201st Division (German Empire)
201st Division |
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Division headquarters in Okopy (near Baranowitschi) October 1916 BC left: Rittmeister dR Heckt, Adjutant, Lieutenant General von Dickhuth-Harrach, Rittmeister dR Hasbach, Oberlt.dR Hannemann Kdr. of the headquarters,? |
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active | July 6, 1916 to October 22, 1918 |
Country | German Empire |
Armed forces | Prussian Army |
Type | Infantry division |
structure | XVII. Army Corps |
First World War |
Eastern Front
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Commanders | |
Please refer: | Commanders |
The 201st Division was a major unit of the Prussian army in the First World War .
structure
Division of War 1916
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401st Infantry Brigade
- Infantry Regiment No. 401
- Infantry Regiment No. 402
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402nd Infantry Brigade
- Infantry Regiment No. 403
- Infantry Regiment No. 404
- Field Artillery Division No. 401
- Field Artillery Regiment No. 402
- Engineer Company No. 401
Division of War 1917
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402nd Infantry Brigade
- Infantry Regiment No. 401
- Infantry Regiment No. 402
- Infantry Regiment No. 403
- 4th Squadron / Jäger Regiment on Horseback No. 4
- 4th Squadron / Westphalian Dragoon Regiment No. 7
- Field Artillery Regiment No. 401
- Engineer Battalion No. 201
Division of War of February 5, 1918
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402nd Infantry Brigade
- Infantry Regiment No. 401
- Infantry Regiment No. 402
- Infantry Regiment No. 403
- 4th Squadron / Westphalian Dragoon Regiment No. 7
- Artillery Commander No. 156
- Field Artillery Regiment No. 402
- Engineer Battalion No. 201
- Division News Commander # 201
history
The division was formed from new infantry regiments, which had been composed exclusively of replacement battalions and consisted of troops from the garrison of the Thorn Fortress . In 1916 the majority of the young people fit for military service had already been drawn and trained, so that such training units were no longer necessary. The general inventory decree was issued at the beginning of July 1916, the numbering was mostly done at the beginning of October 1916. Since there was a risk that Holland and Denmark would side with the Allies, this unit was initially intended as a coastal and border guard. The formation was carried out by Lieutenant General Gustaf von Dickhuth-Harrach and his First General Staff Officer, Captain Bulcke, and the command was in Allenstein .
The division always had an unusually high rate of capture casualties during its active engagements. When they were dissolved, fewer than 1,000 rifles are said to have been in their possession.
Battle calendar
1916
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trench warfare on the upper Shchara - Servetsch
- July 10th to August 9th - Battle of Baranovichi- Gorodishche
- November
July 6th to December 31st -
1917
- January 1 to September 11 - trench warfare on the upper Shchara-Servetsch
- September 12th to November 30th - trench warfare on the upper Shchara – Servetsch – Nyemen
- November 12th - Battle at Vygoda
- November 30th to December 3rd - transport to the west ( Baranowitschi - Brest-Litowsk - Warsaw - Chemnitz - Nuremberg - Heilbronn - Rastatt - Saargemünd ). The 402nd Infantry Brigade was in the west as early as June 1918
- from December 3rd - trench warfare in Lorraine
1918
- to January 9th - Trench warfare in Lorraine
- January 10-16 - Trench warfare in Lorraine and the Vosges
- January 16 to June 9 - Trench warfare on the Meuse heights near Saint-Mihiel and in the Ailly and Apremont woods
- June 10-13 - Battle of Soissons and Reims
- June 14th to July 4th - trench warfare between Oise , Aisne and Marne
- July 5th to 17th - Trench warfare between Aisne and Marne
- July 18-25 - Defensive battle between Soissons and Reims
- July 26th to August 3rd - Mobile defensive battle between Marne and Vesle
- Argonne 4th to 31st August - Trench warfare in the
- Siegfried Line September 3rd to 7th - fighting before the
- Cambrai and Saint-Quentin September 8th to October 8th - defensive battle between
- Battle of Épehy September 18th
- Hermann position October 9th to 13th - fights in front of and in the
- October 26th - Division disbanded
Commanders
Rank | Surname | date |
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Lieutenant General | Gustaf von Dickhuth-Harrach | July 5, 1916 to November 11, 1917 |
Lieutenant General | Ludwig Bachelin | November 12, 1917 to October 26, 1918 |
photos
literature
- The battles and skirmishes of the Great War 1914–1918. Great General Staff, Berlin 1919.
- 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. 648-650.
- Hall of Fame of our Old Army. Published on the basis of official material from the Reichsarchiv , Militär-Verlag, Berlin 1927, pp. 74, 164.
- E. Berger: The 201st Infantry Division in World War I 1914-18. Stuttgart 1922.
Web links
- Map with positions on Google Maps
Individual evidence
- ↑ Histories of Two Hundred and Fifty One Divisions of the German Army Which Participated in the War, 1914-18: USA 1920
- ↑ 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. 152.