6th Division (German Empire)

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The 6th Division , also known as the 6th Infantry Division for the duration of the mobile relationship , was a large unit of the Prussian Army .

6th division

active September 5, 1818 to September 1919
Country German EmpireThe German Imperium German Empire /
Armed forces Prussian Army /
Type Infantry Division
structure see: Outline
Insinuation III. Army Corps

structure

The division was part of the III. Army Corps .

Peace structure 1914

Organization of war during mobilization in 1914

  • 11th Infantry Brigade
    • Infantry Regiment "Count Tauentzien von Wittenberg" (3rd Brandenburg) No. 20
    • Fusilier regiment "Prince Heinrich of Prussia" (Brandenburg) No. 35
  • 12th Infantry Brigade
    • Infantry Regiment "Grand Duke Friedrich Franz II. Of Mecklenburg-Schwerin" (4th Brandenburg) No. 24
    • Infantry Regiment “General-Field Marshal Prince Friedrich Karl of Prussia” (8th Brandenburg) No. 64
  • Staff and 3rd Squadron / Hussar Regiment "von Zieten" (Brandenburg) No. 3
  • 6th Field Artillery Brigade
    • Field Artillery Regiment "General Feldzeugmeister" (1st Brandenburg) No. 3
    • Kurmärkisches Feldartillerie-Regiment No. 39
  • 2nd and 3rd Company / Engineer Battalion No. 3

Division of War of May 26, 1918

Mainz, 1908; left the Neutor barracks for the soldiers of the foot artillery regiment "General-Feldzeugmeister" (Brandenburgisches) No. 3
Memorial for the soldiers of the foot artillery regiment "General-Feldzeugmeister" (Brandenburgisches) No. 3 in Mainz
  • 12th Infantry Brigade
    • Infantry Regiment "Grand Duke Friedrich Franz II. Of Mecklenburg-Schwerin" (4th Brandenburg) No. 24
    • Infantry Regiment “General-Field Marshal Prince Friedrich Karl of Prussia” (8th Brandenburg) No. 64
    • Infantry Regiment No. 396
    • MG Sniper Division 69
    • 5th Squadron / Hussar Regiment "von Zieten" (Brandenburg) No. 3
  • Artillery Commander No. 64
  • 1st Company / Engineer Battalion No. 3
  • Division News Commander No. 6

history

The large association was established on September 5, 1818 from the 2nd Brigade of the Army Corps in France. The command was initially in Düsseldorf , from 1820 in Torgau and then from 1850 in Brandenburg. Here the division was dissolved at the end of September 1919.

Battle calendar

1914

  • 0August 4th to 16th - Conquest of Liège
  • August 18-19 - Battle of the Gette
  • 23rd to 24th August - Battle of Mons
  • August 25-27 - Battle of Solemes and Le Cateau
  • August 28-30 - Battles on the Somme
  • 0September 1st - Battle at Villers-Cotterêts
  • 0September 4 - Battles at Vieils-Maisons-Montmirail
  • 0September 5th to 9th - Battle of Ourcq
  • September 10th - rearguard battles at Neuilly-St. front
  • from September 12th - fighting on the Aisne

1915

  • until July 1st - fighting on the Aisne
  • July 24th to August 1st - trench warfare in Flanders and Artois
  • 0August 1 to September 20 - Reserve of the OHL
  • September 21 to October 6 - Second deployment on the Serbian border
  • 0October 6th to November 14th - Campaign in Serbia
  • November 15 to 24 - Reserve of the OHL in Hungary
  • from November 28th - fighting on the Aisne

1916

  • until February 21st - fighting on the Aisne
  • February 21 to March 16 - Battle of Verdun
    • February 25-26 - Conquest of Fort Douaumont
    • March 7-11 - Fights for the village and Fort Vaux
    • Storming the northern slope of the Vaux-Kuppe
  • March 16 to April 22 - trench warfare in Upper Alsace
  • April 22nd to June 16th - Battle of Verdun
  • June 16 - September 21 - Trench warfare in Champagne
  • 21st to 27th September - trench warfare at Roye-Noyon (reserve of the OHL)
  • September 27 to October 5 - Reserve of the Army Group "Crown Prince Rupprecht"
  • 0October 5th to 27th - Battle of the Somme
  • October 28th to November 28th - fight in the Argonne Forest
  • from November 28th - trench warfare in the Argonne

