50th Reserve Division (German Empire)

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The 50th Reserve Division was a major unit of the Prussian army in the First World War .

structure

Division of War 1914

  • 99th Reserve Infantry Brigade
    • Reserve Infantry Regiment No. 229
    • Reserve Infantry Regiment No. 230
  • 100th Reserve Infantry Brigade
    • Reserve Infantry Regiment No. 231
    • Reserve Infantry Regiment No. 232
  • Reserve Cavalry Division No. 50
  • Reserve Field Artillery Regiment No. 50
  • Reserve Engineer Company No. 50

Division of War of March 8, 1918

  • 99th Reserve Infantry Brigade
    • Reserve Infantry Regiment No. 229
    • Reserve Infantry Regiment No. 230
    • Reserve Infantry Regiment No. 231
    • Machine gun sniper division No. 50
    • Reserve Cavalry Division No. 50
  • Artillery Commander No. 68
    • Reserve Field Artillery Regiment No. 50
    • Foot Artillery Battalion No. 81
  • Engineer Battalion No. 350
  • Division News Commander No. 450

Battle calendar

The division was formed as part of the mobilization at the beginning of the First World War and was initially deployed on the Eastern Front and from mid-October 1915 on the Western Front.

1914

  • 0October 1st to November 5th - trench warfare near Grajewo- Wizajny
  • November 10-13 - Battle of Wloclawek
  • November 13th to 19th - fights near Lipno and Plock
  • November 16 to December 15 - Battle of Łódź
  • December 18 to July 11 - Battle of the Rawka - Bzura

1915

  • to July 11th - Battle of the Rawka-Bzura
  • July 13th to 17th - breakthrough battle near Przasnysz
  • July 18-22 - Pursuit battles to the Lower Narew
  • July 23 to August 3 - Battle of the Narew
  • 04th to 7th August - Battle of the Orz
  • 0August 8-10 - Battle of Ostrow
  • August 11-12 - Battle of Chishev-Sambrov
  • August 13-18 - pursuit battles on the upper Narew and Nurzec
  • August 19-25 - Battle of Bielsk
  • August 26th to September 5th - chase battles on Swislocz and Naumka-Werecia
  • 0September 6-7 - Battle of Wolkowyszk
  • 0September 9-27 - Persecution from Nyemen to Berezina
  • September 28 to October 14 - OHL reserve and transport to the west
  • October 15 to November 3 - Autumn Battle in Champagne
  • 0November 4th to December 20th - Trench warfare in Champagne
  • December 20th to June 23rd - Trench warfare in Flanders and Artois

1916

  • June 24 to July 7 - Reconnaissance and demonstration skirmishes by the 6th Army in connection with the Battle of the Somme
  • 0July 7th to September 10th - Trench warfare in Flanders and Artois
  • September 11-29 - Battle of the Somme
  • 0October 1st to November 10th - Trench warfare in Flanders and Artois
  • November 11-26 - Battle of the Somme
  • November 27th to April 12th - trench warfare on the Somme

1917

  • to April 12th - trench warfare on the Somme
  • April 12-23 - fighting in front of the Siegfried Front
  • April 24th to May 20th - spring battle near Arras
  • May 21st to June 4th - Trench warfare in Flanders and Artois
  • 0June 9th to September 28th - Battle of Flanders
  • September 28th to December 4th - Trench warfare in Flanders and Artois
  • 0December 5-7 - Assault battle at Cambrai
    • December 5 to March 20 - Fighting in the Siegfriedstellung and preparation for the Great Battle in France

1918

  • March 21 to April 6 - Great battle in France
  • 0April 7th to July 5th - Fights on the Ancre , Somme and Avre
  • July 18-25 - Defensive battle between Soissons and Reims
  • July 28th to August 3rd - Mobile defensive battle between Marne and Vesle
  • 0August 4th to September 3rd - trench warfare on the Vesle
  • 0September 3 to 18 - fighting in front of the Siegfried Front
  • September 19-21 - Fights in front of the Siegfried Line
  • September 22nd to October 9th - trench warfare near Reims
  • September 26th to November 11th - defensive battle in Champagne and on the Meuse
    • October 10-12 - Fighting on the Hunding and Brunhild fronts
    • October 13th to 24th - Trench warfare on the Aisne
    • October 25th to November 1st - defensive battle at the Hunding position
    • 2nd to 4th November - trench warfare on the Aisne
    • 5th to 11th November - fighting in retreat in front of the Antwerp - Meuse position
  • from November 12th - evacuation of the occupied territory and march home

Commanders

Rank Surname date
Lieutenant General z. D. Eugen von Petzel September 1914 to January 13, 1915
Hans von der Goltz January 14, 1915 to June 30, 1916
Axel von Petersdorff 0July 1 to November 4, 1916
Lieutenant General Siegfried von Ende 0November 5, 1916 to May 27, 1918
Major General / Lieutenant General Wilhelm Meckel May 29, 1918 to January 19, 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. 71, 145.
  • 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. 493-496.

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. 181.