49th Reserve Division (German Empire)

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The 49th Reserve Division was a major unit of the Prussian army in the First World War .

structure

Division of War of September 10, 1914

  • 97th Reserve Infantry Brigade
    • Reserve Infantry Regiment No. 225
    • Reserve Infantry Regiment No. 226
  • 98th Reserve Infantry Brigade
    • Reserve Infantry Regiment No. 227
    • Reserve Infantry Regiment No. 228
  • Reserve Cavalry Division No. 49
  • Reserve Field Artillery Regiment No. 49
  • Reserve Engineer Company No. 49

Division of War of August 22, 1918

  • 97th Reserve Infantry Brigade
    • Reserve Infantry Regiment No. 225
    • Reserve Infantry Regiment No. 226
    • Reserve Infantry Regiment No. 228
    • Machine gun sniper division No. 59
  • 2nd Squadron / 2nd Guards Dragoon Regiment "Empress Alexandra of Russia"
  • Artillery Commander No. 49
    • Reserve Field Artillery Regiment No. 49
    • 1st Battalion / Foot Artillery Regiment No. 25
  • Engineer Battalion No. 349
  • Divisional News Commander # 449

history

The large association was put together in October 1914 and deployed directly on the Eastern Front. At the end of January 1917, the division moved to the Western Front , where it was in use until the Compiègne armistice . After the end of the war, she returned home closed, where she was demobilized and finally dissolved in January 1919.

Battle calendar

1914

1915

  • until July 16 --- Battle of Humin
  • July 17th to August 5th --- Battle for Warsaw
  • August 8th to 18th --- Pursuit battles between the Vistula and the Bug
  • August 19 to 24 --- Battle of the Pulwa - Nurzec
  • August 25th to 31st --- Persecution battles on the Bialowieska-Puszcza
  • September 1 to 12 --- Fights on the Jasiolda and the Zelwianka
  • September 13th to 18th --- Battle of Slonim
  • September 19 to 24 --- Fighting on the upper Shchara -Servetsch
  • from 19 September --- position battles on the upper Shchara-Serwetsch

1916

  • until 23 August --- position battles on the upper Shchara-Servetsch
  • August 24th to September 2nd --- Trench warfare in the Pripjet Marshes
  • September 2nd to October 13th --- Upper East Reserve
  • October 14th to November 25th --- Position battles on the Narajowka , between Narajowka and Zlota Lipa and on the Ceniowka
  • November 26th to 30th --- Reserve of the Army Group " Archduke Joseph "
  • December 1st to 21st --- Trench warfare in the Forest Carpathians
  • from December 23rd --- Offensive on the Bereczker Mountains and on the Ojtoz Pass

1917

  • until January 7th --- Offensive on the Bereczker Mountains and the Ojtoz Pass
  • January 8th to 17th --- Position battles between Putna and Slanic valley
  • January 18-27 --- Transport to the West
  • January 28th to February 23rd --- Trench warfare on the Somme
  • February 24th to April 1st --- Trench warfare in Flanders and Artois
  • April 2nd to May 20th --- Spring battle near Arras
  • June 7th to July 29th --- Battle of Flanders
  • July 27th to October 24th --- Trench warfare in Flanders and Artois
  • October 24th to November 22nd --- Autumn battle in Flanders
  • November 24th to 29th --- Tank battle near Cambrai
  • November 24th to December 14th --- Fights in the Siegfried Line
  • November 30th to December 7th --- Assault battle near Cambrai
  • from December 14th --- Trench warfare in Flanders and Artois

1918

  • until April 3rd --- Trench warfare in Flanders and Artois
  • April 3rd to 9th --- Trench warfare in Flanders
  • April 10th to 29th --- Battle of the Kemmelberg
  • April 30th to August 28th --- Trench warfare in Flanders
  • August 28th to September 2nd --- Battle of Monchy- Bapaume
  • September 3 to October 9 --- Fighting in front of the Siegfried Front
  • September 8th to October 8th --- Defensive battle between Cambrai and Saint-Quentin
  • October 9th to 10th --- Fights in front of the Hermann position
  • October 10-14 --- Fighting on the Armentières - Lens front
  • October 15th to 19th --- Fighting between Deule Canal and Scheldt
  • October 21 to 24 --- rearguard fighting between Yser and Lys
  • October 25th to November 1st --- Battle of the Lys
  • November 2nd to 4th --- Rearguard fighting on both sides of the Scheldt
  • November 5th to 11th --- fighting in retreat in front of the Antwerp-Maas position
  • from November 18th --- evacuation of the occupied territory and march home

Commanders

Rank Surname date
General of the Infantry Alfred von Briesen September 25 to November 11, 1914
Lieutenant General Anton von Thiesenhausen November 12-21, 1914
Lieutenant General Ferdinand Waenker from Dankenschweil November 22-23, 1914
Lieutenant General Anton von Thiesenhausen November 23 to 24, 1914
Major general Viktor Hahndorff November 25, 1914 to September 3, 1915
General of the cavalry Friedrich von Bernhardi September 4, 1915 to September 30, 1916
Major general Eugen Ritter von Zoellner October 1, 1916 to January 17, 1917
Major general Fritz von Unger January 1, 1917 to January 14, 1918
Major general Oskar Zanke January 15 to March 8, 1918
Major general Ernst von Uechtritz and Steinkirch March 9 to December 19, 1918

literature

  • Hall of Fame of our Old Army. Published on the basis of official material from the Reichsarchiv , Militär-Verlag, Berlin 1927, pp. 71, 142–143.
  • 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. 485-488.

Individual evidence

  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 . Pp. 180-181.