224th Division (German Empire)

224th Division
active	October 3, 1916 to January 12, 1919
Country	German Empire
Armed forces	Prussian Army
Type	Infantry division
structure	See: Outline
Strength	15,000
First World War	Eastern Front Western front
Commanders
Please refer:	List of commanders

The 224th Division was a major unit of the Prussian army within the German Army in the First World War .

structure

Division of War of March 5, 1918

• 216th Infantry Brigade
  • Landwehr Infantry Regiment No. 19
  • Landwehr Infantry Regiment No. 61
  • Landwehr Infantry Regiment No. 429
  • 4th Squadron / Jäger Regiment on Horseback No. 10
• Artillery Commander No. 224
  • Reserve Field Artillery Regiment No. 284
• Engineer Battalion No. 224
• Division Message Commander # 224

Battle calendar

The division was formed on October 3, 1916 on the Eastern Front and was in service there until the end of September 1918. Then it was transferred to the western front . After the end of the war, the association returned home, where it was first demobilized and finally dissolved by mid-January 1919.

1916

• October 10-November 3 - Trench warfare between Krewo, Smorgon , Naratschsee -Tweretsch
• 0November 3rd to 4th - Battle of Kovel
• from November 5th - trench warfare on the upper Styr - Stochod

1917

• until December 1st - trench warfare on the upper Styr-Stochod
• 0December 2nd to 17th - ceasefire
• from December 17th - armistice

1918

• until February 18 - armistice
• February 18 to June 21 - fighting in support of Ukraine
• June 22nd to October 1st - occupation of Ukraine
• September 27th to October 5th - transport to the west
• 0October 5th to 10th - Trench warfare in the Woëvre plain and west of the Moselle
• October 11th to November 11th - Trench warfare in the Woëvre plain
• from November 12th - march back through Lorraine , the Rhine provinces and the Palatinate during the armistice

Commanders

Rank	Surname	date
Major General / Lieutenant General	Hans Riistow	0October 3, 1916 to January 12, 1919

literature

• Hall of Fame of our Old Army. Published on the basis of official material from the Reichsarchiv , Militär-Verlag, Berlin 1927, pp. 76, 169–170.
• 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. 707-709.

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. 158.