XXXXI Panzer Corps

XXXXI. Panzerkorps
Coat of Arms XXXXI Pz.K. (Dec 1941)
Active	05 February 1940 - 08 May 1945
Country	Nazi Germany
Branch	Army
Type	Panzer corps
Role	Armoured warfare
Size	Corps
Engagements	World War II
Commanders
Notable commanders	Josef Harpe Walter Model Georg-Hans Reinhardt Helmuth Weidling

XXXXI Panzer Corps (also written: Panzer Korps 41 or XLI Panzer Corps ) was a tank corps in the German Army (Army) during World War II.

The corps was originally formed, as the XXXXI Corps, on 5 February 1940 in Wehrkreis VIII (Silesia) as "Armeekorps (mot)". Reorganised as a Panzer Corps, it was known as the XXXXI Panzer Corps and was commanded by General Georg-Hans Reinhardt. In the May 1940 Battle of France, the XXXXI Panzer Corps was one of the three Panzerkorps that broke through the Ardennes in the Battle of Sedan and drove west to the sea at Abbeville.

In June 1941, the XXXXI Panzer Corps was deployed on the Eastern Front for Operation Barbarossa, the invasion of the Soviet Union. It defeated the Soviet 3rd Mechanised & 12th Mechanised Corps in the Battle of Raseiniai in late June, which destroyed more than 300 Soviet tanks and led the advance of Army Group North to the outskirts of Leningrad in October.

It was reorganised in 1942, becoming part of the Second Panzer Army of Army Group Centre. The XXXXI Panzer Corps fought at Bely, in the anti-partisan operations at Nikitinka, Yartsevo, Vyazma, and Dukhovshchina.