Tank Warfare on the Eastern Front, 1941-1942: Schwerpunkt

Appendix II Armour Order of Battle, 22 June 1941

German

Heeresgruppe Nord (Generalfeldmarschall Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb)

Panzergruppe 4 (Generaloberst Erich Höpner)

• XXXXI Armeekorps (mot.) (General der Panzertruppen Georg-Hans Reinhardt)

○ 1.Panzer-Division (Generalleutnant Friedrich Kirchner)

○ 6.Panzer-Division (General der Panzertruppen Wilhelm Ritter von Thoma)

○ 36.Infanterie-Division (mot.) (Generalleutnant Otto-Ernst Ottenbacher)

• LVI Armeekorps (mot.) (General der Infanterie Erich von Manstein)

○ 8.Panzer-Division (General der Panzertruppen Erich Brandenberger)

○ 3.Infanterie-Division (mot.) (Generalleutnant Curt Jahn)

• Army Group Reserve

○ SS-Division “Totenkopf” (SS-Gruppenführer Theodor Eicke) WIA – 8 July 1941

Heeresgruppe Mitte (Generalfeldmarschall Fedor von Bock)

Panzergruppe 2 (Generaloberst Heinz Guderian)

• XXIV Armeekorps (mot.) (General der Panzertruppen Leo Freiherr Geyr von Schweppenburg)

○ 3.Panzer-Division (Generalleutnant Walter Model)

○ 4.Panzer-Division (Generalmajor Willibald Freiherr von Langermann und Erlencamp)

○ 10.Infanterie-Division (mot.) (Generalleutnant Friedrich-Wilhelm von Loeper)

• XXXXVI Armeekorps (Generaloberst Heinrich von Viettinghoff-Scheel)

○ 10.Panzer-Division (General der Panzertruppen Ferdinand Schaal)

○ SS-Division “Reich” (Generalleutnant der Waffen-SS Paul Hausser) WIA – 15 October 1941

○ Infanterie-Regiment (mot) Großdeutschland (Oberst Wilhelm-Hunold von Stockhausen)

• XXXXVII Armeekorps (General der Artillerie Joachim Lemelsen)

○ 17.Panzer-Division (Generalleutnant Hans-Jürgen von Arnim)

○ 18.Panzer-Division (General der Panzertruppen Walther Nehring)

○ 29.Infanterie-Division (mot.) (Generalmajor Walter von Boltenstern)

Panzergruppe 3 (Generaloberst Hermann Hoth)

• XXXIX Armeekorps (mot.) (General der Panzertruppe Rudolf Schmidt)

○ 7.Panzer-Division (General der Panzertruppen Hans Freiherr von Funck)

○ 20.Panzer-Division (General der Panzertruppen Horst Stumpff)

○ 14.Infanterie-Division (mot.) (Generalleutnant Friedrich Fürst)

○ 20.Infanterie-Division (mot.) (Generalleutnant Hans Zorn)

• LVII Armeekorps (mot.) (General der Panzertruppen Adolf Kuntzen)

○ 12.Panzer-Division (Generaloberst Josef Harpe)

○ 19.Panzer-Division (Generalleutnant Otto von Knobelsdorff)

○ 18.Infanterie-Division (mot.) (Generalmajor Friedrich Herrlein)

Heeresgruppe Süd (Generalfeldmarschall Gerd von Rundstedt)

Panzergruppe 1 (Generaloberst Ewald von Kleist)

• XIV Armeekorps (mot.) (General der Infanterie Gustav von Wietersheim)

○ 9.Panzer-Division (Generalleutnant Alfred Ritter von Hubicki)

○ SS-Division “Wiking” (SS-Brigadeführer Felix Steiner)

• III Armeekorps (mot.) (Generaloberst Eberhard von Mackensen)

○ 13.Panzer-Division (Generalleutnant Walther Düvert)

○ 14.Panzer-Division (General der Panzertruppen Friedrich Kühn)

• XXXXVIII Armeekorps (mot.) (General der Panzertruppen Werner Kempf)

○ 11.Panzer-Division (General der Panzertruppen Ludwig Crüwell)

○ 16.Panzer-Division (Generaloberst Hans-Valentin Hube)

• Army Group Reserve:

○ SS-Division (mot.) Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler (SS-Obergruppenführer Joseph Dietrich)

○ 16.Infanterie-Division (mot.) (Generalleutnant Sigfrid Henrici)

○ 25.Infanterie-Division (mot.) (Generalleutnant Heinrich Clößner)

Note: There were also 11 Sturmgeschütz battalions supporting Operation Barbarossa; 2 with Nord, 6 with Mitte and 4

with Süd.

