1st Division (German Empire)

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1st division

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All flags of the Königsberg garrison
active September 5, 1818 to July 1919
Country German EmpireGerman Empire (Reichskriegsflagge) Kingdom of Prussia
Armed forces Prussian Army
Type Infantry division
structure Part of the I. Army Corps
First World War First World War
Battle of Tannenberg
Battle of the Masurian Lakes
Battle for Łódź
Battle for Verdun

The 1st Division , also known as the 1st Infantry Division for the duration of the mobile relationship , was a large unit of the Prussian Army .

structure

The division was part of the I. Army Corps . You were subject to:

Peace structure 1914

Organization of war during mobilization in 1914

Division of War of March 8, 1918

  • 1st Infantry Brigade
    • Grenadier Regiment "Kronprinz" (1st East Prussian) No. 1
    • Grenadier Regiment "King Friedrich Wilhelm I." (2nd East Prussian) No. 3
    • Infantry Regiment "Duke Karl von Mecklenburg" (6th East Prussian) No. 43
    • Machine Gun Sniper Division No. 31
    • 3rd Squadron / Uhlan Regiment "Graf zu Dohna" (East Prussian) No. 8
  • Artillery Commander No. 1
  • Pioneer -Bataillon no. 110
  • Division News Commander No. 1

history

The large association was originally founded in March 1816 as a troop brigade in Königsberg and expanded to the 1st division on September 5, 1818. The command remained in Königsberg until it was dissolved in 1919 .

Battle calendar

An IR43 soldier and a grenadier, probably GR 1 military police , with captured Russian Uhlans after the Battle of Tannenberg

1914

The Zwinin as a postcard of the Grenadier Regiment "Kronprinz" (1st East Prussian) No. 1

1915

  • until January 8th - Battle of Rawka-Bzura (east of Bolimów )
  • 0January 7th to 25th - transport to Carpathian Ukraine
  • January 25-28 - Battle of Vezerszallas
  • January 29th to 30th - Battle at the Verecke Pass
  • January 31 to February 2 - Battle of the Lysa Pass
  • 0February 3 to 4 - Battle of Orawa
  • 0February 5 to April 9 - Storming of the Zwinin
  • April 10 to May 12 - Battle of Koziowa
  • April 24th - Storming of the Ostry
  • May 12-17 - Persecution in the Carpathians
  • May 18 to June 3 - Battle of Stryi
  • 0June 4-9 - Persecution in Galicia
  • June 10-22 - Battle of Zydaczow
  • June 23-27 - crossing over the Dniester
  • June 27-29 - Battle of the Gnila-Lipa
  • June 30th to July 6th - Persecution between Gnila-Lipa and Zlota-Lipa
  • July 15-18 - Battle of Maslomencze
  • July 19-30 - Battle of Hrubieszow
  • July 31 - Battle of Strelcze
  • 0August 1st to 3rd - Battle of Cholm
  • August 11-12 - Battle of the Ucherka
  • August 13-17 - Battle of Wlodawa
  • August 18 to 24 - Attack on Brest-Litovsk
  • August 25-26 - Brest-Litovsk is captured
  • August 27-28 - persecution on Kobrin
  • August 31 to September 1 - Battle of Horodec
  • 0September 4-6 - Battle of Drohiczyn-Chomsk
  • 0September 8-15 - persecution to Pinsk
  • September 17 to October 10 - Battle of Pinsk and Logoschin
  • September 25th to 26th - crossing over the Styr
  • September 28 to October 1 - Battle of Kormin and the Putilowka in the Pripet Marshes
  • 0October 5 to November 14 - Battles on the Styr
  • 0November 1 to 12 - Battles near Lissowo-Budki-Nowosielki
  • November 13th - Battle of Czartorysk
  • from November 15th - position battle on the Styr
    • from December 31st - battle near Tschaplin

1916

  • until February 1st - position battle on the Styr
    • until January 1st - battle near Tschaplin
  • 0March 5-8 - transport to the west
The Verdun battlefield
  • 0March 5 to April 19 - Reserve of the OHL
  • April 20th to July 17th - Battle of Verdun
    • April 20th to June 1st - Fights between Vaux and Caillette forest
    • April 21 to May 5 - Fights in the Cailette Forest
    • June 1st - storming the Britenschlucht, crossing over the Vaux swamp, storming the Fumin
    • June 2nd - Storming of Damloup
    • June 8th - Storming of the infantry factory west of Fort Vaux
  • July 31st to August 11th - transport east to Bukovina
Romanian infantry
  • August 11th to 31st - August fights at Kirlibaba (Sarata)
    • August 11th to 14th - Fights for Little Kitka and Luczina Stud
    • August 12th - fighting on Capul
    • August 14-16 - Fighting on Boyernikovata
    • August 17th - Storming of the Stara-Obczyno
    • August 18th - Storming of the Măgura
    • August 22nd - Storming of Stara-Wipczyna
  • 0September 1st to 30th - September Battle of the Carpathians
    • September 3 to 8 - Fights for the Zupania, Kruhla-Riczerka, Bojernikowata, Stara-Obczyna, Stara-Wipczyna, Magura
    • September 9-11 - Fights on the Omului and Magurita
    • September 11th to 12th - Fights on Riepieti and Fantana-Stancului
    • September 21-23 - Fights on Margurita, Fantanelele and Omului
  • September 27, 1916 - The . Infantry Regiment "von Boyen" (5 Ostpreußisches) No 41 enters the Association of the 221st Division on
  • September 27, 1917 - Troop inspection of the division by the Kaiser
  • from October 1st - trench warfare in the forest Carpathians
    • October 14th to 17th - Fights at Kirlibaba
    • November 28th to December 6th - Fights on the Gura-Rucada

