XIV Panzer Corps

Armeekorps) was a corps-level formation of the German Army which fought on both the Eastern Front and in the Italian Campaign.

[1] In June 1941, it participated in Operation Barbarossa, where as part of Panzer Group 1, it served with Army Group South on the southern sector of the eastern front, advancing via Lviv, Ternopil and Zhytomyr to Kremenchuk and in the Mius sector.

Hitler ordered its commander, General der Panzertruppe Hans-Valentin Hube, to be flown out of the Stalingrad pocket on 15 January 1943.

Generalleutnant Helmuth Schlömer, who succeeded Hube, surrendered the Corps to the Soviets.

[3] It was briefly commanded by Hermann Balck in September and October 1943, before he was seriously injured in a plane crash.