Formation · army group
Army Group North
Existed: 22 Jun 1941 – 8 May 1945
16th and 18th Armies, Panzer Group 4 (1941). Cut off in Courland in October 1944.
Commanders
- Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb 22 Jun 1941 – 17 Jan 1942
- Georg von Küchler 17 Jan 1942 – 31 Jan 1944
- Walter Model 31 Jan 1944 – 31 Mar 1944
- Georg Lindemann 31 Mar 1944 – 4 Jul 1944
- Johannes Friessner 4 Jul 1944 – 23 Jul 1944
- Ferdinand Schörner 23 Jul 1944 – 17 Jan 1945
Positions (approximate)
- 22 June 1941Staging area East Prussia; advance through the Baltic states towards Leningrad
- 9 July 1941Baltic states → Pskov
- 30 September 1941Siege of Leningrad
- 18 November 1942Leningrad – Volkhov – Demyansk
- 1 January 1944Before the Soviet Leningrad–Novgorod offensive
- 15 May 1944Narva – Lake Peipus (Panther Line)
- 31 August 1944Estonia and Latvia, Riga
- 12 January 1945Courland pocket (Army Group Courland from 25 Jan)
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 North
Wikipedia (EN) · encyclopedia
- [2]Operation Barbarossa
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