43rd Reserve Division (German Empire)

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The 43rd Reserve Division was a major unit of the Prussian army in the First World War .

structure

Division of War of September 10, 1914

  • 85th Reserve Infantry Brigade
    • Reserve Infantry Regiment No. 201
    • Reserve Infantry Regiment No. 202
    • Reserve Hunter Battalion No. 15
  • 86th Reserve Infantry Brigade
    • Reserve Infantry Regiment No. 203
    • Reserve Infantry Regiment No. 204
  • Reserve Cavalry Division No. 43
  • Reserve Field Artillery Regiment No. 43
  • Reserve Engineer Company No. 43

Division of War of May 5, 1918

  • 85th Reserve Infantry Brigade
  • Artillery Commander No. 43
  • Staff Engineer Battalion No. 343
    • 4th company / 1. West Prussian Pioneer Battalion No. 17
    • Reserve Engineer Company No. 43
    • Mine thrower company No. 243
  • Division News Commander # 443

history

The division was formed in October 1914 and was used on the Western and Eastern Fronts during World War I. During the Loretto Battle in spring 1915, the 85th Reserve Infantry Brigade with Reserve Infantry Regiments No. 201 and 202 was not part of the division, but was assigned to the 117th Infantry Division from May 15 to June 20, 1915 . After heavy losses, the large association was dissolved on September 12, 1918.

Battle calendar

1914

  • October 18 to November 30 --- Battle of the Yser
    • October 20th to November 30th --- Fights at Dixmude
    • November 10th --- Storming of Dixmude
  • from December 1st --- trench warfare on the Yser

1915

The crossing over the Sava and the subsequent capture of Belgrade.
  • until April 21 --- Trench warfare on the Yser
  • April 22nd to May 25th --- Fighting for Ypres
  • May 26th to June 1st --- Trench warfare on the Yser
  • June 1st to 10th --- Transport to the East
  • June 12-15 - the breakthrough battle of Lubaczów
  • June 17th to 22nd --- Battle of Lviv
  • June 22nd to July 16th --- Persecution battles on the Galician-Polish border
  • July 16-18 --- Krasnostav breakthrough battle
  • July 19-28 --- Fighting in the wake of the breakthrough battle of Krasnostav
  • July 29th to 30th --- Breakthrough Battle of Biskupice
  • July 31 to August 19 --- Pursuit battles from Wieprz to Bug
  • August 18 to 24 --- Attack on Brest-Litovsk
  • August 19 to September 4 --- Chase battles between Bug and Jasiolda
  • September 4 to October 6 --- Second deployment on the Serbian northern border
  • October 6th to November 22nd --- Campaign in Serbia
  • from November 23rd --- Reserve in Syrmia

1916

  • until February 6th --- Reserve in Syrmia
  • February 1 to 6 --- Transport to the West
  • 6 February to 23 March --- OHL reserves in the 6th Army
  • March 25th to June 15th --- Battle of Verdun
    • 3rd to 7th May --- Fights for height "304"
    • May 20th to 24th --- Fights for the "dead man"
  • June 14-22 --- transport to the east
  • June 22nd to July 15th --- Fights on the Styr
  • July 16-27 --- Fights on the upper Styr- Stochod
  • July 28th to November 4th --- Battle of Kovel
  • 5th to 9th November --- Position battles on the upper Styr-Stochod
  • November 9th to 16th --- Transport to the west
  • November 16 to December 16 --- Reserve of the OHL
  • from December 16 --- Position battles in front of Verdun

1917

  • until February 15 --- position battles in front of Verdun
  • February 15 to April 5 --- Trench warfare on the Aisne
  • April 6 to 23 --- Aisne-Champagne double battle
  • April 23 to June 3 --- Trench warfare in the Argonne
  • June 4th to July 1st --- Trench warfare near Reims
  • 3rd July to 23rd October --- Trench warfare at the Chemin des Dames
  • October 24th to 31st --- rearguard battles on and south of the Ailette
  • November 1st to 7th --- Transport to the East
  • November 8-December 14 --- position battles on the upper Shchara -Serwetsch- Niemen
  • December 15-17 --- Truce
  • from December 17th --- armistice

1918

  • until February 1st --- armistice
  • February 1 to 6 --- Transport to the West
  • February 7th to March 15th --- Training at the Altengrabow military training area
  • April 1st to June 15th --- Trench warfare in Flanders and Artois
  • June 15 to August 7 --- Fights on the Ancre , Somme and Avre
  • August 8th to 20th --- Defensive battle between Somme and Avre
    • August 8th to 9th --- Tank battle between Ancre and Avre
    • August 10th to 12th --- Battle of the Roman Road
  • September 12th --- Dissolution of the division

Commanders

Rank Surname date
Lieutenant General Otto von Hoffmann August 31, 1914 to October 24, 1914
Lieutenant General Karl Stenger October 25, 1914 to February 6, 1915
Major general Hermann Otto von Runckel February 7, 1915 to August 18, 1917 (responsible for the tour)
Major general Wilhelm Theodor Knoch August 19, 1917 to August 25, 1918
Lieutenant General Rudolf of the East August 26 to September 10, 1918

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. 70, 139.
  • 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. 454-457.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Fritz Berg Eder: The Reserve Infantry Regiment the two hundred and second 1927, pp 47-56
  2. ↑ 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. 178.