1917

1918

  • until March 1st - trench warfare in front of Verdun
  • 0March 2nd to 20th - Fighting in the Siegfriedstellung and preparation time for the "Great Battle of France"
  • March 21 to April 6 - Great battle in France
    • March 21-22 - The breakthrough between Gouzeaucourt and Vermand
    • March 23-26 - Pursuit battles in the summer area
    • March 25th - Assault on the heights near Cléry
    • March 27th - Summer transition at Chipilly and coup d'état at Warfusée-Abancourt
    • March 28 to April 5 - Breakthrough through the position near Hamel , east of Amiens
  • 0April 7th to May 3rd - Fights on the Ancre , Somme and Avre
  • April 24 to 26 - Battle of Villers-Bretonneux , Luce and Avre
  • 0May 8th to July 11th - Reserve of the Supreme Army Command
  • July 15-17 - Assault battle on the Marne and Champagne
  • July 18-25 - Defensive battle between Soissons and Reims
  • July 26th to August 2nd - The mobile defensive battle between Marne and Vesle
  • 0September 8th to 16th - Fights in front of and in the Siegfried Line
  • September 26th to October 9th - Trench warfare near Reims
  • October 10-12 - Fighting on the Hunding and Brunhild fronts
  • October 13th to 24th - Trench warfare on the Aisne
  • October 25th to 29th - defensive battle in the Hunding position
  • 0November 5th to 11th - fighting in retreat in front of the Antwerp-Maas position
  • November 12th to December 5th - evacuation of the occupied territory and march home

Commanders

Rank Surname date
Major general Karl Heinrich von Zielinski September 24, 1815 to March 7, 1817
Major general Ludwig von Wrangel 0September 5, 1818 to September 25, 1823
Major General / Lieutenant General Heinrich von Wylich and Lottum September 26, 1823 to November 27, 1829
Major general Karl von Uttenhoven March 30, 1832 to March 29, 1834 (in charge of the tour)
Major general Karl von Uttenhoven March 30th to June 27th, 1834
Major General / Lieutenant General Friedrich Wilhelm of Hesse 0September 7, 1834 to March 29, 1839
Major general August von Kanitz March 30, 1839 to September 9, 1840 (in charge of the tour)
Major general August von Kanitz September 10, 1840 to December 1, 1841
Major General / Lieutenant General Karl August von Esebeck 0April 7, 1842 to March 4, 1845
Major General / Lieutenant General Gustav von Below November 16, 1848 to November 8, 1852
Major General / Lieutenant General Ferdinand von Winning February 17, 1853 to April 5, 1855
Lieutenant General Bernhard von Plehwe 0March 1, 1855 to December 2, 1857
Lieutenant General Karl Friedrich von Steinmetz 0December 3, 1857 to January 28, 1863
Lieutenant General Karl von Griesheim January 29, 1863 to December 6, 1865
Lieutenant General Georg Friedrich von Großmann 0January 4 to September 16, 1866
Lieutenant General Georg Ferdinand von Bentheim September 17, 1866 to January 4, 1871
Major general Wilhelm von Gayl 0January 5 to May 22, 1871 (in charge of the tour)
Major General / Lieutenant General Wilhelm von Gayl May 23, 1871 to March 14, 1873
Lieutenant General Kuno von der Goltz March 15, 1873 to December 21, 1876
Lieutenant General Hugo von Kottwitz December 22, 1876 to February 5, 1878
Lieutenant General Emil from Conrady 0February 5, 1878 to April 11, 1879
Lieutenant General Friedrich von Beckedorff April 12, 1879 to February 4, 1881
Major general Oskar von Nachtigal 0February 5, 1881 to March 29, 1881 (in charge of the tour)
Lieutenant General Oskar von Nachtigal March 30, 1881 to April 16, 1883
Lieutenant General Julius of Verdy du Vernois April 17, 1883 to January 14, 1887
Lieutenant General Hermann von Melchior January 15, 1887 to July 2, 1888
Major general Hans Wilhelm of Werder 0July 7-11, 1888 (entrusted with the tour)
Lieutenant General Hans Wilhelm of Werder July 12, 1888 to June 28, 1891
Lieutenant General Ernst von Petersdorff May 14, 1894 to January 26, 1895
Lieutenant General Ferdinand von Stülpnagel January 27, 1895 to April 3, 1899
Major general Karl Botho zu Eulenburg 0April 4 to 17, 1899 (in charge of the tour)
Lieutenant General Karl Botho zu Eulenburg April 18, 1899 to February 17, 1902
Lieutenant General Hans von Gronau October 27, 1903 to October 1, 1907
Major general Hans von Guretzky-Cornitz March 20 to April 20, 1911 (in charge of the tour)
Lieutenant General Hans von Guretzky-Cornitz April 21, 1911 to January 1, 1914
Lieutenant General Richard from Conta 0January 1, 1914 to July 19, 1916
Lieutenant General Conrad Paschen July 20, 1916 to November 1918
Lieutenant General Detlev Vett February 15 to July 25, 1919

literature

  • The battles and skirmishes of the Great War 1914–1918. Great General Staff, Berlin 1919.
  • Hall of Fame of our Old Army. Published on the basis of official material from the Reichsarchiv , Militär-Verlag, Berlin 1927, pp. 59, 81.
  • 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. 30-32.

Web links

Commons : 1st Division  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Histories of Two Hundred and Fifty One Divisions of the German Army Which Participated in the War. 1914-18. USA 1920
  2. ↑ 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. 90 f.