11.Armee-Oberkommando

Unit Emblems

11.Armee-Oberkommando Emblem  

Campaigns

  • Eastern Front 1941-1942

History

The 11. Armee was established on 5 October 1940 and until 21 June 1941 they were located in Germany. From 22 June 1941 until 3 September 3 1942 they fought in the southern sectors of the Eastern Front. From 4 September 1942 to 27 November 1942 they were transferred to the northern sector of the Eastern front. On 27 November 1942 the 11. Army was extracted from the northern front and sent to the south to become Army Group Don. They were in existence for 783 days of which 523 days were spent on the Eastern Front first in the southern area and then in the northern area.

The 11. Armee was re-established on 26 November 1944 first fighting in the east and then from late March 1945 to the end in the west.

Organization

Korück 533
Armee-Nachschubführer 587
Armee-Nachrichten-Regiment 558

Commanders

Eugen Ritter von Schobert 10.5.1940
Erich von Lewinski gannant von Manstein 9.13.1941

Calendar of Battles and Engagements

Eastern Campaign Calendar of Battles andEngagements
1.FrontierBattles, Liberation of Bessarabia, and Conquest of the Crimea.6.22.194112.31.1941193
a]FrontierBattles on Pruth River.6.22.19417.7.194116
b]Fightingto Liberate Bessarabia.7.2.19417.8.19417
c]Breakthroughof the Stalin Line7.2.19417.25.194124
d]PursuitBattles to the Dnjepr.7.26.19418.29.194135
e]Controlof the Dnjepr and Crossing by Berisslavl.8.30.19418.30.19411
f]AssaultAcross the Dnjepr.8.31.19419.12.194113
g]Advanceto the Crimean Narrows and Breakthrough Battle at Perekop.8.31.19419.30.194131
h]BattleAround Sea of Azov.9.26.194110.11.194116
i]BreakthroughBattle at Ishun.10.18.194110.27.194110
k]PursuitBattles in the Crimea and Breakthrough to Kerch.10.28.194111.16.194120
l]CostalDefense and Containment Battles at Sevastopol.11.17.19417.4.1942230
m]Attack onSevastopol.12.17.194112.31.194115
n]CoastalProtection in the Crimea.11.17.19417.4.1942230
o]Wanderingsin Kerch Peninsula and Battles at and Northwest of Feodosia.12.28.19411.18.194222
p]Siegeof Fortress Sevastopol.1.1.19426.1.1942152
q]DefensiveBattles in the Parpatch Position.1.19.19425.7.1942109
r]Battlefor the Kertch Peninsula and Capture of Kerch.5.8.19425.21.194214
s]Attackand Capture of Fortress Sevastopol.6.2.19427.4.194233
2.Securityof the Crimea.7.5.19428.31.194258
3.OKHReserve then Heeresgruppe Nord.9.1.19429.3.19423
4.DefensiveBattles South of Lake Ladoga.9.4.194210.2.194229
5.PositionalFighting in the Leningrad Area.10.3.194210.30.194228
6.PositionalFighting in the Area of Newel.11.6.194211.21.194216

German Bibliography

  • Die deutschen Infanterie-Divisonen, Band 1-3, by Werner Haupt
  • Die deutsche Feldpostübersicht 1939-1945, Band 1-3, by Nobert Kannapin
  • Die Pflege der Tradition der alten Armee in Reichsheer und im der Wehrmacht, by Schirmer/Wiener
  • Die Truppenkennzeichen… der deutchen Wehrmacht u. Waffen-SS, Band 1-4, by Schmitz/Thies
  • Der Zweite Weltkrieg im Kartenbild, Band 1-3, by Klaus-Jurgen Thies
  • Deutsche Verbände und Truppen 1918-1939, by George Tessin
  • Verbände und Truppen der deutchen Wehrmacht und Waffen-SS…, Band 1-14, by Georg Tessin
  • Formationsgeschichte und Stellenbesetzung 1815-1939, Teil 1, der deutschen Heer, Band 1-3, by Günter Wegner
  • Die Deutsche Wehrmacht u. Waffen-SS, Ihre Kommando. u. Grossverbände… im Zweiten Weltkrieg, author unknown
  • Das Reichsheer und Seine Tradition, author unknown
  • Deutsche Rote Kreuz Suchdienst, Divisionsschicksale, author unknown