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Panzer Group 4 (4th Panzer Army from 1 Jan 1942)

Existed: 17 Feb 1941 – 8 May 1945

Commanders

  • Erich Hoepner 17 Feb 1941 – 8 Jan 1942
  • Richard Ruoff 8 Jan 1942 – 1 Jun 1942
  • Hermann Hoth 1 Jun 1942 – 26 Nov 1943

Positions (approximate)

  1. 9 July 1941Towards Leningrad via Pskov
  2. 5 December 1941West of Moscow
  3. 23 August 1942South of Stalingrad
  4. 4 July 1943Southern face of the Kursk salient
  5. 10 November 1943Defence of Kyiv (Raus takes command)
  6. 6 June 1944Ukraine west of Kyiv, near the 1939 Polish border: Lutsk – Shepetovka – Tarnopol – Kovel
  7. 15 August 1944West bank of the Vistula (Baranów bridgehead) after the Lvov–Sandomierz offensive

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]
    4th Panzer Army

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