12th Royal Bavarian Infantry Division
12th Infantry Division |
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active | July 27, 1916 to December 19, 1918 |
Country | Kingdom of Bavaria |
Armed forces | Bavarian Army |
Type | Infantry division |
structure | See: Outline |
First World War |
Romania
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Commanders | |
Please refer: | List of commanders |
The 12th Infantry Division was a major unit of the Bavarian army in the First World War .
structure
Division of War of August 19, 1916
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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
- 26th Infantry Regiment
- 27th Infantry Regiment
- 28th Infantry Regiment
- 1st Squadron / 7th Chevaulegers Regiment "Prince Alfons"
- 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 After the armistice in Romania, the unit was withdrawn from there and moved to the Western Front at the end of April 1918 .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
- 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
- May 27th --- Storming the heights of the Chemin des Dames
- 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 |
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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
- ↑ 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.