237th Division (German Empire)

The 237th Division was a major unit of the German Army in the First World War .

structure

Division of War of January 10, 1918

• 244th Infantry Brigade
  • Infantry Regiment No. 460
  • Infantry Regiment No. 461
  • Infantry Regiment No. 462
  • 4th Squadron / 1st Hanoverian Uhlan Regiment No. 13
• Artillery Commander No. 237
  • 3rd Rhenish Field Artillery Regiment No. 83
• Engineer Battalion No. 237
• Division News Commander No. 237

history

The division was formed on January 16, 1917 on the Eastern Front and was in service there until the armistice. Then it was transferred to the Western Front , where the division fought until the end of the war. After the armistice in Compiègne , the association marched back home, demobilized and finally disbanded.

Battle calendar

1917

• 0March 9th to April 7th - trench warfare on the upper Shchara-Servetsch
• 0April 8th to June 26th - trench warfare on the Berezina , Olshanka and Krewlyanka
• June 30th to July 6th - defensive battle east of Zloczow, defense against the Russian summer offensive
  • 0July 2nd and 6th - defensive battle east of Pomorzany, fighting in the Chorostowiec Forest
  • 0July 6th - Second defensive battle near Koniuchy-Hodow
• 0July 7th to 18th - trench warfare east of Zloczow
• July 19-23 - breakthrough battle in eastern Galicia
  • July 19 - Storming of the Zlota Gora
  • July 20th - Storming of the Popowa Gora
  • July 23 - Zazdrosc
• July 24-30 - Pursuit battles in Eastern Galicia
  • July 24th - southeast of Darachow, at Srednie-Garby and at Wybranowka
• July 31 to August 2 - fights for the Zbrucz and between Zbrucz and Sereth
• 0August 3 to December 7 - trench warfare between Dniester and Zbrucz, on the Zbrucz and between Zbrucz and Sereth
• 0December 8-17 - Truce
• from December 17th - armistice

1918

• until February 18 - armistice
• February 15 to March 3 - transport to the west
• 0March 3 to May 26 - Trench warfare in the Argonne
• May 27th to June 13th - Battle of Soissons and Reims
  • May 28th to June 1st - chase battles between Oise and Aisne and over the Vesle to the Marne
• June 14th to 30th - trench warfare between Oise, Aisne and Marne
• 0August 1 to 14 - trench warfare in the Argonne
• August 15-20 - defensive battle between Somme and Oise, fighting at Beuvraignes and Loges forest
• August 20th to September 4th - Defensive battle between Oise and Aisne
• 0September 5 to October 9 - fighting in front of the Siegfried Front
• October 10th to November 4th - fights in front of and in the Hermann position
  • October 17th to 26th - Fights between Oise and Serre
• 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 Jacobi	January 16, 1917 to January 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, 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.