Army Group South Ukraine

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Army Group South Ukraine

Active| 5 April – 23 September 1944
Country|  Nazi Germany
Branch| Army
Size| Army group
508,946 (Spring 1944)[1]
Engagements| Eastern Front
Commanders
Notable
commanders| Ferdinand Schörner
Johannes Frießner

Military unit

Army Group South Ukraine (German: Heeresgruppe Südukraine) was a German army group on the Eastern Front during World War II.

Army Group South Ukraine was created on 5 April 1944 by renaming Army Group A.[2] This army group saw action during the Jassy-Kishinev Operation and after taking heavy casualties was redesignated Army Group South (Heeresgruppe Süd) at midnight on 23 September 1944.[3][a]

## Order of Battle, June 1944[edit]

* Sixth Army \- General der Artillerie Maximilian Fretter-Pico
* Eighth Army \- General der Infanterie Otto Wohler
* Romanian Third Army
* Romanian Fourth Army

## Commanders[edit]

No. | Portrait  | Commander | Took office | Left office | Time in office

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| Schörner, FerdinandGeneralfeldmarschall
Ferdinand Schörner
(1892–1973)| 31 March 1944| 25 July 1944| 86 days

| Frießner, JohannesGeneraloberst
Johannes Frießner
(1892–1971)| 25 July 1944| 23 September 1944| 90 days

## Notes[edit]

1. ^ Edwald Klapdor. 2011, Viking Panzers: The German 5th SS Tank Regiment in the East in World War II, pg 383 states that it was redesignated Army Group South on 15 September, 1944.

## Bibliography[edit]

### Citations[edit]

1. ^ Ziemke 2002, p. 312.
2. ^ Ziemke 2002, p. 286.
3. ^ Ziemke 2002, p. 360.

### References[edit]

* Ziemke, Earl F. (2002). Stalingrad to Berlin: The German Defeat in the East. Washington, D.C: Center of Military History, US Army. ISBN 9781780392875.
* Klapdor, Ewald (2011). Viking Panzers: The German 5th SS Tank Regiment in the East in World War II. Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books.

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Army Groups of the German Army (1935–1945)

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* Africa
* B
* C
* Centre
* Courland
* D
* Don
* E
* F
* G
* H (Northwest)
* North
* North Ukraine
* Ostmark
* South
* South Ukraine
* Upper Rhine
* Vistula

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