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15th SS Cossack Cavalry Corps
XV. SS-Kosaken-Kavallerie-Korps, February 2nd, 1945
The 1st Cossack Division started to be transformed into the 15th SS Cossack Cavalry Corps during the fall of 1944. It was not officially recognized as a corps until 25th February, 1945. At its peak it had a total of 52 000 personnel (including both Germans and Cossacks). Regiments of the 15th Corps were bigger than their counterparts in the 1st Cossack Division. Furthermore, the planned 3rd Cossack Division was never really raised.
The 15th Corps became part of the Waffen-SS on the basis of an agreement concluded between Helmuth von Pannwitz and Heinrich Himmler on 26th August, 1944. Thus, the SS became responsible with supplying of the Corps. On the other hand, the Cossacks were not required not change their uniforms, ranks, and current German personnel into the ones of the Waffen-SS.
By late 1944 it found itself on the very front-lines of the Eastern Front. On 25th December, 1944, it destroyed a bridge-head on the River Drava of the Soviet 133rd Infantry Division. By early May of 1945 it retreated from Yugoslavia to Austria where it surrender to the British. The British handed-over virtually the entire Corps back to the Soviets.
Commander - Generalleutnant Helmuth von Pannwitz
Chief of Staff - LTC i.G. von Steinsdorff
Operations Captain-d.R. Graf von Schweinitz
Quartermaster-Major i.G. Schneider
Intelligence-Major Graf Zu Eltz
Adjutant's Section-Major Hemminghoffen
Legal Office-Dr. Muller
General Staff Administrative Section-Senior Official Hecht
Senior Staff Doctor-d.R. Grass
Senior Staff Veterinarian-Dr. Schwerdtfeger
Corps Engineer Officer-Major Jans
Liaison Officer to the Ataman Staff-Colonel V. Rentelen
Corps Signal Officer-Major Schmidt
Corps Recon Section-Major Weil1st Cossack Division Commander - Colonel von Baath (leadership delegated to Colonel Wagner).
Operations Officer - Major i.G. Schlie
Quartermaster - Major Gundel1st Don Cossack Regiment
Colonel Wagner2nd Siberian Cossack Regiment
Colonel Nolcken4th Kuban Cossack Regiment
Lt. Col. von Klein1st Cossack Artillery Regiment
von Eisenhardt-RotheAdditional divisional troops and support troops 2nd Cossack Division Commander - Colonel von Schultz
Operations Officer - Major i.G. Rojahn
Quartermaster - Captain Graf von Schmettow3rd Kuban Cossack Regiment
Lt. Col. d.R. Lehmann5th Don Cossack Regiment
Major Graf zu Elftz6th Terek Cossack Regiment
Lt. Col. Prinz zu Salm-Horstmar2nd Cossack Artillery Regiment
GrafKottulinskyAdditional divisional troops and support troops Plastun (Cossack Infantry) Brigade (being formed as the basis for the
3rd Cossack Division):
Commander - Colonel Ivan Kononov
German Liaison Officer - Major Graf V. Rittberg7th Plastun Regiment
Lt. Col. Borrisow8th Plastun Regiment
Major SacharowRecon Section
Captain BondarenkoSignal Battalion Recon Battalion Engineer Battalion Artillery Regiment - three light and one heavy artillery battalions 1st Cossack Cavalry Brigade 2nd Cossack Cavalry Brigade Â
