105th Division (German Empire)

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The 105th Infantry Division was a major unit of the Prussian army in the First World War .

history

The division was assembled on May 9, 1915 near Thorn and then deployed on the Eastern Front. Pulled out of the front at the end of October 1917 and relocated to the West , she fought here until the end of the war. She then marched back home, was demobilized and finally dissolved in January 1919.

Battle calendar

1915

  • May 24th to June 15th --- First deployment on the Serbian border with the kuk army group Terzstyansky
  • June 23 to 27 --- Crossing over the Dniester
  • June 27-29 --- Battle of the Gnila Lipa
  • June 30th to July 4th --- Persecution between Gnila Lipa and Zlota Lipa
  • July 5th 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
  • September 19 to 20 --- Chase battles between Bug and Jasiolda
  • September 21 to October 6 --- Second deployment on the northern Serbian border
  • October 6th to November 28th --- Campaign in Serbia
  • from November 28th --- trench warfare on the Macedonian front

1916

  • to June 12th --- Trench warfare on the Macedonian front
  • June 12th to July 7th --- Trench warfare on the Strypa between Wosuszka and Sereth
  • July 7th to August 6th --- Fighting southeast of Tlumacz
  • August 7th --- Battle of Tlumacz
  • August 8-13 --- Fighting east and north of Stanislaw
  • August 13th to September 1st --- Position battle on the Bystrzyca
  • September 2nd to 8th --- First battle on the Narajowka and Zlota Lipa
  • September 9th to 10th --- Position battles on the Narajowka between Narajowka and Zlota Lipa and on the Ceniowka
  • September 11th to 15th --- Reserve of the OHL
  • September 16 to October 24 --- Trench warfare in front of Riga
  • from October 25th --- position battles in front of Jacobstadt

1917

  • until September 22nd --- position battles in front of Jacobstadt
  • September 23 to October 28 --- Trench warfare from Kreuzburg- Kokenhusen
  • October 28th to November 4th --- Transport to the west
  • from November 5th --- Trench warfare near Reims

1918

  • until March 31st --- trench warfare near Reims
  • April 1-7 --- Great battle in France
  • April 7th to May 25th --- Fights on the Avre and near Montdidier and Noyon
  • May 27th to June 13th --- Battle of Soissons and Reims
  • June 14th to July 4th --- Position battles between Oise , Aisne and Marne
  • July 5th to 15th --- Trench warfare west of Soissons
  • July 15th to August 7th --- Fights on the Avre and Matz
  • August 8 to September 3 --- Defensive battle between the Somme and Oise
  • September 4th to 18th --- Fighting in front of the Siegfried Front
  • September 19 to October 9 --- Fighting in the Siegfried Front
  • October 10th to November 4th --- Fights in front of and in the Hermann position
  • November 5th to 11th --- fighting in retreat in front of the Antwerp- Maas position
  • from November 12th --- evacuation of the occupied territory and march home

structure

Division of War of May 15, 1915

Division of War of June 16, 1918

Commanders

Rank Surname date
Lieutenant General Georg Karl August Hildebrandt May 9-30, 1915
Major general Adolf von der Esch June 1 to November 18, 1915
Lieutenant General Richard von Kraewel November 19, 1915 to September 5, 1916
Major general Karl von Behr September 6, 1916 to July 9, 1917
Major general Georg Schaer July 10, 1917 to November 20, 1918
Major general Rudolf von Borries from January 4, 1919

Well-known members of the division

  • Hans Vogel (1881–1945), exile chairman of the SPD until 1945

literature

  • Hall of Fame of our Old Army. Published on the basis of official material from the Reichsarchiv , Militär-Verlag, Berlin 1927, pp. 73, 157.
  • 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. 589-591.

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. 145.