III Corps (Bundeswehr)
III Corps was a corps of the German Army active from 1957 to 1994.
The preparation of the staff of the corps took place from 16 March 1957 at Gneisenau-Kaserne, Koblenz; the corps was officially formed on 6 April 1957. Initially, the 2nd Panzergrenadier Division and 5th Panzer Division moved in 1957 from the II Corps to III Corps. The corps was integrated into defence planning from mid-1957, as part of NATO's Central Army Group, commanded by the commander of the U.S. Seventh Army. The area of operations was the FRG-DDR and German-Czechoslovak border in Hesse and Franconia. On 1 December 1958 the 7th Panzer Division was transferred from the III Corps to the I Corps. Among the first corps troops were Ordnance regiment 504, and Corps Artillery Command 403. Under corps command were a rocket artillery battalion, a supply battalion, and a geophysical measurement train.
Smilo Freiherr von Lüttwitz was the first commander of the corps, as a Lieutenant General.
In 1994 the corps headquarters was disbanded and re-designated the headquarters of the German Army Forces Command.
Initially from 1959 the corps' troops under Heeresstruktur II consisted of :
- 2nd Panzergrenadier Division
- *Panzergrenadierbrigade 4
- *Panzergrenadierbrigade 5
- *Panzerbrigade 6
- 5th Panzer Division
- *Panzergrenadierbrigade 13
- *Panzerbrigade 14
- *Panzerbrigade 15
- 7th Panzergrenadier Division
- *Panzergrenadierbrigade 19
- *Panzerbrigade 21
- Corps Troops
Commanding Generals
| Nr. | Name | Start of command | End of command |
| 13 | Generalleutnant Klaus Reinhardt | 1 July 1993 | 31 March 1994 |
| 12 | Generalleutnant Peter Heinrich Carstens | 1 October 1991 | 30 June 1993 |
| 11 | Generalmajor Anton Steer | 1 October 1990 | 30 September 1991 |
| 10 | Generalleutnant Helge Hansen | 1 October 1987 | 30 September 1990 |
| 9 | Generalleutnant Karl Erich Diedrichs | 1 April 1984 | 30 September 1987 |
| 8 | Generalleutnant Hans-Joachim Mack | 1 April 1983 | 31 March 1984 |
| 7 | Generalleutnant Wolfgang Altenburg | 1 October 1980 | 31 March 1983 |
| 6 | Generalleutnant Paul-Georg Kleffel | 1 April 1978 | 30 September 1980 |
| 5 | Generalleutnant Franz Pöschl | 1 October 1972 | 31 March 1978 |
| 4 | Generalleutnant Gerd Niepold | 1 October 1968 | 30 September 1972 |
| 3 | Generalleutnant Albert Schnez | 1 April 1965 | 30 September 1968 |
| 2 | Generalleutnant Heinrich Gaedcke | 1 January 1961 | 31 March 1965 |
| 1 | Generalleutnant Smilo Freiherr von Lüttwitz | 1 June 1957 | 31 December 1960 |