25th Reserve Division (German Empire)

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25th Reserve Division

active August 2, 1914 to October 24, 1918
Country German EmpireThe German Imperium German Empire
Armed forces Prussian Army
Type Infantry division
structure See: Outline
Insinuation XVIII. Reserve Corps
First World War Western front
Battle of the Marne
Battle of Ypres
Battle of Verdun

Eastern Front

The 25th Reserve Division was a major unit of the Prussian army in the First World War .

structure

Organization of war during mobilization in 1914

  • 49th Reserve Infantry Brigade
    • Grand Ducal Hessian Reserve Infantry Regiment No. 116
    • Grand Ducal Hessian Reserve Infantry Regiment No. 118
  • 50th Reserve Infantry Brigade
  • Reserve Dragoon Regiment No. 4
  • Reserve Field Artillery Regiment No. 25
  • 1st Reserve Company / Kurhessisches Pioneer Battalion No. 11
  • 2nd Reserve Company / Kurhessisches Pioneer Battalion No. 11

Division of War 1918

  • 50th Reserve Infantry Brigade
    • Reserve Infantry Regiment No. 83
    • Reserve Infantry Regiment No. 118
    • 5th Grand Ducal Hessian Infantry Regiment No. 168
    • 2nd Squadron / Reserve Dragoon Regiment No. 4
  • Artillery Commander No. 127
    • Reserve Field Artillery Regiment No. 25
    • 2nd Battalion / Reserve Foot Artillery Regiment No. 15
  • Kurhessisches Pioneer Battalion No. 11
  • Division News Commander No. 425

Battle calendar

1914

  • August 22-23 - Battle of Neufchâteau
  • August 24-29 - Battle of the Meuse
  • August 30th to September 5th - pursuit from the Meuse to the Marne
  • 0September 6-12 - Battle of the Marne
  • September 15 to 16 - Storming of Servon
  • September 15 to October 6 - Trench warfare in Champagne and west of the Argonne
  • October 13th to November 27th - Trench warfare in Flanders and Artois
    • October 15-28 - Battle of Lille
  • October 30th to November 24th - Battle of Ypres
  • November 27-30 - transport to the east
  • 0December 1st to 17th - Battle of Lowicz-Sanniki
  • from December 18 - fighting near Dachowo, battle of the Bzura-Rawka

1915

  • until March 15th - fighting near Dachowo, battle of the Bzura-Rawka
  • March 18 to 31 - Reserve of the OHL
  • 0April 2nd to 13th - Easter battle in Laborczatal
  • April 14th to May 4th - trench warfare in the Laborczatal
  • 0May 5th to 14th - Persecution battles in central Galicia
  • May 15 to June 13 - Fights for Przemysl
  • June 17th to 22nd - Battle of Lviv
  • June 22nd to July 16th - Persecution battles on the Galician-Polish border
  • July 13-18 - Battle of Grabowiec
  • July 19-30 - Battle of Wojslawice
  • 0August 1st to 3rd - Battle of Cholm
  • 07th to 12th August - Battle of the Ucherka
  • August 13-17 - Battle of Wlodawa
  • August 18 to 24 - Attack on Brest-Litovsk
  • August 25-26 - Brest-Litovsk is captured
  • August 27-28 - persecution on Kobrin
  • August 29-30 - battle near Kobrin
  • August 31 to September 1 - Battle of Horodec
  • 0September 4-6 - Battle of Drohiczyn-Chomsk
  • 0September 6-21 - Reserve of the OHL
  • September 21 to October 6 - Second deployment on the northern Serbian border
  • October 6th to November 22nd - Campaign in Serbia
  • November 28 to December 4 - Trench warfare on the Macedonian front
  • 0December 4-15 - transport to the west
  • from December 15th - fight in the Argonne forest

1916

  • until July 3rd - fight in the Argon Forest
  • 0July 4th to September 9th - Battle of Verdun , fighting in the Thiaumont forest
  • 0September 9th to October 30th - trench warfare in front of Verdun
  • from November 8th - trench warfare in Champagne

1917

  • until January 26th - Trench warfare in Champagne
  • January 26th to August 12th - trench warfare in front of Verdun
  • August 12th to 28th - defensive battle near Verdun
  • August 29th to October 29th - Trench warfare in Lorraine
  • from November 6th - trench warfare near Reims

1918

  • until April 20th - trench warfare near Reims
  • April 20 to June 8 - Fights on the Avre , Montdidier and Noyon
  • 0June 9th to August 7th - fighting on the Avre and Matz
  • 0August 8-10 - defensive battle between Somme and Avre
  • August 11th to September 3rd - defensive battle between the Somme and Oise
  • 0September 4 to 18 - fighting in front of the Siegfried Front
  • September 19 to October 9 - Defensive battle between Cambrai and St. Quentin
  • October 10th to 20th - fights in front of and in the Hermann position
  • October 24th - Division disbanded

Commanders

Rank Surname date
Lieutenant General Alexander Torgany 0August 2 to October 1, 1914
Major general Wolf von Helldorff 0October 2 to November 24, 1914
Lieutenant General Squidward von Jarotzky November 25, 1914 to January 29, 1916
Lieutenant General Paul Grünert January 30 to April 11, 1916
Württ. Lieutenant General Alfred von Mohn April 12, 1916 to June 18, 1918
Major general Willy Matthiaß June 19 to October 24, 1918

literature

  • Hall of Fame of our Old Army. Published on the basis of official material from the Reichsarchiv , Militär-Verlag, Berlin 1927, pp. 68, 125.
  • 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. 355-358.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lieutenant Colonel a. D. Radermacher: memorial sheets of the Grand Duke. Hessian Reserve Infantry Regiment No. 116 and the III. Batls. Kgl. Prussia. Agricultural Inf. Regts. No. 85, Hessisches Staatsarchiv Darmstadt. ST F 174/50.
  2. ↑ 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. 175.