Formation · army group
Army Group Centre
Existed: 22 Jun 1941 – 8 May 1945
Destroyed as a fighting force in Operation Bagration (June–July 1944); the name passed to Army Group A in January 1945.
Commanders
- Fedor von Bock 22 Jun 1941 – 18 Dec 1941
- Günther von Kluge 18 Dec 1941 – 12 Oct 1943
- Ernst Busch 12 Oct 1943 – 28 Jun 1944
- Walter Model 28 Jun 1944 – 16 Aug 1944
- Georg-Hans Reinhardt 16 Aug 1944 – 25 Jan 1945
- Ferdinand Schörner 25 Jan 1945 – 8 May 1945
Positions (approximate)
- 22 June 1941Central Poland (Brest–Białystok sector); strongest army group, towards Moscow
- 9 July 1941Minsk encirclement; advance to the Dnieper
- 30 September 1941Smolensk; Operation Typhoon begins 2 Oct
- 5 December 1941At the gates of Moscow
- 18 November 1942Rzhev–Vyazma salient
- 25 March 1943Smolensk; Orel salient to the south
- 1 January 1944Vitebsk – Orsha – Mogilev
- 15 May 1944The 'Belorussian balcony' before Bagration
- 31 August 1944Narew and East Prussian border after the collapse
- 12 January 1945East Prussia and the Narew (renamed AG North on 25 Jan)
- 16 April 1945Silesia and Bohemia (former Army Group A)
Positions are approximate sector centres on front-snapshot dates — not daily positions or headquarters. Between dates the map shows the last known position.
Sources
- [1]Army Group Centre
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- [2]Operation Barbarossa
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