221st Division (German Empire)

221st Division
active	September 22, 1916 to December 23, 1918
Country	German Empire
Armed forces	Prussian Army
Type	Infantry division
structure	See: Outline
Strength	15,000
First World War	Western front Battle of the Somme Spring battle at Arras Third Battle of Flanders Battle of Cambrai Great battle in France
Commanders
Please refer:	List of commanders

The 221st Division was a major unit of the Prussian army within the German Army in the First World War .

structure

Division of War from May 1, 1918

• 1st Reserve Replacement Brigade
  • Reserve Replacement Regiment No. 1
  • Infantry Regiment "von Boyen" (5th East Prussian) No. 41
  • Reserve Infantry Regiment No. 60
  • Machine gun sniper division No. 21
  • 1st Squadron / Reserve Uhlan Regiment No. 2
• Artillery Commander No. 221
  • Field Artillery Regiment No. 273
  • Foot Artillery Battalion No. 40
• Engineer Battalion No. 221
• Division News Commander # 221

Battle calendar

The division was formed on September 22, 1916 on the Western Front and was in service there until the end of the First World War. After the end of the war, the occupied territory was evacuated, the march back home and demobilization and eventual dissolution there.

1916

• September 26th to October 19th - fight in the Argonne Forest
• October 22nd to November 26th - Battle of the Somme
• from November 27th - trench warfare on the Somme

1917

• until March 15 - trench warfare on the Somme
• March 16 to April 11 - fighting in front of the Siegfried Front
• April 12th to May 8th - Spring battle near Arras
• 0May 9th to June 11th - fighting in front of the Siegfried Front
• June 11th to 20th - Reserve of the Army Group "Crown Prince Rupprecht"
• June 20 to August 11 - Battle of Flanders
• November 13-16 - Trench warfare in Champagne
• November 16-22 - Battle of Flanders
• November 22-29 - Battle of Cambrai
• from November 22nd - fighting in the Siegfried position

1918

• until January 31st - fighting in the Siegfried position
• 0February 1 to March 20 - Trench warfare in Artois and deployment to the Great Battle of France
• March 21 to April 6 - Great battle in France
• 0April 7th to July 23rd - Fights between Arras and Albert
• July 24-27 - Fights on the Ancre , Somme and Avre
• July 28th to August 7th - fighting on the Avre and Matz
• 0August 9-10 - Defensive battle between Somme and Avre
• August 10th to September 3rd - defensive battle between the Somme and Oise
• 0September 4 to 18 - fighting in front of the Siegfried Front
• September 19 to October 9 - Defensive battle between Cambrai and St. Quentin
• October 10th to November 4th - fights in front of and in the Hermann position
• 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	Siegfried of La Chevallerie	September 25, 1916 to December 23, 1918

literature

• The battles and skirmishes of the Great War 1914–1918. Great General Staff, Berlin 1919.
• Hall of Fame of our Old Army , published on the basis of official material from the Reichsarchiv , Militär-Verlag, Berlin 1927, pp. 75, 169
• 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. 696-698.

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.