4th Replacement Division (German Empire)

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4. Replacement division

active August 2, 1914 to January 27, 1919
Country German EmpireThe German Imperium German Empire
Armed forces German army
Type Infantry division
structure See: Outline
Strength 15,000
First World War Western front
Siege of Antwerp
Battle of the Somme
Spring battle at Arras

Eastern Front

The 4th Replacement Division was set up with the mobilization on August 2, 1914 and was a major unit of the Prussian Army in the First World War .

structure

  • 9th mixed replacement brigade
    • Brigade Replacement Battalion No. 9
    • Brigade Replacement Battalion No. 10
    • Brigade Replacement Battalion No. 11
    • Brigade Replacement Battalion No. 12
    • Cavalry replacement department Brandenburg / III. Army Corps
    • Field Artillery Replacement Division No. 18
    • Field Artillery Replacement Division No. 39
    • 2nd Replacement Company / Engineer Battalion No. 3
  • 13th mixed replacement brigade
    • Brigade Replacement Battalion No. 13
    • Brigade Replacement Battalion No. 14
    • Brigade Replacement Battalion No. 15
    • Brigade Replacement Battalion No. 16
    • Cavalry replacement department Halberstadt / IV. Army Corps
    • Field Artillery Replacement Division No. 40
    • Field Artillery Replacement Division No. 75
    • 1st Replacement Company / Engineer Battalion No. 4
  • 33rd Mixed Replacement Brigade
    • Brigade Replacement Battalion No. 33
    • Brigade Replacement Battalion No. 34
    • Brigade Replacement Battalion No. 35
    • Brigade Replacement Battalion No. 36
    • Brigade Replacement Battalion No. 81
    • Cavalry replacement department Wandsbeck / IX. Army Corps
    • Field Artillery Replacement Division No. 45
    • Field Artillery Replacement Division No. 60
    • 1st Replacement Company / Engineer Battalion No. 9

Division of War of July 3, 1918

  • 13th Replacement Brigade
  • Artillery Commander No. 139
    • Field Artillery Regiment No. 90
  • Engineer Battalion No. 504
  • Division News Commander # 554

Battle calendar

The division was used on the western front after its formation , pulled out of the front after the spring battle at Arras and moved to the east . She stayed there until mid-December 1917 and then returned to the Western Front. After the armistice in Compiègne , she began the march back home, where the division was demobilized in December 1918 and then disbanded.

1914

  • August 19th --- Singing songs
  • August 20-22 --- Battle of Lorraine
  • August 22nd to September 14th --- Battle of Nancy - Épinal
  • September 17th to 20th --- Battles on the Delmer Ridge
  • September 27th to October 9th --- Siege of Antwerp
    • October 8th --- Conquest of the Breendonck tank works and the Pullaer intermediate works
  • October 10th --- Occupation of Antwerp
  • October 10-17 --- Pursuit battles in Flanders
    • October 12th --- Occupation of Ghent
  • October 18 to November 30 --- Battle of the Yser
  • from December 1st --- trench warfare on the Yser

1915

  • until April 21 --- Trench warfare on the Yser
  • April 22nd to May 25th --- Fighting for Ypres
  • from May 26th --- Trench warfare on the Yser

1916

  • until September 25th --- Trench warfare on the Yser
  • 0October 1st to 16th --- Battle of the Somme
  • October 18 to November 26 --- Trench warfare on the Yser
  • from November 27th --- Trench warfare on the Somme

1917

  • until March 15th --- Trench warfare on the Somme
  • March 16 to April 26 --- Fighting in front of the Siegfried Front
  • 0April 2nd to May 20th --- Spring battle near Arras
  • May 21-25 --- Transport to the East
  • 25 May to 28 June --- Trench warfare on the Narajowka between Narajowka and Zlota Lipa and on the Ceniowka
  • June 29th to July 3rd --- Battle of Bereschany
  • 04th to 20th July --- Position battles between Narajowka and Zlota Lipa
  • July 21st to 30th --- Persecution battles in East Galicia
    • July 24th to 26th --- Olesza- Buczacz
    • July 29th to 30th --- Turylcze-Iwankow
  • July 31 to August 2 --- Fights for the Zbrucz and between Zbrucz and Sereth
  • 0August 3 to September 12 --- Position battles between Dniester and Zbrucz, on the Zbrucz and between Zbrucz and Sereth
  • September 14th to December 10th --- Trench warfare on the eastern border of Bukovina
  • 0December 6th to 12th --- Transport to the West
  • December 12th to 15th --- Reserve of the OHL
  • December 16 to 31 --- Trench warfare in Flanders and Artois

1918

  • 0January 1st to April 25th --- Trench warfare in Flanders and Artois
  • April 26 to June 18 --- position battles on the Meuse heights in the section Longeau -Tal Chevalier Forest
  • June 27th to July 4th --- Position battles between Oise , Aisne and Marne
  • 0July 5th to 17th --- Position battles between Aisne and Marne
  • July 18th to 25th --- Defensive battle between Soissons and Reims
  • July 28th to August 11th --- Fighting off the Ypres Front - La Bassée
  • August 26th to September 2nd --- Battle of Monchy-Bapaume
    • September 2nd --- Fights at Dury and Villers-lez-Cagnicourt
  • 0September 3rd to 5th --- Fighting in front of the Siegfried Front
  • 0September 7th to October 14th --- Fighting on the Armentières-Lens front
  • October 15 to 19 --- Fighting between the Deûle Canal and the Scheldt
  • October 20 to November 1 --- Fights in the Hermann position on the Scheldt
  • 0November 2nd to 4th --- Battle of Valenciennes
  • 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 Albert von Werder 0August 2, 1914 to November 22, 1917
Lieutenant General Leo von Stocken November 23, 1917 to January 31, 1918
Major general Friedrich Bronsart von Schellendorff 0February 1, 1918 to January 27, 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, 94.
  • 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. 96-98.

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. 199.