233rd Division (German Empire)

233rd Division
active	January 16, 1917 to September 6, 1918
Country	German Empire
Armed forces	Prussian Army
Type	Infantry division
structure	See: Outline
First World War	Western front Battle of Flanders
Commanders
Please refer:	List of commanders

The 233rd Division was a major unit of the Prussian army in the First World War .

structure

Division of War of March 15, 1918

• 243rd Infantry Brigade
  • Infantry Regiment No. 448
  • Infantry Regiment No. 449
  • Infantry Regiment No. 450
  • 3rd squadron / dragoon regiment "King Charles I of Romania" (1st Hannoversches) No. 9
• Artillery Commander No. 233
  • Thorner Field Artillery Regiment No. 81
• Engineer Battalion No. 233
• Division News Commander No. 233

history

The division was formed on January 16, 1917 and used exclusively on the Western Front during the First World War . After heavy losses, the large association was dissolved there on September 6, 1918.

Battle calendar

1917

• February 17 to April 7 - OHL reserve in Belgium
• 0April 8 to May 16 - fighting in front of the Siegfried Front
• 17th to 26th May - trench warfare on the Yser
• May 27th to July 29th - Battle of Flanders
• July 30th to September 30th - fighting in the Siegfriedstellung
• 0October 1st to 14th - Battle of Flanders
• from October 17th - Trench warfare in Lorraine

1918

• to January 9th - Trench warfare in Lorraine
• 10 January to 6 April - Trench warfare in Lorraine and the Vosges
• 0April 9-15 - Trench warfare in Lorraine
• April 15-29 - Battle of Kemmel
  • April 15 to May 13 - Trench warfare in Flanders
  • April 15-29 - Fights in the Wytschaete Arch
• May 15 to August 7 - Fights on the Ancre , Somme and Avre
• 0August 8-20 - Defensive battle between Somme and Avre
• August 22nd to September 2nd - Battle of Albert - Péronne
• 0September 6 - Dissolution of the division

Commanders

Rank	Surname	date
Major general	Emmo from Dewitz	January 16, 1917 to August 1918
Major general	Friedrich Wilhelm von Lüttwitz	August 6th to September 6th 1918

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. 721-722.

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. 160.