Balkans Campaign German order of battle

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During World War II, Operation Marita was the German invasion of Greece and Yugoslavia on 6 April 1941.

[edit] Order of Battle for Operation Marita

6 April 1941 – 3 May 1941

• Reserves directly commanded by the OKH
  • 4th Panzer Division (Generalmajor Willibald Freiherr Von Langermann und Erlenkamp)
  • 12th Panzer Division (Generalmajor Josef Harpe)
  • 19th Panzer Division (Generalmajor Otto von Knobelsdorff)
  • 100th Light Division (Generalleutnant Werner Sanne)
  • 101st Light Division (Generalleutnant Erich Marcks)

• Second Army (Generaloberst Maximilian Reichsfreiherr Von Weichs zu Glon)
  • 49th Mountain Corps (General der Mountaintruppen Ludwig Kübler)
  • 1st Mountain Division (Generalmajor Hubert Lanz)
  • 51st Army Corps (General der Infantry Hans-Wolfgang Reinhardt)
    • 132nd Infantry Division (Generalleutnant Rudolf Sintzenisch)
    • 183rd Infantry Division (Generalleutnant Benignus Dippold)
  • 46th Army Corps (motorized) (General der Panzertruppen Heinrich von Vietinghoff Gennant Scheel)
    • 8th Panzer Division (Generalmajor Erich Brandenberger)
    • 14th Panzer Division, (Generalmajor Friedrich Kühn)
    • 16th Infantry Division (motorized), (Generalmajor Siegfried Henrici)

• Second Army reserve:
  • 52nd Army Corps (General der Infantry Kurt von Briesen)
    • 169th Infantry Division (Generalmajor Kurt Dittmar)
    • 197th Infantry Division (Generalleutnant Hermann Meyer-Rabingen)
    • 125th Infantry Division (Generalleutnant Willi Schneckenburger)

• 12th Army (Generalfeldmarschall Wilhelm List)
  • 40th Army Corps (motorized) (Generalleutnant Georg Stumme)
    • 9th Panzer Division (Generalmajor Alfred Ritter von Hubicki)
    • 1st SS Brigade (motorized) Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler (SS-Obergruppenführer Josef Dietrich)
    • 73rd Infantry Division (Generalmajor Bruno Bieler)
  • 18th Mountain Corps (General der Mountaintruppen) Franz Böhme
    • 2nd Panzer Division (Generalleutnant Rudolf Veiel)
    • 5th Mountain Division (Generalleutnant Julius Ringel)
    • 6th Mountain Division (Generalleutnant Ferdinand Schörner)
    • 72nd Infantry Division (Generalleutnant Franz Mattenklott)
    • 125th Infantry Regiment
  • 30th Army Corps (General der Artillerie Otto Hartmann)
    • 50th Infantry Division (Generalleutnant Karl-Adolf Hollidt)
    • 164th Infantry Division (Generalmajor Johannes Folttmann)

• 12th Army reserve
  • 50th Army Corps (General der Kavallerie Georg Lindemann)
    • 46th Infantry Division (Generalmajor Karl Kriebel)
    • 16th Panzer Division (Generalmajor Hans-Valentin Hube)

• Panzer Group 1 (Generaloberst Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist)
  • 14th Army Corps (motorized) (General der Infanterie Gustav Anton von Wietersheim)
    • 5th Panzer Division (Generalleutnant Gustav Fehn)
    • 11th Panzer Division (Generalleutnant Ludwig Crüwell)
    • 4th Mountain Division (Generalleutnant Karl Eglseer)
    • 294th Infantry Division (Generalleutnant Otto Gabke)
  • 41st Army Corps (motorized) (Generalleutnant Georg-Hans Reinhardt)
    • 2nd SS Division Das Reich (SS-Gruppenführer Paul Hausser)
    • Infantry Regiment (motorized) Großdeutschland (Oberst Wilhelm-Hunold von Stockhausen)
  • 11th Army Corps (General der Infanterie Joachim von Kortzfleisch)
    • 60th Infantry Division (motorized) (Generalmajor Friedrich-Georg Eberhardt)
    • 76th Infantry Division (Generalleutnant Maximilian de Angelis)
    • 198th Infantry Division (Generalmajor Otto Röttig)

[edit] See also

See Operation Castigo and Operation Demon.