Commanding Officers
- Lieutenant General Hermann Böttcher 26 August 1939
- Lieutenant General Kurt Himer 8 September 1940
- General of the Infantry Werner Freiherr von und zu Gilsa, 1 April 1941
- General of the Infantry Friedrich August Schack, 7 May 1943
- Lieutenant General Egon von Neindorff, 3 October 1943
- Major General Gustav Gihr, 20 October 1943
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