113th Division (German Empire)

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The 113th Division was a major unit of the Prussian army in the First World War .

history

The division was on 20 March 1915 near Sedan compiled and later in the war exclusively on the Western Front used. After the armistice , it evacuated the occupied territories, marched home, where the demobilization took place and, on January 22, 1919, the association was dissolved.

Battle calendar

1915

  • March 25th to April 8th --- Reserve of the OHL
  • April 8th to July 30th --- Fights between Meuse and Moselle
  • July 30th to September 29th --- Reserve of the OHL
  • September 29th to October 25th --- Autumn battle in Champagne
  • from October 25th --- Fights between Meuse and Moselle

1916

  • until February 28th --- Fights between Meuse and Moselle
  • February 28th to April 12th --- Battle of Verdun
  • April 13th to September 26th --- Fights on the Aisne
  • September 27th to October 22nd --- Battle of the Somme
  • from October 23rd --- trench warfare between Meuse and Moselle

1917

  • until January 16 --- Trench warfare between Meuse and Moselle
  • January 17 to February 14 --- OHL reserve at Army Department B
  • February 15 to April 20 --- Position battle in Upper Alsace
  • April 23 to May 27 --- Double battle on the Aisne and in the Champagne
  • May 28 to October 23 --- Trench warfare at the Chemin des Dames
  • October 24th to November 2nd --- rearguard battles on and south of the Ailette
  • from November 3rd --- trench warfare north of the Ailette

1918

  • until February 21 --- Trench warfare north of the Ailette
  • February 26th to March 20th --- resting time behind the 18th Army
  • March 21st to April 6th --- Great battle in France
  • April 7th to May 26th --- 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 14th --- Trench warfare between Aisne and Marne
  • July 15-17 --- Attack battle on the Marne and Champagne
  • July 18th to 25th --- Defensive battle between Soissons and Reims
  • July 26th to August 3rd --- Mobile defensive battle between Marne and Vesle
  • 4th to 9th August --- position battles on the Vesle
  • August 11th to September 3rd --- Defensive battle between Somme and Oise
  • September 3 to 26 --- Fighting in front of the Siegfried Front
  • September 27th to October 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- Maas position
  • from November 12th --- evacuation of the occupied territory and march home

structure

Division of War of March 25, 1915

Division of War of March 12, 1918

  • 225th Infantry Brigade
    • Reserve Infantry Regiment No. 32
    • Fusilier regiment "General-Feldmarschall Graf Blumenthal" (Magdeburgisches) No. 36
    • 3rd Magdeburg Infantry Regiment No. 66
    • MG Sniper Division No. 34
    • 3rd squadron / cuirassier regiment "Graf Gessler" (Rheinisches) No. 8
  • Artillery Commander No. 113
    • Field Artillery Regiment No. 225
    • Foot Artillery Battalion No. 407
  • Engineer Battalion No. 113
  • Division News Commander No. 113

Commanders

Rank Surname date
Lieutenant General Georg Karl August Hildebrandt March 20 to May 9, 1915
Lieutenant General Max von Wienskowski May 10, 1915 to June 17, 1916
Lieutenant General Leo Sunday June 18, 1916 to February 24, 1917
Major General / Lieutenant General Walter von Bergmann February 25 to September 21, 1917
Major general Friedrich Wilhelm Karl von Passow September 22nd to January 22nd, 1919

literature

  • Hall of Fame of our Old Army. Published on the basis of official material from the Reich Archives . Military publishing house, Berlin 1927, pp. 74, 159.
  • 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. 603-605.

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. 147.