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The IV SS Panzer Corps was a panzer corps of the Waffen-SS which saw action on the Eastern Front and in the Balkans during World War II. History
Leading the assault was the IV SS Panzer Corps, which with three armored divisions and together with the III Panzer Corps, had a complement of 376 operational AFVs at the start of the offensive. 4th Guards Army , with only 250 operational AFVs, had a poor intelligence staff that completely failed to detect the arrival of IV SS Panzer Corps in ...
Operation Konrad I - 1 January 1945 - Led by IV SS Panzer Corps from Tata. [2] Halted near Bicske. Operation Konrad II - 7 January 1945 - Led by IV SS Panzer Corps from Esztergom. Halted at Pilisszentkereszt. Operation Konrad III - 17 January 1945 - Led by IV SS Panzer Corps and III Panzer Corps from south of Budapest near Székesfehérvár. [3]
Gille received the diamonds to his Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords on 19 April 1944. In January 1945 Gille, as leader of the IV SS Panzer Corps, participated in a failed attempt to relieve the encircled German and Hungarian troops in the Battle of Budapest. In March 1945 he led the IV SS Panzer Corps in the failed Lake Balaton ...
II SS Panzer Corps; III (Germanic) SS Panzer Corps; IV SS Panzer Corps (formerly VII SS Panzer Corps) V SS Mountain Corps; VI SS Army Corps (Latvian) VII SS Panzer Corps (see above ↑ IV SS Panzer Corps) VIII SS Cavalry Corps (planned in 1945 but not formed) IX Waffen Mountain Corps of the SS (Croatian) X SS Corps (made up of disbanded XIV SS ...
IV SS Panzer Corps; VII SS Panzer Corps; SS miscellaneous corps. SS Medical Corps; V SS Mountain Corps; VIII SS Cavalry Corps – planned in 1945 but not formed;
Matthias Kleinheisterkamp (22 June 1893 – 29 April 1945) was a German SS commander during the Nazi era.Reaching the rank of SS-Obergruppenführer, he commanded the SS Division Totenkopf, SS Division Nord, SS Division Das Reich, III SS Panzer Corps, VII SS Panzer Corps, IV SS Panzer Corps, XII SS Army Corps and the XI SS Army Corps in World War II.
A panzer corps (German: Panzerkorps) was an armoured corps type in Nazi Germany's Wehrmacht during World War II. The name was introduced in 1941, when the motorised corps (Armeekorps (mot) or AK(mot)) were renamed to panzer corps. Panzer corps were created throughout the war, and existed in the Army, the Waffen-SS and even the Luftwaffe. Those ...