219th Division (10th Royal Saxon)
219th Division |
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active | December 29, 1916 to January 14, 1919 |
Country | German Empire |
Armed forces | Saxon Army |
Type | Infantry division |
structure | See: Outline |
Insinuation | III. Army Corps / |
First World War |
Western front
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Commanders | |
Please refer: | List of commanders |
The 219th Division (10th Royal Saxon) was a major unit of the Saxon army in the First World War .
structure
Division of War January 1917
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47th Replacement Brigade
- Grenadier Landwehr Regiment No. 100
- Reserve Infantry Regiment No. 101
- Infantry Regiment No. 431
- 4th Squadron / 2nd Hussar Regiment No. 19
- Replacement Field Artillery Regiment No. 45
- Engineer Company No. 254
Division of War 1918
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47th Replacement Brigade
- Reserve Infantry Regiment No. 101
- Infantry Regiment No. 391
- Infantry Regiment No. 431
- 4th Squadron / 2nd Hussar Regiment No. 19
- Artillery Commander No. 219
- Replacement Field Artillery Regiment No. 45
- Engineer Battalion No. 219
- Division News Commander No. 219
history
The division was assembled on December 29, 1916 on the Western Front in the area of Army Division A near Metz . At the beginning of October 1917 it was withdrawn from the front and relocated to the east . After the end of the war, the division began the march back home from the Balkans via Hungary as part of Army Group Mackensen . There she was demobilized and finally dissolved.
Battle calendar
1917
- Trench warfare in Lorraine January 5th to June 25th -
- June 26th to October 3rd - trench warfare in Flanders and Artois
- October 3rd to 8th - transport to the east
- Daugava October 8th to December 5th - trench warfare north of the
- 6-17 - Truce December
- from December 17th - armistice
1918
- until February 18 - armistice
- February 18 to March 4 - Fighting for the liberation of Livonia and Estonia
- March 5 to September 30 - Livonia and Estonia are occupied as a German police force
- Macedonia and Serbia October 1st to 29th - withdrawal fighting in
- October 29th to November 2nd - crossing over the Sava and Danube
- from November 2nd - Army Group Mackensen's withdrawal from the Balkans through Hungary
Commanders
Rank | Surname | date |
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Major general | Alfred von Kotsch | January 1, 1917 to January 14, 1919 |
literature
- Hall of Fame of our Old Army. Published on the basis of official material from the Reich Archives . Military Publishing House. 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. 691-692.
- Artur Baumgarten-Crusius: The Saxons in the field 1914-1918. Verlag der Literaturwerke Minerva, R. Max Lippold, Leipzig 1923, pp. 487–492.
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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.