25th Reserve Division (German Empire)
25th Reserve Division |
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active | August 2, 1914 to October 24, 1918 |
Country | German Empire |
Armed forces | Prussian Army |
Type | Infantry division |
structure | See: Outline |
Insinuation | XVIII. Reserve Corps |
First World War |
Western front
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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
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49th Reserve Infantry Brigade
- Grand Ducal Hessian Reserve Infantry Regiment No. 116
- Grand Ducal Hessian Reserve Infantry Regiment No. 118
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50th Reserve Infantry Brigade
- 5th Grand Ducal Hessian Infantry Regiment No. 168
- Reserve Infantry Regiment No. 83
- 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
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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
- Battle of the Marne September 6-12 -
- 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
- December 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
- April 2nd to 13th - Easter battle in Laborczatal
- April 14th to May 4th - trench warfare in the Laborczatal
- May 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
- August 1st to 3rd - Battle of Cholm
- Ucherka 7th to 12th August - Battle of the
- 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
- September 4-6 - Battle of Drohiczyn-Chomsk
- September 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
- December 4-15 - transport to the west
- from December 15th - fight in the Argonne forest
1916
- until July 3rd - fight in the Argon Forest
- Battle of Verdun , fighting in the Thiaumont forest July 4th to September 9th -
- Verdun September 9th to October 30th - trench warfare in front of
- 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
- Matz June 9th to August 7th - fighting on the Avre and
- Somme and Avre August 8-10 - defensive battle between
- August 11th to September 3rd - defensive battle between the Somme and Oise
- September 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 |
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Lieutenant General | Alexander Torgany | August 2 to October 1, 1914 |
Major general | Wolf von Helldorff | October 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
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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.