Army Group F

Army Group F (German: Heeresgruppe F) was a strategic command formation of the Wehrmacht during the Second World War. The commander of Army Group F served also as the Oberbefehlshaber Südost (Commander-in-Chief in the Southeast).

Created 12 August 1943, at Bayreuth (WK XIII), it was primarily stationed in the Balkans. Its commander from August 1943 was Generalfeldmarschall Maximilian von Weichs with Lieutenant General Hermann Foertsch serving as the Chief of Staff.¹ Its primary participation in combat was in defending against possible Allied invasion in what was seen as Germany's "weak underbelly", and fighting off local partisan groups that were gaining strength. In late 1944, it oversaw the German retreat from Greece and most of Yugoslavia in the wake of the Budapest Offensive.

The Army Group included for much of the war the 2nd Panzer Army in Yugoslavia and Albania, and the Army Group E in Greece.

Order of Battle November 1943

• 2nd Panzer Army
  • Army Staff units
  • III SS Panzer Corps, SS-Obergruppenführer Felix Steiner
  • XV Mountain Corps, General of Infantry Ernst von Leyser
  • XXI Mountain Corps, General of Panzer troops Gustav Fehn
  • LXIX Corps, z.b.V. General of Infantry