35th Reserve Division (German Empire)

35th Reserve Division
active	August 2, 1914 to March 1919
Country	German Empire
Armed forces	Prussian Army
Type	Infantry division
structure	See: Outline
Strength	15,000
First World War	Eastern Front Battle of Tannenberg Battle of the Masurian Lakes

The 35th Reserve Division was a major unit of the Prussian army in the First World War .

structure

Organization of war during mobilization in 1914

5th Landwehr Infantry Brigade
- Landwehr Infantry Regiment No. 2
- Landwehr Infantry Regiment No. 9
20th Landwehr Infantry Brigade
- Landwehr Infantry Regiment No. 19
- Saxon Landwehr Infantry Regiment No. 107
Heavy Reserve Cavalry Regiment No. 3
Replacement Department / 1st West Prussian Field Artillery Regiment No. 35
Replacement Department / Thorner Field Artillery Regiment No. 81
1st reserve company / 1. West Prussian Pioneer Battalion No. 17

Organization of war in April 1916

5th Landwehr Infantry Brigade
- Landwehr Infantry Regiment No. 2
- Landwehr Infantry Regiment No. 9
- Saxon Landwehr Infantry Regiment No. 107
- Landsturm Infantry Regiment No. 13
- Heavy Reserve Cavalry Regiment No. 3
Reserve Field Artillery Regiment No. 35
1st reserve company / 1. West Prussian Pioneer Battalion No. 17
Landsturm Pioneer Company No. 9
Mine thrower company No. 235

history

The division was formed from the main reserve of the Thorn Fortress at the outbreak of World War I and was used exclusively on the Eastern Front in the further course of the war . After the end of the war, the division remained in Ukraine and did not return fully to its home country until March 1919, where it was subsequently demobilized and then disbanded.

Battle calendar

1914

6th to 22nd August --- Border protection between Thorn and Soldau
23rd to 31st August --- Battle of Tannenberg
September 3 to 4 --- Battle of Mlawa
September 5th to 15th --- Battle of the Masurian Lakes
- September 12th --- Schönau
- September 14th --- Mlawa
September 18 --- Battle at Chorzele
September 19 --- Skirmishes near Przasnysz and Rostkowo
September 21 --- Battle near Sonsk
October 9th to 19th --- Battle of Warsaw
October 22nd to 28th --- Fights on the Rawka
November 5th to December 15th --- Fights near Czenstochau
- November 14th --- Outpost battles near Miedzno
December 15th to 18th --- Persecution battles up to the Czarna
- December 16 --- Plawno and Kobiele-Male
- December 18 --- Battle at Krasocin
from December 19th --- Fights on the Lososina and Czarna
- December 30th to 31st --- Lopuszno

1915

until March 28th --- Fights on the Lososina and Czarna
- March 5-8 --- Battle near Lopuszno
March 28th to April 2nd --- Transport from Poland to Hungary
April 2nd to 13th --- Easter battle in Laborczatal
April 14th to May 4th --- Trench warfare in Laborczatal
May 5th to 14th --- Persecution battles in central Galicia
- May 6th to 7th --- attack on the Magura
- May 8th --- Komancza
- May 9th to 10th --- Vorwerk Tura
May 15 to June 13 --- Fights for Przemysl
May 16-17 --- Bolanowice
May 18 --- Lutkow
May 19-20 --- Tomanowicz
May 21st to 31st --- Tomanowicz-Zlotkowice
June 1st to 3rd --- Tomanowicz-Mysiatycze
June 4th to 13th --- Battle of Moschka
June 14-16 --- Fedziury, Glynowata-Gora
June 17th to 22nd --- Battle of Lviv
- June 17th --- Lelechowka
- June 19th --- Battle of the Wereszyca
June 19-22 --- Zaskow-Zarudze
June 23rd to July 8th --- Persecution battles on the Galician-Polish border
July 13th to 18th --- Battle of Grabowiec (Zaborce-Gdeszyn)
July 19 to 30 --- Battle of Wojslawice (Uchanie-Feliksow-Wojslawice)
August 1st to 3rd --- Battle of Cholm
7th to 12th August --- Battle of the Uckerka; Hansk
August 13th to 17th --- Battle of Wlodawa
August 18 to 24 --- Koden-Kopytow; Attack on Brest-Litovsk
August 25-26 --- capture of Brest-Litovsk
August 27-28 --- Persecution on Kobrin
August 29th to 30th --- Battle near Kobrin
September 4th to 9th --- Battle at Bereza-Kartuska
September 13th to 18th --- Battle of Sionim
September 19 to 24 --- Fighting on the upper Shchara -Servetsch
from September 25th --- position battles on the upper Shchara-Serwetsch
- October 20-22 --- Battle near Telechany-Wolka
- December 12th --- Battle north of Wolka

1916

until December 31 --- trench warfare on the upper Shchara-Servetsch
- July 2nd to 19th --- Battle of Baranovichi
- July 10th to August 9th --- Battle of Baranovichi-Gorodishche
- July 30th --- Battle at Osarichi
- July 31st --- Battle north of Wolka
- November 9th to 10th --- Battle near Skrobowa

1917

January 1 to September 17 --- Trench warfare on the upper Shtschtara-Servetsch
September 17th to December 1st --- Trench warfare in the Pripyat Marshes

December 2nd to 17th --- Truce

from December 17th --- armistice

1918

until February 18th --- Armistice
February 18 to June 21 --- Fighting in support of Ukraine
June 22nd to November 15th --- Occupation of Ukraine
from November 16 --- evacuation of Ukraine

1919

until March 16 --- evacuation of Ukraine

Commanders

Rank	Surname	date
Lieutenant General	Max Philipp von Schmettau	August 2, 1914 to June 19, 1915
Lieutenant General	Ernst Heinrich von der Becke	June 20, 1915 to January 31, 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. 69, 133.
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. 416-417.

Individual evidence

↑ Dermot Bradley (Ed.), Günter Wegner: Occupation of the German Army 1815-1939. Volume 1: The higher command posts 1815-1939. Biblio Publishing House. Osnabrück 1990. ISBN 3-7648-1780-1 . P. 177.

[Wegner-1] Dermot Bradley (Ed.), Günter Wegner: Occupation of the German Army 1815-1939. Volume 1: The higher command posts 1815-1939. Biblio Publishing House. Osnabrück 1990. ISBN 3-7648-1780-1 . P. 177.