Research :

Geert Rottiers

 

Thanks to :

Jason Mark

Klaus Rinnenbacher

 ! Order of battle of 26 January 1943 !

The day the Russians splitted up the 

pocket in a southern and northern part.

  Picture at the bottom :

 

The German Stalingrad 

pocket split up in two

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Chief of Staff

 Generalleutnant

Arthur Schmidt

 

Southern Pocket

 Staff of the German 6th Army

 Commander of the German 6th Army

  Generaloberst

Friedrich Paulus

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

6th Army Doctor

 Generalstabarzt

Dr. Otto Renoldi

 

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

 

Northern Pocket Southern Pocket Southern Pocket Southern Pocket Southern Pocket

XI. Armeekorps  

General der Infanterie  

Karl Strecker

VIII. Armeekorps General der Artillerie  

Walter Heitz  

XIV. Panzerkorps

Generalleutnant  

Helmuth Schlömer  

LI. Armeekorps  

General der Artillerie  

Walther von Seydlitz-Kurzbach

IV. Armeekorps  

General der Artillerie 

Max Pfeffer  

 

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

 

XI. Armeekorps  

 

16. Panzer Division

  Generalleutnant

Günther Angern  

 

  60. Infanterie  Division (mot) Oberst i.G.

Hans-Adolf von Arenstorff-Oyle  

 

24. Panzer Division

Generalleutnant

    Arno von Lenski    

   

113. Infanterie Division Generalleutnant  

Hans-Heinrich Sixt von Armin  

 

305. Infanterie Division  

Oberst 

Albrecht Czimatis

 

389. Infanterie Division   Generalmajor  

Erich Magnus*  

and

Generalmajor

  Martin Lattmann  

VIII. Armeekorps  

 

 76. Infanterie Division Generalleutnant  

Carl Rodenburg  

 

44. Infanterie Division

Generalleutnant  

Heinrich Deboi   

 

 

9.Flak Division (mot)

Oberst 

 Wilhelm Wolff

 

14. Panzer Division  

Oberst 

Günther Ludwig
XIV. Panzerkorps  

 

3. Infanterie Division (mot)

Oberst i.G. 

Jobst Freiherr von Hanstein

 

 29. Infanterie Division (mot)

Generalmajor 

Ernst Leyser 

 

376. Infanterie Division  Generalleutnant  

Edler von Daniels

 

 

 LI. Armeekorps  

 

71. Infanterie Division 

  Generalleutnant  

Alexander von Hartmann

   replaced by

Generalmajor

Friedrich Roske

 

   

295. Infanterie Division  

Generalmajor

Otto Korfes

 

100. Jäger Division   Generalleutnant  

Werner Sanne

IV. Armeekorps

 

371. Infanterie Division

Generalleutnant 

Richard Stempel

 

297. Infanterie Division

Generalmajor

Moritz von Drebber

 

20. Roumanian Infantry Div. Oberst

Romulus Dimitrecu

 

Acting commanders.

Encircled divisons not assigned to an Army Corps.

Sick

Surrendered to the Russians including parts of the division 

Surrendered to the Russians

Killed in action - New commander

Killed in action (suicide) - Remnants of the division attached to other divisions

 

The German Stalingrad pocket at Stalingrad split up in two part on 26 January till 28 January 1943.

The northern pocket and the southern pocket.

 

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