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((Short description|Former part of the German Army))
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The '''Replacement Army''' (((Lang-de|Ersatzheer))) was part of the [[German Army (German Empire)|Imperial German Army]] during [[World War I]] and part of the [[Wehrmacht]] during [[World War II]]. It was based within Germany proper and included command and administrative units as well as training and guard troops. Its primary role was to provide replacements for the combat divisions of the regular army.<ref>((Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rCWMBQAAQBAJ&dq=role+of+the+army+Ersatzheer&pg=PA517|title=Germany at War: 400 Years of Military History [4 volumes]: 400 Years of Military History|last=Ph.D|first=David T. Zabecki|date=2014-10-28|publisher=ABC-CLIO|isbn=9781598849813|language=en))</ref>

==Third Reich==
It was formed in the various German military districts (''[[Military district (Germany)|Wehrkreise]]'') and was tasked with the [[conscription in Germany|conscription]], recruitment, training and replacement of personnel, testing of new military equipment, and administration such as responsibility for soldiers on home leave.<ref>((Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xV7kE1vainsC&dq=army+Ersatzheer&pg=PA224|title=Beyond the Beachhead: The 29th Infantry Division in Normandy|last=Balkoski|first=Joseph|date=2005|publisher=Stackpole Books|isbn=9780811732376|language=en))</ref>

The ''Ersatzheer'' contingency plans for [[Operation Valkyrie]] were deliberately misused as part of the unsuccessful [[20 July plot]] to assassinate [[Adolf Hitler]], arrest [[Schutzstaffel|SS troops]], and stage a military [[coup d'etat]] through the organization driven by the newly appointed Chief of Staff, [[Claus von Stauffenberg]], in early 1944. Its commander, ''[[Generaloberst]]'' [[Friedrich Fromm]], had enough power to control the German state because his position controlled the army's procurement and production and the command of all army troops in Germany.<ref name="M2S">((cite book |last1=Ziemke |first1= Earl F. |last2=Bauer |first2= Magna E. |year=1985 |isbn=9780160019425 |title=Moscow To Stalingrad: Decision In The East |publisher=U.S. Army Center of Military History |url=http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USA/USA-EF-Decision/index.html ))</ref> Fromm had refused to cooperate in an earlier coup, [[Operation Spark (1941)|Operation Spark]], but the planners in 1944 still planned to use the Replacement Army. [[Heinrich Himmler]] personally took over control of the Replacement Army because of its potential to be used in another assassination attempt.<ref>((Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_BvDCwAAQBAJ&dq=role+of+the+army+Ersatzheer&pg=PA10|title=US Infantryman vs German Infantryman: European Theater of Operations 1944|last=Zaloga|first=Steven J.|date=2016-01-20|publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing|isbn=9781472801388|language=en))</ref>

===Leadership===
;Commanders
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| order             = 1
| image             = 
| military_rank     = ''[[General of the Infantry (Germany)|General der Infanterie]] zur Verwendung''
| officeholder      = ((Interlanguage link|Joachim von Stülpnagel|de))
| officeholder_sort = Stülpnagel, Joachim
| officeholder_note = 
| born_year         = 1880
| died_year         = 1968
| term_start        = 26 August 1939
| term_end          = 31 August 1939
| timeinoffice      = ((age in years and days|1939|08|26|1939|08|31))
| defence_branch    = ((army|Nazi Germany))
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((Officeholder table
| order             = 2
| image             = Bundesarchiv Bild 146-1969-168-07, Friedrich Fromm.jpg
| military_rank     = ''[[Generaloberst]]''
| officeholder      = [[Friedrich Fromm]]
| officeholder_sort = Fromm, Friedrich
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| born_year         = 1888
| died_year         = 1945
| term_start        = 1 September 1939
| term_end          = 20 July 1944
| timeinoffice      = ((age in years and days|1939|09|01|1944|07|20))
| defence_branch    = ((army|Nazi Germany))
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((Officeholder table
| order             = 3
| image             = Bundesarchiv Bild 183-S72707, Heinrich Himmler.jpg
| military_rank     = ''[[Reichsführer-SS]]''
| officeholder      = [[Heinrich Himmler]]
| officeholder_sort = Himmler, Heinrich
| officeholder_note = 
| born_year         = 1900
| died_year         = 1945
| term_start        = 21 July 1944
| term_end          = 29 April 1945
| timeinoffice      = ((age in years and days|1944|07|21|1945|04|29))
| defence_branch    = ((flagicon image|Flag Schutzstaffel.svg)) [[Schutzstaffel]]
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;Chief of Staff
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((Officeholder table
| order             = 1
| image             = Bundesarchiv Bild 183-J28010, Hans Jüttner.jpg
| military_rank     = SS-''[[Obergruppenführer]]''
| officeholder      = [[Hans Jüttner]]
| officeholder_sort = Jüttner, Hans
| officeholder_note = 
| born_year         = 1894
| died_year         = 1965
| term_start        = 21 July 1944
| term_end          = 29 April 1945
| timeinoffice      = ((age in years and days|1944|07|21|1945|04|29))
| defence_branch    = ((flagicon image|Flag Schutzstaffel.svg)) [[Schutzstaffel]]
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==References==
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*((Cite book |year=2013 |title=German Replacement Army (Ersatzheer) April 1944, Part 1 |publisher=BiblioGov |isbn=978-1-288-58410-9))
*((Cite book |year=2013 |title=German Replacement Army (Ersatzheer) April 1944, Part 2 |publisher=BiblioGov |isbn=978-1-288-58417-8))
((Refend))

==External links==
*((cite web |work=Combined Arms Research Library |title=The German Replacement Army |url=http://cgsc.cdmhost.com/utils/getfile/collection/p4013coll8/id/2020/filename/2009.pdf |language=German |accessdate=5 February 2015 |archive-date=26 March 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200326174254/http://cgsc.cdmhost.com/utils/getfile/collection/p4013coll8/id/2020/filename/2009.pdf |url-status=dead ))

[[Category:Military units and formations of the Wehrmacht]]
[[Category:Military units and formations of Germany in World War I]]

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