11th Royal Bavarian Infantry Division

11th Bavarian Infantry Division
active	March 24, 1915 to January 1919
Country
Armed forces	Bavarian Army
Type	Infantry division
structure	See: Outline
First World War	Eastern Front Battle of Gorlice-Tarnów and another offensive in Poland Serbia campaign 1915 Defense against the Brusilov offensive Offensive in Romania Western front Battle for Verdun Double battle on the Aisne and in the Champagne Battle of Flanders
Commanders
Please refer:	List of commanders

Cap badge of the 11th Bavarian Infantry Division, 1916

The 11th Infantry Division was a major unit of the Bavarian army in the First World War .

structure

21st Infantry Brigade
- 3rd Infantry Regiment "Prince Karl of Bavaria"
- Reserve Infantry Regiment 13th
- 22nd Infantry Regiment "Prince Wilhelm von Hohenzollern"
- 2nd squadron / 7. Chevaulegers Regiment "Prince Alfons"
Artillery Commander 11
- 21st Field Artillery Regiment
Engineer Battalion 11th
News Commander 11

April 5th to 27th --- Reserve of the OHL
May 1st to 3rd --- Battle of Gorlice-Tarnów
May 4th to 23rd --- Pursuit battles after the Battle of Gorlice-Tarnów
- May 16 to 23 --- Crossing over the San
  - May 9th to 10th --- Crossing over the Wisłok , to Wzdów , Jaćmierz , Zarszyn , Odrzechowa
  - May 10th --- Crossing over the San to Sanok
May 27th to June 7th --- Fights for Przemyśl
June 17th to 22nd --- Battle of Lviv
June 22 to July 15 --- Persecution battles on the Galician-Polish border
July 15th to 18th --- Battle of Maslomencze
July 19-30 --- Battle of Hrubieszów
July 31 --- Battle of Strzelcze
August 1st to 3rd --- Battle of Cholm
August 7th to 12th --- Battle of the Uherka
August 13th to 17th --- Battle of Wlodawa
August 19 to September 5 --- Chase battles
between Bug and Jasiolda
- August 27-28 --- Persecution on Kobrin
- August 29th to 31st --- Chase through the Pripjet Marshes

September 13th to October 6th --- Second deployment on the northern Serbian border

October 6th to November 28th --- Campaign in Serbia

from November 23rd --- Reserve in Syrmia ( Army Group Mackensen )

until February 6th --- Reserve in Syrmia (Army Group Mackensen)

February 6 to March 1 --- OHL reserve and transport to the west

March 2nd to May 16th --- Battle of Verdun

June 19 to July 27 --- Fights on the Styr and Stochod

July 28th to October 10th --- Battle of Kovel

October 15 to November 9 --- Border fighting in the volcanic mountains (Romania)

October 15 to November 24 --- Mountain fighting at the Rothen Tower Pass (Romania)

November 24th to 27th --- Fights on the lower Alt

December 1st to 5th --- Battle of the Argesch

December 9th to 20th --- Persecution fights at Jalomita- Prahova and Buzaul

January 6 to April 20 --- OHL reserve and transport to the west
April 23rd to 26th --- Position battle in Upper Alsace
April 29th to May 27th --- Double battle on the Aisne and in the Champagne
May 28th to September 19th --- Trench warfare at the Chemin des Dames
July 19 to October 7 --- Reserve of the OHL
October 8th to 11th --- Position battles in Champagne
October 14th to November 13th --- Battle of Flanders (near Passchendaele )
from November 19th --- Trench warfare on the Meuse heights near Lamorville, Spada and St. Mihiel

until March 24th --- Position battles on the Meuse heights near Lamorville, Spada and St. Mihiel
April 10th to 24th --- Battle of the Kemmel
April 30 to May 1 --- Trench warfare in Flanders
May 1st to 27th --- Border guard at the Belgian-Dutch border
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 17th --- Trench warfare west of Soissons
July 18th to 25th --- Defensive battle between Soissons and Reims
July 26th to August 3rd --- Mobile defensive battle between Marne and Vesle
August 9 to September 27 --- Trench warfare in Flanders
28 September to 17 October --- Defensive battle in Flanders
October 18 to 24 --- rearguard battles between Yser and Lys
October 25th to November 1st --- Battle of the Lys
November 2nd to 4th --- Rearguard fighting on both sides of the Scheldt
November 5th to 11th --- fighting in retreat in front of the Antwerp - Meuse position
from November 12th --- evacuation of the occupied territory and march home

Rank	Surname	date
Major General / Lieutenant General	Paul Ritter von Kneussl	March 24, 1915 to August 7, 1918
Major general	August Grossmann	August 8th until the end

Hall of Fame of our Old Army. Published on the basis of official material from the Reich Archives . Military publishing house, Berlin 1927, pp. 64, 106.
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. 206-210.
Official work of the Bavarian War Archives: The Bavarians in the Great War 1914–1918. National-Verlag GmbH. Munich 1923.
Konrad Krafft von Dellmensingen , Friedrichfranz Feeser : The Bavaria book of the world wars 1914-1918. Chr.Belser AG Publishing House, Stuttgart 1930.
Christian Stachelbeck : Military Effectiveness in the First World War. The 11th Bavarian Infantry Division 1915–1918. Paderborn et al. 2010.

↑ 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. 667.