Army Group South Ukraine

Army Group South Ukraine
German: Heeresgruppe Südukraine Romanian: Grupul de Armate Ucraina de Sud
Active	5 April – 23 September 1944
Country	Nazi Germany Romania (until 24 August 1944)
Allegiance	Nazi Germany
Branch	Heer ( Wehrmacht) Romanian Land Forces
Size	905,000 (500,000 Germans, 405,000 Romanians) 120 tanks + 280 assault guns 7,600 artillery pieces 810 aircraft
Engagements	Eastern Front First Jassy-Kishinev Offensive Second Jassy-Kishinev Offensive
Commanders
Notable commanders	Ferdinand Schörner Johannes Frießner

Army Group South Ukraine (German: Heeresgruppe Südukraine, Romanian: Grupul de Armate Ucraina de Sud) was a joint German-Romanian group on the Eastern Front during World War II.

Army Group South Ukraine was created on 5 April 1944 by renaming Army Group A. This army group saw action during the Jassy-Kishinev Operation and after taking heavy casualties was redesignated Army Group South (Heeresgruppe Süd) at midnight on 23 September 1944.

Geographically, Army Group South Ukraine – headquartered at Slănic-Moldova – held 392 miles (680 km) of front, of which 160 were held by Romanians. Its operational area covered all of Eastern Romania, from a line 40 km (25 miles) east of Bucharest.

Order of Battle, 15 August 1944 (Army HQ)

• Armeegruppe Dumitrescu – General Petre Dumitrescu
  • Romanian Third Army – General Petre Dumitrescu (HQ – Bolgrad)
  • Sixth Army – General der Artillerie Maximilian Fretter-Pico (HQ – Tarutino)
• Armeegruppe Wohler – General der Infanterie Otto Wohler
  • Eighth Army – General der Infanterie Otto Wohler (HQ – Roman)
  • Romanian Fourth Army – General Gheorghe Avramescu (HQ – Bacău)

Commanders

No.	Portrait	Commander	Took office	Left office	Time in office
1		Generalfeldmarschall Ferdinand Schörner (1892–1973)	31 March 1944	25 July 1944	86 days
2		Generaloberst Johannes Frießner (1892–1971)	25 July 1944	23 September 1944	90 days