Unit Emblems
Campaigns
Westwall 1939 Western Campaign 1940 Occupation of France 1940-1941 Eastern Front 1941-1943 Destroyed at Stalingrad, reformed 1943 Eastern Front 1943-1945
History The 6.Armee was established on 10 October 1939. It was stationed on the Western frontier near the area of Kleve as security forces from 10 October 1939 through 9 May 1940. They were involved in the Western Campaign from 10 may 1940 through 19 June 1940 in Belgium, Holland and then France. From 26 June 1940 they were stationed along the Demarcation Line in France until 2 July 1940 and then on the Canal Coast in Normandy until 15 April 1941. From the end of April 1941 through 21 June 1941 they were relocated to the Eastern Frontier in Galicia. The 6. Armee then fought in the East until surrendering at Stalingrad on 2 February 1943. The 6.Armee was in existence for 1,212 days and they fought on the Eastern front for 552 days entirely in the southern sectors.
The 6.Armee was re-established on 6 March 1943 from Armeeabteilung Hollidt. They were in existence for 795 days all of which were on the Eastern Front and in the southern sectors.
Organization Höherer Arko 310
after reformation
Korück 593
Commanders Walter von Reichenau 10.10.1939
after reformation
Karl Adolf Hollidt 3.5.1943
Calendar of Battles and Engagements
Western Campaign Calendar of Battles and Engagements 1. Securityof the Western Border in the Area of Kleve. 10.10.1939 5.9.1940 213 2. Battle byMaastricht. 5.10.1940 5.12.1940 3 a. Crossingthe Maas River. 5.10.1940 5.10.1940 1 b. BreakthroughOver the Albert Canal in Western Maastricht. 5.11.1940 5.11.1940 1 c. Removalof Fort Eben Emael. 5.11.1940 5.11.1940 1 3. PursuitFighting in Eastern Belgium and Across the Albert Canal. 5.11.1940 5.13.1940 3 4. Encirclementof the City of Lüttich. 5.13.1940 5.13.1940 1 5. PanzerBattle by Hannut-Gembloux. 5.12.1940 5.16.1940 5 6. Crossingthe Gette River. 5.13.1940 5.13.1940 1 7. Breakthroughto the Dyle Positions. 5.15.1940 5.17.1940 3 8. PursuitFighting Across Senette and Demdre. 5.18.1940 5.19.1940 2 9. Removalof Forts of Lüttich. 5.13.1940 5.28.1940 16 10. Removalof the Forts of Namur. 5.16.1940 5.19.1940 4 11. Battleover the Schelde. 5.20.1940 5.23.1940 4 12. Crossingof the Lys River. 5.24.1940 5.24.1940 1 13. Fightingin West Flanders and Over Lille. 5.25.1940 5.30.1940 6 14. BreakthroughBattle on the Somme and Oise Rivers. 6.5.1940 6.8.1940 4 15. Crossingof the Aisne River. 6.8.1940 6.8.1940 1 16. PursuitFighting across Oise and Ourcq. 6.9.1940 6.11.1940 3 17. Breakdownand Pursuit into the Paris Defensive positions. 6.12.1940 6.12.1940 1 18. CrossingOver the Marne River and Pursuit to the Seine River. 6.12.1940 6.15.1940 4 19. CrossingOver the Seine River and Pursuit to the Indre River. 6.15.1940 6.22.1940 8 a. Encirclementof Orléans. 6.16.1940 6.16.1940 1 b. CrossingOver the Loire River. 6.17.1940 6.19.1940 3 20. Securityon the Demarcation Line. 6.26.1940 7.2.1940 7 21. Securityon the Canal Coast in Normandy. 7.3.1940 4.17.1941 289
Eastern Campaign Calendar of Battles andEngagements 1. FrontierBattles in Galicia-Volhynia. 6.22.1941 7.12.41 21 a] FrontierBattles Between the Bug and Styr. 6.22.1943 6.28.1941 7 b] BattlesBetween the Styr and the Stalin Line. 6.23.1941 7.12.1941 20 2. Breakthroughat Kiev and Advance to the Dnieper. 7.2.1941 7.25.1941 24 a] Breakthroughof the Stalin Line. 7.2.1941 7.25.1941 24 b] Battle atCudnov-Berditchev. 7.8.1941 7.16.1941 9 c] DefensiveBattle Near Zwiahel and Sokolov. 7.11.1941 7.14.1941 4 3. Fightingin the Area North of Zitomir. 7.14.1941 8.21.1941 39 4. PursuitFighting towards the Dnieper and attack across the Dnieper. 7.25.1941 10.5.1941 43 a] PursuitBattles to the Dnieper. 7.26.1941 8.29.1941 35 b] Fightingin the Area of Boguslav-Cherkassy. 