Research :

Geert Rottiers

 

Thanks to :

Jason Mark

Klaus Rinnenbacher

 ! Order of battle of 31 January 1943 !  

The final surrender part I

The surrendering of AOK 6

(Southern pocket)

(Army High Command 6)

  Picture at the bottom :

Paulus and a part of his staff were captured in the southern pocket of the Stalingrad encirclement on 31 January 1943.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Chief of Staff

 Generalleutnant

Arthur Schmidt

 

Southern pocket - AOK 6

Staff of the German 6th Army

 Commander of the German 6th Army

  Generalfeldmarschall

Friedrich Paulus

 

71. Infanterie Division  

Generalmajor

Friedrich Roske

 

14. Panzer Division  

Oberst 

Günther Ludwig

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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

 

Northern pocket Center pocket Center pocket Center pocket

XI. Armeekorps  

General der Infanterie  

Karl Strecker

VIII. Armeekorps

Generaloberst

Walter Heitz  

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)

Oberstleutnant i.G.

Richard Haizmann
LI. Armeekorps  

 

295. Infanterie Division  

Generalmajor

Otto Korfes

 

100. Jäger Division   

Generalleutnant

Werner Sanne 

 IV. Armeekorps

 

  Remnants of the

297. Infanterie Division

 

20. Romanian Infantry Div.  

Oberst

Romulus Dimitrecu

 

 

Acting commanders.

Encircled divisons not assigned to an Army Corps.

Sick

Surrendered to the Russians including AOK 6 and Divisions 

 

Generalfeldmarschall Paulus-Generalleutnant Schmidt-Oberst Adam 

are marching in Russian captivy.

 

 

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