15th Reserve Division (German Empire)

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15th Reserve Division

active August 2, 1914 to January 10, 1919
Country German EmpireThe German Imperium German Empire
Armed forces Prussian Army
Type Infantry Division
structure See: Outline
Insinuation VIII Reserve Corps

The 15th Reserve Division was a major unit of the Prussian army in the First World War .

structure

Organization of war during mobilization in 1914

  • 30th Reserve Infantry Brigade
    • Reserve Infantry Regiment No. 25
    • Reserve Infantry Regiment No. 69
  • 32nd Reserve Infantry Brigade
    • Reserve Infantry Regiment No. 17
    • Reserve Infantry Regiment No. 30
  • Reserve Uhlan Regiment No. 5
  • Reserve Field Artillery Regiment No. 15
  • 4th company / 1. Rhenish Pioneer Battalion No. 8

Division of War of June 28, 1918

  • 30th Reserve Infantry Brigade
  • Artillery Commander No. 104
    • Reserve Field Artillery Regiment No. 15
    • Foot Artillery Regiment No. 125
  • Engineer Battalion No. 315
  • Division News Commander No. 415

Battle calendar

1914

  • August 22nd to 23rd --- Battle of Neufchâteau
  • August 24th to 29th --- Battle of the Meuse
  • 30 August to 5 September --- pursuit from the Meuse to Marne
  • September 6th to 12th --- Battle of the Marne
  • September 13th to December 19th --- Trench warfare in Champagne
  • December 20th to 30th --- Battle of Perthes les Hurles, Souain and Beausèjour
  • from December 31st --- Trench warfare in Champagne

1915

  • until January 7th --- Position battles in Champagne
  • January 8-13 --- Battle of Perthes les Hurles and Beauséjour
  • January 14th to 31st --- Position battles in Champagne
  • February 1st to 5th --- Battle of Perthes les Hurlus and Massiges
  • February 6th to 15th --- Position battles in Champagne
  • February 16-19 --- Battle of Perthes les Hurlus and Beauséjour
  • February 21st to March 20th --- Winter battle in Champagne
  • March 21st to September 21st --- Trench warfare in Champagne
  • September 22nd to October 1st --- Autumn battle in Champagne
  • 2nd to 7th October --- 3rd Army Reserve
  • from October 8th --- fighting on the Aisne

1916

  • until September 4th --- Fights on the Aisne
  • September 5th to November 26th --- Battle of the Somme
  • from November 27th --- Trench warfare on the Somme

1917

  • until March 15th --- Trench warfare on the Somme
  • March 16-21 --- Fighting in front of the Siegfried Front
  • March 21 to April 10 --- Trench warfare on the Aisne
  • April 11th to May 6th --- Spring battle near Arras
  • May 6th to 15th --- Trench warfare on the Yser
  • May 15 to 19 --- Upper East Reserve
  • May 19 to June 17 --- Trench warfare one of the Shchara-Servetsch
  • June 16 to 28 --- Trench warfare on the Narajowka, between Narajowka and Zlota-Lipa and on the Ceniowka
  • June 29th to July 3rd --- Defense against the Russian summer offensive - Battle of Brzezany
  • July 4th to 20th --- Position battles on the Narajowka, between Narajowka, Zlota-Lipa and Ceniowka
  • July 21st to 30th --- Persecution battles in Eastern Galicia
  • July 31 to August 2 --- Fights around Zbrucz and on the Sereth
  • August 3rd to December 7th --- Position battles between the Dniester, on the Zbrucz and between Zbrucz and Sereth
  • December 8th to 17th --- Truce
  • December 17th to 31st --- Armistice

1918

  • January 3rd to April 23rd --- Position battles in front of Verdun
  • April 23 to June 25 --- Trench warfare in French Flanders and Artois
  • June 25th to August 20th --- Fights between Arras and Artois
  • August 21 to September 2 --- Battle of Monchy-Bapaume
  • September 3 to 26 --- Fighting in front of the Siegfried Front
  • September 27th to October 8th --- Defensive battle between Cambrai and St. Quentin
  • October 10th to November 4th --- Fights in front of and in the Hermann position
  • November 5th to 11th --- fighting in retreat in front of the Antwerp - Meuse position
  • from November 12th --- evacuation of the occupied territory and march home

Commanders

Rank Surname date
Major general Eberhard von Kurowski August 2 to September 11, 1914
Major general Artur von Eisenhart-Rothe September 12, 1914 to January 13, 1915
Lieutenant General / General of the Infantry Eduard von Liebert January 14, 1915 to January 24, 1917
Lieutenant General Leo Limburg February 25, 1917 to January 17, 1918
Lieutenant General Paul Wilhelm Hucke January 18, 1918 to January 7, 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. 65, 112-113.
  • 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. 254-257.

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. 171.