Western Front command tenures (World War II)

This article is a tabular depiction of those generals who held command at the army group echelon or higher on the Western Front of World War II during 1944-1945, and is intended to serve as a reference that can be linked to by other World War II articles. Headquarters and commander names are linked for ease of reference.

Tenures of command on the Western Front in the Second World War, 1944-1945[1][2][3][4]
Month	SHAEF	21st Army Group	12th Army Group	6th Army Group	OB West (OB Süd after 22 Apr 1945)	Army Group B	Army Group G	Army Group H (OB Nordwest after 7 Apr 1945)	OB Oberrhein
June 1944	Eisenhower 6 Jun 1944 8 May 1945	Montgomery 6 Jun 1944 8 May 1945			von Rundstedt 6 Jun 1944 2 Jul 1944	Rommel 6 Jun 1944 17 Jul 1944	Blaskowitz 6 Jun 1944 21 Sep 1944
July 1944			Bradley 14 Jul 1944 8 May 1945		von Kluge 2 Jul 1944 16 Aug 1944	von Kluge 19 Jul 1944 17 Aug 1944
August 1944				Devers 1 Aug 1944 8 May 1945	Model 16 Aug 1944 3 Sep 1944	Model 17 Aug 1944 21 Apr 1945
September 1944					von Rundstedt 3 Sep 1944 11 Mar 1945
October 1944							Balck 21 Sep 1944 24 Dec 1944
November 1944								Student 1 Nov 1944 28 Jan 1945
December 1944									Himmler 10 Dec 1944 23 Jan 1945 Hausser 24 Jan 1945 28 Jan 1945
January 1945							Blaskowitz 24 Dec 1944 29 Jan 1945
February 1945							Hausser 29 Jan 1945 2 Apr 1945	Blaskowitz 28 Jan 1945 15 Apr 1945
March 1945					Kesselring 11 Mar 1945 8 May 1945
April 1945							Schulz 2 Apr 1945 6 May 1945
May 1945								Busch 15 Apr 1945 7 May 1945

1. Tessin articles on Heeresgruppe D, Heeresgruppe B, Heeresgruppe G, Heeresgruppe H
2. Zaloga, p. 19
3. 12th Army Group, p. 6
4. Williams, p. 240

• 12th Army Group Report of Operations Volume 1, 31 July 1945
• Georg Tessin (CDROM edition), Verbände und Truppen der deutschen Wehrmacht und der Waffen-SS im Zweiten Weltkrieg 1939-1945, Osnabrück: Biblio Verlag, 1967-1998 (17 volumes)
• Mary Williams (compiler), Chronology 1941-1945, Washington: GPO, 1994
• Steven Zaloga, Operation Nordwind 1945, Oxford: Osprey, 2010, ISBN 978-1-84603-683-5