19. Armee 19th Army
Flag of the Staff of an Armee Oberkommando (1871–1918)
Active	4 February 1918 – 24 January 1919
Country	German Empire
Branch	German Army
Type	Field army
Engagements	World War I Spring Offensive
Insignia
Abbreviation	A.O.K. 19

The19th Army (German:19. Armee / Armeeoberkommando 19 / A.O.K. 19) was anarmy level command of theGerman Army inWorld War I. It was formed in France on 4 February 1918 from the formerSouth Army command. It served exclusively on theWestern Front and was dissolved on 24 January 1919.^[1]

19th Army was one of three armies (along with17th Army and18th Army) formed in late 1917 / early 1918 with forces withdrawn from theEastern Front. They were in place to take part inLudendorff'sGerman spring offensive. The Germans had realised that their only remaining chance of victory was to defeat the Allies before the overwhelming human and matériel resources of the United States could be deployed. They also had the temporary advantage in numbers afforded by nearly 50 divisions freed by the Russian withdrawal from the war (Treaty of Brest-Litovsk). It was still in existence when the war ended,^[2] serving on theWestern Front as part ofHeeresgruppe Herzog Albrecht von Württemberg.^[3]

By the end ofWorld War I, the majority of the units assigned were lower qualityLandwehr Divisions indicative of the relatively quiet sector that the Army was operating in.

19th Army had the following commanders:^[5]

• Armee-Abteilung or Army Detachment in the sense of "something detached from an Army". It is not under the command of an Army so is in itself a small Army.^[7]
• Armee-Gruppe or Army Group in the sense of a group within an Army and under its command, generally formed as a temporary measure for a specific task.
• Heeresgruppe orArmy Group in the sense of a number of armies under a single commander.

• 19th Army (Wehrmacht) for the equivalent formation inWorld War II
• German Army order of battle, Western Front (1918)

• Cron, Hermann (2002).Imperial German Army 1914–18: Organisation, Structure, Orders-of-Battle [first published: 1937]. Helion & Co.ISBN 1-874622-70-1.
• Ellis, John; Cox, Michael (1993).The World War I Databook. Aurum Press Ltd.ISBN 1-85410-766-6.

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