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XI Army Corps (Wehrmacht)

Field	Value
unit_name	XI Army Corps
native_name	XI. Armeekorps
image	XI Armee-Korps unit marking Unternehmen Zitadelle.png
image_size	200px
dates	October 1936 – May 1945
country	Nazi Germany
branch	Army
size	Corps
battles	World War II
notable_commanders	Karl Strecker
Erhard Raus

Invasion of Poland
Siege of Warsaw (1939)
Battle of France
Operation Barbarossa
Case Blue
Battle of Stalingrad
Battle of Kursk
Belgorod-Kharkov Offensive Operation
Lower Dnieper Offensive
Dnieper–Carpathian Offensive
Cherkassy Pocket
Lvov–Sandomierz Offensive
Battle of Dukla Pass
Upper Silesian Offensive
Prague Offensive Erhard Raus

German XI. Corps (XI. Armeekorps) was a corps in the German Army during World War II.

Commanders

Artillery General (General der Artillerie) Emil Leeb, 1 September 1939 – 1 March 1940
Infantry General (General der Infanterie) Joachim von Kortzfleisch, 1 March 1940 – 6 October 1941
Infantry General (General der Infanterie) Eugen Ott, 6 October 1941 – 10 December 1941
Infantry General (General der Infanterie) Joachim von Kortzfleisch, 10 December 1941 – 1 June 1942
Colonel-General (Generaloberst) Karl Strecker, 1 June 1942 – 2 February 1943

After reformation

Colonel-General (Generaloberst) Erhard Raus, 10 February 1943 – 1 November 1943
Artillery General (General der Artillerie) Wilhelm Stemmermann, 5 December 1943 – 18 February 1944
Infantry General (General der Infanterie) Rudolf von Bünau, 20 March 1944 – 16 March 1945
Artillery General (General der Artillerie) Horst von Mellenthin, 16 March 1945 – 20 March 1945
Infantry General (General der Infanterie) Rudolf von Bünau, 20 March 1945 – 6 April 1945
Infantry General (General der Infanterie) Friedrich Wiese, 6 April 1945 – 8 May 1945

Area of operations

Poland - September 1939 - May 1940
France - May 1940 - June 1941
Eastern Front, southern sector - June 1941 - October 1942
Stalingrad - October 1942 - February 1943
Eastern Front, southern sector - March 1943 - January 1944
Cherkassy - January 1944 - February 1944
Poland, Silesia & Czechoslovakia - April 1944 - May 1945

Citations

Bibliography

References

Tessin, p. 191

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