19th Replacement Division (Royal Saxon)

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19th Replacement Division

active August 2, 1914 to December 1918
Country German EmpireThe German Imperium German Empire
Armed forces German army
Armed forces army
Type Infantry Division
structure See: Outline
First World War Western front
Commanders
Please refer: List of commanders

The 19th replacement division was set up with the mobilization on August 1, 1914 from country team members of the Prussian and Saxon armies and was a major unit in the First World War .

structure

  • 21st Mixed Replacement Brigade
    • Brigade Replacement Battalion No. 21
    • Brigade Replacement Battalion No. 22
    • Brigade Replacement Battalion No. 23
    • Brigade Replacement Battalion No. 24
    • Brigade Replacement Battalion No. 78
    • Cavalry Replacement Department Breslau / VI. Army Corps
    • Field Artillery Replacement Division No. 6
    • Field Artillery Replacement Division No. 57
  • 45th Mixed Replacement Brigade
    • Brigade Replacement Battalion No. 45
    • Brigade Replacement Battalion No. 46
    • Brigade Replacement Battalion No. 63
    • Brigade Replacement Battalion No. 64
    • Cavalry Replacement Department Dresden / XII. Army Corps
    • Field Artillery Replacement Division No. 28
    • Field Artillery Replacement Division No. 48
    • 1st Replacement Company / Engineer Battalion No. 12
  • 47th Mixed Replacement Brigade
    • Brigade Replacement Battalion No. 47
    • Brigade Replacement Battalion No. 48
    • Brigade Replacement Battalion No. 88
    • Brigade Replacement Battalion No. 89
    • Cavalry replacement department Leipzig / XIX. Army Corps
    • Field Artillery Replacement Division No. 32
    • Field Artillery Replacement Division No. 77
    • 1st Replacement Company / Engineer Battalion No. 22

Division of War of July 12, 1918

  • 45th Replacement Brigade
  • Artillery Commander No. 137
    • Replacement Field Artillery Regiment No. 47
  • Engineer Battalion No. 519
  • Division Message Commander # 569

Battle calendar

The division was originally supposed to take over security tasks behind the western front after its formation . However, the general situation made it necessary to be deployed in the front lines as early as the first months of the war. After the armistice of Compiègne , she began the march back home, where the division was demobilized and disbanded in Leipzig from December 1918 .

1914

  • August 5th to 19th --- Battles in the Vosges
  • August 20th to 22nd --- Battle of the central Vosges
  • August 22nd to September 14th --- Battle of Nancy - Épinal
  • from September 17th --- Battles at Blâmont
    • September 20th to 25th --- Domjevin-Badonviller
    • October 4th --- Battle of Chazelles
    • October 26th --- Battle at Xousse-Leintrey
    • November 2nd --- Battle of Chazelles
    • November 5th --- Skirmishes at Manonviller and Ancerviller
    • November 16-18 --- Battles at Cirey
    • December 13th --- Battle at Maison de Garde

1915

  • until May 31 --- Battles at Blâmont
    • January 1 --- Skirmishes at Manonviller and Parux-Bréménil
    • January 10th --- Battle at Domjevin
    • January 29th --- Battle of Angomont
    • February 8th --- Battle at Parux-Angomont
    • February 10th --- Battle of Manonviller
    • February 27th to March 8th --- Winter fighting at Badonviller
    • March 22nd --- Battle at Badonviller
    • March 31st --- Battle of Mouacourt
    • April 17th --- Battle of Chazelles
    • April 24th --- Battle at Reillon
  • from May 31st --- Trench warfare in Lorraine
    • June 19-22 --- Battle at Gondrexon

1916

  • until October 12, 1916
    • February 28 to March 4 --- Battle of Thiaville
    • March 18 --- Battle of Thiaville
  • from October 15th --- position battles in front of Verdun

1917

  • until March 31st --- Position battles in front of Verdun
    • March 4th --- Fièveteri attack
  • from April 1st --- position battles in front of Verdun
    • August 12th to October 9th --- Defense battle near Verdun

1918

  • until July 6th --- position battles near Verdun
  • July 7th to 17th --- Position battles near Reims
  • July 18th to 25th --- Defensive battle between Soissons and Reims
  • July 26th to August 3rd --- Mobile defensive battle between Marne and Vesle
  • 3rd to 21st August --- Army group reserve at Marie
  • August 22nd to September 4th --- Defensive battle between Oise and Aisne
  • September 5 to November 11 --- Trench warfare in Lorraine
  • from November 12th --- evacuation of the occupied territory and march home

Commanders

Rank Surname date
Major general Adolf Muller 2nd to 21st August 1914
Lieutenant General Otto von Tettenborn August 22 to October 12, 1914
Major general Alwin Schmundt October 13, 1914 to June 16, 1915
Lieutenant General Otto von Tettenborn June 17, 1915 to October 1917
Major general Charles Garke October 1917 to October 1918
Major general Heinrich von Zeschau October to December 1918

literature

  • Hall of Fame of our Old Army , published on the basis of official material from the Reichsarchiv , Militär-Verlag, Berlin 1927, pp. 67, 118
  • 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. 303-305
  • Artur Baumgarten-Crusius: The Saxons in the field 1914-1918 , Verlag der Literaturwerke "Minerva", R. Max Lippold, Leipzig 1923, pp. 409-422

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e 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. 200