218th Division (German Empire)

218th Division
active	September 8, 1916 to June 21, 1919
Country	German Empire
Armed forces	Prussian Army
Type	Infantry division
structure	See: Outline
Strength	15,000
First World War	Eastern Front
Commanders
Please refer:	List of commanders

The 218th Division was a major unit of the Prussian army in the First World War .

structure

Division of War of February 20, 1918

• 62nd Infantry Brigade
  • Landwehr Infantry Regiment No. 5
  • Reserve Infantry Regiment No. 204
  • Reserve Infantry Regiment No. 256
  • 4th Squadron / 1st Guards Dragoon Regiment "Queen Victoria of Great Britain and Ireland"
• Artillery Commander No. 218
  • Field Artillery Regiment No. 85
• 2nd Company / Reserve Engineer Battalion No. 26
• Division News Commander # 218

history

The division was formed on September 8, 1916 on the Eastern Front and was in action there until the end of the war. Subsequently, in association with Army Group Mackensen, she began the march back home from the Balkans via Hungary . Here the division was demobilized until January 4, 1919 and finally dissolved.

Battle calendar

1916

• September 20 to November 4 - Battle of Kovel
• 05 to 25 November - Trench warfare at the upper Styr - Stochod
• November 29th to December 1st - trench warfare on the Narajowka, between Narajowka and Zlote-Lipa and the Ceniowka
• December 11-22 - mountain fighting in the Ojtoz region
• from December 23rd - Offensive in the Berecker Mountains and on the Ojtot Pass

1917

• until January 7th - Offensive in the Berecker Mountains and on the Ojtot Pass
• to August 7th - trench warfare in the Transylvanian border Carpathians
• 0August 6th to September 3rd - breakthrough battle on the Putna and Susita
• 0August 8th to 26th - Fighting over the mountain exits to western Vltava
• August 27 to October 3 - Trench warfare in the Transylvanian-Romanian border Carpathians
• 0October 3 to December 9 - Trench warfare on Sereth and Susita
• from December 10th - Armistice on the Romanian front

1918

• to May 7th - Armistice on the Romanian front
• 0May 7th to November 11th - occupation of Romania
  • October 18 to November 11 - Danube protection
• from November 12th - Army Group Mackensen's march back from the Balkans through Hungary

Commanders

Rank	Surname	date
Lieutenant General	Konstantin Gentner	0September 7, 1916 to June 21, 1917
Lieutenant General	Ernst Armin von Nostitz	June 22, 1917 to June 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. 689-690.

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. 156.