213rd Division (German Empire)

213rd Division
active	September 8, 1916 to January 12, 1919
Country	German Empire
Armed forces	Prussian Army
Type	Infantry division
structure	See: Outline
First World War	Western front Battle of the Somme Aisne and Champagne double battle
Commanders
Please refer:	List of commanders

The 213th Division was a major unit of the Prussian army in the First World War .

structure

Division of War of August 17, 1918

• 37th Reserve Infantry Brigade
  • Reserve Infantry Regiment No. 74
  • 6th West Prussian Infantry Regiment No. 149
  • Infantry Regiment No. 368
  • 2nd Squadron / Reserve Hussar Regiment No. 5
• Artillery Commander No. 213
  • Field Artillery Regiment No. 272
  • Foot Artillery Battalion No. 79
• Engineer Battalion No. 213
• Division News Commander No. 213

history

The division was formed on September 8, 1916 on the Western Front and deployed here until the end of the war. Then she marched back home, where she was demobilized and finally dissolved.

Battle calendar

1916

• September 15-22 - 5th Army Reserve
• September 23-29 - Battle of the Somme
• from September 29th - fighting on the Aisne

1917

• until January 6th - fighting on the Aisne
• 06th to 24th January - 7th Army Reserve
• January 24th to March 21st - fighting on the Aisne
• March 21 to April 18 - 7th Army
• May 19-27 - Aisne and Champagne double battle
• May 28th to June 26th - Trench warfare near Reims
• June 26th to August 28th - trench warfare near Verdun
• from August 28th - trench warfare near Reims

1918

• until September 25th - trench warfare near Reims
• September 26th to October 9th - defensive battle in Champagne and on the Meuse
• October 10-12 - Fighting on the Hunding and Brunhild fronts
• October 13-17 - Fights on the Aisne and Aire
• October 18-23 - Fights near Attigny and Rilly-aux-Oies
• October 24th to 31st - Fights on the Aisne and Aire
• 0November 1st to 4th - Fights between Aisne and Meuse
• 05th to 11th November - fighting in retreat in front of the Antwerp - Meuse position
• from November 12th - evacuation of the occupied territory and march home

Commanders

Rank	Surname	date
Major general	Robert von Bernuth	0September 6, 1916 to January 3, 1918
Lieutenant General	Thilo von Hanstein	0January 4 to March 16, 1918
Major general	Hans von Hammerstein-Gesmold	March 17, 1918 to January 12, 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, 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. 676-678.

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. 155.