107th Division (German Empire)

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The 107th Infantry Division was a major unit of the Prussian army in the First World War .

history

The division was assembled in Glogau on May 26, 1915 and then deployed on the Eastern Front. In mid-November 1917 the division was transferred to the Western Front , where the division was in action until the end of the war. She then marched back home, was demobilized and finally dissolved at the end of January 1919.

Battle calendar

1915

  • June 17th to 22nd --- Battle of Lviv
  • June 22nd to July 7th --- Persecution battles on the Galician-Polish border
  • July 13th to 18th --- Battle of Maslomencze
  • July 19-30 --- Battle of Hrubieszow
  • July 31 --- Battle of Strelcze
  • August 1st to 3rd --- Battle of Cholm
  • 7th to 12th August --- Battle of the Ucherka
  • August 13th to 17th --- Battle of Wlodawa
  • August 18 to 24 --- Attack on Brest-Litovsk
  • August 25-26 --- capture of Brest-Litovsk
  • August 27-28 --- Persecution on Kobrin
  • August 29th to 31st --- Chase through the Pripjet Marshes
  • August 31st to September 1st --- Battle of Horodec
  • September 4 to 6 --- Battle of Drohiczyn-Chomsk
  • September 8-15 --- Persecution by Pinsk
  • September 16th --- Capture of Pinsk
  • September 17th to October 6th --- Second deployment on the Serbian border
  • October 6th to November 28th --- Campaign in Serbia
  • November 28 to December 31 --- Trench warfare on the Macedonian border

1916

  • January 5th to March 17th --- Reserve of the " Scholtz " Army Department
  • March 17th to May 1st --- Position battles between Krewo-Smorgon-Narotschsee-Tweretsch
  • March 18 to March 27 ---- Battle of Postawy
  • May 1st to 28th --- Position battles in front of Dünaburg
  • May 29th to June 20th --- Position battles between Krewo-Smorgon-Narotschsee-Tveretsch
  • June 21 to July 15 --- Fights on the Styr and Stochod
  • July 16-27 --- Fights on the upper Styr-Stochod
  • July 28th to November 4th --- Battle of Kovel
  • from November 5th --- trench warfare on the upper Styr-Stochod

1917

  • until November 11th --- position battles on the upper Styr-Stochod
  • November 11th to 20th --- Transport to the west
  • from November 19th --- Fights in the Siegfried position

1918

  • until January 31st --- fighting in the Siegfriedstellung
  • February 1 to March 20 --- Fighting in the Siegfriedstellung and preparation time for the Great Battle in France
  • March 21st to April 6th --- Great battle in France
  • April 7th to April 29th --- Fights on the Ancre , Somme and Avre
  • April 30th to May 18th --- Fights between Arras and Albert
  • May 19th to August 7th --- Fights on the Ancre, Somme and Avre
  • August 8th to 20th --- Defensive battle between Somme and Avre
  • August 22nd to September 2nd --- Albert Péronne battle
  • September 12th to 14th --- Evasion battles in the Mihiel Arch
  • September 15 to October 10 --- Trench warfare in the Woëvre plain and west of the Moselle
  • October 11-14 --- Trench warfare in the Woëvre plain
  • October 15 to November 11 --- Defensive battle in Champagne and on the Meuse
  • from November 12th --- evacuation of the occupied territory and march home

structure

Division of War of June 3, 1915

Division of War of March 2, 1918

  • 213rd Infantry Brigade
  • Artillery Commander No. 157
    • Field Artillery Regiment No. 213
    • 6th Bavarian Reserve Foot Artillery Battalion
  • Engineer Battalion No. 107
  • Division News Commander No. 107

Commanders

Rank Surname date
Major General / Lieutenant General Otto von Moser May 25, 1915 to June 13, 1916
Major general Viktor Hahndorff June 14 to November 15, 1916
Major general Otto Havenstein November 16, 1916 to January 23, 1919

literature

  • Otto von Moser : Campaign records 1914–1918. Chr. Belser AG publishing bookstore. Stuttgart 1920.
  • Hall of Fame of our Old Army. Published on the basis of official material from the Reichsarchiv , Militär-Verlag, Berlin 1927, pp. 73, 157–158.
  • 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. 592-594.

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.