24th Reserve Division (2nd Royal Saxon)

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24th Reserve Division (2nd Royal Saxon)

active August 2, 1914 to 1919
Country German EmpireThe German Imperium German Empire
Armed forces Saxon Army
Type Infantry division
structure See: Outline
First World War Western front
Battle of the Marne
Battle of the Somme
Kerensky offensive
Third Battle of Flanders
Battle of Cambrai
German spring offensive 1918

Eastern Front

Commanders
Please refer: List of commanders

The 24th Reserve Division (2nd Royal Saxon) was a large unit of the Saxon Army .

structure

Organization of war during mobilization in 1914

  • 47th Reserve Infantry Brigade
    • Reserve Infantry Regiment No. 104
    • Reserve Infantry Regiment No. 106
    • Reserve Hunter Battalion No. 13
  • 48th Reserve Infantry Brigade
    • Reserve Infantry Regiment No. 107
    • Reserve Infantry Regiment No. 133
  • Saxon Reserve Uhlan Regiment
  • Reserve Field Artillery Regiment No. 24
  • 1st and 2nd Company / Reserve Engineer Battalion No. 12

Division of War of April 7, 1918

history

The division was formed on August 2, 1914 as part of the mobilization at the beginning of the First World War . From August 1914 to spring, the division was part of the XII. Reserve Corps (General Hans von Kirchbach ) deployed on the Western Front. From May to October 1917 she fought in Galicia on the Eastern Front and then returned to the Western Front for the last year of the war.

Battle calendar

1914

  • August 23rd to 24th --- Battle of Dinant
  • August 24th to 27th --- Intervention of the 3rd Army in the battle of the 2nd Army near Namur in the direction of Mettet - Philippeville and subsequent pursuit in a south-westerly and south-westerly direction to the Sormonne
  • August 26th to 31st --- Siege and capture of Givet
  • August 31 to September 3 --- Battle of the Aisne and pursuit over the Marne
  • September 6 to 10 --- Battle of Fère-Champenoise
  • September 12th to December 19th --- Trench warfare in Champagne
  • December 20th to 30th --- Battle of Souain, Perthes-lès-Hurlus and Beauséjour
  • December 31st to January 7th --- Position battles in Champagne

1915

  • January 8-13 --- Battle of Perthes-lès-Hurlus and Beauséjour
  • January 14th to 31st --- Position battles in Champagne
  • February 1st to 5th --- Battle of Perthes-lès-Hurlus and Massiges
  • February 6th to 15th --- Position battles in Champagne
  • February 16-19 --- Battle of Perthes-lès-Hurlus and Beauséjour
  • February 21st to March 20th --- Winter battle in Champagne
  • March 21st to September 21st --- Trench warfare in Champagne
  • September 22nd to November 3rd --- Autumn battle in Champagne
  • November 4th to December 31st --- Trench warfare in Champagne

1916

  • January 1st to July 10th --- Trench warfare in Champagne
  • July 11th to September 16th --- Battle of the Somme
  • September 17th to November 15th --- Trench warfare in Flanders and Artois
  • November 16-26 --- Battle of the Somme
  • November 27th to December 16th --- Trench warfare on the Somme
  • December 17th to March 30th --- Trench warfare in Flanders and Artois

1917

  • March 30th to April 13th --- Reserve of the OHL in the 4th Army
  • April 13th to April 26th --- Trench warfare on the Yser
  • April 26th to May 2nd --- transport to the east
  • May 2nd to June 28th --- Trench warfare on the Narajowka, between Narajowka and Zlota Lipa and on the Ceniowka
  • June 29th to July 3rd --- Defense against the Russian summer offensive
  • July 4th to 20th --- Position battles on the Narajowka, between Narajowka and Zlota Lipa and on the Ceniowka
  • July 21st to 30th --- Persecution battles in East Galicia
  • July 31 to August 2 --- Fights for the Zbrucz and between Zbrucz and Sereth
  • August 3 to October 23 --- Trench warfare on the Zbrucz
  • October 24 to November 1, 1917 --- Transport to the west
  • November 1st to 30th --- Autumn battle in Flanders
  • November 30th to December 7th --- Battle of Cambrai
  • December 8 to March 20 --- Fighting in the Siegfried Line and preparation for the Great Battle in France, trench warfare in the Artois, deployment

1918

  • March 21st to April 6th --- Great battle in France
  • April 7th to July 19th --- Fights between Arras and Albert
  • July 20-25 --- Defensive battle between Soissons and Reims
  • July 26th to August 3rd --- Mobile defensive battle between Marne and Vesle
  • August 4th to September 3rd --- Trench warfare on the Vesle
  • September 3 to 18 --- Fighting in front of the Siegfried Front
  • September 19-27 --- Fights in the Siegfried Line
  • September 28 to October 9 --- Trench warfare north of the Ailette
  • October 10th to 12th --- Fighting on the Hunding and Brunhild fronts
  • October 13th to November 4th --- Fights in the dog position
  • November 5th to 11th --- 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
Lieutenant General Oskar von Ehrenthal August 2, 1914 to March 31, 1916
Major general Max Morgenstern-Döring April 1, 1916 to January 29, 1918
Major general Martin of Oldershausen January 30 to November 2, 1918
Major general Alfred Muller November 3, 1918 to January 10, 1919

literature

  • Hall of Fame of our Old Army. Published on the basis of official material from the Reich Archives . Military Publishing House. Berlin 1927. pp. 68, 124.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dermot Bradley (Ed.), Günter Wegner: Occupation of the German Army 1815-1939. Volume 1: The higher command posts 1815-1939. Biblio Publishing House. Osnabrück 1990. ISBN 3-7648-1780-1 . P. 175.