2nd Guard Division (German Empire)
The 2nd Guard Division , also known as the 2nd Guard Infantry Division for the duration of the mobile relationship , was a large unit of the Prussian Army .
structure
The command was in Berlin and the division was part of the Guard Corps .
Peace structure 1914
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3rd Guard Infantry Brigade in Berlin
- Kaiser Alexander Guard Grenadier Regiment No. 1 in Berlin
- Queen Elisabeth Guard Grenadier Regiment No. 3 in Charlottenburg
- Guard Rifle Battalion in Lichterfelde
- 1st Guard Landwehr Grenadier Regiment in Görlitz (1st Battalion) and Lissa (II.)
- 3rd Guards Landwehr Grenadier Regiment in Breslau (I.) and Liegnitz (II.)
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4th Guard Infantry Brigade in Berlin
- Kaiser Franz Garde Grenadier Regiment No. 2 in Berlin
- Queen Augusta Guard Grenadier Regiment No. 4 in Berlin
- 2nd Guard Landwehr Grenadier Regiment in Hamm (I.) and Kassel (II.)
- 4th Guards Landwehr Grenadier Regiment in Koblenz (I.) and Düsseldorf (II.)
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5th Guard Infantry Brigade in Spandau
- 5th Guards Regiment on foot in Spandau
- Guard Grenadier Regiment No. 5 in Spandau
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2nd Guard Field Artillery Brigade in Potsdam
- 2nd Guard Field Artillery Regiment in Potsdam
- 4th Guards Field Artillery Regiment in Potsdam
Organization of war during mobilization in 1914
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3rd Guard Infantry Brigade
- Kaiser Alexander Guard Grenadier Regiment No. 1
- Queen Elisabeth Guard Grenadier Regiment No. 3
- Guard Rifle Battalion
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4th Guard Infantry Brigade
- Kaiser Franz Garde Grenadier Regiment No. 2
- Queen Augusta Guard Grenadier Regiment No. 4
- 2nd Guard Uhlan Regiment
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2nd Guard Field Artillery Brigade
- 2nd Guards Field Artillery Regiment
- 4th Guards Field Artillery Regiment
- 2nd and 3rd Company / Guard Engineer Battalion
Division of War of March 20, 1918
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3rd Guard Infantry Brigade
- Kaiser Alexander Guard Grenadier Regiment No. 1
- Kaiser Franz Garde Grenadier Regiment No. 2
- Queen Elisabeth Guard Grenadier Regiment No. 3
- Machine gun sniper division No. 4
- 1st squadron / bodyguard hussar regiment
- Guard Artillery Commander No. 2
- 2nd Guards Field Artillery Regiment
- III. Battalion / foot artillery regiment “General Feldzeugmeister” (Brandenburgisches) No. 3
- Engineer Battalion No. 102
- Guard News Commander No. 2
history
The division was originally established as a grenadier brigade of four battalions during the Wars of Liberation on August 11, 1813 . On September 5, 1818, the brigade was expanded to form the 2nd Division of the Guards and Grenadier Corps, and on December 22, 1819, it was named 2nd Guards Division.
Franco-German War
During the Franco-Prussian War , the division fought in the battles near Gravelotte and Sedan and was part of the siege of Paris . Here it took part in the Battle of Le Bourget .
First World War
During the First World War , the large association was mainly used on the Western Front.
Battle calendar
1914
- August 21-22 --- Battle at Auvelais
- August 23rd to 24th --- Battle of Namur
- August 29th to 30th --- Battle of St. Quentin
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Petit Morin
- September 7th to 8th --- Battle of Fère-Champenoise
September 6th to 9th --- Battle of the - September 12th to October 1st --- Fights near Reims
- Arras October 1st to 13th --- Battle of
- October 13 to December 13 --- Trench warfare in Flanders and Artois
- October 18 to November 30 --- Battle of the Yser
- October 30th to November 24th --- Battle of Ypres
- December 20 to 30 --- Battle of Souain, Perthes les Hurlus and Beauséjour (1st battle of Perthes)
1915
- January 14th to 31st --- Position battles in Champagne
- February 1st to 5th --- Battle of Perthes-lès-Hurlus and Massiges (3rd Battle of Perthes)
- February 6th to 15th --- Position battles in Champagne
- February 20 to April 20 --- OHL reserve near Colmar and Schlettstadt
- Battle of Gorlice-Tarnów May 1st to 3rd ---
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- May 16 to 23 --- Crossing over the San
May 4th to 23rd --- Pursuit battles after the Battle of Gorlice-Tarnów
- May 24th to 26th --- Fights near Radymno and San
- May 27th to June 4th --- Fighting at the Jarosław bridgehead
- June 12th to 15th --- breakthrough battle near Lubaczów
- June 17th to 22nd --- Battle of Lviv
- June 22nd to July 16th --- Persecution battles on the Galician-Polish border
- July 16-18 --- Krasnostav breakthrough battle
- July 29th to 30th --- Breakthrough Battle of Biskupice
- July 31 to August 19 --- Pursuit battles from Wieprz to Bug
- August 19 to September 20 --- Chase battles between Bug and Jasiolda
- September 25th to October 13th --- Autumn battle at La Bassée and Arras
- October 14th to 28th --- Position battles in Flanders and Artois
- from October 17th --- Trench warfare at Roye - Noyon
1916
- until August 7th --- Trench warfare at Roye-Noyon
- Battle of the Somme August 8th to September 11th ---
- September 11th to November 1st --- Trench warfare at Roye-Noyon
