'Finkenfang' was a German operation against partisans in the area of General Heinrich Clössner’s 2^nd Panzerarmee within Generalfeldmarschall Günther von Kluge’s Heeresgruppe 'Mitte' in the region to the south of Bryansk in the German-occupied western USSR (4/7 May 1943).

The undertaking was designed to assure the security of the railway links supplying Generaloberst Walter Weiss’s 2^nd Army and Generaloberst Walter Model’s 9^th Army, which were the two most important elements of Heeresgruppe 'Mitte' on the northern shoulder of the forthcoming 'Zitadelle'.