1944. At this time it rarely ...

VIII SS Cavalry Corps 8 (eight) is the natural number following 7 and preceding 9. In mathematics 8 is: * a composite number, its proper divisors being , , and . It is twice 4 or four times 2. * a power of two, being 2 (two cubed), and is the first number of the ...

– planned in 1945 but not formed *

IX SS Mountain Corps The IX Waffen Mountain Corps of the SS (Croatian) (german: IX. Waffen-Gebirgskorps der SS (Kroatisches)), later simply IX SS Mountain Corps, was a German Waffen-SS alpine corps during World War II. Originally set up to control Croatian and Albani ...

XV SS Cossack Cavalry Corps The XV SS Cossack Cavalry Corps was a cavalry corps in the armed forces of Nazi Germany during World War II. Background During the Russian Civil War (1917–1923), Cossack leaders and their governments generally sided with the White movement. A ...

XVII Waffen Corps of the SS (Hungarian) The XVII Waffen Corps of the SS (Hungarian) (German XVII. Waffen-Armeekorps der SS) was a Waffen-SS corps during World War II. The formation of the corps was announced in March 1945 and was supposed to consist of Hungarians and Hungarian ''Volksdeut ...

Luftwaffe

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Fliegerkorps (air corps)

* I Fliegerkorps * II Fliegerkorps * III Fliegerkorps * IV Fliegerkorps * V Fliegerkorps * VI Fliegerkorps * VII Fliegerkorps * VIII Fliegerkorps * IX Fliegerkorps * X Fliegerkorps * XI Fliegerkorps * XII Fliegerkorps * XIII Fliegerkorps * XIV Fliegerkorps * Fliegerkorps Tunis

Jagdkorps

* I Jagdkorps * II Jagdkorps

Flak corps

* I Flak Corps * II Flak Corps * III Flak Corps * IV Flak Corps * V Flak Corps * VI Flak Corps

Parachute (''Fallschirmjäger'') corps

* I Parachute Corps * II Parachute Corps * Fallschirm-Panzerkorps Hermann Göring

Field corps

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* II Luftwaffe Field Corps *

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