XXVIII Army Corps (Wehrmacht)

The XXVIII Army Corps (German designation XXVIII. Armeekorps) was a corps which served in Nazi Germany's Wehrmacht during World War II. The corps was created on May 20, 1940 in Wehrkreis III. During the war, the corps was subordinated to the German 6th, 16th, 18th, and 3rd Panzer Armies. In 1945, the corps was briefly named Armeeabteilung Samland (Corps Task Force Samland). The corps fought in Samland until annihilated in late April 1945.

Order of battle

Following is the organization of the corps when it was part of the Eighteenth Army of Army Group North early in 1944:

January 1944

Commander: General of the Artillery (Germany) Herbert Loch

12th Luftwaffe Field Division under Major-General Gottfried Weber

23rd Field Infantry Regiment

24th Field Infantry Regiment

12th Field Artillery Regiment

13th Luftwaffe Field Division under Lieutenant-General Helmuth Reymann

25th Field Infantry Regiment

26th Field Infantry Regiment

13th Field Artillery Regiment

German 21st Infantry Division under Lieutenant-General Gerhard Matzky

3rd Infantry Regiment

24th Infantry Regiment

45th Infantry Regiment

21st Artillery Regiment

96th Infantry Division (Germany) under Lieutenant-General Richard Wirtz

283rd Infantry Regiment

284th Infantry Regiment

287th Infantry Regiment

196th Artillery Regiment

121.Infanterie-Division under Major-General Helmuth Priess

405th Infantry Regiment

407th Infantry Regiment

408th Infantry Regiment

121st Artillery Regiment

Commanding officers

General der Infanterie Walter Graf von Brockdorff-Ahlefeldt, 1 June 1940

General der Artillerie Peter Weyer, 20 June 1940

General der Infanterie Mauritz von Wiktorin, 25 November 1940

General der Artillerie Herbert Loch, 27 October 1941

General der Infanterie Gerhard Matzky, 28 March 1944

General der Infanterie Hans Gollnick, 20 May 1944

See also

Battle of Memel

Battle of Königsberg

List of German corps in World War II

Sources

Lexikon der Wehrmacht

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Military units and formations established in 1940

Military units and formations disestablished in 1945