1917

  • February 7th - trench warfare in the Argonne
  • 0February 8th to April 14th - trench warfare in Upper Alsace (reserve of the OHL)
  • April 18th to May 4th - double battle on the Aisne and in the Champagne
  • 0May 4th to June 30th - trench warfare in Upper Alsace (reserve of the OHL)
  • 0July 1st to 15th - Reserve of the OHL
  • July 15-18 - trench warfare east of Zloczow
  • July 19-28 - breakthrough battle in eastern Galicia
  • July 29th to October 8th - Trench warfare on the Sereth
  • 0October 8th to 13th - Reserve of the OHL
  • October 13-23 - Trench warfare at Chemin des Dames
    • October 23 - Battle of Chavignon
  • October 24th to November 2nd - rearguard battles north of the Ailette
  • from November 3rd - trench warfare north of the Ailette

1918

  • until February 21st - trench warfare north of the Ailette
  • February 21 to March 20 - Reserve of the OHL and rest time behind the 18th Army
  • March 21 to April 6 - Great battle in France
  • 0April 7th to May 27th - Fights on the Avre and Montdidier-Noyon
  • May 27th to June 13th - Battle of Soissons and Reims
  • June 14th to July 4th - trench warfare between Oise, Aisne and Marne
  • 0July 5th to 17th - Trench warfare west of Soissons
  • July 18-25 - Defensive battle between Soissons and Reims
  • July 26th to August 3rd - Mobile defensive battle between Marne and Vesle
  • 0August 3 to September 3 - 9th Army and 17th Army reserves
  • 0September 3 to 26 - Fighting in front of the Siegfried Front
  • September 27th to October 8th - Defensive battle between Cambrai and St. Quentin
  • 0October 9th to November 4th - fights in front of and in the Hermann position
  • 0November 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
Lieutenant General Wilhelm von Radziwill 0March 6, 1848 to February 18, 1852
Lieutenant General Wilhelm von Thümen February 19, 1852 to October 25, 1854
Major General / Lieutenant General Karl von Herrmann October 26, 1854 to June 6, 1856
Lieutenant General Friedrich Adolf von Willisen 0July 7, 1856 to July 7, 1858
Lieutenant General Albert von Kortzfleisch 0July 8, 1858 to March 9, 1863
Lieutenant General Gustav von Manstein March 10, 1863 to January 25, 1867
Lieutenant General Gustav von Buddenbrock January 26, 1867 to August 17, 1871
Lieutenant General Kurt von Schwerin August 18, 1871 to November 18, 1876
Lieutenant General Rudolf von Manteuffel November 19, 1876 to January 13, 1879
Lieutenant General Otto von Foerster January 14, 1879 to November 4, 1882
Major General / Lieutenant General Karl von Larisch November 11, 1882 to January 14, 1887
Lieutenant General Gottlieb von Haeseler January 15, 1887 to March 21, 1889
Lieutenant General Friedrich von Hassel March 22, 1889 to March 24, 1890
Major general Friedrich August Ziegler September 20 to November 17, 1890 (in charge of the tour)
Lieutenant General Friedrich August Ziegler November 18, 1890 to May 16, 1892
Lieutenant General Wilhelm von Pfaff May 17, 1892 to April 17, 1895
Lieutenant General Fedor von Brodowski April 18, 1895 to July 2, 1899
Lieutenant General Bruno Jones 0July 3, 1899 to April 8, 1901
Lieutenant General Eduard von Liebert 0April 9, 1901 to April 6, 1903
Lieutenant General Hans von Beseler April 18, 1903 to September 15, 1904
Lieutenant General Hermann Julius von der Lancken September 16, 1904 to September 21, 1910
Lieutenant General Ferdinand von Quast September 22, 1910 to February 28, 1913
Lieutenant General Sigismund von Förster 0March 1, 1913 to February 2, 1914
Lieutenant General Manfred von Richthofen 0February 3 to August 1, 1914
Major general Richard Herhudt from Rohden 0August 2, 1914 to December 14, 1917
Major general Maximilian von Mutius December 15, 1917 to February 21, 1919
Lieutenant General Burghard von Oven February 22 to May 7, 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, 97–98.
  • 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. 127-130.

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. 97 f.