79th Reserve Division (German Empire)

The 79th Reserve Division was a major unit of the Prussian army in the First World War .

structure

Division of War of December 29, 1914

• 79th Reserve Infantry Brigade
  • Reserve Infantry Regiment No. 261
  • Reserve Infantry Regiment No. 262
  • Reserve Infantry Regiment No. 263
  • Reserve cyclist company No. 79
  • Reserve Cavalry Division No. 79
• 79th Reserve Field Artillery Brigade
  • Reserve Field Artillery Regiment No. 63
  • Reserve Field Artillery Regiment No. 64
• Reserve Engineer Company No. 81

Division of War of March 8, 1918

• 79th Reserve Infantry Brigade
  • Reserve Infantry Regiment No. 261
  • Reserve Infantry Regiment No. 262
  • Reserve Infantry Regiment No. 263
  • Machine gun sniper division No. 12
  • 3rd squadron / hussar regiment "Emperor Franz Josef of Austria, King of Hungary" (Schleswig-Holsteinisches) No. 16
• Artillery Commander No. 79
  • Reserve Field Artillery Regiment No. 63
  • 2nd Battalion / Lauenburg Foot Artillery Regiment No. 20
• Engineer Battalion No. 379
• Division News Commander No. 479

history

Battle calendar

1914

• from December 29th - deployment of the 10th Army

1915

• until February 1st - deployment of the 10th Army
• February 4th to 22nd - Winter battle in Masuria
• February 23 to March 6 - Battles on Bobr
• March 9-12 - Battles at Sejny
• March 25-30 - battle near Krasnopol and Krasne
• March 31 to July 20 - Trench warfare between Augustow , Mariampol and Pilwiszki
• July 21st to August 7th - fights at Jesia and Wejwery
• August 8-18 - Siege of Kovno
• August 19 to September 8 - Battle of Nyemen
• September 9 to October 2 - Battle of Vilnius
• from October 3rd - position battles between Krewo- Smorgon - Narotsch -Tweretsch

1916

• until November 30th - positional battles between Krewo-Smorgon-Narotsch-Tveretsch
• December 1st to 5th - transport to the west
• from December 4th - OHL reserve behind 6th Army

1917

• until January 2nd - Reserve of the OHL behind the 6th Army
• January 2nd to April 13th - trench warfare in Flanders and Artois
• April 2-13 - Spring battle near Arras
• April 14th to May 1st - trench warfare on the Yser
• May 3rd to 20th - Trench warfare in Flanders
• May 21 to July 15 - trench warfare in Flanders and Artois
• July 17th to 30th - Border patrol at the Belgian-Dutch border
• July 17th to August 17th - Summer Battle in Flanders
• from August 18th - fighting in the Siegfried position

1918

• until January 31st - fighting in the Siegfried position
• February 1 to March 20 - Fighting in the Siegfriedstellung and preparation for the Great Battle in France
• March 21 to April 6 - Great battle in France
• April 7-18 - Fights on the Ancre , Somme and Avre
• April 19-29 - Battle of Kemmel
• April 30 to July 23 - Trench warfare in Flanders
• July 26th to August 3rd - Mobile defensive battle between Marne and Vesle
• 4th to 8th August - trench warfare between Oise and Aisne
• August 8-10 - defensive battle between Somme and Avre
• August 10th to September 3rd - defensive battle between the Somme and Oise
• September 4 to 18 - fighting in front of the Siegfried Front
• September 19 to October 9 - Defensive battle between Cambrai and St. Quentin
• October 10th to November 4th - fights in front of and in the Hermann position
• 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	Bernhard Boeß	December 24, 1914 to August 6, 1916
General of the Infantry	Ernst von Bacmeister	0August 7, 1916 to March 9, 1918
Major general	Karl Georg Landauer	March 10, 1918 to February 5, 1919

literature

• Hall of Fame of our Old Army. Published on the basis of official material from the Reichsarchiv , Militär-Verlag, Berlin 1927, pp. 72, 150.
• 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. 537-540.

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. 184.