Commanders
- Major-General Karl Kriebel (September 1939)
- Lieutenant-General Paul von Hase (July 1940)
- Lieutenant-General Karl von Oven (November 1940)
- Major-General Otto-Joachim Lüdecke (January 1943)
- Lieutenant-General Vincenz Müller (September 1943)
- Major-General Edmund Blaurock (September 1944)
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