3rd Division (German Empire)

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The 3rd Division , also known as the 3rd Infantry Division for the duration of the mobile relationship , was a large unit of the Prussian Army .

structure

The division was part of the II Army Corps . You were subject to:

Peace structure 1914

Organization of war during mobilization in 1914

Division of War of October 18, 1918

  • 6th Infantry Brigade
    • Infantry Regiment No. 381
    • Infantry Regiment No. 425
    • Infantry Regiment No. 428
  • Artillery Commander No. 125
    • 1st Pomeranian Field Artillery Regiment No. 2
  • Engineer Battalion No. 112
  • Division News Commander No. 3

history

The large association was originally founded on November 5, 1816 as a troop brigade in Stettin and expanded to a division on September 5, 1819. The command remained in Stettin until the division was disbanded in 1919 .

Battle calendar

1914

  • August 18-19 - Battle of the Gette
  • 23rd to 24th August - Battle of Mons
  • August 25-27 - Battles between the Gette and Somme rivers
  • August 28-30 - Battles on the Somme
    • August 29th - Battle of Projart
  • 0September 2 - Battle at Senlis
  • 0September 5th to 9th - Battle of the Qurcq
  • September 12th to October 2nd - Fights at Soissons
  • 0October 2-15 - Fights at Roye
    • October 5th - Storming of Beuvraignes, attack on the Laucourt positions
    • October 6-21 - fights near Beuvraignes and Laucourt
  • October 16-26 - Fights near Canny-Lassigny
  • 0November 4th to 14th - Battle for the Wytschaete Park
  • 0November 5th to 22nd - Battle of Ypres
  • November 22nd to 25th - Reserve of the OHL
  • November 26th to December 15th - Battle of Lodz
  • from December 18th - Battle of the Rawka - Bzura
    • from December 21st - position battle at Bartoszowka

1915

  • to January 6th - Battle of the Rawka-Bzura
    • until February 11th - position battle at Bartoszowka
  • February 12-20 - 9th Army Reserve
  • February 20-27 - Battle of Przasnysz
  • 0March 3 to 10 - Battles in the Orzyc Arc
  • March 11th to July 12th - trench warfare north of Przasnysz
  • July 13th - storming of the village and forest of Szla
  • July 13th to 17th - breakthrough battle near Przasnysz
  • July 18-22 - Pursuit battles to the Lower Narew
    • July 18-24 - Battle of Roshan Fortress
  • July 23 to August 3 - Battle of the Narew
  • 04th to 7th August - Battle of the Orz Bach
  • 0August 8-10 - Battle of Ostrow
  • August 11-12 - Battle of Chishev-Sambrov
  • August 13-14 - crossing over the Nurzec and taking Ciechanoviec
  • August 13-18 - pursuit battles on the upper Narew and Nurzec
  • August 19th - Storming of Bocki
  • August 19-25 - Battle of Bielsk
  • August 26th to September 5th - chase battles on the Swislosz and on the Naumka-Werecia
  • 0September 6-7 - Battle of Wolkowyszk
  • September 24 to October 19 - Battles on the Mjadsjolka and Dryswjata, around Kosjany
  • from October 20th - positional battles between the Naroch and Dryswjaty lakes

1917

  • until November 14th - positional battles between the Naroch and Dryswjaty lakes
  • November 16 to December 7 - trench warfare in front of Dünaburg
  • 0December 7th to 17th - Truce
  • from December 17th - armistice

1918

  • until February 18 - armistice
  • February 18 to March 3 - Offensive against Lake Peipus and the upper Daugava
  • 0March 3rd to 22nd - occupation of Russian territory between the Upper Daugava and Lake Peipus
  • March 22nd to October 2nd - occupation of Great Russian territory
  • October 10-12 - Fighting on the Hunding and Brunhild fronts
  • October 15-17 - defensive battle in Flanders
  • October 18 to 24 - rearguard battles between Yser and Lys
  • October 25th to November 1st - Battle of the Lys
  • 0November 2nd to 4th - rearguard fighting on both sides of the Scheldt
  • 0November 5th to 11th - fighting in retreat in front of the Antwerp-Maas position
  • from November 12th - evacuation of the occupied territory and march home

