| 1.
Armee-Oberkommando |
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|
HQ: Stettin
|
|
| Alexander
von Kluck |
02.08.1914
|
| * chief of staff
Hermann von Kuhl |
02.08.1914 |
|
* HQ transfers to
Folembray
|
30.09.1914 |
| Max
von Fabeck |
28.03.1915 |
|
* disbanded and transferred
East to reform as 12.AOK
|
17.09.1915 |
| |
|
| 1.
Armee-Oberkommando (neu) |
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|
* HQ: Bourlon;
from northern half of 2.AOK (Somme)
|
19.07.1916 |
| Fritz
von Below |
19.07.1916 |
| * chief of staff
Fritz von Loßberg |
19.07.1916 |
| * chief of staff
Robert von Klüber |
11.04.1917 |
|
* HQ transfers to
Rethel
|
12.04.1917 |
| Bruno
von Mudra |
18.06.1918 |
| * chief of staff
Wilhelm Faupel |
22.06.1918 |
| *
chief of staff Otto Hasse |
23.08.1918 |
| Otto
von Below |
12.10.1918 |
| Magnus
von Eberhardt |
08.11.1918 |
|
* end of Eberhardt's command
|
02.12.1918 |
| |
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| 2.
Armee-Oberkommando |
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|
HQ: Hannover
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|
|
Karl von Bülow |
02.08.1914
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| *
chief of staff Otto von Lauenstein
|
02.08.1914 |
| * chief of staff Ernst von Zieten |
23.12.1914 |
|
* HQ transfers to
St. Quentin
|
10.01.1915 |
|
* Bülow promoted
Generalfeldmarschall
|
27.01.1915 |
| Fritz
von Below |
04.04.1915 |
| * chief of staff Ernst von Hoeppner |
30.06.1915 |
| * chief of staff Paul Grünert |
13.04.1916 |
| * chief of staff Fritz von Loßberg |
02.07.1916 |
| Max
von Gallwitz |
19.07.1916 |
| * chief of staff Bernhard Bronsart von Schellendorff |
19.07.1916 |
| * chief of staff Wilhelm Wild |
25.10.1916 |
| Georg
von der Marwitz |
17.12.1916 |
|
* HQ transfers to Le
Cateau
|
21.03.1917 |
| *
chief of staff Richard von Pawelsz
|
17.04.1917 |
| * chief of staff Max Stapff |
27.08.1917 |
| *
chief of staff Erich von Tschischwitz
|
27.02.1918 |
| * chief of staff Willi von Klewitz
|
10.08.1918 |
| Adolph
von Carlowitz |
22.09.1918 |
| * chief of staff Friedrich von
Miaskowski |
22.09.1918 |
|
* end of Carlowitz' command
|
13.11.1918 |
| |
|
| 3.
Armee-Oberkommando |
|
|
HQ:
Dresden
|
|
| Max
von Hausen |
02.08.1914
|
| *
chief of staff Ernst von Hoeppner |
02.08.1914 |
| Karl
von Einem gen. Rothmaler |
12.09.1914 |
|
* HQ transfers
Bethinville
|
12.09.1914 |
|
* HQ transfers to
Bouziers
|
03.01.1915 |
|
* Einem promoted Generaloberst
|
27.01.1915 |
| * chief of staff Maximilian Ritter von Höhn |
14.02.1915 |
| * chief of staff Fritz von Loßberg |
26.09.1915 |
| * chief of staff Martin Frh von Oldershausen |
02.07.1916 |
|
* HQ transfers to
Maison Rouge
|
16.01.1917 |
| * chief of staff Willi von Klewitz |
01.02.1918 |
| * chief of staff Friedrich von
Miaskowski |
10.08.1918 |
| * chief of staff Willi von Klewitz |
21.09.1918 |
|
* end of Einem's command
|
18.01.1919 |
| |
|
| 4.
Armee-Oberkommando |
|
|
HQ:
Berlin
|
|
| Albrecht
Herzog von Württemberg |
02.08.1914
|
| * chief of staff Walther Frh von Lüttwitz |
02.08.1914 |
| * chief of staff Emil Ilse |
26.09.1914 |
|
* HQ transfers to
Thielt (also temp in Courtrai and Roubaix)
|
20.01.1915 |
|
* Albrecht promoted
Generalfeldmarschall
|
01.08.1916 |
| Friedrich
Sixt von Armin |
25.02.1917 |
| * chief of staff Max Stapff |
25.05.1917 |
| * chief of staff
Fritz von Loßberg |
12.06.1917 |
| * chief of staff Wilhelm Humser |
06.08.1918 |
|
* end of Sixt von Armin's
command
|
22.11.1918 |
| |
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| 5.
Armee-Oberkommando |
|
|
HQ:
Koblenz
|
|
| Kronprinz
Wilhelm von Preußen |
02.08.1914
|
| *
chief of staff Konstantin Schmidt von Knobelsdorf |
02.08.1914 |
|
* HQ transfers to
Stenay
|
13.09.1914 |
|
* Wilhelm promoted
Generalleutnant
|
27.01.1915 |
|
* HQ transfers to
Montmedy
|
04.01.1916 |
| * chief of staff Walther Frh von Lüttwitz |
21.08.1916 |
| * chief of staff Otto Frh von
Ledebur |
30.11.1916 |
| Ewald
von Lochow |
01.12.1916 |
| Max
von Gallwitz |
17.12.1916 |
| * chief of staff Bernhard Bronsart von Schellendorff |
20.12.1916 |
| * chief of staff
Richard von Pawelsz |
27.08.1917 |
| * chief of staff Victor Keller |
18.04.1918 |
| Georg
von der Marwitz |
22.09.1918 |
| * chief of staff Georg Wetzell |
25.09.1918 |
|
* end of Marwitz' command
|
13.12.1918 |
| |
|
| 6.
