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

• 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
  • 1st Westphalian Field Artillery Regiment No. 7
• 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
• 0May 8-20 - the spring battle near Arras
• May 21st to September 2nd - trench warfare in Flanders and Artois
• 0September 3-28 - Battle of Flanders
• September 29th to December 31st - Trench warfare in Flanders and Artois

1918

• 0January 1st to 31st - trench warfare in Flanders and Artois
• 0February 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
• 0April 1st to 15th - Trench warfare in Flanders
  • April 16-29 - Fights in the Wytschaete Arch
• 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
Colonel	Eduard Kreuter	0January 2 to 3, 1917 (in charge of the tour)
Major general	Georg Mühry	0January 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

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. 161.