241st Division (11th Royal Saxon)

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The 241st Division (11th Royal Saxon) was a major unit of the Saxon Army during the First World War .

structure

Division of War of February 27, 1918

history

The division was assembled on January 16, 1917 in Dresden and deployed on the Eastern Front, withdrawn after the local armistice and relocated to the Western Front. She stayed there until the end of the war. They then marched home, where the division was initially demobilized and finally disbanded in January 1919 .

Battle calendar

1917

  • 0March 1 to April 11, 1917 - Reserve of the OHL
  • April 11th to June 10th - trench warfare between Krewo- Smorgon - Naratsch -Tweretsch
  • June 10th to 24th - Upper East Reserve
  • June 24th to 28th - trench warfare on the Narajowka, between Narajowka and Zlota Lipa and on the Ceniowka
  • June 29 to July 3 - Defense against the Russian summer offensive
    • June 29th to July 3rd - Battle of Brzezany (parts of the division)
    • June 29 to July 3 - Battle of Koniuchy (parts of the division)
  • 0July 4th to 20th - trench warfare on the Narajowka, between Narajowka and Zlota-Lipa and on the Ceniowka
  • July 21-30 - Persecution in Eastern Galicia
    • July 29-30 - Turlycze-Ivankow
  • July 31 to August 2 - fights for the Zbrucz and between Zbrucz and Sereth
  • 0August 3 to December 7 - trench warfare between the Dniester and Zbrucz
  • 0December 8-17 - Truce
  • from December 17th - armistice

1918

  • until February 18 - armistice
  • February 19 to March 5 - transport to the west
  • 05th to 16th March - 1st Army Reserve
  • March 17-20 - 7th Army Reserve
  • March 21 to April 6 - Great battle in France
  • 0April 8th to 9th - Storming of Coucy le Château and pursuit to the Oise-Aisne Canal
  • April 10th to May 26th - trench warfare north of the Ailette
  • May 27th to June 13th - Battle of Soissons and Reims
    • May 25th to June 1st - Pursuit battles between Oise and Aisne
    • May 30th to June 13th - Assault fighting west and southwest of Soissons
  • June 14th to July 4th - Trench warfare west of the Oise, Aisne and Marne
  • 0July 5th to 17th - Trench warfare west of Soissons
  • July 18-25 - Defensive battle between Soissons and Reims
  • July 26th to August 3rd - Mobile defensive battle between Marne and Vesle
  • 04th to 16th August - trench warfare between Oise and Aisne
  • 17th to 22nd August - Defensive battle between Oise and Aisne
  • 23 August to 3 September - defensive battle between the Somme and Oise
    • August 29th to September 3rd - Battle of the Forest Mountains east of Noyon
  • 0September 4 to 18 - fighting in front of the Siegfried Front
  • September 19-30 - fighting in the Siegfried Front
  • 0October 1st to 8th - Defensive battle between Cambrai and St. Quentin
  • 0October 9th to 19th - Fights in front of and in the Hermann position
  • October 21 to November 4 - Trench warfare in the Woëvre plain
  • 0November 4th to 11th - Defensive battle in Champagne and on the Meuse
    • 0November 4th to 11th - Defensive battles between Maas and Beaumont
  • from November 12th - march back through Lorraine , the Rhine Province and the Palatinate during the armistice

1919

  • until January 4th - march back through Lorraine, the Rhine Province and the Palatinate during the armistice

Commanders

Rank Surname date
Major General / Lieutenant General August Forthmüller 0December 8, 1916 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, 173.
  • 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. 737-738.
  • Artur Baumgarten-Crusius: The Saxons in the field 1914-1918. Verlag der Literaturwerke Minerva, R. Max Lippold, Leipzig 1923, pp. 493–508.

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. 162.