3rd Guard Infantry Division (German Empire)

3rd Guard Infantry Division
active	August 2, 1914 to January 1919
Country	German Empire
Armed forces	Prussian Army
Type	Infantry division
structure	See: Outline
First World War	Eastern Front Battle of the Masurian Lakes Battle for Łódź Storming the Zwinin Western front Battle of the Somme Battle of Arras (1917) Third Battle of Flanders Battle of Cambrai German spring offensive 1918 Meuse-Argonne offensive

The 3rd Guards Infantry Division was a major unit of the Prussian army under the German Army in the First World War .

structure

Division of War of August 2, 1914

5th Guard Infantry Brigade
- 5th Guards Regiment on foot
- Guard Grenadier Regiment No. 5
6th Guard Infantry Brigade
- Guard Fusilier Regiment
- Training Infantry Regiment
Guard Uhlan Regiment
3rd Guard Field Artillery Brigade
- 5th Guards Field Artillery Regiment
- 6th Guards Field Artillery Regiment
1st Company / Engineer Battalion No. 28

Division of War of March 20, 1918

6th Guard Infantry Brigade
- Guard Fusilier Regiment
- Training Infantry Regiment
- Colberg's Grenadier Regiment "Graf Gneisenau" (2nd Pomeranian) No. 9
- Machine gun sniper division No. 2
- 1st Squadron / Guard Dragoon Regiment
Guard artillery commander No. 3
- 5th Guards Field Artillery Regiment
- 1st battalion / 2. Guards foot artillery regiment
Engineer Battalion No. 104
Division News Commander Guard No. 3

history

The large association was formed with the mobilization on August 2, 1914 and assigned to the Guard Reserve Corps . During the war, the division was used on the western and eastern fronts. The training infantry regiment was formed from the training infantry battalion, units from the infantry shooting school and the NCO school in Potsdam, as well as guard reserve.

Battle calendar

1914

August 20 --- Battle at Hingeon
August 22nd to 25th --- Conquest of Namur
August 26th --- Transport to the east
August 29th to September 3rd --- Reserve of the OHL
September 5th to 15th --- Battle of the Masurian Lakes
September 28th --- Battle near Jędrzejów
September 30th --- Battle near Kielce
October 1st --- Battle of Bzin
October 4-5 --- Battles near Opatow and Radom
October 9-20 --- Battle of Ivangorod
October 22nd to 28th --- Fights on the Pilica
November 16 to December 15 --- Battle of Łódź
from December 18th --- Battle of the Rawka - Bzura

1915

until January 10th --- Battle of the Rawka-Bzura
January 10th to 18th --- Reserve of the OHL
January 18th to 29th --- Deployment in the Carpathian Mountains
January 31st --- Battle at Smorze
February 3rd --- Battle near Annaberg
February 5th to April 8th --- Position battle on the Zwinin
April 9th --- Storming of the Zwinin
April 10 to May 12 --- Battles on the Zawadka and Koziowa
May 11th to 17th --- Persecution in the Carpathian Mountains
May 18 to June 3 --- Battle of Stryi
June 4-9 --- Persecution in Galicia
June 10-22 --- Battle of Zydaczow

June 23 to 27 --- Crossing over the Dniester

June 27-29 --- Battle of the Gnila-Lipa

June 30th to July 6th --- Persecution between Gnila-Lipa and Zlota-Lipa

July 7th to August 26th --- Trench warfare on the Zlota-Lipa

August 27th --- Breakthrough battle on the Zlota-Lipa

August 28th to September 5th --- Persecution against the Sereth

September 6th to 16th --- Battle of Tarnopol

September 17th to November 5th --- Autumn fighting in East Galicia

From November 6th --- Trench warfare on the Strypa between Wosuzka and Sereth

1916

from April 12th --- positional battles on the Strypa between Wosuzka and Sereth
April 12th to April 16th --- Transport to the west and reserve of the OHL
April 28th to June 4th --- Trench warfare in Champagne
June 5 to July 1 --- OHL reserves in the 6th Army
July 1st to 22nd --- Battle of the Somme
July 22nd to September 1st --- Trench warfare on the Yser
September 1st to 5th --- Transport to the east and reserve of the OHL
5th to 8th September --- First battle on the Narajowka and Zlota-Lipa
September 9 to November 23 --- Trench warfare on the Narajowka, between Narajowka and Zlota-Lipa and on the Cenioswka
November 23 to December 23 --- Transport to the west and reserve of the OHL at Army Division B
from November 24th --- Trench warfare in Lorraine

1917

until April 3rd --- Trench warfare in Lorraine
April 4th to 10th --- Reserve of the OHL
April 11th to May 20th --- Spring battle near Arras
May 22nd to July 9th --- Trench warfare in Flanders and Artois
July 10th to August 5th --- Battle of Flanders
August 9 to October 2 --- Trench warfare in Upper Alsace
October 3rd to November 6th --- Battle of Flanders
November 6-22 --- Border guards on the Belgian-Dutch border
November 20th to 29th --- Battle of Cambrai
November 30th to December 7th --- Assault battle near Cambrai
from December 12th --- fighting in the Siegfried position

1918

until January 31st --- fighting in the Siegfriedstellung
February 1 to March 20 --- Trench warfare in Artois and deployment to the Great Battle of France
March 21st to April 6th --- Great battle in France
April 7-13 --- Fights between Arras and Albert
April 15-29 --- Battle of the Kemmel
April 30th to May 13th --- Trench warfare in Flanders
May 14th to July 5th --- Trench warfare in Lorraine
July 7th to August 8th --- Trench warfare near Reims
July 18th to 25th --- Defensive battle between Soissons and Reims
July 26th to August 3rd --- Mobile defensive battle between Marne and Vesle
August 9th to 25th --- Position battles in Champagne
September 19-27 --- Fights in the Siegfried Line
September 26th to October 24th --- Defensive battle in Champagne and on the Meuse
October 24th to 31st --- Fights on the Aisne and Aire
November 1st to 4th --- Fights between Aisne and Maas
5th to 11th November --- Position battles in front of the Antwerp-Maas position
from November 12th --- evacuation of the occupied area, march back home and demobilization there

Commanders

Rank	Surname	date
Lieutenant General	Henning von Bonin	August 2 to October 18, 1914
Lieutenant General	Karl Litzmann	October 18 to December 23, 1914
General of the cavalry	Wolf Rudolf Freiherr Marshal von Altengottern	December 24, 1914 to February 16, 1915
Major general	Friedrich von Friedeburg	February 17 to June 29, 1915 (in charge of the tour)
Major General / Lieutenant General	Arthur von Lindequist	June 30, 1915 to February 7, 1918
Major general	Dietrich von Roeder	February 8, 1918 to January 1, 1919

literature

Hall of Fame of our Old Army. Published on the basis of official material from the Reich Archives . Military Publishing House. Berlin 1927. pp. 60, 88-89.
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. 72-75.

Individual evidence

↑ 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. 136.

[Wegner-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. 136.