212th Division (9th Royal Saxon)

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212th Division

active September 8, 1916 to March 1919
Country German EmpireThe German Imperium German Empire
Armed forces Saxon Army
Type Infantry division
structure See: Outline
Insinuation VIII Reserve Corps

I. Reserve Corps

First World War Western front
Battle of the Somme

Eastern Front

Commanders
Please refer: List of commanders

The 212th Division (9th Royal Saxon) was a major unit of the Saxon Army during the First World War .

structure

Division of War of February 20, 1918

  • 408th Infantry Brigade
  • Artillery Commander No. 212
    • Field Artillery Regiment No. 279
    • II. Department / 1. Guard Reserve Foot Artillery Regiment
  • Engineer Battalion No. 212
  • Division News Commander # 212

history

The division was formed on September 8, 1916 from the "Franke Division" and was initially deployed on the Western Front until the end of March 1917 . Then they were transferred to the Romanian front . After the armistice there, the association came by sea to the Ukraine , where parts of the war remained until March 1919. This was followed by demobilization in Leipzig .

Battle calendar

1916

1917

  • 0January 1st to March 27th - Trench warfare in Champagne
  • March 21st to March 31st - transport to the east
  • March 27th to May 30th - Army Group Mackensen Reserve
  • May 30th to August 5th - Trench warfare on Putna and Sereth
    • July 22nd to 25th - defensive battles on the Sereth
    • July 26th to August 5th - Trench warfare on Sereth and Susita
  • 0August 6th to September 3rd - breakthrough battle on the Putna and Susita
  • from December 10th - Armistice on the Romanian front

1918

  • to May 7th - Armistice on the Romanian front
  • May 11th to June 21st - fighting in support of Ukraine
  • June 22nd to November 15th - Occupation of Ukraine
  • from November 16 - evacuation of Ukraine

1919

  • until March 16 - evacuation of Ukraine

Commanders

Rank Surname date
Major general Franz Franke 0September 8, 1916 to January 29, 1918
Major general Max Morgenstern-Döring January 30, 1918 to March 1919

literature

  • Hall of Fame of our Old Army. Published on the basis of official material from the Reichsarchiv , Militär-Verlag, Berlin 1927, pp. 75, 166–167.
  • 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. 674-675.
  • Artur Baumgarten-Crusius: The Saxons in the field 1914-1918. Verlag der Literaturwerke Minerva, R. Max Lippold, Leipzig 1923, pp. 484–486.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 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. 154.