Order of battle for the Battle of Berlin
The Battle of Berlin was the final major campaign of the European Theatre of World War II, fought between the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany and the Red Army of the Soviet Union. It began with the Battle of the Seelow Heights on 16 April 1945 and concluded with the Battle in Berlin.
Berlin operation
Units are listed as they were deployed from North to South on 16 April.
Northern Sector
.ant.png.webp){kind=small}  Hasso von Manteuffel |
  Konstantin Rokossowski
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Third Panzer ArmyGeneral of Panzer Hasso von Manteuffel
Second Belorussian Front[1]Marshal Konstantin Rokossovsky Second Shock ArmyColonel General Ivan Fedyuninsky
Sixty-Fifth ArmyColonel General Pavel Batov
Seventieth ArmyColonel General Vasily Popov
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Forty-Ninth ArmyColonel General Ivan Grishin
Nineteenth ArmyColonel General Vladimir Romanovsky
Fifth Guards Tank ArmyColonel General Vasily Volsky
Front Reserve
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Center Sector
 Gotthard Heinrici |
 Georgi Zhukov
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Army Group VistulaColonel General Gotthard Heinrici Ninth ArmyGeneral of Infantry Theodor Busse
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First Belorussian Front[2]Marshal Georgy Zhukov Sixty-First ArmyColonel General Pavel Belov
First Polish ArmyLieutenant General Stanislav Poplavsky Forty-Seventh ArmyColonel General Franz Perkhorovich
Third Shock ArmyColonel General Vasily Kuznetsov
Fifth Shock ArmyColonel General Nikolai Berzarin
Eighth Guards ArmyColonel Generall Vasily Chuikov
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Sixty-Ninth ArmyColonel General Vladimir Kolpakchi
Thirty-Third ArmyColonel General Vyacheslav Tsvetayev
First Guards Tank ArmyColonel General Mikhail Katukov
Second Guards Tank ArmyColonel General Semyon Bogdanov
Third ArmyColonel General Alexander Gorbatov
Front Reserves
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Southern Sector
 Ferdinand Schörner |
 Ivan Stepanovich Konev
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Army Group CentreFeldmarshal Ferdinand Schörner Fourth Panzer ArmyGeneral of Panzer Fritz-Hubert Gräser (Later transferred to the 9th Army)
Twelfth ArmyGeneral of Panzer Walther Wenck
Berlin garrison9 defensive sectors created A to H and Z "Zentrum".
in construction
Reinforcements directed to Berlin
Levies during the battle
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First Ukrainian Front[3]Marshal Ivan Konev Third Guards ArmyColonel General Vasily Gordov
Thirteenth ArmyColonel General Nikolay Pukhov
Fifth Guards ArmyColonel General Alexey Zhadov
2nd Polish ArmyLt General Karol Świerczewski Fifty-Second ArmyColonel General Konstantin Koroteyev
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Third Guards Tank ArmyColonel General Pavel Rybalko
Fourth Guards Tank ArmyColonel General Dmitry Lelyushenko
Twenty-Eighth ArmyColonel General Alexander Luchinsky
Thirty-First ArmyLieutenant General Pyotr Shafranov 1st Guards Cavalry Corps
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German Army Group Reserve
- III SS Panzer Corps
- Obergruppenführer Felix Steiner
- Units later allocated to Ninth Army:
- 503rd SS Heavy Panzer Battalion
- 11th SS Panzergrenadier Division
- 11th SS Panzer Regiment "Hermann von Salza" (I. & II. Battalions)
- 23rd SS Grenadier Regiment (II. & III. Battalions)
- 24th SS Grenadier Regiment (II. & III. Battalions)
- 11th SS Artillery Regiment (I. to III. Battalions)
- 11th SS Panzer Recce Battalion (3 companies)
- 11th SS Pioneer Battalion
- 23rd SS Panzergrenadier Division
- 48th SS Volunteer Grenadier Regiment (I. & II. Battalions)
- 49th SS Volunteer Grenadier Regiment (I. & II. Battalions)
- 54th SS Volunteer Artillery Regiment (I. to III. Battalions)
- Units later allocated to Third Panzer Army:
- 27th SS Grenadier Division
- 66th SS Volunteer Grenadier Regiment (I. & II. Battalions)
- 67th SS Volunteer Grenadier Regiment (I. & II. Battalions)
- 27th SS Volunteer Artillery Regiment (I. to IV. Battalions)
- 28th SS Grenadier Division
- 69th SS Volunteer Grenadier Regiment (I. & II. Battalions)
- 70th SS Volunteer Grenadier Regiment (I. & II. Battalions)
- 28th SS Volunteer Artillery Regiment (I. to IV. Battalions)
- 28th SS Volunteer Pioneer Battalion
- 27th SS Grenadier Division
Notes
- Known as 402 Ausbildung Division
- I./SS Pol. Regiment 50 + I.(Hungarian), II., III./SS Pol. Regiment 8 + SS Ersatz Battalion 9 with only 2 companies
- Originally with OKW
- Renamed 337 Volksgrenadier Division before 21/4/45
- It seems they were formed in every defensive sector with 3 battalions.
- Up to 92 Volkssturm Battalions divided in different defensive areas.
References
Bibliografy
Archives
- German archives in the Russian Federation: F. 500 op. 12452 d. 289 Dokumente und Materialien der Luftabwehr von Berlin im Mai 1945. Anfrage einer Flakeinheit über die notwendige Zahl der Volkssturmkräfte.
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