World War II Armed Forces — Orders of Battle and Organizations

Last Updated 04.06.2013

Royal Hungarian Honvéd Mobile Corps / I Armored Corps

Headquarters:    Szolnok;    later Budapest
Lineage:    Constituted:    01.03.1940    as the Mobile Corps (see notes below)    Activated:    05.04.1941         Inactivated    20.04.1941         Activated:    27.06.1941         Inactivated:    06.12.1941         Redesignated:    01.10.1942    as I Armored Corps    Discontinued:    11.02.1945    dissolved
Commanding Officers:    01.03.1940–01.02.1942    MG Béla Miklós    [01.02.1942–01.04.1942]    – position not filled –    01.04.1942–01.10.1942    BG Jérnö Major    01.10.1942–15.09.1942    MG Lajos Veress    15.09.1942–16.10.1944    MG Jérnö Major    01.11.1944–11.02.1945    MG Ferenc Bisza
Mobile Corps Attachments:    01.03.1940–05.04.1941    VKF (peace time garrison)    05.04.1941–13.04.1941    Reserven, Third Army    13.04.1941–20.04.1941    Third Army, XXXXI. Mot.AK.    20.04.1941–27.06.1941    VKF (peace time garrison)    27.06.1941–09.07.1941    Carpathian Army Group, VKL    09.07.1941–19.07.1941    Reserven, Heeresgruppe Süd    19.07.1941–12.08.1941    Gruppe Kempf, 17. Armee, Heeresgruppe Süd    12.08.1941–12.09.1941    Gruppe Kempf, 1. Panzergruppe, Hgr. Süd    12.09.1941–22.09.1941    Reserven, Heeresgruppe Süd    22.09.1941–08.10.1941    Gruppe von Roques, Heeresgruppe Süd    08.10.1941–12.10.1941    Reserven, Heeresgruppe Süd    12.10.1941–15.11.1941    17. Armee, Heeresgruppe Süd    06.11.1941–06.12.1941    Returned to Hungary    06.12.1941–01.10.1942    VKF (peace time garrison) I Armored Corps Attachments:    01.10.1942–11.02.1945    VKF (peace time garrison)
Peace Time Organization to 1942:    1st mot. Brigade    2nd mot. Brigade    1st Cavalry-Brigade    2nd Cavalry-Brigade    101 Traffic Control Company (mot)    (Budapest)    (Munkács)    (Nyiregyháza)    (Budapest)    (Budapest)   Peace Time Organization 1942–1943:    1st Armored Division    2nd Armorted Division    1st Cavalry Division    I Armored Corps Signal Battalion    (Budapest)    (Kecskemét)    (Budapest)    (Budapest)   Peace Time Organization from 1943:    1st Armored Division    2nd Armorted Division    I Armored Corps Signal Battalion    101st Armored Train    (Budapest)    (Kecskemét)    (Budapest)    (Budapest)   NOTES: The Mobile Corps was only a command echelon. It did not have a military district. The I Armored Corps was a training and coordination command, and was not expected to take to the field.