10th Replacement Division (German Empire)

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10. Replacement division

active August 2, 1914 to January 12, 1919
Country German EmpireThe German Imperium German Empire
Armed forces German army
Armed forces army
Type Infantry Division
structure See: Outline
Strength 15,000
First World War Western front
Battle of the Somme
Double battle on the Aisne and in the Champagne
Battle of Flanders

Eastern Front

Commanders
Please refer: List of commanders

The 10th Replacement Division was a major unit of the Prussian army in the First World War .

structure

  • 25th Mixed Replacement Brigade
    • Brigade Replacement Battalion No. 25
    • Brigade Replacement Battalion No. 26
    • Brigade Replacement Battalion No. 27
    • Brigade Replacement Battalion No. 28
    • Brigade Replacement Battalion No. 79
    • Cavalry replacement department Münster / XII. (I. Royal Saxon) Army Corps
    • Field Artillery Replacement Division No. 22
    • Field Artillery Replacement Division No. 43
  • 37th Mixed Replacement Brigade
    • Brigade Replacement Battalion No. 37
    • Brigade Replacement Battalion No. 38
    • Brigade Replacement Battalion No. 39
    • Brigade Replacement Battalion No. 40
    • Cavalry replacement department Hanover / X. Army Corps
    • Field Artillery Replacement Division No. 46
    • Field Artillery Replacement Division No. 62
    • 1st Company / Engineer Battalion No. 10
  • 43rd Mixed Replacement Brigade
    • Brigade Replacement Battalion No. 43
    • Brigade Replacement Battalion No. 44
    • Brigade Replacement Battalion No. 76
    • Brigade Replacement Battalion No. 83
    • Cavalry replacement department Kassel / XI. Army Corps
    • Field Artillery Replacement Division No. 47
    • Field Artillery Replacement Division No. 55
    • 3rd Company / Engineer Battalion No. 11

Division of War of February 20, 1918

  • 43rd Mixed Replacement Brigade
  • Artillery Commander No. 136
    • Field Artillery Regiment No. 95
  • Engineer Battalion No. 510
  • Division Message Commander # 560

Battle calendar

The division was set up with the mobilization on August 2, 1914, was able to be evacuated twelve days after it was set up in the northern Germany area and was relocated to the west. She was assigned to the 6th Army and rallied around Saarlouis . At first the bandage was kept available as an army reserve at Bolchen . She then actively entered the fighting on the Western Front . At the end of 1917 she was briefly deployed on the Eastern Front . After the end of the war, the division began to march back home, where it was demobilized from December 1918 and finally disbanded in January 1919.

1914

1915

  • until April 27th --- Fights on Montsec
  • from April 28th --- Fights at Flirey

1916

  • through September 5th --- Fights at Flirey
    • August 10th to September 5th --- Fights at Richecourt
  • September 6th to 26th --- Battle of the Somme
  • September 28th to November 30th --- Position battles in Champagne
  • December 1st to 15th --- Reserve of the OHL
  • from December 16 --- Position battles in front of Verdun

1917

  • until March 31st --- Position battles in front of Verdun
    • March 4th --- Storming of the Vaux-Kreuz-Höhe
    • March 10th --- Battle of the Brûle Gorge
  • April 1st to 25th --- Position battles in front of Verdun
  • April 25th to May 24th --- Double battle on the Aisne and in the Champagne
  • May 30th to August 25th --- Position battles in front of Verdun, near Remenauville, Regniéville and Fey-en-Haye
  • August 25th to October 12th --- Battle of Flanders
  • October 13-20 --- Transport to the East
  • October 23 to December 7 --- Position battles between Dniester and Zbrucz , on the Zbrucz and between Zbrucz and Sereth
  • December 8th to 17th --- Truce
  • from December 17th --- armistice

1918

  • through January 7th --- Armistice
  • January 1st to 7th --- Transport to the west
  • January 8th to February 20th --- Reserve of the OHL
  • February 21 to April 20 --- Trench warfare in Flanders and Artois
  • April 20th to 29th --- Battle of the Kemmel
  • April 30 to July 3 --- Trench warfare in Flanders
  • 3rd July to 4th August --- Trench warfare in Flanders and Artois
  • August 5th to September 6th --- Fighting on the Ypres Front - La Bassée
  • September 7th to October 6th --- Fighting on the Armentières- Lens front
  • October 6th to 8th --- Defensive battle between Cambrai and St. Quentin
  • October 9th to November 4th --- Fights in front of and in the Hermann position
  • November 5th to 11th --- fighting in retreat in front of the Antwerp - Meuse position
  • November 12th to December 19th --- Evacuation of the occupied territory and march home

Commanders

Rank Surname date
General of the Infantry z.D. Georg Freiherr von Gayl August 2, 1914 to September 18, 1916
Lieutenant General George of Logan September 19, 1916 to August 19, 1917
Major general Hermann Rumschöttel August 20, 1917 to January 12, 1919

literature

  • Hall of Fame of our Old Army , published on the basis of official material from the Reichsarchiv , Militär-Verlag, Berlin 1927, pp. 64, 105
  • 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. 188-190

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Reichsarchiv (Ed.): The World War 1914 to 1918, first volume: The border battles in the west , ES Mittler & Sohn , Berlin 1925, p. 71
  2. ↑ a b c 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. 200