236th Division (German Empire)
The 236th Division was a large unit of the Prussian Army in the unit of the German Army in the First World War .
structure
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236th Infantry Brigade
- Infantry Regiment No. 457
- Infantry Regiment No. 458
- Infantry Regiment No. 459
- 4th Squadron / Schleswig-Holstein Dragoon Regiment No. 13
- Artillery Commander No. 236
- Engineer Battalion No. 236
- Division News Commander No. 236
history
The division was formed on January 16, 1917 and used exclusively on the Western Front during the course of the war .
Battle calendar
1917
- April 11th to May 7th - fighting in front of the Siegfried Front
- spring battle near Arras May 8-20 - the
- May 21st to September 2nd - trench warfare in Flanders and Artois
- Battle of Flanders September 3-28 -
- September 29th to December 31st - Trench warfare in Flanders and Artois
1918
- January 1st to 31st - trench warfare in Flanders and Artois
- February 1 to March 20 - Trench warfare in Artois and deployment to the Great Battle of France
- March 21st to April 1st - Great Battle of France
- March 21-23 - Monchy-Cambrai breakthrough battle
- March 28th - Attack on the Scarpe , storming of Neuville-Vitasse
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- April 16-29 - Fights in the Wytschaete Arch
April 1st to 15th - Trench warfare in Flanders
- April 30th to June 23rd - Trench warfare in Flanders
- June 23rd to July 22nd - Border patrol on the Belgian-Dutch border
- July 23 to September 18 - Trench warfare in Flanders
- August 28 to September 4 - Fighting in front of the Ypres -La Bassée front
- September 18 to 26 - Trench warfare in the Woëvre plain and west of the Moselle
- September 26th to November 11th - defensive battle in Champagne and on the Meuse
- September 26th to October 31st - defensive battles between Argonne and Meuse
- from November 12th - evacuation of the occupied territory and march home
Commanders
Rank | Surname | date |
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Colonel | Eduard Kreuter | January 2 to 3, 1917 (in charge of the tour) |
Major general | Georg Mühry | January 4, 1917 to January 12, 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, 171–172.
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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. 161.