- November 1st to 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 19 to April 5 --- Trench warfare on the Aisne
- April 16 to May 8 --- Double battle on the Aisne and in the Champagne
- May 17th to June 28th --- Trench warfare in the Argonne
- Trench warfare east of Zloczow July 7th to 18th ---
- July 19-28 --- Breakthrough battle in Eastern Galicia
- July 29th to August 8th --- Trench warfare on the Sereth
- 11th to 31st August --- 8th Army Reserve
- Battle of Riga September 1st to 5th ---
- September 8 to 21 --- Reserve of the OHL
- September 22nd to October 23rd --- Trench warfare at the Chemin des Dames
- October 24th to 25th --- Rearguard fighting on and south of the Ailette
- from October 29th --- Position battles in front of Verdun
1918
- until January 15th --- Position battles in front of Verdun
- January 16 to February 4 --- Trench warfare in Lorraine and the Vosges
- February 4th to March 15th --- Trench warfare in Lorraine
- March 15 to 20 --- Trench warfare in Artois and deployment to the Great Battle of France
- March 21st to April 6th --- Great battle in France
- March 28th --- Attack on the Scarpe
- Avre and near Montdidier and Noyon April 7th to May 3rd --- Fights on the
- May 3rd to 27th --- Reserve of the OHL
- May 27th to June 13th --- Battle of Soissons and Reims
- 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
- August 22nd to September 2nd --- Battle of Albert - Péronne
- September 3 to 7 --- Fighting in front of the Siegfried Front
- Cambrai and Saint-Quentin September 8th to October 8th --- Defensive battle between
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Hermann position
- October 15th to 17th --- Defensive battle in Flanders
October 9th to 17th --- Fights in front of and in the - October 18 to 24 --- rearguard battles between Yser and Lys
- October 25th to November 1st --- Battle of the Lys
- Scheldt November 2nd to 4th --- Rearguard fighting on both sides of the
- November 5th to 7th --- 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 |
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Major general | Oldwig from Natzmer | December 23, 1816 to April 30, 1820 |
Major General / Lieutenant General | Johann Friedrich Karl II of Alvensleben | May 1, 1820 to January 16, 1830 |
Major General / Lieutenant General | Carl of Prussia | January 17, 1830 to March 30, 1838 |
Lieutenant General | August of Württemberg | February 19 to September 18, 1857 |
Lieutenant General | Friedrich Carl of Prussia | September 19, 1857 to May 28, 1858 |
Lieutenant General | Gustav Adolf von Schlemüller | May 29, 1858 to July 24, 1859 |
Lieutenant General | Adolf von Bonin | July 25, 1859 to January 28, 1863 |
Lieutenant General | Eduard Vogel von Falckenstein | January 29 to December 8, 1863 |
Lieutenant General | Otto von der Mülbe | December 9, 1863 to January 21, 1864 |
Lieutenant General | Friedrich Wilhelm of Prussia | January 22 to May 17, 1864 |
Lieutenant General | Heinrich von Plonski | May 18, 1864 to October 29, 1866 |
Lieutenant General | Julius von Loewenfeld | October 30, 1866 to July 17, 1870 |
Lieutenant General | Rudolph Otto von Budritzki | July 18, 1870 to October 29, 1875 |
Lieutenant General | Ferdinand von Dannenberg | October 30, 1875 to June 13, 1881 |
Lieutenant General | Paul Bronsart von Schellendorff | June 14, 1881 to March 9, 1883 |
Lieutenant General | August of Oppell | March 10, 1883 to January 17, 1887 |
Lieutenant General | Wilhelm von Hahnke | January 18, 1887 to July 6, 1888 |
Lieutenant General | Hans von Kaltenborn-Stachau | July 7, 1888 to October 13, 1890 |
Lieutenant General | Max von der Planitz | October 14, 1890 to January 26, 1891 |
Lieutenant General | Bernhard of Saxe-Meiningen | January 27, 1891 to July 10, 1893 |
Lieutenant General | August von Bomsdorff | July 11, 1893 to January 26, 1897 |
Lieutenant General | Ludwig von Falkenhausen | January 27, 1897 to March 24, 1899 |
Lieutenant General | Gustav von Kessel | March 25, 1899 to January 26, 1900 |
Lieutenant General | Max von Krosigk | January 27, 1900 to April 17, 1901 |
Lieutenant General | Karl von Bülow | April 18, 1901 to March 21, 1902 |
Lieutenant General | Hans von Arnim | March 22, 1902 to February 21, 1906 |
Lieutenant General | Reinhard von Scheffer-Boyadel | February 22, 1906 to March 4, 1908 |
Major general | Dedo von Schenck | March 5 to April 3, 1908 (in charge of the tour) |
Lieutenant General | Dedo von Schenck | April 4, 1908 to March 30, 1909 |
Major general | Ewald von Lochow | April 1 to September 16, 1909 (in charge of the tour) |
Lieutenant General | Ewald von Lochow | September 17, 1909 to September 12, 1912 |
Lieutenant General | Arnold von Winckler | September 12, 1912 to June 29, 1915 |
Lieutenant General | Walther von Lüttwitz | June 29 to September 24, 1915 |
Lieutenant General | Maximilian von Höhn | September 25, 1915 to May 11, 1916 |
Major General / Lieutenant General | Friedrich von Friedeburg | May 12, 1916 to June 24, 1919 |
literature
- Hall of Fame of our Old Army. Published on the basis of official material from the Reichsarchiv , Militär-Verlag, Berlin 1927, pp. 60, 85–86.
- 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. 50-54.
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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 , pp. 88-89.