5th Reserve Division (German Empire)

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5th Reserve Division

active August 2, 1914 to January 10, 1919
Country German EmpireThe German Imperium German Empire
Armed forces Prussian Army
Armed forces army
Type Infantry Division
structure See: Outline
First World War Western front
Siege of Antwerp
Battle of the Yser
Double battle on the Aisne and in the Champagne
Great battle in France

Eastern Front

The 5th Reserve Division was a major unit of the Prussian army in the First World War .

structure

Organization of war during mobilization in 1914

  • 9th Reserve Infantry Brigade
    • Reserve Infantry Regiment No. 8
    • Reserve Infantry Regiment No. 48
  • 10th Reserve Infantry Brigade
    • Reserve Infantry Regiment No. 12
    • Reserve Infantry Regiment No. 52
    • Reserve Hunter Battalion No. 3
  • Reserve Dragoon Regiment No. 2
  • Reserve Field Artillery Regiment No. 5
  • 4th Company / Pioneer Battalion from Rauch (1st Brandenburg) No. 3

Division of War of April 9, 1918

  • 9th Reserve Infantry Brigade
  • Artillery Commander No. 90
    • Reserve Field Artillery Regiment No. 5
    • 11th Battalion / Reserve Foot Artillery Regiment No. 17
  • Engineer Battalion No. 305
  • Division News Commander No. 405

Battle calendar

1914

  • 23 August to 26 September --- Security against Antwerp
  • September 27th to October 9th --- Siege of Antwerp
  • October 10th --- Occupation of Antwerp
  • October 10-17 --- Pursuit battles in Flanders
  • October 18 to November 30 --- Battle of the Yser
  • December 1st to 5th --- Transport to the East
  • December 6th to 17th --- Battle of Lowicz-Sanniki
  • from December 18th --- Battle of the Rawka - Bzura

1915

  • until July 16 --- Battle of the Rawka-Bzura
  • July 17th to August 5th --- Fighting 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 September 25th --- trench warfare on the Shchara-Serwetsch

1916

  • until May 4th --- Trench warfare on the Shchara-Serwetsch
  • April 16 to June 19 --- OHL reserves in the 9th and 12th Army
  • June 20 to July 3 --- Trench warfare in the Pripet Marshes
  • July 3rd to 29th --- Battle of Baranovichi
  • 3 July to 31 December --- Trench warfare on the upper Shchara-Servetsch

1917

  • January 1 to April 14 --- Trench warfare on the upper Shchara-Servetsch
  • April 9th ​​to 15th --- Transport to the west
  • April 15-21 --- Reserve of the OHL
  • April 21 to May 26 --- Position battles on the Meuse heights near Combres, Les Eparges, on the Grande-Tranchée-de-Calonne
  • May 25th to 27th --- Double battle on the Aisne and in the Champagne
  • May 28 to October 23 --- Trench warfare at the Chemin des Dames
  • October 24th to November 2nd --- rearguard battles on and south of the Ailette
  • from November 3rd --- trench warfare north of the Ailette

1918

  • until March 20 --- Trench warfare north of the Ailette
  • March 21st to April 9th ​​--- Great battle in France
  • April 11th to June 8th --- Fights on the Avre , Montdidier and Noyon
  • June 9th to July 22nd --- Fights on the Avre and Matz
    • June 9-13 --- Battle of Noyon
  • July 23rd to 25th --- Defense battle between Soissons and Reims
  • July 26th to August 3rd --- Mobile defensive battle between Marne and Vesle
  • 4th to 16th August --- Position battles between Oise and Aisne
  • 17th August to 4th September --- Defensive battle between Oise and Aisne
  • September 9th to 27th --- Fights in front of and in the Siegfriedstellung
  • September 28 to October 9 --- Trench warfare north of the Ailette
  • October 10th 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
Major general Richard Voigt 0August 2 to December 25, 1914
Major general Max von Diringshofen December 26, 1914 to June 18, 1916
Major general Wilhelm von Woyna June 19 to December 28, 1916
Lieutenant General z. D. Friedrich von Auwärter April 14, 1917 to February 9, 1919

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. 62, 69.
  • 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. 112-114.

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 . P. 168.