Armee-Oberkommando |
|
|
HQ:
Munich
|
|
| Kronprinz
Rupprecht von Bayern |
02.08.1914
|
| * chief of staff
Konrad Krafft von Dellmensingen |
02.08.1914 |
|
* HQ transfers to
Lille
|
09.01.1915 |
| * chief of staff
Gustav Frh v.d. Wenge Graf v.
Lambsdorff |
19.05.1915 |
| * chief of staff
Hermann von Kuhl
|
24.11.1915 |
|
* HQ transfers to
Douai
|
29.02.1916 |
|
* Rupprecht promoted
Generalfeldmarschall
|
01.08.1916 |
| Ludwig
Frh von Falkenhausen |
28.08.1916 |
| * chief of staff
Friedrich von der Schulenburg |
28.08.1916 |
| * chief of staff Karl Frh von Nagel zu Aichberg |
25.11.1916 |
|
* HQ transfers to
Tournai
|
15.03.1917 |
| * chief of staff
Fritz von Loßberg |
11.04.1917 |
| Otto
von Below |
22.04.1917 |
| * chief of staff Max Stapff |
12.06.1917 |
| * chief of staff
Hermann Ritter von Lenz |
27.08.1917 |
| Ferdinand
von Quast |
09.09.1917 |
|
* HQ transfers back to
Lille
|
15.04.1918 |
| *
chief of staff Adolf Herrgott
|
08.08.1918 |
|
* end of Quast's command
|
01.01.1919 |
| |
|
| 7.
Armee-Oberkommando |
|
|
HQ:
Karlsruhe
|
|
| Josias
von Heeringen |
02.08.1914
|
| * chief of staff Karl von Hänisch |
02.08.1914 |
|
* HQ transfers to
Laon
|
13.09.1914 |
| * chief of staff
Gerhard Tappen |
11.03.1915 |
| * chief of staff
Rudolf von Borries |
28.03.1915 |
| Richard
von Schubert |
28.08.1916 |
|
* Schubert promoted
Generaloberst
|
27.01.1917 |
| * chief of staff
Walter Reinhardt |
15.02.1917 |
| Max
von Boehn |
11.03.1917 |
|
* HQ transfers to
Marle
|
14.03.1917 |
|
* Boehn promoted Generaloberst
|
22.03.1918 |
|
* HQ transfers back to
Laon
|
02.06.1918 |
| Magnus
von Eberhardt |
06.08.1918 |
| Max
von Boehn |
31.10.1918 |
| *
chief of staff Richard von Pawelsz
|
03.11.1918 |
|
* end of Boehn's command
|
01.01.1919 |
| |
|
| 8.
Armee-Oberkommando |
|
|
HQ:
Posen
|
|
| Max
von Prittwitz und Gaffron |
02.08.1914
|
| * chief of staff Georg Graf von Waldersee |
02.08.1914 |
|
Paul von Hindenburg |
23.08.1914 |
| * chief of staff
Erich Ludendorff |
23.08.1914 |
| Richard
von Schubert |
18.09.1914 |
| * chief of staff Paul Grünert |
18.09.1914 |
| Hermann
von Francois |
08.10.1914 |
|
* chief of staff Adolf Wild von Hohenborn |
03.11.1914 |
| Otto
von Below |
07.11.1914 |
|
* chief of staff Alfred von Böckmann |
10.11.1914 |
|
* HQ transfers to
Lyck
|
18.02.1915 |
| Friedrich
von Scholtz |
26.05.1915 |
| * chief of staff
Detlof Graf von Schwerin |
26.05.1915 |
|
* Scholtz heads provisional
8.AOK as Cdr of XX.AK
|
26.05.1915 |
| * 8.AOK joins with troops in
Courland to become Army of the Niemen |
26.05.1915 |
|
* disbanded
|
28.05.1915 |
| |
|
| 8.
Armee-Oberkommando (neu) Nieman-Armee |
|
| Gen.d.Inf.
Otto von Below |
26.05.1915 |
|
** chief of staff Alfred von Böckmann |
26.05.1915 |
|
* renamed New Eighth Army
|
30.12.1915 |
|
* HQ transfers to
Schaulen (Shaulyai, Lithuania)
|
04.01.1916 |
|
* HQ transfers to
Mitau (Yelgava, Latvia)
|
01.04.1916 |
| Max
von Fabeck |
05.10.1916 |
|
* Fabeck and general staff
transferred from 12.AOK
|
05.10.1916 |
|
** chief of staff Walter von Bergmann |
05.10.1916 |
| Bruno
von Mudra |
22.10.1916 |
|
* chief of staff Traugott Martin von Sauberzweig
|
16.11.1916 |
| Friedrich
von Scholtz |
02.01.1917 |
| Oskar
von Hutier |
22.04.1917 |
| * chief of staff
Georg Frotscher |
15.09.1917 |
|
* HQ transfers to
Riga (Latvia)
|
15.09.1917 |
| Günther
Graf von Kirchbach |
12.12.1917 |
|
* Kirchbach promoted
Generaloberst
|
27.01.1918 |
| * chief of staff Rudolf Frantz |
16.02.1918 |
| Hugo
von Kathen |
31.07.1918 |
|
* disbanded
|
22.09.1918 |
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