Reinforcements:

September:

• 2.Panzer-Division (Generalleutnant Rudolf Veiel) [194 tanks]

• 5.Panzer-Division (General der Panzertruppen Gustav Fehn) [186 tanks]

December:

• Panzer-Regiment 203 (Oberst Hero Breusing) [142 tanks]

Soviet

Northern Front (General Leytenant Markian M. Popov)

14th Army (General Leytenant Valerian A. Frolov)

• 1st Tank Division (General-major Viktor I. Baranov)

23rd Army (General Leytenant Petr S. Pshennikov) KIA- 13 December 1941

• 10th Mechanized Corps (General-major Ivan G. Lazarev) Arrested – July 1941

○ 21st Tank Division (Polkovnik Leonid V. Bunin)

○ 24th Tank Division (Polkovnik Makariy I. Chesnokov)

○ 198th Motorized Rifle Division (General-major Vladimir V. Kryukov)

Front Assets:

• 1st Mechanized Corps (General-major Mikhail L. Cherniavsky)

○ 3rd Tank Division (Polkovnik Konstantin Yu. Andreev)

○ 163rd Motor Rifle Division (General-major Ivan M. Kuznetsov)

Northwest Front (General-Polkovnik Fedor I. Kuznetsov)

8th Army (General Leytenant Petr P. Sobennikov)

• 12th Mechanized Corps (General-major Nikolai M. Shestopalov) Captured – 28 June 1941

○ 23rd Tank Division (Polkovnik Timofei S. Orlenko) Died – 14 October 1941

○ 28th Tank Division (Polkovnik Ivan D. Chernyakhovsky)

○ 202nd Mechanized Division (Polkovnik Vladimir K. Gorbachev)

11th Army (General Leytenant Vasily I. Morozov)

• 3rd Mechanized Corps (General-major Aleksei V. Kurkin)

○ 2nd Tank Division (General-major Egor N. Solyankin) KIA – 26 June 1941

○ 5th Tank Division (Polkovnik Fedor F. Fedorov)

○ 84th Mechanized Division (General-major Petr I. Fomenko)

Western Front (General-Polkovnik Dmitry G. Pavlov) Executed – 22 July 1941

3rd Army (General Leytenant Vasily I. Kuznetsov)

• 11th Mechanized Corps – (General-major Dmitri K. Mostevenko)

○ 29th Tank Division (Polkovnik Nikolai P. Studnev) KIA – 14 July 1941

○ 33 rd Tank Division (Polkovnik Mikhail F. Panov)

○ 204th Motor Rifle Division (Polkovnik Aleksei M. Pirov) MIA – 19 September 1941

4th Army (General-major Aleksandr A. Korobkov) Executed – 22 July 1941

• 14th Mechanized Corps (General-major Stepan I. Oborin) Executed – October 1941

○ 22nd Tank Division (General-major Vasiliy P. Puganov) KIA – 24 June 1941

○ 30th Tank Division (Polkovnik Semen I. Bogdanov)

○ 205th Motor Rifle Division (Polkovnik Filipp F. Kudyurov) KIA – 30 June 1941

10th Army (General Leytenant Konstantin D. Golubev)

• 6th Mechanized Corps (General-major Mikhail G. Khatskilevich) KIA – 25 June 1941

○ 4th Tank Division (General-major Andrei G. Potaturchev) Captured 6 July 1941

○ 7th Tank Division (General-major Semyon V. Borzilov) KIA – 28 September 1941

○ 29th Motor Rifle Division (General-major Ibrahim P. Bikzhanov) Captured 25 July 1941

• 13th Mechanized Corps (General-major Petr N. Akhliustin) KIA – 28 July 1941

○ 25th Tank Division (Polkovnik Nikolai M. Nikiforov) MIA – June 1941

○ 31st Tank Division (Polkovnik Sergey A. Kalikhovich)

○ 208th Motor Rifle Division (Polkovnik Vladimir I. Nichiporovich)

Front Assets:

• 17th Mechanized Corps (General-major Mikhail P. Petrov) Died – 10 October 1941

○ 27th Tank Division (Polkovnik Aleksei O. Akhmanov)

○ 36th Tank Division (Polkovnik Sergey Z. Miroshnikov) MIA – August 1941

○ 209th Motor Rifle Division (Polkovnik Aleksei I. Murav’ev) MIA – July 1941

• 20th Mechanized Corps (General-major Andrei G. Nikitin) WIA – June 1941

○ 26th Tank Division (General-major Viktor T. Obukhov)

○ 38th Tank Division (Polkovnik Sergey I. Kaspustin) Captured – 29 September 1941

○ 210th Motor Rifle Division (General-major Feofan A. Parkhomenko)

Southwest Front (General Leytenant Mikhail P. Kirponos) KIA – 20 September 1941

5th Army (General Leytenant Mikhail I. Potapov)

• 9th Mechanized Corps (General-major Konstantin K. Rokossovsky)

○ 20th Tank Division (Polkovnik Mikhail E. Katukov)

○ 35th Tank Division (General-major Nikolai A. Novikov)

○ 131st Motorized Division (Polkovnik Nikolai V. Kalinin)

• 22nd Mechanized Corps (General-major Semen M. Kondrusev) KIA – 24 June 1941

○ 19th Tank Division (General-major Kuzma A. Semenchenko) WIA July 1941

○ 41st Tank Division (Polkovnik Petr P. Pavlov)

○ 215th Mechanized Division (Polkovnik Pavlin A. Barabanov) Died – 9 September 1941

6th Army (General-Leytenant Ivan N. Muzychenko) Captured – 6 August 1941

• 4th Mechanized Corps (General-major Andrey A. Vlasov)

○ 8th Tank Division (Polkovnik Petr S. Fotchenkov) MIA – August 1941

○ 32 nd Tank Division (Polkovnik Efim G. Pushkin)

○ 81st Motorized Division (Polkovnik Petr M. Varipaev) – MIA June 1941

• 15th Mechanized Corps (General-major Ignatii I. Karpezo) WIA – 26 June

○ 10th Tank Division (General-major Sergei I. Ogurtsov) Captured – August 1941

○ 37th Tank Division (Polkovnik Fedor G. Anikushkin)

○ 212th Motorized Division (General-major Sergei V. Baranov) Captured – 1941

12th Army (General-major Pavel G. Ponedelin) Captured – August 1941

• 16th Mechanized Corps (General-major Aleksandr D. Sokolov) Captured – August 1941

○ 15th Tank Division (Polkovnik Vasiliy I. Polozkov)

○ 39th Tank Division (Polkovnik Nikolai V. Starkov)

○ 240th Motorized Division (Polkovnik Ivan V. Gorbenko)

26th Army (General-Leytenant Fedor Ya. Kostenko)

• 8th Mechanized Corps (General-leytenant Dmitry I. Ryabyshev)

○ 12th Tank Division (General-major Timofei A. Mishanin) – KIA 29 June

○ 34th Tank Division (Polkovnik Ivan V. Vasil’ev)

○ 7th Motorized Division (Polkovnik Aleksandr G. Gerasimov)

Front Assets:

• 19th Mechanized Corps (General-major Nikolai V. Feklenko)

○ 40th Tank Division (Polkovnik Mikhail V. Shirobokov)

○ 43rd Tank Division (Polkovnik Ivan G. Tsibin)

○ 213rd Motor Rifle Division – (Polkovnik Vasiliy M. Osminskiy) Captured – August 1941

• 24th Mechanized Corps (General-major Vladimir I. Chistyakov) WIA July 1941, Died August 1941

○ 45th Tank Division (Polkovnik Mikhail D. Solomatin)

○ 49th Tank Division (Polkovnik Konstantin F. Shvetsov)

○ 216th Motorized Division (Polkovnik Ashot S. Sarkisyan) MIA – July 1941

Southern Front (General-Polkovnik Ivan Tyulenev)

9th Army (General-Polkovnik Yakov T. Cherevichenko)

• 2nd Mechanized Corps (General-Leytenant Yuri V. Novoselsky)

○ 11th Tank Division (Polkovnik Gregory I. Kuzmin)