Commanders

Rank Surname date
Lieutenant General Karl August Adolf von Krafft September 13, 1818 to June 17, 1825
Lieutenant General Constantine of Zepelin June 18, 1825 to March 16, 1835
Major general Karl Christian von Weyrach March 30, 1835 to March 29, 1837 (in charge of the tour)
Major General / Lieutenant General Karl Christian von Weyrach March 30, 1837 to March 29, 1840
Lieutenant General Friedrich Wilhelm von Brünneck March 30, 1840 to March 5, 1848
Major General / Lieutenant General Ludwig Roth von Schreckenstein 0March 6 to July 24, 1848
Lieutenant General Georg von Stülpnagel July 25, 1848 to September 14, 1849
Major general Wilhelm von Cölln September 15-21, 1849
Lieutenant General Friedrich Wilhelm Karl von Grabow September 22, 1849 to November 3, 1851
Lieutenant General Ferdinand von Hirschfeld 0November 4, 1851 to June 6, 1856
Lieutenant General Karl von Herrmann 0June 7, 1856 to April 29, 1859
Lieutenant General Friedrich Karl of Prussia April 30, 1859 to June 30, 1860
Lieutenant General Ferdinand von Bialcke 0July 1, 1860 to May 8, 1865
Major General / Lieutenant General August from Werder 0May 9, 1865 to July 17, 1870
Major General / Lieutenant General Ernst von Hartmann July 18, 1870 to March 12, 1877
Major General / Lieutenant General Theodor von Sell March 13, 1877 to May 13, 1881
Lieutenant General Helmuth von Ziemietzky May 14, 1881 to October 13, 1882
Major General / Lieutenant General Rudolf von Waldow October 14, 1882 to December 5, 1883
Lieutenant General Rudolf von Oppeln-Bronikowski 0December 6, 1883 to January 26, 1888
Major general Hans von Kaltenborn-Stachau January 27 to July 6, 1888
Lieutenant General Wilhelm Roeder of Diersburg 0July 7, 1888 to January 13, 1891
Dignity. Lieutenant General Kuno von Falkenstein January 17, 1891 to July 7, 1892
Lieutenant General Anton von Froben July 28, 1892 to July 17, 1896
Lieutenant General August by Janson July 18, 1896 to August 9, 1899
Lieutenant General Leopold Hentschel from Gilgenheimb August 18, 1899 to April 17, 1903
Lieutenant General Hermann von Vietinghoff-Scheel April 18, 1903 to May 16, 1907
Major general Ernst Kuntze May 21 to September 10, 1907 (in charge of the tour)
Lieutenant General Ernst Kuntze September 11, 1907 to February 17, 1908
Lieutenant General Wolfgang von Unger February 18, 1908 to January 19, 1910
Lieutenant General Rudolf von Wegerer January 20, 1910 to March 1, 1911
Major general Georg von der Marwitz 0March 2 to March 19, 1911 (in charge of the tour)
Lieutenant General Georg von der Marwitz March 20, 1911 to November 11, 1912
Lieutenant General Ferdinand von Trossel November 12, 1912 to December 10, 1914
Lieutenant General Gustav von Hollen December 11, 1914 to June 14, 1915
Lieutenant General Hermann von Staabs June 15, 1915 to July 6, 1916
Major general Paul Grünert 0July 7 to September 5, 1916
Lieutenant General Richard von Kraewel 0September 6, 1916 to February 1, 1917
Major general Friedrich Wilhelm von Sydow 0February 2, 1917 to January 11, 1919
Lieutenant General Siegfried of La Chevallerie January 12 to June 23, 1919

literature

  • Hall of Fame of our Old Army. Published on the basis of official material from the Reichsarchiv , Militär-Verlag, Berlin 1927, pp. 61, 89–90.
  • 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. 76-77.
  • The servant. Field newspaper of the 3rd division. On-line

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. 93 f.