44th Reserve Division (German Empire)

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The 44th Reserve Division was a major unit of the Prussian army in the First World War .

structure

Division of War of September 10, 1914

  • 87th Reserve Infantry Brigade
    • Reserve Infantry Regiment No. 205
    • Reserve Infantry Regiment No. 206
    • Reserve Hunter Battalion No. 16
  • 88th Reserve Infantry Brigade
  • Reserve Cavalry Division No. 44
  • Reserve Field Artillery Regiment No. 44
  • Reserve Engineer Company No. 44

Division of War of August 22, 1918

  • 87th Reserve Infantry Brigade
    • Reserve Infantry Regiment No. 205
    • Reserve Infantry Regiment No. 206
    • Reserve Infantry Regiment No. 208
    • Reserve Cavalry Division No. 44
  • Artillery Commander No. 44
    • Reserve Field Artillery Regiment No. 44
    • II. Division / Foot Artillery Regiment No. 21
  • Engineer Battalion 344
  • Division News Commander # 444

history

The division was formed on September 10, 1914 and used on the Western and Eastern Fronts during the First World War .

Battle calendar

1914

1915

The crossing over the Sava and the subsequent capture of Belgrade.
  • April 22nd to May 25th - Fighting for Ypres
  • May 26th to June 1st - trench warfare on the Yser
  • June 1 to 10 - transport to the east
  • June 12-15 - breakthrough battle of Lubaczów
  • June 17th to 22nd - Battle of Lviv
  • June 22nd to July 16th - Persecution battles on the Galician-Polish border
  • July 16-17 - breakthrough battle near Krasnostav
  • July 19-28 - follow-up battles
  • July 29-30 - Breakthrough Battle of Biskupice
  • July 31 to August 19 - chase battles from Wieprz to Bug
  • August 18 to 24 - Attack on Brest-Litovsk
  • September 4 to October 6 - Second deployment on the northern Serbian border
  • October 6th to November 22nd - Campaign in Serbia
    • October 7th - crossing the Sava and storming the Banovo mountain
    • October 9th - capture of Belgrade
  • November 23 to February 6 - Reserve in Syrmia

1916

  • February 1 to 6 - transport to the west
  • February 6 to March 23 - OHL reserves in the 6th Army
  • March 25th to June 15th - Battle of Verdun
    • 3rd to 7th May - Fights for "Höhe 304"
    • May 20th to 29th - Fights for the "dead man"
  • July 1-11 - Battle of the Somme
  • July 11th to October 9th - Trench warfare at Roye-Noyon
  • October 10-30 - Battle of the Somme
  • October 30th to March 15th - Trench warfare at Roye-Noyon

1917

  • March 16 to 31 - fighting in front of the Siegfried Front
  • April 6th to May 10th - Aisne-Champagne double battle
  • May 17th to October 21st - Position battles before Verdun in the Loclont-Seuzey section
  • October 23 to November 28 - Autumn battle in Flanders
  • November 28th to December 31st - Trench warfare in Flanders and Artois

1918

  • January 1st to August 4th - Trench warfare in Flanders and Artois
  • 5th to 23rd August - Fighting in front of the Ypres- La Bassée front
  • August 24th to September 2nd - Battle of Monchy-Bapaume
  • September 3-15 - fighting in front of the Siegfried Front
  • September 18 to October 11 - Trench warfare in Lorraine
  • October 11th to November 4th - fights in front of and in the Hermann position
  • November 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 Eugen von Dorrer August 25, 1914 to April 2, 1916
Major general Carl von Wichmann 0April 3 to June 17, 1916
Lieutenant General Kurt Christoph von Fölkersamb September 21, 1916 to August 19, 1917
Lieutenant General Anton Baron Digeon of Monteton August 20, 1917 to March 15, 1918
Major general Otto Haas March 16 to December 16, 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, 139-140.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Anton Wagner: The First World War, A look back. Herold Verlag, Vienna 1998, p. 120, ISBN 3-901183-04-3 .
  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. 179.