235th Division (German Empire)

The 235th Division was a major unit of the German Army in the First World War .

structure

Division of War 1918

• 235th Infantry Brigade
  • Infantry Regiment No. 454
  • Infantry Regiment No. 455
  • Infantry Regiment No. 456
  • 5th Squadron / Dragoon Regiment "King Charles I of Romania" (1st Hannoversches) No. 9
• Artillery Commander No. 235
  • Field artillery regiment "von Peucker" (1st Silesian) No. 6
• Engineer Battalion No. 235
• Division News Commander # 235

history

The division was put together on January 16, 1917 and the course of the war was deployed exclusively on the Western Front , where it was disbanded on August 10, 1918.

Battle calendar

1917

• March 16 to June 20 - fighting in front of the Siegfried Line
• June 21 to July 23 - Fighting in the Siegfriedstellung
• July 27th to August 2nd - Battle of Flanders
• 0August 3 to October 23 - Trench warfare at the Chemin des Dames
• October 24th to November 2nd - rearguard battles on and south of the Ailette
• available from November 3 - position battles north of the Ailette

1918

• February 9th - trench warfare north of the Ailette
• 0February 9th to April 20th - trench warfare in Upper Alsace
  • 0April 9-18 - Battle of Armentières
• April 20-30 - Trench warfare in Flanders and Artois
• 0May 1st to 13th - trench warfare in Flanders and Artois
• May 15 to June 8 - Trench warfare on the Meuse heights near Lamorville- Spada and St. Mihiel
• June 19 to August 8 - trench warfare between the Meuse and the Moselle , on the Meuse heights south-east of Verdun
• August 10 - Dissolution of the division

Commanders

Rank	Surname	date
Lieutenant General	Konrad Zietlow	January 16 to April 27, 1917
Major general	Lothar von Wurmb	April 28 to August 15, 1917
Major general	Edwin von Treschow	August 16, 1917 to September 4, 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. 725-726.

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.