220th Division (German Empire)

220th division
active	January 10, 1917 to January 22, 1919
Country	German Empire
Armed forces	Prussian Army
Type	Infantry division
structure	See: Outline
Strength	15,000
First World War	Western front Spring battle at Arras Battle of Flanders Battle of Cambrai
Commanders
Please refer:	List of commanders

The 220th Division was a major unit of the Prussian army within the German Army in the First World War .

structure

Division of War of August 22, 1918

• 4th Guard Infantry Brigade
  • Reserve Infantry Regiment No. 55
  • Reserve Infantry Regiment No. 99
  • Infantry Regiment No. 190
  • 4th Squadron / 2nd Hanoverian Uhlan Regiment No. 14
• Artillery Commander No. 220
  • 2nd Upper Alsatian Field Artillery Regiment No. 51
  • Foot Artillery Battalion No. 87
• Engineer Battalion No. 220
• Division Message Commander No. 220

Battle calendar

The division was formed on January 10, 1917 on the Western Front and was in action there until the end of the war. They then vacated the occupied territories and marched back home, where the association was demobilized by January 22, 1919 and finally dissolved.

1917

• January 16 to March 15 - Trench warfare on the Somme
• March 17 to April 1 - Trench warfare in Flanders and Artois in front of the Siegfried Front
• 0April 2nd to May 20th - Spring battle near Arras
• May 21st to October 5th - Trench warfare in Flanders and Artois
• 0October 6th to November 22nd - Battle of Flanders
• November 23-29 - Battle of Cambrai
• November 30th to December 4th - Assault battle near Cambrai
• from December 5th - trench warfare in Flanders and Artois

1918

• until April 30th - trench warfare in Flanders and Artois
  • 0April 9-18 - Battle of Armentières
• 0May 1st to August 4th - Trench warfare in Flanders and Artois
• 0August 5th to 22nd - Fighting on the Ypres Front - La Bassée
• 23 August to 2 September - Battle of Monchy- Bapaume
• 0September 3 to 26 - Fighting in front of the Siegfried Front
• September 27th to October 8th - defensive battle between Cambrai and St. Quentin
• 0October 9th to November 4th - fights in front of and in the Hermann position
  • October 24th to November 4th - Battle of Valenciennes
• 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	Hermann von Bassewitz	January 11, 1917 to January 22, 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. 693-695.

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. 157.