232 Division (German Empire)

232nd Division
active	January 16, 1917 to 1919
Country	German Empire
Armed forces	Prussian Army
Type	Infantry division
structure	See: Outline
Strength	approx. 15,000
First World War	Eastern Front Western front
Commanders
Please refer:	List of commanders

The 232nd Division was a major unit of the Prussian army in the First World War .

structure

Division of War of May 26, 1918

• 232nd Infantry Brigade
  • Infantry Regiment No. 445
  • Infantry Regiment No. 446
  • Infantry Regiment No. 447
  • 4th Squadron / Uhlan Regiment “Kaiser Alexander III. von Russland "(West Prussian) No. 1
• Artillery Commander No. 232
  • 2nd Litthau Field Artillery Regiment No. 37
• Engineer Battalion No. 232
• Division News Commander # 232

history

The division was formed on January 16, 1917 and initially deployed on the Eastern Front during the course of the war . After the fighting there ended in mid-February 1918, the relocation to the Western Front followed .

Battle calendar

1917

• 0March 9 to April 7 - position battles on the upper Shchara-Serwetsch
• 0April 7th to July 8th - trench warfare in front of Dünaburg
• July 19-27 - Smorgon-Krewo defensive battle
• 0August 3 to December 7 - Trench warfare on the Sereth
• 0December 6-17 - Truce
• from December 17th - armistice

1918

• until February 18 - armistice
• February 18 to March 11 - OHL reserve and transport to the west
• March 11th to June 23rd - Trench warfare near Reims
  • May 27th to June 13th - Battle of Soissons and Reims
  • May 27th - Storming the heights of the Chemin des Dames
• 0June 1st to August 26th - trench warfare in front of Verdun
• August 27th to September 2nd - Battle of Albert - Péronne
• 0September 3 to 7 - fighting in front of the Siegfried Front
• 0September 8th to October 8th - defensive battle between Cambrai and St. Quentin
  • September 25th to October 9th - fighting in the Siegfried Front
• October 10th to November 4th - fights in front of and in the Hermann position
  • October 17th to 26th - Fights between Oise and Serre
• 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	Adolf von der Esch	May 23, 1917 to February 2, 1918
Major general	Gottfried Marquard	0February 3 to July 19, 1918
Major general	Friedrich Wilhelm von Lüttwitz	July 20 to September 11, 1918
Major general	Emmo from Dewitz	September 12-28, 1918
Major general	Bruno von Kern	September 28 to December 2, 1918 (in charge of the tour)

literature

• Hall of Fame of our Old Army. Published on the basis of official material from the Reichsarchiv , Militär-Verlag, Berlin 1927, pp. 76, 171.
• 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. 719-720.

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 , pp. 159f.