5th Royal Bavarian Infantry Brigade

The 5th Infantry Brigade was a large unit of the Bavarian Army .

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The brigade command was in Zweibrücken .

In 1914 the brigade was part of the 3rd Division . You were subject to the following units:

• 22nd Infantry Regiment "Prince Wilhelm von Hohenzollern" in Zweibrücken and Saargemünd
• 23rd Infantry Regiment "King Ferdinand of the Bulgarians" in Landau and Germersheim
• District Command Zweibrücken

The brigade was used at the beginning of the First World War as part of the 6th Army on the Western Front.

Commanders

Rank	Surname	date
Major general	Wilhelm Schleich	August 17, 1868 to February 15, 1872
Major general	Edmund Höfler	February 16, 1872 to December 14, 1875
Major general	Maximilian Verri della Bosia	December 15, 1875 to November 10, 1877
Major general	Friedrich von Muck	November 11, 1877 to November 30, 1878
Major general	Johann Heilmann	0December 1, 1878 to November 26, 1883
Major general	Maximilian von Gumppenberg	November 27, 1883 to March 23, 1885
Major general	Carl von Lindhammer	March 24, 1885 to March 7, 1889
Major general	Gustav scales	0March 8, 1889 to September 3, 1890
Major general	Julius von Zech	0September 4, 1890 to February 16, 1892
Major general	Friedrich von Fabrice	February 17, 1892 to May 14, 1893
Major general	Karl von Claus	May 15, 1893 to August 26, 1896
Major general	Ferdinand von Leoprechting	August 27, 1896 to March 17, 1898
Major general	Anton Edler von Stockhammer	March 18, 1898 to August 24, 1901
Major general	Adolf Oestereicher	August 25, 1901 to August 3, 1903
Major general	Rudolf Rösch	0August 4, 1903 to March 22, 1906
Major general	Oskar Fritsch	March 23, 1906 to April 22, 1907
Major general	Richard Arndt	April 23, 1907 to February 19, 1909
Major general	Albert Schuchardt	February 20, 1909 to November 22, 1911
Major general	Ludwig von Hetzel	November 23, 1911 to March 18, 1914
Major general	Christian Danner	March 19, 1914 to March 31, 1915

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.