8.8.1941 8.22.1941 15 5. Battlenear Kiev. 8.21.1941 9.27.1941 38 a] FightOver the Gornostaipol-Ostjer Bridgehead. 8.21.1941 9.9.1941 20 b] CoveringFighting East of the Dnieper. 9.4.1941 9.16.1941 13 c] Fight forKiev. 9.13.1941 9.19.1941 7 d] Battle inthe Area east of Kiev. 9.14.1941 9.27.1941 14 6. Pursuitto the Donets. 10.1.1941 11.21.1941 52 a] PursuitFighting on the Psiol and the Vorskla. 10.1.1941 10.10.1941 10 b] FightingNear Kharkov and Belgorod. 10.17.1941 10.25.1941 9 7. Fightingon the Upper Donets and on the Don-Ssemina. 10.26.1941 6.29.1942 247 a] FightingNear Oboyan and Rshava. 1.1.1942 1.16.1942 16 b] DefensiveFighting North of Kharkov. 1.17.1942 5.11.1942 115 8. SpringBattle Near Kharkov. 5.12.1942 6.26.1942 46 a] DefensiveBattle near Kharkov. 5.12.1942 5.21.1942 10 b] KesselBattle Southwest of Kharkov. 5.22.1942 5.27.1942 6 c] Battle ofVoltchansk. 6.10.1942 6.16.1942 7 d] Battle ofIzyum-Kupiansk. 6.22.1942 6.26.1942 5 9. EasternOffense in 1942 [Case Blue] 6.28.1942 11.18.1942 144 a] Breakthroughand Advance to the Central Don. 6.30.1942 7.25.1942 26 b] Fightingin the Area of Kalatsch-Ostrowsky-Kljetzkaya. 7.26.1942 8.22.1942 28 c] Assaulton Stalingrad. 8.17.1942 11.18.1942 94 10. 1942/1943Winter Defensive Battles. 11.19.1942 2.13.1943 87 a] DefensiveFight for Stalingrad. 11.19.1942 11.21.1942 3 b] Defenseof Fortress Stalingrad and Capitulation. 11.22.1942 2.2.1943 73
(reformed) Eastern Campaign Calendar of Battles and Engagements 2. Position Fighting in the Zone ofHeeresgruppe Sud.. 4.1.1943 7.3.1943 94 a] Defensive Fighting in theMius-Donez Positions. 4.1.1943 7.3.1943 94 3. Defensive Fighting on the Mius. 7.4.1943 8.2.1943 30 4. Defensive Battles on the Mius andon the Donets Bend. 8.18.1943 9.16.1943 29 5. Defensive Battles in SouthernRussia and Retreat to the Dnieper. 9.17.1943 11.3.1943 48 a] Defensive battles on the Mius andon the Donets Bend. 9.17.1943 9.20.1943 4 b] Defensive Battle Southeast ofZaporozhe. 9.21.1943 10.8.1943 18 c] Defensive Battle in the NogaizchenSteppe. 10.9.1943 11.3.1943 26 6. Defensive Fighting on the LowerDnieper. 11.4.1943 12.31.1943 58 a] First Defensive Battle for theNikopol Bridgehead. 11.20.1943 11.29.1943 10 b] Second Defensive Battle for theNikopol Bridgehead and Northwest of Zaporozhe. 12.19.1943 12.25.1943 7 7. Defensive Fighting in the SouthernUkraine. 1.1.1944 5.12.1944 133 a] Position Fighting on the LowerDnieper. 1.1.1944 3.9.1944 69 b] Defensive Battle for Krivoi Rogand Retreat From the Area of Nikopol. 2.3.1944 2.22.1944 20 c] Defensive fighting on the Dnieperand the Ingulez. 2.23.1944 3.6.1944 13 d] Defensive Battle North ofNikolayev and Withdrawal Fighting to the Bug. 3.7.1944 3.26.1944 20 e] Retreat Through Transnistrien tothe Lower Dniester. 4.15.1944 5.12.1944 28 f] Defensive Fighting on the LowerDniester. 5.10.1944 5.12.1944 2 8. Position Fighting in theZone ofHeeresgruppe Südukraine. 5.13.1944 8.19.1944 99 a] Fighting West of Grigoriopol. 5.14.1944 5.22.1944 9 b] Assault North of Jassy. 5.30.1944 6.6.1944 8 c] Position Fighting on the Dniester. 6.7.1944 8.20.1944 75 9. Battle in Bessarabia [SmashingKischinew] 8.21.1944 8.24.1944 4 10. Defensive Battle inSiebenbürgen [Klausenburg] 8.25.1944 9.27.1944 34 11. Fighting in Eastern Hungary, TankBattle in Puszta. 9.28.1944 10.28.1944 31 12. Fighting Between the Thieß and theDonau. 10.29.1944 12.18.1944 51 13. Fighting Between the Lake Balatonand the Donau. 12.19.1944 3.5.1945 77 a] Defense of Budapest. 12.24.1944 2.12.1945 51 14. Tank Battle in the HungarianLowlands at Stuhlweißburg. 3.6.1945 3.23.1945 18 15. Defense and Rearguard FightingSouth of the Donau to the Eastern Alps. 3.24.1945 5.8.1945 46
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 
