German Army order of battle, Western Front (1918)


This is the German Army order of battle on the Western Front at the close of the war.
The overall commander of the Imperial German Army was Kaiser Wilhelm II, but real power resided with The Chief of the General Staff, Generalfeldmarschall Paul von Hindenburg, and his First Quartermaster, General der Infanterie Erich Ludendorff.

Order of battle

The German Army on the Western Front on 30 October 1918 was organised as 4 army groups controlling 13 army-level commands.

''Heeresgruppe Kronprinz Rupprecht''

''Heeresgruppe Deutscher Kronprinz''

''Heeresgruppe'' Gallwitz

''Heeresgruppe Herzog Albrecht von Württemberg''

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