30th Division (German Empire)

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The 30th Division , also known as the 30th Infantry Division for the duration of the mobile relationship , was a large unit of the Prussian Army .

structure

The division was part of the XV. Army Corps .

Peace formation 1871

Peace structure 1914

Organization of war during mobilization in 1914

  • 60th Infantry Brigade
    • 2nd Upper Rhine Infantry Regiment No. 99
    • 4th Lower Alsatian Infantry Regiment No. 143
  • 85th Infantry Brigade
    • Infantry Regiment "King Wilhelm II of Württemberg" (6th Royal Saxon) No. 105
    • 4th Lorraine Infantry Regiment No. 136
  • Hunter Regiment on Horseback No. 3
  • 30th Field Artillery Brigade
    • 2nd Upper Alsatian Field Artillery Regiment No. 51
    • Strasbourg Field Artillery Regiment No. 84
  • 1st Alsatian Pioneer Battalion No. 15

Division of War of September 2, 1918

  • 60th Infantry Brigade
  • Artillery Commander No. 30
    • Strasbourg Field Artillery Regiment No. 84
    • Bavarian Foot Artillery Battalion 10
  • 1st Alsatian Pioneer Battalion No. 15
  • Division News Commander No. 30

history

The large association was established on March 20, 1871 and was in command in Strasbourg until it was demobilized and dissolved in 1919 .

First World War

During the First World War , the division was used exclusively on the Western Front .

Battle calendar

1914

  • July 31 to August 16 - Border protection against France (parts)
    • 0August 9th to 10th - battle near Sennheim-Mühlhausen (1st battle near Mulhouse)
  • August 20-22 - Battle of Lorraine
  • August 22nd to September 5th - Battle of Nancy - Epinal
  • September 12-13 - Battle of the Dyle Canal and Beyghem
  • September 13th to October 19th - fighting on the Aisne
  • September 17th to October 19th - Fights at Hurtebise
  • October 29th to November 26th - Trench warfare in Flanders
  • October 30th to November 24th - First Battle of Flanders
  • November 27-30 - Battle of the Yser
  • from December 1st - trench warfare on the Yser

1915

1916

  • until January 8th - trench warfare on the Yser
  • February 21st to September 9th - Battle of Verdun
    • March 3-13 - Fights near Vaux
    • April 16 to June 1 - Battle of Fort Vaux
    • May 14th to June 1st - Battle of Damloup
    • 0June 2nd - Storming of Damloup
    • 0June 3-7 - Fights in and around Fort Vaux (parts)
    • 0June 3 to September 9 - fighting south of Fort Vaux, mountain and Lauffée forest (parts)
    • June 21st - Storming of the battery a and the quarry southwest of Fort Vaux (parts)
    • 03rd July - Storming of the High Battery de Damloup (parts)
    • 04th to 19th August - Fights for Thiaumont intermediate plant (parts)
    • 09 September to 14 October - trench warfare in front of Verdun
  • October 26th to November 18th - Battle of the Somme
  • from December 13th - trench warfare in front of Verdun

1917

  • until January 25th - trench warfare in front of Verdun
  • January 26th to April 5th - Trench warfare in Champagne
  • 0April 6th to May 27th - Battle of Champagne
  • May 28th to June 30th - Trench warfare near Reims
  • 0July 1st to August 18th - Trench warfare in Champagne
  • August 19 to October 9 - defensive battle near Verdun
  • October 24th to November 2nd - rearguard battles on and south of the Ailette
  • 03rd to 19th November - trench warfare north of the Ailette
  • November 21-29 - Battle of Cambrai
  • November 30th to December 7th - Assault battle near Cambrai
  • 07th to 14th December - trench warfare in the Siegfried position

1918

  • January 15-17 - trench warfare in the Argonne
  • January 17th to March 25th - Trench warfare in Champagne
  • March 26th to April 5th - 3rd and 7th Army's reserves
  • April 11th to June 8th - Fights near Montdidier
  • 0June 9-20 - Fighting on the Avre and Matz
  • 0June 9-13 - Battle of Noyon
  • June 27th to July 14th - Trench warfare in Champagne
  • July 15-17 - Assault battle on the Marne and Champagne
  • September 26th to October 9th - fighting in front of the Siegfried Front
  • September 27th to October 8th - defensive battle between Cambrai and Saint-Quentin
  • 0October 9-14 - fights in front of and in the Hermann position
  • from November 12th - evacuation of the occupied territory and march home

Commanders

Rank Surname date
Major General / Lieutenant General Karl Gustav von Sandrart March 20, 1871 to October 10, 1873
Major general Wilhelm von Woyna October 11 to November 24, 1873 (entrusted with the tour)
Major General / Lieutenant General Wilhelm von Woyna November 25, 1873 to November 17, 1880
Major general Oskar von Meerscheidt-Hüllessem November 18, 1880 to March 29, 1881 (in charge of the tour)
Lieutenant General Oskar von Meerscheidt-Hüllessem March 30, 1880 to November 22, 1882
Lieutenant General Leo of Caprivi November 23, 1882 to March 19, 1883
Major general Ernst von Legat March 20 to May 14, 1883 (in charge of the tour)
Lieutenant General Ernst von Legat May 15, 1883 to April 14, 1886
Lieutenant General Anton von Massow April 15 to December 3, 1886
Lieutenant General Rudolf von Minckwitz 0December 4, 1886 to June 16, 1889
Lieutenant General Julius von Bergmann June 17, 1889 to March 23, 1890
Lieutenant General Robert von Goetze March 24, 1890 to November 12, 1890
Lieutenant General Max Schott von Schottenstein November 13, 1890 to May 16, 1892
Lieutenant General Oskar Lademann May 17, 1892 to May 13, 1894
Lieutenant General Robert von Massow May 14, 1894 to March 30, 1898
Lieutenant General Louis Stoetzer 0April 1, 1898 to May 2, 1901
Lieutenant General Walther von Moßner 0May 3, 1901 to April 17, 1903
Lieutenant General Ernst von Hoiningen April 18, 1903 to September 11, 1907
Major general Georg von der Goltz 0April 2 to 19, 1909 (in charge of the tour)
Lieutenant General Georg von der Goltz April 20, 1909 to January 26, 1912
Major general Johannes von Eben January 27 to April 21, 1912 (in charge of the tour)
Lieutenant General Johannes von Eben April 22, 1912 to August 29, 1914
Lieutenant General Adolf Wild von Hohenborn August 29 to November 7, 1914
Major general Karl Friedrich Surén 0November 7th to December 17th, 1914
Major General / Lieutenant General Friedrich von Gontard December 17, 1914 to November 1, 1917
Major general Franz Gustav von der Wenge von Lambsdorff 0November 2, 1917 to September 10, 1918
Major general Gustav Riebensahm September 11, 1918 to February 19, 1919

literature

  • Hall of Fame of our Old Army. Published on the basis of official material from the Reichsarchiv , Militär-Verlag, Berlin 1927, pp. 68, 129–130.
  • 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. 388-391.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gustav Franz Achatius von Kortzfleisch , from Otto: History of the Braunschweigischen Infanterie-Regiment No. 92. in: Peace time since the great war. ( Memento from January 4, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF) Volume 3: The Franco-German War and the Peace Time since 1871. Albert Limbach, Braunschweig 1903, OCLC 751605842 p. 338.
  2. ↑ 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. 126 f.