219th Division (10th Royal Saxon)

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219th Division

active December 29, 1916 to January 14, 1919
Country German EmpireThe German Imperium German Empire
Armed forces Saxon Army
Type Infantry division
structure See: Outline
Insinuation III. Army Corps /
Bay. I. Reserve Corps /
XIX. (II. Royal Saxon) Army Corps /
VI. Army Corps /
XXXIX. Reserve Corps /
First World War Western front

Eastern Front

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

  • 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

  • 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 At the beginning of October 1917 it was withdrawn from the front and relocated to the east .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

1918

  • until February 18 - armistice
  • February 18 to March 4 - Fighting for the liberation of Livonia and Estonia
  • 0March 5 to September 30 - Livonia and Estonia are occupied as a German police force
  • 0October 1st to 29th - withdrawal fighting in Macedonia and Serbia
  • 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
Major general Alfred von Kotsch 0January 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

  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.