12th Royal Bavarian Infantry Division

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12th Infantry Division

active July 27, 1916 to December 19, 1918
Country Flag of Bavaria (striped) .svg Kingdom of Bavaria
Armed forces Bavarian Army
Type Infantry division
structure See: Outline
First World War Romania

Western front

Commanders
Please refer: List of commanders

The 12th Infantry Division was a major unit of the Bavarian army in the First World War .

structure

Commemorative postcard of the 12th Infantry Division, drawn and signed by Commander Hugo von Huller , published by Divisional Pastor Jakob Weis

Division of War of August 19, 1916

  • 22nd Infantry Brigade
    • 26th Infantry Regiment
    • 27th Infantry Regiment
    • 28th Infantry Regiment
    • 22nd Field Artillery Regiment
    • Foot Artillery Battalion 12
    • Pioneer Company 22
    • Headlight cable 22
    • Double telephone train 12

Division of War of February 20, 1918

  • 22nd Infantry Brigade
  • Artillery Commander 12
    • 22nd Field Artillery Regiment
  • Engineer Company 22
  • Division News Commander 12

Battle calendar

The division was set up on July 27, 1916 at the Grafenwoehr military training area. After a brief deployment in Upper Alsace , the relocation to the Romanian front took place . After the armistice in Romania, the unit was withdrawn from there and moved to the Western Front at the end of April 1918 . Here she worked until the end of the war and returned home after the Armistice of Compiègne . There, the division was demobilized and finally dissolved on December 19, 1918.

1916

Front of the book of remembrance of the Romanian fights published in 1917 by the division pastor Jakob Weis
  • July 28th to October 4th --- Position battle in Upper Alsace
  • October 4th to 9th --- Transport to the East
  • October 10th to November 28th --- Mountain fighting at the Törzburger Pass
    • October 16 to November 28 --- Fights at Dragoslavele , Mt. Mateias
    • October 20th to 21st --- Storming Mt. Klabucetu
    • October 25-29 --- Fights at Leresti
    • November 6th to 8th --- Fights at Candesti and Albesti
  • November 29th to 30th --- Chase battles near Campulung
    • November 29th --- Campulung is taken
  • December 1st to 5th --- Battle of the Argesch
  • December 4-8 --- Persecution after the Battle of the Argesch
  • December 9th to 20th --- Persecution battles on Jalomita - Prahova and Buzaul
  • December 21-27 --- Battle of Rimnicul-Sarat
  • from December 28th --- pursuit battles after the battle of Rimnicul-Sarat

1917

  • until January 3rd --- Pursuit battles after the Battle of Rimnicul-Sarat
  • January 4th to 8th --- Battle of the Putna
  • January 6th to August 5th --- Trench warfare on the Putna and Sereth
    • July 22nd to 25th --- Defensive battles on the Sereth
  • July 26th to December 9th --- Trench warfare on Sereth and Susita
    • August 6th to September 3rd --- breakthrough battle on the Putna and Susita
  • from December 10th --- Armistice on the Romanian front

1918

  • until April 30th --- Armistice on the Romanian front
  • April 30th to May 4th --- Transport to the west
  • May 5th to 26th --- Trench warfare near Reims
  • 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 8th to 20th --- Defensive battle between Somme and Avre
  • August 22nd to 27th --- Battle of Albert - Péronne
  • August 28th to September 4th --- Fighting on the Ypres Front - La Bassée
  • August 28 to September 27 --- Trench warfare in Flanders
  • 28 September to 13 October --- Defensive battle in Flanders
  • October 13-14 --- Fighting on the Armentières - Lens front
  • October 15th to 19th --- Fighting between Deule Canal and Scheldt
  • October 18 to 24 --- rearguard battles between Yser and Lys
  • October 20th to 25th --- Battle of the Lys
  • 25 October to 1 November --- fighting to withdraw from the Antwerp - Meuse position
  • November 12th to December 19th --- Evacuation of the occupied territory and march home

Commanders

Rank Surname date
Lieutenant General Hugo Ritter von Huller July 27, 1916 to June 5, 1917
Major general Karl Freiherr von Nagel zu Aichberg June 6, 1917 to December 19, 1918

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. 64, 108.
  • 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. 222-224.
  • 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 bookstore. Stuttgart 1930.

Individual evidence

  1. 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.