4th Panzer Army

4th Panzer Army
German: 4. Panzerarmee
Fall 1943, 4th Panzer Army in Southern Ukraine
Active15 Feb 1941 – 8 May 1945
Country Nazi Germany
Branch German Army
TypePanzer
RoleArmoured warfare
SizeArmy
1 July 1943 (start of the Battle of Kursk):
223,907[1]
1 November 1943 (Battle of the Dnieper):
276,978[2]
20 December 1943 (start of the Dnieper-Carpathian Offensive):
358,618[3]
10 April 1944 (end of the Dnieper-Carpathian Offensive):
247,200[4]
Engagements
Commanders
Notable
commanders		See Commanders

The 4th Panzer Army (German: 4. Panzerarmee), operating as Panzer Group 4 (Panzergruppe 4) from its formation on 15 February 1941 to 1 January 1942, was a German panzer formation during World War II. As a key armoured component of the Wehrmacht, the army took part in the crucial battles of the German-Soviet war of 1941–45, including Operation Barbarossa, the Battle of Moscow, the Battle of Stalingrad, the Battle of Kursk, and the 1943 Battle of Kiev.

The army was destroyed during the Battle of Stalingrad,[5][6] but later reconstituted.

  1. ^ Armeeintendant Pz. A.O.K. 4 532/43 g. Kdos. Verpflegungsstärken nach dem Stand vom 1.7.43. NARA T313, R390, F8680057.
  2. ^ Pz. AOK 4 Oberquartiermeister Nr. 1834/43 g. Kdos. Verpflegungsstärken nach dem Stande vom 1.11.43. NARA T313, R390, F8680072.
  3. ^ Armeeintendant Pz. A.O.K. 4 an Heeresgruppen Intendant Süd, 1227/43 geh. Kdos. Verpflegungsstärken nach dem Stande vom 20.12.43. NARA T313, R390, F8680079.
  4. ^ Armeeintendant Pz. A.O.K. 4, 399/44 g. Kdos. An Heeresgruppenintendant Süd. Verpflegungsstärken nach dem Stande vom 10.4.44. NARA T313, R408, F8700017.
  5. ^ Tarrant, V.E. (1992). Stalingrad: Anatomy of an Agony. London: Leo Cooper. p. 230. ISBN 978-0850523423.
  6. ^ Childers, Thomas (2017). The Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany (1st ed.). Simon & Schuster. p. 518. ISBN 978-1-4516-5113-3.