Research :

Geert Rottiers

 

Thanks to :

Jason Mark

Klaus Rinnenbacher

 ! Order of battle of 23 November 1942 !

See *note at the bottom of the page

  Map at the bottom :

Map of the encircled 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

IV. Armeekorps  

General der Pioniere

Erwin Jaenecke

 

Division commanders or acting division 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

Generalmajor  

Johannes Bässler

   

1. Romanian Cavalry Div.

Generalmajor  

Constantin Bratescu  
XIV. Panzerkorps  

 

16. Panzer Division

  Generalmajor  

Günther Angern

   

3. Infanterie Division (mot) Generalmajor  

Helmuth Schlömer

   

60. InfanterieDivision(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  

 IV. Armeekorps

 

371. Infanterie Division

Generalmajor

Richard Stempel

 

297. Infanterie Division

Generalleutnant 

Max Pfeffer

 

29. Infanterie Division (mot)

Generalmajor

Ernst Leyser

 

20. Roumanian Infantry Div.

Generalmajor

Nicolae Tataranu

 

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.

 

*Note :

At noon of 23 November 1942 the IV Army Corps of Jaenecke was attached to the 6th Army.

(Also surrounded on 22 November 1942 but as part of Hermann Hoth's 4th Panzer Army.)

 

 Map of the encircled 6th Army end November 1942. On the map you see the divisions onf the IV Amy Corps of Jaenecke.

 

 

 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