227th Division (German Empire)

227th Division
active	February 25, 1917 to December 23, 1918
Country	German Empire
Armed forces	Prussian Army
Type	Infantry division
structure	See: Outline
Strength	15,000
First World War	Western front Aisne-Champagne double battle Battle of Flanders Great battle in France
Commanders
Please refer:	List of commanders

The 227th Division was a major unit of the Prussian army within the German Army in the First World War .

structure

Division of War of November 3, 1918

• 49th Landwehr Infantry Brigade
  • Infantry Regiment No. 417
  • Reserve Infantry Regiment No. 441
  • Infantry Regiment No. 477
  • 1st Squadron / Magdeburg Hussar Regiment No. 10
• Artillery Commander No. 227
  • Field Artillery Regiment No. 92
  • III. Battalion / Lauenburg Foot Artillery Regiment No. 20
• Engineer Battalion No. 227
• Division News Commander # 227

history

The division was formed on February 25, 1917 on the Western Front and was in service there until the end of the First World War. After the end of the war, the occupied territory was evacuated, the march back home and demobilization and eventual dissolution there.

Battle calendar

1917

• February 26th to May 17th - Trench warfare in the Argonne
• May 21-27 - Aisne-Champagne double battle
• May 28th to October 2nd - trench warfare near Reims
• 0October 6-15 - Battle of Flanders
• from October 18th - trench warfare near Reims

1918

• until March 18th - trench warfare near Reims
• March 21 to April 6 - Great battle in France
• 0April 7th to May 13th - Fights on the Avre , Montdidier and Noyon
• 0June 9-18 - fighting on the Avre and Matz
• June 19 to August 21 - trench warfare at Xivray, Seicheprey and at the Jury Forest
• August 22nd to September 4th - defensive battle between Oise and Aisne
• 0September 5th to 8th - fighting in front of the Siegfried Front
• 05th to 20th September - Fights near Vauxaillon and Laffaux in the Siegfried Line
• September 28th to October 9th - trench warfare north of the Ailette
• October 10-12 - Fighting on the Hunding and Brunhild fronts
• October 13th to November 4th - fights in the dog position
• 05th to 11th November - fighting in retreat in front of the Antwerp - Meuse position
• from November 12th - evacuation of the occupied territory and march home

Commanders

Rank	Surname	date
Lieutenant General	Hans von Leyser	0February 3, 1917 to December 23, 1918

literature

• Hall of Fame of our Old Army. Published on the basis of official material from the Reichsarchiv , Militär-Verlag, Berlin 1927, pp. 76, 170.
• Histories of Two Hundred and Fifty-One Divisions of the German Army Which Participated in the War (1914-1918). United States War Office as War Department Document No. 905, Office of the Adjutant, 1920, pp. 712-714.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dermot Bradley (ed.), Günter Wegner: Occupation of the German Army 1815-1939. Volume 1: The higher command posts 1815–1939. Biblio Verlag, Osnabrück 1990, ISBN 3-7648-1780-1 , p. 158.