Army Group Courland - Commanders

Commanders

• 15 January to 27 January 1945 - Commander-in-Chief Lothar Rendulic
• 27 January to 10 March 1945 - Commander-in-Chief Heinrich von Vietinghoff - Von Vietinghoff surrendered to the Allies in Italy. He was briefly imprisoned and was released in 1946. He died in 1952.
• 10 March to 25 March 1945 - Commander-in-Chief Lothar Rendulic (again) - Rendulic surrendered to the Allies near Prague. He was tried, sentenced, and convicted of war crimes in 1948, serving ten years of a twenty year sentence. He was released from prison in 1958, and died in 1971.
• 25 March to 8 May 1945 - Commander-in-Chief Carl Hilpert