Bader XIV Army Corps General der Infanterie Gustav Anton von Wietersheim 13th Panzer Division Generalmajor Friedrich-Wilhelm von Rothkirch und Panthen 29th Motorized Infantry Division Generalmajor Willibald von Langermann und Erlencamp Reserves XXXX Corps - Generalleutnant Georg Stumme 4th Infantry Division Generalleutnant Erick-Oskar Hansen 87th Infantry Division Generalleutnant Bogislav von Studnitz 211th Infantry Division Generalleutnant Kurt Renner 263rd Infantry Division Generalleutnant Franz Karl 267th Infantry Division Generalleutnant Ernst Feßmann Eastern Front, 1942 In 1942, Army Group South was in southern Russia on the Eastern Front. For Case Blue (Fall Blau), the summer offensive of the Wehrmacht, Army Group South was split into Army Group A and Army Group B. Army Group A was ordered south to capture the oil fields in the Caucasus. Army Group A included the following armies: 1st Panzer Army 11th Army 17th Army Romanian 3rd Army Eastern Front, 1944-1945 Army Group A was formed a third time on September 23, 1944, in southern Poland and the Carpathian region by renaming Army Group North Ukraine. The army group was used to defend southern Poland and Slovakia. Subordinate were: 9th Army 4th Panzer Army 17th Army 1st Panzer Army After the breakthrough of the Red Army near Baranow on the Vistula during the Soviet Vistula-Oder Offensive, on January 16, 1945 Colonel Bogislaw von Bonin, the Chief of the Operational Branch of the Army General Staff (Generalstab des Heeres) gave Heeresgruppe A permission to retreat rejecting a direct order from Adolf Hitler for them to hold fast. Although Heeresgruppe A escaped encirclement and regrouped, von Bonin was arrested by the Gestapo on January 19, 1945, and imprisoned. On 25 January 1945 Hitler renamed three army groups. Army Group North became Army Group Courland, Army Group Centre became Army Group North, and Army Group A became Army Group Centre. Commanders Chiefs of staff References Army groups of the German Army in World War II Military units and formations established in 1940 Military units and formations disestablished in 1945