12th Reserve Division (German Empire)

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12th Reserve Division

active August 2, 1914 to January 20, 1919
Country German EmpireThe German Imperium German Empire
Armed forces Prussian Army
Type Infantry division
structure See: Outline
Insinuation VI. Reserve Corps
commander
Please refer: Commanders

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

structure

Organization of war during mobilization in 1914

  • 22nd Reserve Infantry Brigade
  • 23rd Reserve Infantry Brigade
    • Reserve Infantry Regiment No. 22
    • Reserve Infantry Regiment No. 51
  • Reserve Uhlan Regiment No. 4
  • Reserve Field Artillery Regiment No. 12
  • 1st Reserve Company / Silesian Pioneer Battalion No. 6
  • 2nd Reserve Company / Silesian Pioneer Battalion No. 6

Division of War of February 20, 1918

  • 22nd Reserve Infantry Brigade
    • Reserve Infantry Regiment No. 23
    • Reserve Infantry Regiment No. 38
    • Reserve Infantry Regiment No. 51
    • 2nd Squadron / Reserve Hussar Regiment No. 4
  • Artillery Commander No. 99
    • Reserve Field Artillery Regiment No. 12
  • Engineer Battalion No. 312
  • Division News Commander # 412

Battle calendar

1914

1915

  • 0January 1st to December 31st - trench warfare around Verdun

1916

  • until February 20 - trench warfare around Verdun
  • February 21 to May 15 - Battle of Verdun
  • May 16 to June 17 - Trench warfare in Flanders and Artois
  • June 18-25 - Reserve of the OHL
  • June 26th to July 30th - Battle of the Somme
  • July 30th to September 22nd - Trench warfare in Flanders and Artois
  • September 23-25 ​​- Battle of the Somme
  • from September 26th - trench warfare in Flanders and Artois

1917

  • until March 25th - trench warfare in Flanders and Artois
  • March 27 to June 20 - Fighting in front of the Siegfried Front
  • June 21 to August 6 - fighting in the Siegfried Line
  • 0August 7th to 30th - Summer battle in Flanders
  • 0September 1st to November 7th - fighting in the Siegfriedstellung
  • November 12th to December 3rd - Autumn battle in Flanders
  • from December 4th - trench warfare in Flanders

1918

  • February 15th - trench warfare in Flanders
  • February 15 to April 30 - Trench warfare in Flanders and Artois
  • 0May 1 to August 4 - Trench warfare in French Flanders and Artois
  • 05th to 23rd August - Fighting off the Ypres Front - La Bassée
  • August 24th to September 3rd - Battle of Monchy - Bapaume
  • 0September 5th to 26th - fighting in front of the Siegfried Front
  • September 27th to October 14th - fighting on the Armentières - Lens front
  • October 15-19 - fighting between Deûle Canal and Scheldt
  • October 20-22 - fighting in the Hermann position on the Scheldt
  • October 31 to November 4 - fights in front of and in the Hermann position
  • 0November 5th to 11th - fighting in retreat in front of the Antwerp- Maas position
  • from November 12th - evacuation of the occupied territory and march home

Commanders

Rank Surname date
Lieutenant General Hinko von Lüttwitz 0August 2 to November 29, 1914
Lieutenant General Hans von Carlowitz November 30, 1914 to August 25, 1915
Lieutenant General Karl von Kehler August 26, 1915 to August 21, 1916
Major general Konrad Dumrath August 21, 1916 to March 13, 1918
Lieutenant General Otto von Arnim March 13, 1918 to January 20, 1919

literature

  • Hall of Fame of our Old Army. Published on the basis of official material from the Reichsarchiv , Militär-Verlag, Berlin 1927, pp. 64, 108-109.
  • 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. 33-35.

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. 170.