Army Group South Ukraine

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

Army Group South Ukraine
Active5 April – 23 September 1944
Country Nazi Germany
BranchArmy
SizeArmy group
508,946 (Spring 1944)[1]
EngagementsEastern Front
Commanders
Notable
commanders		Ferdinand Schörner
Johannes Frießner

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][lower-alpha 1]

Order of Battle, June 1944

Commanders
No. CommanderTook officeLeft officeTime in office
1
Schörner, FerdinandGeneralfeldmarschall
Ferdinand Schörner
(1892–1973)		31 March 194425 July 194486 days
2
Frießner, JohannesGeneraloberst
Johannes Frießner
(1892–1971)		25 July 194423 September 194490 days

Notes
  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

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

References
  • 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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