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] | ||||||||||
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 | |||||||||
- 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