Army East Prussia (Wehrmacht)

Army East Prussia (German: Armee Ostpreußen) was created from the AOK 2nd Army and also absorbed the remnants of the 4th Army on 7 April 1945. AOK Ostpreußen controlled all the troops in East Prussia and West Prussia. After the loss of the cities of Danzig and Gotenhafen in the East Prussian Offensive the army had been isolated in the Bay of Gdansk.

Army East Prussia
German: Armee Ostpreußen
Active	7 April – 9 May 1945
Country	Nazi Germany
Branch	German army ( Wehrmacht)
Type	Army
Engagements	World War II East Prussian Offensive
Commanders
Notable commanders	Dietrich von Saucken

Commanding officers

Commander-in-Chief

No.	Portrait	Commander	Took office	Left office	Time in office
1		Schmidt, HansGeneral der Panzertruppe Dietrich von Saucken (1892–1980)	7 April 1945	9 May 1945	32 days

Chief of the General Staff

• Generalmajor Robert Macher

1st Operations officer

• Oberstleutnant i.G. Wolfgang Brennecke

Composition

• VI Corps (General Horst Großmann)
• XXVI Corps (General Gerhard Matzky)
• Generalkommando Hela
• XXIII Corps (General Walter Melzer)
• LV Corps / 'Fortress Pillau' (Lieutenant-General Kurt Chill)
• IX Corps (General Rolf Wuthmann)
• XVIII Mountain Corps (General Friedrich Hochbaum)
• 102th Infantry Division
• Division z.b.V. 607
• 10. Radfahr-Jäger-Brigade