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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)

  1. 22 June 1941Staging area East Prussia; advance through the Baltic states towards Leningrad
  2. 9 July 1941Baltic states → Pskov
  3. 30 September 1941Siege of Leningrad
  4. 18 November 1942Leningrad – Volkhov – Demyansk
  5. 1 January 1944Before the Soviet Leningrad–Novgorod offensive
  6. 15 May 1944Narva – Lake Peipus (Panther Line)
  7. 31 August 1944Estonia and Latvia, Riga
  8. 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. [1]
    Army Group North

    Wikipedia (EN) · encyclopedia

  2. [2]
    Operation Barbarossa

    Wikipedia (EN) · encyclopedia

Army Group North · Militavor