216th Division (German Empire)

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216th Division

active September 6, 1916 to January 21, 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 216th Division was a major unit of the Prussian army in the First World War .

structure

Division of War of January 10, 1917

  • 177th Infantry Brigade
    • Infantry Regiment No. 182
    • Infantry Regiment No. 354
    • Reserve Infantry Regiment No. 21
    • Cavalry Squadron No. 205
    • Neumark Field Artillery Regiment No. 54
    • Staff and 4th Battalion Reserve Foot Artillery Regiment No. 14
    • 2nd Company / Guard Landwehr Pioneer Headlight Train No. 262
    • Mountain MG Company No. 170
    • Double telephone train No. 416
    • Field signal train No. 438
    • Field signal train No. 439

Division of war on February 20, 1918

history

The division was formed on September 6, 1916 on the Eastern Front and was there on the Romanian Front until after the armistice. It was then moved to the Western Front. She stayed here until the end of the war, then marched home and was demobilized there in January 1919 and finally dissolved.

Battle calendar

1916

  • 0September 6-19 - Southern Army Reserve
  • September 16-19 - Second battle of the Narajowka and Zlota-Lipa rivers
  • September 19 to November 2 - trench warfare on the Narajowka, between Narajowka, Zlota-Lipa and on the Ceniowka
  • 0November 6th to 24th - Mountain fighting at the Red Tower Pass
  • November 25-30 - Persecution at Curtea-de-Arges- Pitesti
  • 0December 1st to 5th - Battle of the Argeș
    • 0December 4th to 8th - persecution after the Battle of Argeș
  • 0December 9-20 - Persecution at Jalomita-Prohava and Buzaul
  • December 21-27 - Battle of Rimnicul-Sarat
  • from December 28th - pursuit battles after the battle of Rimnicul-Sarat

1917

  • until 3 January - pursuit battles after the battle of Rimnicul-Sarat
  • 0January 4th to 8th - Battle of the Putna
  • 0January 9 to August 5 - Trench warfare on Putna and Sereth
  • 0August 6th to December 9th - trench warfare on Sereth and Susita
  • from December 10th - Armistice on the Romanian front

1918

  • to April 10th - Armistice on the Romanian front
  • April 10-20 - transport to the west
  • April 20-30 - Trench warfare in Flanders and Artois
  • 0May 1 to July 21 - Trench warfare in Flanders
  • July 24th to August 3rd - Mobile defensive battle between Marne and Vesle
  • 0August 4th to September 3rd - trench warfare on the Vesle
  • 0September 3 to October 9 - fighting in front of the Siegfried Front
  • October 10-12 - Fighting on the Hunding and Brunhild fronts
  • October 13th to November 4th - fights in the dog 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 / Lieutenant General Detlev Vett 0September 6, 1916 to January 21, 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, 168.
  • 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. 684-686.

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. 5.