Army East Prussia () was created from the AOK 2nd Army and also absorbed the remnants of the 4th Army on 7 April 1945. AOK Ostpreußen controlled all the troops in East Prussia and West Prussia. After the loss of the cities of Danzig and Gotenhafen in the East Prussian Offensive the army had been isolated in the Bay of Gdansk.

Commanding officers

Commander-in-Chief

Chief of the General Staff

Generalmajor Robert Macher

1st Operations officer

Oberstleutnant i.G. Wolfgang Brennecke

Composition

VI Corps (General Horst Großmann) XXVI Corps (General Gerhard Matzky) Generalkommando Hela XXIII Corps (General Walter Melzer) LV Corps / 'Fortress Pillau' (Lieutenant-General Kurt Chill) IX Corps (General Rolf Wuthmann) XVIII Mountain Corps (General Friedrich Hochbaum) 102. Infanterie-Division Division z.b.V. 607 10. Radfahr-Jäger-Brigade

Army East Prussia (Wehrmacht)

References

External links

Lexikon der Wehrmacht

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Military units and formations established in 1945

Military units and formations disestablished in 1945

Army East Prussia (Wehrmacht)