19th Army (German Empire)

Standard of a staff of an army high command (1871-1918)

The 19th Army / Army High Command 19 (AOK 19) was a large unit and the associated command authority of the German army during the First World War (1914-1918). It comprised several army or reserve corps as well as numerous special troops.

history

Commander in chief General of the Infantry Felix Graf von Bothmer (from February 4, 1918) General of the Infantry Karl von Fasbender (from November 8, 1918) Chief of Staff Colonel Hans Ritter von Hemmer (from February 4, 1918)

At the beginning of 1918, the Supreme Army Command reinforced the German armed forces on the Western Front for a planned offensive (→ German Spring Offensive 1918 ). For this purpose, troops were brought in from the eastern front that were no longer needed there after the collapse of the tsarist empire. In the course of the restructuring, the previous Army High Command of the disbanded Southern Army was inserted between Army Division C and Army Division A. This was called Army High Command 19 from February 8, 1918 . It moved into headquarters in Saint-Avold . After the Compiègne armistice was concluded , the 19th Army withdrew from November 15, 1918 until it arrived in Maulbronn on November 24, 1918 . The association was later dissolved there.

References

→ Main article: Army (German Empire)

Web links

• The highest command posts in the army. on www.deutsche-kriegsgeschichte.de (as of May 6, 2010)

literature

• Hermann Cron: History of the German Army in the World War 1914–1918 , Military Publishing House Karl Siegismund, Berlin 1937 ( History of the Royal Prussian Army and the German Imperial Army 5).

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Hermann Cron: History of the German Army in World Wars 1914–1918 , Berlin 1937, p. 399
2. ^ Hermann Cron: History of the German Army in World Wars 1914–1918 , Berlin 1937, pp. 79f