21st Division (German Empire)

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The 21st Division , also known as the 21st Infantry Division for the duration of the mobile relationship , was a large unit of the Prussian Army .

Memorial of the Field Artillery Regiment Orange (1st Nassauisches) No. 27 in Wiesbaden

structure

The division was part of the XVIII. Army Corps .

Peace structure 1914

Organization of war during mobilization in 1914

  • 41st Infantry Brigade
    • 1st Nassau Infantry Regiment No. 87
    • 2nd Nassau Infantry Regiment No. 88
  • 42nd Infantry Brigade
    • Fusilier regiment "von Gersdorff" (Kurhessisches) No. 80
    • 1st Kurhessian Infantry Regiment No. 81
  • Magdeburg Dragoon Regiment No. 6
  • 21st Field Artillery Brigade
    • Field Artillery Regiment "Oranien" (1st Nassau) No. 27
    • Field Artillery Regiment "Frankfurt" (2nd Nassau) No. 63
  • 1st Nassau Pioneer Battalion No. 21

Division of War of April 28, 1918

  • 42nd Infantry Brigade
    • Fusilier regiment "von Gersdorff" (Kurhessisches) No. 80
    • 1st Kurhessian Infantry Regiment No. 81
    • 1st Nassau Infantry Regiment No. 87
    • 2nd Squadron / Magdeburg Dragoon Regiment No. 6
  • Artillery Commander No. 21
    • Field Artillery Regiment "Oranien" (1st Nassau) No. 27
  • 1st Nassau Pioneer Battalion No. 21
  • Division News Commander No. 21

history

The large association was established after the German War on October 11, 1866 and was in command in Frankfurt am Main until it was dissolved in May 1919 .

Battle calendar

1914

  • August 20 - Battle at Longlier
  • August 22nd - Battle of Maissin, Anloy Bertrix, Ochamps
  • August 22-23 - Battle of Neufchâteau
  • August 24-29 - Battle of the Meuse
  • August 30th to September 5th - pursuit from the Meuse to the Marne
  • 0September 6-12 - Battle of the Marne
  • September 15-22 - Fights for Reims
  • September 23 to October 6 - Battle of the Somme
  • October 7th - Fights at Roye

1915

1916

  • through January 31st - trench warfare west of St. Quentin
  • 0January 1st to 20th - trench warfare around Verdun
  • February 21st to April 28th - Battle of Verdun
  • April 29th to September 10th - fighting on the Aisne
  • September 13th to October 4th - Battle of the Somme
  • 0October 4th to November 8th - trench warfare between Meuse and Moselle
  • November 12-26 - Battle of the Somme
  • from November 27th - trench warfare on the Somme

1917

  • until February 20 - trench warfare on the Somme
  • February 20th to April 5th - Trench warfare on the Aisne
  • 0April 6th to 24th - double battle on the Aisne and in Champagne
  • April 29th to May 8th - Trench warfare in Champagne
  • May 10-14 - transport to the east
  • May 14th to June 9th - Eichhorn Army Group Reserve
  • June 10 to October 16 - Trench warfare between Niemen Berezina Krewo-Smorgon- Naroch and Tweretsch
  • October 16-22 - transport to the west
  • from October 22nd - trench warfare near Reims

1918

  • until May 1st - trench warfare near Reims
  • 0May 1st to August 7th - fights on the Ancre , Somme and Avre
  • 0August 8-20 - Defensive battle between Somme and Avre
  • August 22nd to September 2nd - Battle of Albert - Péronne
  • 0September 3 to 7 - fighting in front of the Siegfried Front
  • 0September 8th to October 8th - defensive battle between Cambrai and St. Quentin
  • 0October 9th to 18th - Fights in front of and in the Hermann position
  • October 18 to 24 - rearguard battles between Yser and Lys
  • October 25th to November 1st - Battle of the Lys
  • 0November 2nd to 4th - rearguard fighting on both sides of the Scheldt
  • 0November 5th to 11th - 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
Lieutenant General Leopold Hermann von Boyen October 30, 1866 to July 17, 1870
Lieutenant General Hans von Schachtmeyer July 21, 1870 to September 12, 1870
Lieutenant General Bernhard von Schkopp September 19, 1870 to May 22, 1871 (substitute)
Lieutenant General Leopold of Loën May 23, 1871 to February 19, 1873
Major General / Lieutenant General Hermann von Fabeck February 20 to December 25, 1873
Lieutenant General Hugo von Thile January 14, 1874 to December 10, 1880
Lieutenant General Octavio Philipp von Boehn December 11, 1880 to November 22, 1886
Lieutenant General Wilhelm Dietrich of Gemmingen November 23, 1886 to July 11, 1888
Major general Hermann von Vietinghoff July 12 to August 3, 1888 (in charge of the tour)
Lieutenant General Hermann von Vietinghoff 0August 4, 1888 to January 16, 1890
Lieutenant General Oskar von Lindequist January 17 to November 12, 1890
Lieutenant General Robert von Goetze November 13, 1890 to June 2, 1893
Lieutenant General Arnold von Roon 0June 3, 1893 to March 26, 1897
Lieutenant General Rudolf Perthes March 27, 1897 to June 15, 1900
Lieutenant General Adolf of yours June 16, 1900 to October 17, 1902
Lieutenant General Friedrich Ferdinand von dem Hagen October 18, 1902 to April 15, 1904
Lieutenant General Wilhelm von Kettler April 24, 1904 to February 13, 1906
Lieutenant General George of Gayl February 13, 1906 to March 4, 1908
Lieutenant General Friedrich von Scholtz 0March 5, 1908 to October 1, 1912
Lieutenant General Gustav von Hollen 0October 1, 1912 to August 1, 1914
Major General / Lieutenant General Ernst von Oven 0August 2, 1914 to January 1, 1917
Major general Maximilian von Suter 0January 2, 1917 to April 8, 1917
Major general Konrad von Moltke 0April 9 to May 19, 1917
Major general Paul Weinschenck May 20, 1917 to February 17, 1918
Lieutenant General Paul Grünert February 22 to August 5, 1918
Major general Kurt von Wahlen-Jürgass 0August 6, 1918 to January 26, 1919
Major general Robert von Bernuth January 27 to May 25, 1919

literature

  • Hall of Fame of our Old Army. Published on the basis of official material from the Reichsarchiv , Militär-Verlag, Berlin 1927, pp. 67, 119–120.
  • 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. 314-317.
  • Henning Roet de Rouet: Frankfurt am Main as a Prussian garrison. From 1866 to 1914. Societäts Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2016, ISBN 978-395542-227-1 .

Individual evidence

  1. a b Meyer's Lexicon 1900
  2. a b c Meyers Lexicon 1907
  3. a b Meyer's Lexicon 1905
  4. ^ Meyers Lexicon 1907
  5. 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. 118.