22nd Reserve Division (German Empire)

The 22nd Reserve Division was a major unit of the Prussian army in the First World War . At the beginning of the war it was subordinate to the IV Reserve Corps under General Hans von Gronau .

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43rd Reserve Infantry Brigade
- Reserve Infantry Regiment No. 71
- Reserve Infantry Regiment No. 94
- Reserve Hunter Battalion No. 11
44th Reserve Infantry Brigade
- Reserve Infantry Regiment No. 32
- Reserve Infantry Regiment No. 82
Reserve Hunter Regiment on Horseback No. 1
Reserve Field Artillery Regiment No. 22
1st Reserve Company / Magdeburg Pioneer Battalion No. 4
2nd Reserve Company / Magdeburg Pioneer Battalion No. 4

43rd Reserve Infantry Brigade
- Reserve Infantry Regiment No. 71
- Reserve Infantry Regiment No. 82
- Reserve Infantry Regiment No. 94
- 2nd Squadron / Heavy Reserve Cavalry Regiment No. 1
Artillery Commander No. 96
- Reserve Field Artillery Regiment No. 22
- 1st Battalion / Bavarian 2nd Foot Artillery Regiment
Engineer Battalion No. 322
Division News Commander No. 422

until October 18th --- fighting on the Aisne
October 18 to December 3 --- Reserve of the OHL
- October 20 to November 3 --- Autumn battle in Champagne (parts of the division)
from December 3rd --- trench warfare in Champagne

until February 29th --- Position battles in Champagne
March 2nd to June 14th --- Battle of Verdun
- March 12th to April 12th --- Fights for the "dead man"
- May 8-12 --- Fight for altitude 304
- May 20th to 29th --- Fights for the "dead man"
June 26th to July 1st --- Reserve of the OHL
July 1st to 15th --- Battle of the Somme
July 16 to November 10 --- Trench warfare in Champagne
November 11th to 26th --- Battle of the Somme
from November 27th --- Trench warfare on the Somme

until April 6th --- Trench warfare in Upper Alsace
April 9th to 18th --- Battle of Armentières
April 10 to 29 --- Battle of the Kemmelberg
April 30th to May 13th --- Trench warfare in Flanders
May 19th to June 10th --- Fights on the Ancre , Somme and Avre
June 11th to July 30th --- Position battles in front of Verdun
July 30th to August 23rd --- Position battles in Champagne
August 23 to September 3 --- Defensive battle between Somme and Oise
September 3 to October 9 --- Fighting in front of the Siegfried Front
- September 19 to October 9 --- Defensive battle between Cambrai and St. Quentin
October 9th to November 4th --- Fights in front of and in the Hermann position
November 5th to 11th --- fighting in retreat in front of the Antwerp- Maas position
from November 12th --- evacuation of the occupied territory and march home

Rank	Surname	date
Lieutenant General	Otto Riemann	August 2, 1914 to July 24, 1916
Major general	Karl von Riedl	July 25 to December 19, 1916
Lieutenant General	Eberhard von Hofacker	December 20, 1916 to January 5, 1917
Lieutenant General / General of the Artillery	Theodor Schubert	January 6, 1917 to October 8, 1918
Major general	Franz Sydow	October 9, 1918 to January 18, 1919

Hall of Fame of our Old Army. Published on the basis of official material from the Reich Archives . Military Publishing House. Berlin 1927. pp. 67, 121-122.
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. 327-331.

↑ Dermot Bradley (ed.), Günter Wegner: Occupation of the German Army 1815-1939. Volume 1: The higher command posts 1815–1939. Biblio Publishing House. Osnabrück 1990. ISBN 3-7648-1780-1 . P. 174.