German order of battle in the Balkans campaign (1941)
During World War II, the Axis invasions of Greece and Yugoslavia both commenced on 6 April 1941.
Order of Battle for Operation Marita
6 April 1941 – 3 May 1941
- Reserves directly commanded by the Oberkommando des Heeres
- 4th Panzer Division (Generalmajor Willibald Freiherr von Langermann und Erlencamp)
- 12th Panzer Division (Generalmajor Josef Harpe)
- 19th Panzer Division (Generalmajor Otto von Knobelsdorff)
- 100th Light Division (Generalleutnant Werner Sanne)
- 101st Light Division (Generalleutnant Erich Marcks)
- Second Army (Generaloberst Maximilian Reichsfreiherr Von Weichs zu Glon)
- 49th Mountain Corps (General der Gebirgstruppen Ludwig Kübler)
- 1st Mountain Division (Generalmajor Hubert Lanz)
- 51st Army Corps (General der Infanterie Hans-Wolfgang Reinhard)
- 132nd Infantry Division (Generalleutnant Rudolf Sintzenich)
- 183rd Infantry Division (Generalleutnant Benignus Dippold)
- 46th Army Corps (motorized) (General der Panzertruppen Heinrich von Vietinghoff gennant Scheel)
- 8th Panzer Division (Generalmajor Erich Brandenberger)
- 14th Panzer Division, (Generalmajor Friedrich Kuhn)
- 16th Infantry Division (motorized), (Generalmajor Sigfrid Henrici)
- Second Army reserve:
- 52nd Army Corps (General der Infanterie Kurt von Briesen)
- 169th Infantry Division (Generalmajor Kurt Dittmar)
- 197th Infantry Division (Generalleutnant Hermann Meyer-Rabingen)
- 125th Infantry Division (Generalleutnant Wilhelm Schneckenburger)
- 52nd Army Corps (General der Infanterie Kurt von Briesen)
- 12th Army (Generalfeldmarschall Wilhelm List)
- 40th Army Corps (motorized) (Generalleutnant Georg Stumme)
- 9th Panzer Division (Generalmajor Alfred Ritter von Hubicki)
- 1st SS Brigade (motorized) Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler (SS-Obergruppenführer Josef Dietrich)
- 73rd Infantry Division (Generalmajor Bruno Bieler)
- 18th Mountain Corps (General der Infanterie Franz Böhme)
- 2nd Panzer Division (Generalleutnant Rudolf Veiel)
- 5th Mountain Division (Generalleutnant Julius Ringel)
- 6th Mountain Division (Generalleutnant Ferdinand Schörner)
- 72nd Infantry Division (Generalleutnant Franz Mattenklott)
- 125th Infantry Regiment
- 30th Army Corps (General der Artillerie Otto Hartmann)
- 50th Infantry Division (Generalleutnant Karl-Adolf Hollidt)
- 164th Infantry Division (Generalmajor Josef Folttmann)
- 40th Army Corps (motorized) (Generalleutnant Georg Stumme)
- 12th Army reserve
- 50th Army Corps (General der Kavallerie Georg Lindemann)
- 46th Infantry Division (Generalmajor Karl Kriebel)
- 16th Panzer Division (Generalmajor Hans-Valentin Hube)
- 50th Army Corps (General der Kavallerie Georg Lindemann)
- Panzer Group 1 (Generaloberst Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist)
- 14th Army Corps (motorized) (General der Infanterie Gustav Anton von Wietersheim)
- 5th Panzer Division (Generalleutnant Gustav Fehn)
- 11th Panzer Division (Generalleutnant Ludwig Crüwell)
- 4th Mountain Division (Generalleutnant Karl Eglseer)
- 294th Infantry Division (Generalleutnant Otto Gabke)
- 41st Army Corps (motorized) (Generalleutnant Georg-Hans Reinhardt)
- 2nd SS Division Das Reich (SS-Gruppenführer Paul Hausser)
- Infantry Regiment (motorized) Großdeutschland (Oberst Wilhelm-Hunold von Stockhausen)
- 11th Army Corps (General der Infanterie Joachim von Kortzfleisch)
- 60th Infantry Division (motorized) (Generalmajor Friedrich-Georg Eberhardt)
- 76th Infantry Division (Generalleutnant Maximilian de Angelis)
- 198th Infantry Division (Generalmajor Otto Röttig)
- 14th Army Corps (motorized) (General der Infanterie Gustav Anton von Wietersheim)
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