226th Division (German Empire)

226th Division
active	November 25, 1916 to February 10, 1919
Country	German Empire
Armed forces	Prussian Army
Type	Infantry division
structure	See: Outline
Strength	15,000
First World War	Eastern Front
Commanders
Please refer:	List of commanders

The 226th Division was a major unit of the Prussian army within the German Army in the First World War .

structure

Division of War of March 24, 1918

• 5th Landwehr Infantry Brigade
  • Landwehr Infantry Regiment No. 2
  • Landwehr Infantry Regiment No. 9
  • Infantry Regiment No. 427
  • 1st Squadron / Jäger Regiment on Horseback No. 4
• Artillery Commander No. 226
  • Reserve Field Artillery Regiment No. 64
• Division News Commander # 227

history

The division was formed on November 25, 1916 on the Eastern Front and was in service there until the end of the First World War. After the end of the war, together with Army Group Mackensen , she started the march back home from the Balkans via Hungary . There the demobilization and eventual dissolution took place.

Battle calendar

1916

• from November 29th - positional battles between Krewo- Smorgon - Naratschsee -Tweretsch

1917

• until September 17th - trench warfare between Krewo-Smorgon-Naratschsee-Tweretsch
  • 23 January to 3 February - Winter battle on the Aa (parts of the division)
  • July 19-27 - Smorgon-Krewo defensive battle
• September 18 to December 5 - Trench warfare between Niemen - Berezina -Krewo-Smorgon-Narotschsee-Tweretsch
• 0December 6-17 - Truce
• from December 17th - Armistice on the Romanian front

1918

• until February 18 - Armistice on the Romanian front
• February 18 to March 3 - Persecution through White Ruthenia
• 0March 3rd to April 26th - occupation of Great Russian territory
• 0May 7th to November 11th - occupation of Romania
  • October 18 to November 11 - Danube protection
• from November 12th - march back home

Commanders

Rank	Surname	date
Lieutenant General	Hans von Oertzen	November 24, 1916 to April 3, 1918
General of the cavalry	Alfred von Kühne	0April 4, 1918 to February 10, 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, 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. 710-711.

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.