101st Division (German Empire)

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The 101st Division was a major unit of the Prussian army in the First World War .

history

The division was assembled on May 9, 1915 on the Eastern Front and then deployed there. Since July 14, 1917, the troops of the division were independent, so that the association disappeared as such and only as a division staff z. b. V. No. 101 was led. This was finally dissolved on February 6, 1918.

Battle calendar

1915

  • May 12th to 24th --- Upper East Reserve
  • May 24th to June 18th --- First deployment on the Serbian border with the kuk army group Terzstyansky
  • June 22nd to 24th --- Crossing at Cwitowa
  • June 23 to 27 --- Crossing over the Dniester
    • June 25th --- Capture of Kozara and Wierbowiec
  • June 26th to 27th --- Fights for Bukaczowce-Poswierz-Cerniow
  • June 27 to 29 --- Battle of the Gnila Lipa near Kunicze-Obelnica-Koniuszki
  • June 30th to July 6th --- Persecution between Gnila Lipa and Zlota Lipa
  • July 7th to 16th --- Persecution battles on the Galician-Polish border
  • July 16-18 --- Krasnostov breakthrough battle
  • July 19-28 --- Fighting following the breakthrough battle of Krasnostov
  • July 29th to 30th --- Breakthrough Battle of Biskupice
  • July 31 to August 19 --- Pursuit battles from Wieprz to the Bug
  • August 19 to 25 --- Chase battles between Bug and Jasiolda
  • September 4 to October 6 --- Second deployment on the Serbian northern border
  • October 6th to November 28th --- Campaign in Serbia
  • from December 1st --- deployment on the Greek border

1916

  • until March 3rd --- Deployment on the Greek border
  • from March 4th --- Trench warfare on the Greek border

1917

  • until June 30th --- Trench warfare on the Greek border
  • June 24th to September 14th --- Position battles between Lake Ohrid and Dudica
  • September 19 to October 27 --- Trench warfare between the upper reaches of the Skumba and Dudica
  • October 27 to December 9 --- trench warfare on Sereth and Susita
  • from December 10th --- Armistice

1918

  • until January 24th --- Armistice

structure

Division of War of May 15, 1915

Commanders

Rank Surname date
Lieutenant General Rudolf Reiser May 9 to September 16, 1915
Lieutenant General Richard von Kraewel September 17 to November 18, 1915
Major general Adolf von der Esch November 19, 1915 to May 22, 1917
Lieutenant General Theodor Mengelbier May 23, 1917 to February 6, 1918

literature

  • Hall of Fame of our Old Army. Published on the basis of official material from the Reichsarchiv , Militär-Verlag, Berlin 1927, pp. 73, 155–156.
  • 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. 582-583.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dermot Bradley (ed.), Günter Wegner: Occupation of the German Army 1815-1939. Volume 1: The higher command posts 1815–1939. Biblio Publishing House. Osnabrück 1990. ISBN 3-7648-1780-1 . P. 144.