234th Division (German Empire)

234th Division
active	January 16, 1917 to February 22, 1919
Country	German Empire
Armed forces	Prussian Army
Type	Infantry division
structure	See: Outline
Strength	approx. 15,000
First World War	Western front Battle of Flanders Assault battle at Cambrai
Commanders
Please refer:	List of commanders

The 234th 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

• 234th Infantry Brigade
  • Infantry Regiment No. 451
  • Infantry Regiment No. 452
  • Infantry Regiment No. 453
  • 1st Squadron / Schleswig-Holstein Dragoon Regiment No. 13
• Artillery Commander No. 234
  • Field artillery regiment "Prince Regent Luitpold von Bayern" (Magdeburgisches) No. 4
  • III. Battalion / Foot Artillery Regiment No. 21
• Engineer Battalion No. 234
• Division News Commander No. 234

history

The establishment of the division began on January 2, 1917 in Magdeburg . From the end of March 1917, the large unit intervened in the 2nd Army in the fighting on the Western Front . After the armistice of Compiègne , the German troops evacuated the occupied territories and the division was deployed from November 25 to December 21, 1918 in the border guard between Cologne and Düsseldorf . Then the individual units returned to the garrisons, where demobilization took place.

Battle calendar

1917

• March 30th to June 20th - fighting in front of the Siegfried Line
• June 21st to August 30th - fighting in the Siegfriedstellung
• August 30th to September 30th - Battle of Flanders
• 0October 3 to November 30 - Trench warfare in Flanders and Artois
• from November 30th - fighting in the Siegfried position
  • November 30th to December 7th - Assault battle near Cambrai

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
  • March 21-23 - Monchy - Cambrai breakthrough battle
  • March 24-25 - Battle of Bapaume
• 0April 7th to August 20th - Fights between Arras and Albert
• August 21 to September 2 - Battle of Monchy-Bapaume
• 0September 3 to 26 - Fighting in front of the Siegfried Front
• September 27th to October 8th - defensive battle between Cambrai and Saint-Quentin
• 0October 9th to November 4th - fights in front of and in the Hermann position
• October 24th to November 4th - Battle of Valenciennes
• 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	Karl von Stumpff	0January 2, 1917 to February 21, 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, 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. 723-724.

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.