3rd Marine Division (German Empire)

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3rd Marine Division

active June 9, 1917 to January 1919
Country German EmpireGerman Empire (Reichskriegsflagge) German Empire
Armed forces Imperial Navy
Type Marine Division
structure See: Outline
Insinuation Marine Corps Flanders
First World War Western front
Great battle in France
Commanders
Please refer: List of commanders

The 3rd Marine Division was a major unit of the Imperial Navy in the First World War .

history

Due to the AKO of June 9, 1917, the 3rd Marine Division was formed. It consisted mainly of marine infantry and was used exclusively on the Western Front during the First World War . The division was subordinate to the Marine Corps Flanders and was responsible for securing the coast of Flanders in the area of ​​the municipalities Lombardsijde, Westende , Middelkerke , Wilskerke, Leffinge, Snaaskerke, Ettelgem and Oudenburg .

After the end of the war, the large association was demobilized on November 29, 1918 and finally dissolved in January 1919.

structure

Division of War from July 1, 1917

Division of War of March 8, 1918

  • Marine Infantry Brigade
    • Marine Infantry Regiment No. 1
    • Marine Infantry Regiment No. 2
    • Marine Infantry Regiment No. 3
    • Machine gun sniper division No. 11
    • 3rd squadron / hussar regiment "King Wilhelm I." (1st Rheinisches) No. 7
  • Artillery Commander No. 146
    • Field artillery regiment "Generalfeldmarschall Graf Waldersee" (Schleswigsches) No. 9
    • 1st Battalion / Reserve Foot Artillery Regiment No. 6
  • Engineer Battalion No. 115
  • Division News Commander No. 293

Battle calendar

1917

1918

  • March 11th --- Trench warfare in Flanders
  • March 12th to 20th --- Fighting in the Siegfriedstellung and preparation for the Great Battle in France
  • March 21st to April 6th --- Great battle in France
    • March 23-26 --- Pursuit battles in the summer area
    • March 25th --- Storming of the Mametz forest
    • March 26th --- Storming of the heights of Contalmaison, Ancre crossing, conquest of Albert
    • March 26-27 --- Ancre crossing with Albert
    • March 31st --- Aveluy and Albert fend off English attacks
  • April 7th to May 2nd --- Fights on the Ancre, Somme and Avre
  • May 2nd to August 20th --- Fights between Arras and Albert
  • August 21 to September 2 --- Battle of Monchy- Bapaume
    • August 25-28 --- Fights for Thilloy
  • September 3 to 18 --- Trench warfare in Flanders
  • September 18 to 26 --- Fighting in front of the Siegfried Front
  • September 27th to October 8th --- Defensive battle between Cambrai and St. Quentin
  • October 9 to 23 --- Fights in front of and in the Hermann position
    • October 18 --- Battle of Wassigny
  • October 23 to November 4 --- Fights in the dog position
  • November 5th to 11th --- fighting in retreat in front of the Antwerp - Meuse position
  • from November 12th --- evacuation of the occupied territory and march home

Commanders

Rank Surname date
Major general Konrad von Moltke 0June 9, 1917 to January 20, 1919

literature

  • Rolf Noeske, Claus P. Stefanski: The German navies. 1818-1918. Organization, uniforms, armament and equipment. Volume 2. Verlag Militaria, Vienna 2011, ISBN 978-3-902526-45-8 .
  • Johan Ryheul: Marine Corps Flanders 1914–1918. ES Mittler & Sohn , Hamburg et al. 1997, ISBN 3-8132-0541-X .
  • Hall of Fame of our Old Army. Published on the basis of official material from the Reichsarchiv , Militär-Verlag, Berlin 1927, pp. 61, 91.
  • 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. 86-87.

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. 166.