Various strength data for HG Kurland according to their 1 April 1945 report;
1. Directly under HG:
Feldausbildungseinheiten: 5,194 (German)
Lithuanians: 417
Latvians: 18,177
Estonians: 33
Osttruppen: 2,615
German SS: 2,754
2. General strength
AOK16/AOK18:
On Leave: 513/992
Short term sick and wounded (return within 8 weeks): 12,985/12,094
Tagesstärke: 62,466/73,420
Gefechtsstärke: 40,038/48,640
Kampfstärke: 30,552/37,301
3. Iststärkemeldung:
Sicherungstruppen: 700
Heeresversorgungstruppen: 722
Sonstige: 2738
Höhere Kommandobehörden: 2799
Fehlstellen of same categories: 29/8/172/448
4. Iststärke
Directly under HG/AOK16/AOK18 (German+Hiwi)
Fechtende truppen und versorgungstruppen in Verbände: 470+93/54,369+4490/73,695+5644
Fechtende Heerestruppen: 5957+339/18,228+556/14,190+279
Sicherungstruppen: 812+10/5895+389/861+10
Heeresvers.truppen; 5783+1459/6994+4103/6280+1637
Sonstige Truppen: 10508+1040/4187+769/3783+724
Bodenständige Einrichtungen und Höhere Kommandostellen: 634+14/1504+122/1364+80
All other: 242+4/350+127/98+0
In all (without Hiwi):
Directly under HG: 24,406
AOK16: 92,157
AOK18: 101,271
ALL: 217,854
5. Fehlstellen, all categories: 89,971+8,446
6. Breakdown of Iststärke Sonstige (figures for whole HG)
Signals (not including Divisional): 2265+114
Construction engineers: 8516+2193
Railway troops: 5489+1196
Technical troops: 965+716
Propaganda troops: 125+144
Mapping and measurements troops: 183+0
Abwehr: 241+44
Guard troops: 1267+26
Military justice: 48+0
Source; IWM AL1576.
7. The strength of HG Kurland on capitulation (this, unlike the above, including Luftwaffe and Kriegsmarine personnell) was estimated at 200,000 (RH2-1341-65).
Hope this helps,
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Final Defensive Battles in Eastern Front 1944-45
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