It was created on 24 September 1942, in Military Region (
Wehrkreis) VIII as the LXIV Reserve Corps with the mission of supervising reserve divisions assigned to
OB West, the German high command in the west. Activated on 5 August 1944 and renamed the LXIV Corps. LXIV Corps was headquartered in the vicinity of
Dijon from October 1942 until April 1944. During May and June 1944, the LXIV Corps Headquarters was located in northern France. In July 1944, the corps was sent to southwestern France near the
Gironde Estuary. By late November 1944, Allied advances had forced the Nineteenth Army into an area around
Colmar, nicknamed the
Colmar Pocket. An offensive by
French First Army and
U.S. XXI Corps troops during January and February 1945 collapsed the Colmar Pocket, forcing the LXIV Corps to retreat across the
Rhine River into
Baden. In April 1945, with the Allies across the Rhine as well, French forces thrust forward on April 18 and seized
Tübingen, splitting the LXIV Corps into two parts. Attempts by the corps to reunite its elements failed in the face of Allied strength, and the commander of the corps at that time,
General der Artillerie Max Grimmeiss, was found sheltering at a hospital in
Konstanz and taken prisoner by the French army on April 26. Remnants of the LXIV Corps fought alongside other equally tattered remnants of the Nineteenth Army in late April and early May until the unconditional surrender of Germany ended the war in Europe. ==Commanding officers==