5th Replacement Division (German Empire)

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5th Replacement Division

active Autumn 1916 to March 1919
Country German EmpireThe German Imperium German Empire
Armed forces German army
Armed forces army
Type Infantry Division
structure See: Outline
Strength 14,000
First World War Western front
Battle of the Somme

Eastern Front

Commanders
Please refer: List of commanders

The fifth Replacement Division was a major unit of the Prussian army in the First World War .

structure

Division of War of November 15, 1916

  • 37th Landwehr Infantry Brigade
    • Landwehr Infantry Regiment No. 73
    • Landwehr Infantry Regiment No. 74
    • Reserve Replacement Regiment No. 3
    • 1st squadron / 2nd Hannoversches Dragoon Regiment No. 16
    • Field Artillery Regiment No. 102
    • 2. Landsturm Pioneer Company / IX. Army Corps
    • Mine thrower company No. 402
    • Field Signal Squad No. 467
    • Field Signal Squad No. 468

Battle calendar

The division was formed from the Baselow division in the autumn of 1916 , deployed on the Western Front and withdrawn from the front a month after the Battle of the Somme. She then came to the Eastern Front . She remained there after the end of the war as a police force and returned home in February 1919. Here the demobilization and eventual dissolution of the division took place in March 1919.

1916

  • June 5 to September 30 --- Trench warfare at the Yser (as Division BaseLow )
  • October 3rd to 29th --- Battle of the Somme
  • November 5th to 30th --- Position battles in Champagne
  • December 1st to 7th --- Transport to the East
  • 9th to 31st December --- Position battles in front of Dünaburg

1917

  • January 1st to December 7th --- Position battles in front of Dünaburg
    • July 18 to 25 --- Defensive battle near Dünaburg
  • December 7th to 17th --- Truce
  • from December 17th --- armistice

1918

  • until February 18th --- Armistice
  • February 18 to March 3 --- Offensive against Lake Peipus and the upper Daugava
    • February 18th --- a coup d'état on Dünaburg
  • March 3rd to 22nd --- Occupation of Russian territory between the Upper Daugava and Lake Peipus
  • March 22 to November 18 --- Occupation of Livonia and Estonia as German police power
  • from November 19th --- evacuation of Livonia and Estonia

1919

  • until February 11th --- Evacuation of Livonia and Estonia

Commanders

Rank Surname date
Lieutenant General Heino von Basedow June 5 to November 7, 1916
Lieutenant General Erich Weber November 8th to December 8th, 1916
Major general Gerhard groping December 8, 1916 to September 4, 1917
Lieutenant General Leo Sunday September 5 to November 2, 1917
Major general Erich Feldtkeller November 3, 1917 to January 3, 1918
Lieutenant General Georg von Stangen January 4, 1918 to March 1919

literature

  • Hall of Fame of our Old Army , published on the basis of official material from the Reichsarchiv , Militär-Verlag, Berlin 1927, pp. 62, 97.
  • 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. 115-116.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Dermot Bradley (ed.), Günter Wegner: Occupation of the German Army 1815-1939 Volume 1: The Higher Command Centers 1815-1939 , Biblio Verlag, Osnabrück 1990, ISBN 3-7648-1780-1 , p 199