Commanding Officers
- General der Infanterie Carl-Heinrich von Stülpnagel (20 December 1940–4 October 1941)
- Generaloberst Hermann Hoth (5 October 1941–19 April 1942)
- Generaloberst Hans von Salmuth (20 April 1942–31 May 1942)
- Generaloberst Richard Ruoff (1 June 1942–24 June 1943)
- Generaloberst Erwin Jaenecke (25 June 1943-1 March 1944)
- Generalfeldmarschall Ferdinand Schörner (2 March 1944–31 March 1944)
- Generaloberst Erwin Jaenecke (1 April 1944–28 April 1944)
- General der Infanterie Karl Allmendinger (1 May 1944–25 July 1944)
- General der Infanterie Friedrich Schulz (26 July 1944–30 March 1945)
- General der Infanterie Wilhelm Hasse (1 April 1945–7 May 1945)
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“We are born to do benefits; and what better or properer can we call our own than the riches of our friends? O, what a precious comfort ‘tis to have so many like brothers commanding one another’s fortunes!”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“I then went to the Parade. I saw the King. It was a glorious sight.... As a loadstone moves needles, or a storm bows the lofty oaks, did Frederick the Great make the Prussian officers submissive bend as he walked majestic in the midst of them.”
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