General Officers of the staff, army corps commanders and (acting) division commanders

of the encircled German 6th Army.

 

Research :

Geert Rottiers

 

Thanks to :

Jason Mark

Klaus Rinnenbacher

 ! Order of battle of 22 November 1942 !

The day the encirclement of 

6th Army was a fact.

  Map at the bottom : 

 

The Russian counter attack to 

encircle the German 6th Army

 

 

 

 

 

 

Chief of Staff

 Generalmajor

Arthur Schmidt

 Staff of the German 6th Army

 Commander of the German 6th Army

  General der Panzertruppen

Friedrich Paulus

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Army Corps commanders and their Corps assigned to the German 6th  Army 

 

XI. Armeekorps  

General der Infanterie  

Karl Strecker

VIII. Armeekorps  

General der Artillerie

Walter Heitz

XIV. Panzerkorps  

General der Panzertruppen

 Hans Hube

LI. Armeekorps

General der Artillerie

Walther von 

Seydlitz-Kurzbach

 

Division commanders or division acting commanders and their divisions assigned to the Army Corps of the 6th Army

 
XI. Armeekorps 

 

384. Infanterie Division

Generalleutnant    

Freiherr Eccard von Gablenz

 

44. Infanterie Division

Generalmajor

Heinrich Deboi 

   

376. Infanterie Division

Generalmajor

 Edler von Daniels

 

 VIII. Armeekorps

 

113. Infanterie Division

Generalleutnant 

Hans-Heinrich

Sixt von Armin

   

76. Infanterie Division

Generalmajor

Carl Rodenburg

 

 

 

9.Flak Division (mot)

Generalmajor

Wolfgang Pickert  

   

14. Panzer Division

Gezneralmajor

Johannes Baessler

 

1. Romanian Cavalry Div.

Generalmajor
Constantin Bratescu

 

 XIV. Panzerkorps

 

16. Panzer Division

  Generalmajor  

Günther Angern

   

3. Infanterie Division (mot)

Generalmajor

Helmuth Schlömer

   

60. Infanterie  Division (mot)

Oberst i.G.

Hans-Adolf von Arenstorff-Oyle

   

94. Infanterie Division

Generalleutnant

Georg Pfeiffer 

 

LI. Armeekorps

71. Infanterie Division

Generalleutnant

Alexander von Hartmann  

 

79. Infanterie Division

Generalmajor

Richard von Schwerin  

 

295. Infanterie Division  

Oberst

Otto Korfes  

 

305. Infanterie Division  

Oberst

Bernard Steinmetz

 

389. Infanterie Division

Generalmajor

Erich Magnus  

 

24. Panzer Division

  Generalmajor

Arno von Lenski  

 

100. Jäger Division  

Generalleutnant

Werner Sanne

 

Attached to 100. Jäger Division

Croation Regiment 369  

Oberst

Viktor Pavicic

 Generalmajor Johannes Bässler of the 14. Panzer Division was not with the encircled German forces at Stalingrad !

 Only a smaller part of the 14. Panzer Division was trapped in the Stalingrad encirclement.

 Acting commanders.

 Encircled divisons not assigned to an Army Corps.

 

 Operation Uranus. The Red Army counterattack to encicle the German 6th Army.  The counterattack started at 18 November 1942. 

 By 22 November 1942 the German 6th Army was encircled.

 Please do not copy the map. The map is copyright protected and marked !!

 

 Sources :

 

 Die Generale des Heeres 1921-1945 by

 Bradley/Hildebrand/Brockman

 

 Privat Stalingrad archive of Geert Rottiers and  Jason Mark    

 

 Die Generale des Heeres by Wolf Keilig

 

 Verbände und Truppen der Deutschen  Wehrmacht und Waffen SS by G. Tessin