17.Armee-Oberkommando

Unit Emblems

17.Armee-Oberkommando Emblem  

Campaigns

  • Eastern Front 1941-1945

History

The 17. Armee was established on 20 December 1940. Initially they were providing security for the German/Russian frontier from 20 December 1940 through 21 June 1941. The 17. Armee was in existence for 1,600 days and served entirely on the Eastern Front fighting mostly in the southern sectors.

Organization

Höh.Arko 304
Korück 550
Armee-Nachr. Rgt. 596
Kdr. d. Armee-Nachsch. Truppen 591

Commanders

Carl Heinrich von Stülpnagel 12.20.1940
Hermann Hoth 10.5.1941 [Mai 1942 i. H. von. Salmuth]
Richard Ruoff 5.31.1942
Erwin Jänecke 6.25.1943
Karl Allmendinger 5.1.1944
Friedrich Schulz 7. 26 .1944
Wilhelm Hasse 4.1.1945

Calendar of Battles and Engagements

Eastern Campaign Calendar of Battles and Engagements
1.FrontierFighting in Galicia-Volhynia.6.22.19417.12.194121
a]BreakthroughBattle by the Galician Frontier Detachments.6.22.19416.27.19416
b]DriveOver the Horyn on the Stalin Line.6.25.19417.4.194110
c]Battlefor Lemberg.6.28.19416.30.19413
d]Drive onTarnopol.6.29.19417.1.19413
e]Battlesaround Tarnopol and Breakthrough at Proskurov and Starokonstantinov .7.2.19417.10.19419
2.Breakthrough of the Stalin Line7.2.19417.25.194124
3.Advancefighting to the Dnjepr River and attacks across the river.7.25.194110.5.194173
a]Battle ofUman.7.25.19418.8.194115
b]PursuitBattles to the Dnjepr.7.26.19418.29.194135
c]Pursuit Battlesand Clearing Actions in the Dnjepr Bend.8.4.19418.25.194122
d]Securingthe Dnjepr Bend.8.10.19419.30.194142
e]DefensiveBattles in the Dnjepropetrovsk Bridgehead.9.1.19419.27.194127
f]PursuitBattles at Poltava.9.13.194110.5.194123
4.Pursuitto the Donets.10.1.194111.21.194152
a]PursuitBattles Around Psiol and the Vorskla.10.1.194110.10.194110
b]Breakthroughand Pursuit to the Middle Donets.10.6.194110.20.194115
c]Battlesin the Donets Basin.10.21.194111.21.194132
d]Drive onRostov and the Capture of the City.11.17.194111.21.19415
5.Defensivebattles in the Donets Basin.11.22.19411.17.194257
6.Defensivebattles in the Donets Basin.1.18.19424.7.194280
7.SpringDefensive Fighting in the Donets Basin.4.8.19425.16.194239
8.Battle ofAnnihilation at Barvenkovo.5.17.19425.27.194211
9.Defensivebattles in the Donets Basin.5.28.19427.10.194244
10.Breakthroughthe Enemy Winter Positions in the Donets Basin.7.11.19427.20.194210
11.Battlefor Rostov and Bataisk7.21.19427.26.19426
12.PursuitFighting in the Kuban.7.27.19428.13.194218
13.AdvanceThrough the Kuban, Capture of the Taman Peninsula and of Novorossiysk .8.14.19429.10.194228
14.Battles inthe High and Western Caucasus.8.18.194211.18.194293
15.Defensein the High and Western Caucasus Mountains.11.19.19421.4.194347
16.Withdrawalfrom the Central Caucausus on thelower Kuban.1.5.19432.11.194338
17.DefensiveFighting in the Kuban Bridgehead.2.12.19433.31.194348
18.DefensiveBattles in the Kuban Bridgehead4.1.19439.14.1943167
19.Evacuationof the Kuban Bridgehead.9.15.194310.9.194325
20.DefensiveFighting in the Crimea and Defensive Battle for the Kertsch Peninsula.11.1.194312.11.194342
21.DefensiveBattles for the Crimea.1.1.19445.12.1944133
a]DefensiveFighting in the Crimea.1.1.19444.7.194498
b]Withdrawalto Fortress Sevastopol.4.8.19444.16.19449
c]DefensiveBattles for Fortress Sevastopol and the Evacuation of the Crimea Across theBlack Sea.4.17.19445.12.194426
22.Reservefor Heeresgruppe Sudukraine.5.13.19447.25.194474
23.Fightingin Galicia Between San and Visloka.7.26.19449.30.194467
24.PositionalFighting on the Visloka BetweenWeichsel and the Carpathain.10.1.19441.14.1945106
25.RetreatFighting in Western Galicia and Defensive Fighting in the Upper SilesianIndustrial Region.1.15.19452.14.4531
26.Fightingin Central Silesia Between Neisse and Lauban Including the Defense of Breslau.1.28.19455.7.1945100

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