255th Division (German Empire)

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The 255th Division was a major unit of the Prussian army in the First World War .

structure

Division of War of February 8, 1918

  • 82nd Landwehr Infantry Brigade
  • Artillery Commander No. 255
    • Field Artillery Regiment No. 301
  • Engineer Battalion No. 255
  • Division Message Commander # 255

history

The division was put together on January 11, 1917 and used exclusively on the Western Front. After the end of the war, she marched back home, where the association was first demobilized and finally dissolved in January 1919 .

Battle calendar

1917

  • from February 1st - Trench warfare in Lorraine

1918

  • to January 9th - Trench warfare in Lorraine
  • 10 January to 4 February - Trench warfare in Lorraine and the Vosges
  • 0February 4th to September 11th - Trench warfare in Lorraine
  • September 12-14 - evasive battles in the Mihiel Arch
  • September 15 to October 10 - trench warfare in the Woëvre plain and west of the Moselle
  • October 11th to November 11th - Trench warfare on the heights west of the Moselle
  • 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 z.D. Albert Mueller January 11, 1917 to July 2, 1918
Major general Max Jung 0July 3, 1918 to February 2, 1919

Varia

The Catholic field division pastor of the unit was Johannes Schulz (1884–1942), a German priest of the Diocese of Trier , awarded the Iron Cross 2nd class, who later died of starvation in the Dachau concentration camp because of his opposition to National Socialism .

literature

  • Hall of Fame of our Old Army. Published on the basis of official material from the Reichsarchiv , Militär-Verlag, Berlin 1927, pp. 76, 173–174.
  • 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. 744-745.

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. 163.
  2. ^ Website with the curriculum vitae of Pastor Johannes Schulz and details of the unit