119th Division (German Empire)

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119th Division

active March 16, 1915 to December 19, 1918
Country German EmpireThe German Imperium German Empire
Armed forces Prussian Army
Type Infantry division
structure See: Outline
First World War Eastern Front
Battle of Gorlice-Tarnów

Western front

Battle of Flanders
Battle of Cambrai
Great battle in France
Commanders
Please refer: List of commanders

The 119th Infantry Division was a major unit of the Prussian army in the First World War .

structure

Division of War of March 20, 1918

  • 237th Infantry Brigade
    • Infantry Regiment "Graf Kirchbach" (1st Lower Silesian) No. 46
    • 3rd Posen Infantry Regiment No. 58
    • Reserve Infantry Regiment No. 46
    • Sturmabteilung No. 119
    • MG Sniper Division No. 15
    • 4th Squadron / Jäger Regiment on Horseback No. 1
  • Artillery Commander No. 119
    • Field Artillery Regiment No. 237
    • 1st Battalion / Foot Artillery Regiment No. 27
  • Engineer Battalion No. 119
  • Division News Commander No. 119

Battle calendar

The division was established on March 16, 1915 and fought on the Eastern Front until May 1917 . Then she moved to the Western Front , where she stayed until the end of the war. She then marched back home, where it was finally disbanded on December 19, 1918.

1915

  • March 25th to April 23rd --- Reserve of the OHL
  • April 23-30 --- 11th Army deployed
  • 0May 1st to 3rd --- Battle of Gorlice-Tarnów
  • 0May 4th to 23rd --- Pursuit battles after the Battle of Gorlice-Tarnów
    • May 16 to 23 --- Crossing over the San
  • May 24th to 26th --- Fights near Radymno and San
  • May 27th to June 7th --- Fights for Przemyśl
  • June 12th to 15th --- the breakthrough battle of Lubaczów
  • June 22nd to July 16th --- Persecution battles on the Galician-Polish border
  • July 16-18 --- breakthrough battle of Krasnostav
  • July 19-28 --- Fighting in the wake of the breakthrough battle of Krasnostav
  • July 29th to 30th --- Breakthrough Battle of Biskupice
  • July 31 to August 19 --- Pursuit battles from Wieprz to Bug
  • August 18 to 24 --- Attack on Brest-Litovsk
  • 0September 4th to 12th --- Fights on the Jasiolda and on the Zelwianka
  • September 13th to 18th --- Battle of Slonim
  • September 19 to 24 --- Fighting on the upper Shchara-Servetsch
  • from September 25th --- position battles on the upper Shchara-Serwetsch

1916

  • to March 21st --- Trench warfare on the upper Shchara-Servetsch
  • March 22nd to April 30th --- Battle of Lake Naroch
  • March 22nd to June 25th --- Position battles between Krewo-Smorgon-Narotsch-See and Tveretsch
  • 0July 2-7 --- Fighting southeast of Tlumacz
  • 0July 2 to 9 --- Battle of Baranowitschi (parts of the division)
  • 0July 7th to August 6th --- Trench warfare southeast of Tlumacz
  • July 10th to August 9th --- Battle of Baranowitschi-Gorodishche (parts of the division)
  • 0August 8-13 --- Fighting east and north of Stanislaw
  • August 13th to September 15th --- Position battle on the Bystrzyca
  • from 15 September --- position battles on the Narajowka, between Narajowka and Zlota Lipa and on the Ceniowka

1917

  • until May 2nd --- Position battles on the Narajowka, between Narajowka and Zlota Lipa and on the Ceniowka
  • 0May 2-8 --- Transport to the West
  • 0May 8th to 30th --- Border patrol on the Belgian-Dutch border
  • May 27th to October 20th --- Battle of Flanders
  • October 22nd to November 20th --- Border guards on the Belgian-Dutch border
  • from November 20th --- fighting in the Siegfried position

1918

  • until January 31st --- fighting in the Siegfriedstellung
  • 0February 1 to March 20 --- Trench warfare in Artois and deployment to the Great Battle of France
  • March 21st to April 6th --- Great battle in France
    • March 21 to 23 --- Monchy-Cambrai breakthrough battle
    • March 24th to 25th --- Battle of Bapaume
  • 0April 7th to 16th --- Fights between Arras and Albert
  • April 17th to 18th --- Battle of Armentières
  • April 20th to 30th --- Position battles in Flanders and Artois
  • 0May 1st to August 4th --- Trench warfare in French Flanders and Artois
  • 0August 8th to 20th --- Defensive battle between Somme and Avre
  • August 22nd to September 2nd --- Albert Péronne battle
  • 0September 3 to 7 --- Fighting in front of the Siegfried Front
  • 0September 8th to October 8th --- Defensive battle between Cambrai and St. Quentin
  • 0October 9th to 13th --- Fights in front of and in the Hermann position
  • October 18 to 24 --- rearguard battles between Yser and Lys
  • October 25th to November 1st --- Battle of the Lys
  • 0November 5th to 11th --- fighting in retreat in front of the Antwerp - Meuse position
  • November 12th to December 19th --- Evacuation of the occupied territory and march home

Commanders

Rank Surname date
Major general Karl von Behr March 16, 1915 to September 5, 1916
Major General / Lieutenant General Paul Grünert 0September 6, 1916 to November 13, 1917
Major general Karl Wilhelm Oskar Berger November 14, 1917 to August 23, 1918
Major general Eduard of Jena August 23 to September 3, 1918
Lieutenant General Gustav Hagenberg 0September 4, 1918 until the end of the war

literature

  • Hall of Fame of our Old Army. Published on the basis of official material from the Reichsarchiv , Militär-Verlag, Berlin 1927, pp. 74, 160–161.