Axis order of battle at the Battle of Stalingrad
The Axis order of battle at Stalingrad is a list of the significant land units that fought in the Battle of Stalingrad on the side of the Axis Powers between September 1942 and February 1943.
Apart from the twenty divisions of the German Wehrmacht, eighteen Romanian divisions and one Croatian regiment took part in the battle on the Axis side as well.
Order of battle
Map of the Stalingrad pocket, following Operation Uranus, showing all Axis Divisions and major Soviet Field Armies
Generaloberst Friedrich Paulus, commanding 6th Army[1]
Chief of Staff: Generalmajor Arthur Schmidt[2]
German
- Army Troops [3]
- IV Army Corps - General der Pioniere Erwin Jaenecke, from 17 January General der Artillerie Max Pfeffer
- 29th Motorized Infantry Division - Generalmajor Hans-Georg Leyser
- 297th Infantry Division - General der Artillerie Max Pfeffer, from 16 January Generalmajor Moritz von Drebber
- 371st Infantry Division - Generalleutnant Richard Stempel
- VIII Army Corps - General der Artillerie Walter Heitz (promoted January 1943 to Generaloberst)
- 76th Infantry Division - Generalleutnant Carl Rodenburg
- 113th Infantry Division - Generalleutnant Hans-Heinrich Sixt von Armin
- XI Army Corps - General der Infanterie Karl Strecker
- 44th Infantry Division - Generalleutnant Heinrich-Anton Deboi
- 376th Infantry Division - Generalleutnant Alexander Edler von Daniels
- 384th Infantry Division - Generalleutnant Eccard Freiherr von Gablenz, from 16 January Generalmajor Hans Dörr
- XIV Panzer Corps - General der Panzertruppe Hans-Valentin Hube, from 17 January Generalleutnant Helmuth Schlömer
- 3rd Motorized Infantry Division - Generalmajor Helmuth Schlömer, from 18 January Oberst Jobst Freiherr von Hanstein
- 60th Motorized Infantry Division - Generalmajor Hans-Adolf von Arenstorff
- 16th Panzer Division - Generalleutnant Günther Angern
- LI Army Corps - General der Artillerie Walther von Seydlitz-Kurzbach
- 71st Infantry Division - Generalleutnant Alexander von Hartmann, from 25 January Generalmajor Fritz Roske
- 79th Infantry Division - Generalleutnant Richard Graf von Schwerin
- 94th Infantry Division - Generalleutnant Georg Pfeiffer
- 100th Jäger Division - Generalleutnant Werner Sanne
- 295th Infantry Division - Generalmajor Otto Korfes
- 305th Infantry Division - Generalleutnant Bernhard Steinmetz
- 389th Infantry Division - Generalmajor Erich Magnus, from 19 January Generalmajor Martin Lattmann
- 14th Panzer Division - Generalmajor Martin Lattmann
- 24th Panzer Division - Generalleutnant Arno von Lenski
- Luftwaffe
- 9th Flak-Division - Generalmajor Wolfgang Pickert
- Jagdgeschwader 3 - Wolf-Dietrich Wilcke
Romanian
- Third Army - General Petre Dumitrescu
- 1st Corps - Teodor Ionescu
- 7th Infantry Division - Constantin Trestioreanu
- 11th Infantry Division - Savu Nedelea (POW)
- 2nd Corps - Nicolae Dăscălescu
- 9th Infantry Division - Constantin Panaitiu
- 14th Infantry Division - Gheorghe Stavrescu
- 7th Cavalry Division - Gheorghe Munteanu
- 4th Corps - Constantin Sănătescu
- 1st Cavalry Division - Constantin Brătescu
- 13th Infantry Division - Gheorghe Ionescu
- 15th Infantry Division - Ioan Sion (KIA)
- 5th Corps - Aurelian Son
- 5th Infantry Division - Nicolae Mazarini (POW)
- 6th Infantry Division - Mihail Lascăr (POW)
- In reserve
- 1st Corps - Teodor Ionescu
- Fourth Army - General de Corps Constantin Constantinescu-Claps
- 6th Corps - Corneliu Dragalina
- 1st Infantry Division - Ioan Mikhaescu
- 2nd Infantry Division - Dumitru Tudose
- 18th Infantry Division - Radu Baldescu
- 20th Infantry Division - Nicolae Tătăranu until January 1943, then Romulus Dimitriu (POW)
- 7th Corps - Florea Mitranescu
- 4th Infantry Division - Barbu Alienescu
- 5th Cavalry Division - Dumitru Popescu
- 8th Cavalry Division - Radu Korne[4]
- 6th Corps - Corneliu Dragalina
Croatian
- 369th Reinforced Infantry Regiment (attached to 100th division) - Colonel Viktor Pavičić, later Lieutenant-Colonel Marko Mesić.[5]
See also
- Romanian Armies in the Battle of Stalingrad
References
- promoted to Generalfeldmarschall in January 1943
- promoted to Generalleutnant in January 1943
- Haupt, Werner (1998). Army Group South: The Wehrmacht in Russia 1941-1945. Atglen, PA: Schiffer Publishing. pp. 211–212. ISBN 0-7643-0385-6.
- Stalingrad database
- Infanterie Regiment 369 (kroatisches) Axis history forum, accessed: 19 March 2009
External links
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