5th Royal Bavarian Spare Infantry Brigade

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The fifth replacement Infantry Brigade was a major unit of the Bavarian army in the First World War .

structure

Division of War of August 2, 1914

  • 5th Brigade Replacement Battalion
  • Brigade Replacement Battalion 6
  • Brigade Replacement Battalion 7th
  • Brigade Replacement Battalion 8
  • Cavalry replacement department Landau / II. Army Corps
  • Field Artillery Spare Battalion 2 (two batteries)
  • Field Artillery Replacement Battalion 12 (two batteries)

Division of war at the end of October 1916

  • Replacement Infantry Regiment 2nd
  • Replacement Infantry Regiment 4th

Division of War of May 15, 1917

  • Replacement Infantry Regiment 4th
  • Landwehr Infantry Regiment 8
  • Landwehr Infantry Regiment 15th

history

The brigade was established on August 2, 1914 as the 5th mixed replacement brigade and was subordinate to the replacement division . On September 18, 1914, it was transferred to the Prussian 30th Reserve Division (main reserve Strasbourg). On January 4, 1917, the division was converted into a purely Bavarian association. She was used on the Western Front during the First World War .

Commanders

Rank Surname date
Major General z.D. Franz von Zech on Neuhofen 0August 2, 1914 to February 19, 1915
Lieutenant General zD Friedrich Deppert February 20 to July 14, 1915
Lieutenant General zD Heinrich Meyer July 21, 1915 to December 23, 1917
Colonel Julius von Braun December 24, 1917 until the end of the war

literature

  • Konrad Krafft von Dellmensingen , Friedrichfranz Feeser : The Bavaria book of the world wars 1914-1918. Chr.Belser AG, publishing house, Stuttgart 1930.
  • Günter Wegner: Germany's armies until 1918. Volume 10: Bavaria. Biblio Verlag, Osnabrück 1984.
  • Rudolf von Kramer, Otto Freiherr von Waldenfels: The royal Bavarian military Max-Joseph-Order. Self-published by the kb Militär-Max-Joseph-Order, Munich 1966.

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. 697.