214th Division (German Empire)

214th Division
active	September 8, 1916 to February 12, 1919
Country	German Empire
Armed forces	Prussian Army
Type	Infantry division
structure	See: Outline
Strength	15,000
First World War	Western front Battle of the Somme Aisne and Champagne double battle Battle of Flanders Tank battle at Cambrai
Commanders
Please refer:	List of commanders

The 214th Division was a major unit of the Prussian army in the First World War .

structure

Division of War of May 20, 1918

• 214th Infantry Brigade
  • 3rd Lower Silesian Infantry Regiment No. 50
  • Infantry Regiment No. 358
  • Infantry Regiment No. 363
  • 3rd Squadron / Heavy Reserve Cavalry Regiment No. 1
• Artillery Commander No. 214
  • Trier Field Artillery Regiment No. 44
  • 1st Battalion / 2nd Pomeranian Foot Artillery Regiment No. 15
• Engineer Battalion No. 214
• Division News Commander # 214

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 15-30 - Battle of the Somme
• 0October 3rd to November 25th - trench warfare between Meuse and Moselle
• from November 27th - trench warfare on the Somme

1917

• until January 30th - trench warfare on the Somme
• January 31 to April 15 - Trench warfare in Champagne
• April 16-21 - Aisne and Champagne double battle
• April 22nd to July 23rd - Trench warfare in Champagne
• 0August 1st to 20th - Battle of Flanders
• August 21 to November 19 - Trench warfare in Flanders
• from November 21st - fighting in the Siegfried position
  • November 20-29 - Tank battle at Cambrai
  • November 30th to December 7th - Assault battle near Cambrai

1918

• until January 2nd - fighting in the Siegfriedstellung
• 0January 3 to April 9 - Trench warfare in Flanders
• April 10-29 - Battle of Kemmel
• April 30 to May 15 - Trench warfare in Flanders
• May 17th to August 20th - Fights between Arras and Albert
• August 21 to September 2 - Battle of Monchy- Bapaume
• 0September 3 to 26 - Fighting in front of the Siegfried Front
• September 27th to October 8th - defensive battle between Cambrai and St. Quintin
• 0October 9th to November 4th - fights in front of and in the Hermann position
• 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	Karl Muller	0September 6 to October 24, 1916
Lieutenant General	Richard von Brauchitsch	October 25, 1916 to January 19, 1918
Major general	Georg Maercker	January 20, 1918 to February 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. 679-681.

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.