○ 16th Tank Division (Polkovnik Mikhail I. Myndro) KIA – 3 August 1941

○ 15th Motorized Division (Polkovnik Nikolai N. Belov) KIA – 8 September 1941

• 18th Mechanized Corps (General-major Petr V. Volokh)

○ 44th Tank Division (Polkovnik Vasiliy P. Krymov) Captured – July 1941

○ 47th Tank Division (Polkovnik Nikolai F. Mikhailov)

○ 218th Motorized Division (Polkovnik Aleksei P. Sharagin)

RVGK

• 5th Mechanized Corps (General-major Ilya P. Alekseenko) Died – 3 August 1941

○ 13th Tank Division (Polkovnik Fedor U. Grachev) KIA – 14 July 1941

○ 17th Tank Division (Polkovnik Ivan P. Korchagin)

○ 109th Motorized Division (Polkovnik Nikolai P. Krasnoretsky) WIA – 27 June 1941

• 7th Mechanized Corps (General-major Vasiliy I. Vinogradov)

○ 14th Tank Division (Polkovnik Ivan D. Vasilyev)

○ 18th Tank Division (General-major Fedor T. Remizov)

○ 1st Motorized Division (Polkovnik Yakov G. Kreizer)

• 21st Mechanized Corps (General-major Dmitri D Lelyushenko)

○ 42nd Tank Division (Polkovnik Nikolay I. Voeikov)

○ 46th Tank Division (Polkovnik Vasiliy A. Koptsov) WIA – July 1941

○ 185th Motorized Division (General-major Petr L. Rudchuk)

• 23rd Mechanized Corps (General-major Mikhail A. Miasnikov) WIA – July 1941

○ 48th Tank Division (Polkovnik Dmitri Y. Yakovlev)

○ 51st Tank Division/110th Tank Division (Polkovnik Petr G. Chernov)

○ 220th Motorized Division (General-major Nikifor G. Khoruzhenko)

○ 25th Mechanized Corps (General-major Semen M. Krivoshein)

○ 50th Tank Division (Polkovnik Boris S. Bakharov)

○ 55th Tank Division (Polkovnik Vasiliy M. Badanov)

○ 219th Motorized Division (General-major Pavel P. Korzun)

Reinforcements:

June:

• 57th Tank Division (324x T-26) from Transbaikal MD

July:

• 69th Mechanized Division/107th Tank Division (Polkovnik Pyotr I. Domrachev) [200 BT/T-26] from Far Eastern MD

• 59th Tank Division/108th Tank Division (Polkovnik Sergey Ivanov) from Far East

• 82nd Mechanized Division/111th Tank Division (General-major Ivan V. Shevnikov) from Transbaikal MD

• 26th Mechanized Corps (General-major Nikolai I. Kirichenko) [total of 184 light tanks] from North Caucasus MD

○ 52nd Tank Division/101st Tank Division (Polkovnik Gregory M. Mikhailov)

○ 56th Tank Division/102nd Tank Division (Polkovnik Ivan D. Illarionov) KIA – October 1941

○ 103rd Motorized Division (General-major Gregory T. Timofeev)

○ 109th Tank Division (Polkovnik Semen P. Chernobai)

• Elements from 27th Mechanized Corps in Transcaucasus (re-designated 15 July 1941)

○ 9th Tank Division/104th Tank Division (Polkovnik Vasily G. Burkov) [208 light tanks] WIA – July 1941

○ 53rd Tank Division/105th Tank Division (Polkovnik Aleksei S. Beloglazov)

○ 221st Motorized Division/106th Tank Division (Polkovnik Gersh M. Roytenberg)

August:

• 1st and 7th Tank Brigades

September:

• 2, 13, 15, 16, 29, 121, 123, 124, 126, 127, 128, 129, 142, 143, 147, 148, 150 Tank Brigades

October:

• 4, 8, 9, 11, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 32 Tank Brigades;

• 60th Tank Divisions (General-major Aleksei F. Popov) from Far East. [179 tanks]

November:

• 31, 33, 35, 36, 37, 38, 48, 145, 146 Tank Brigades

• 58th Tank Division (General-major Aleksandr A. Kotliarov) from Far East [200 light tanks]. Suicide – 20 November 1941

• 112th Tank Division (Polkovnik Andrei L. Getman) from Far East [210 T-26].

December:

• 6, 54, 68, 69, 70, 71 Tank Brigades