215th Division (German Empire)

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215th Division

active September 8, 1916 to March 16, 1919
Country German EmpireThe German Imperium German Empire
Armed forces Prussian Army
Type Infantry division
structure See: Outline
Strength 15,000
First World War Western front

Eastern Front

Commanders
Please refer: List of commanders

The 215th Division was a major unit of the Prussian army in the First World War .

structure

Division of war on May 8, 1918

  • 61st Reserve Infantry Brigade
    • Reserve Replacement Regiment No. 2
    • Landwehr Infantry Regiment No. 71
    • Reserve Infantry Regiment No. 224
    • 3rd Squadron / Reserve Hussar Regiment No. 8
  • Artillery Commander No. 215
  • Division News Commander # 215

history

The division was formed on September 8, 1916 on the Western Front , but was relocated to the Eastern Front in early November 1916 . Here she remained after the end of the war as an occupying power in Ukraine, returned to her homeland until March 16, 1919, where she was demobilized and finally dissolved.

Battle calendar

1916

  • September 15-17 - Army Division A reserve
  • September 18 to November 2 - Trench warfare in Champagne
  • 0November 2nd to 8th - transport to the east
  • from November 8th - trench warfare on the upper Styr-Stochod

1917

1918

  • until February 18 - armistice
  • February 18 to June 21 - fighting in support of Ukraine
  • June 22nd to November 15th - Occupation of Ukraine
  • from November 16 - evacuation of Ukraine

Commanders

Rank Surname date
Major general Otto Ulrich 0September 7 to September 9, 1916
Lieutenant General Theodor von Wernitz September 10, 1916 to March 16, 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. 682-683.

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.