8th Royal Bavarian Reserve Division

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The 8th Reserve Division was a major unit of the Bavarian army in the First World War .

Cap badge of the 8th Reserve Division, 1917

structure

Division of War of December 31, 1914

  • 15th Reserve Infantry Brigade
    • Reserve Infantry Regiment 18th
    • Reserve Infantry Regiment 19th
  • 16th Reserve Infantry Brigade
    • Reserve Infantry Regiment 22nd
    • Reserve Infantry Regiment 23rd
    • Reserve Cycling Company 8
  • Reserve Cavalry Division 8
  • Reserve Field Artillery Regiment 8
  • Reserve Field Artillery Regiment 9
  • 3rd Battery / Reserve Foot Artillery Battalion 6
  • Staff / Reserve Engineer Battalion 2
    • Reserve Engineer Company 8
    • Reserve Engineer Company 9
    • Reserve divisions bridge train
    • Reserve Telephone Department 2

Division of War of June 28, 1918

  • 16th Reserve Infantry Brigade
    • Reserve Infantry Regiment 19th
    • Reserve Infantry Regiment 22nd
    • Reserve Infantry Regiment 23rd
    • Reserve Cavalry Division 8
  • Artillery Commander 8
    • Reserve Field Artillery Regiment 9
    • Foot Artillery Regiment 19th
  • Engineer Battalion 20th
  • Division Message Commander 408

history

The division was formed on December 31, 1914 specifically for use in the mountainous terrain of the Vosges and was mobile from January 20, 1915. The large association was on the Western Front in Upper Alsace from February 1915 to July 1916 , interrupted by a brief deployment in June 1915 on the Eastern Front in Poland. From late July to August 1916 she fought in the Battle of the Somme . From October 1916 she was involved in the war against Romania . In October 1917 she came again to the Western Front in Flanders . In 1918 she was u. a. involved in the 1918 spring offensive . The allied intelligence class classified the association as first class.

Battle calendar

1915

  • January 21 to May 17 - Trench warfare in Upper Rhine
    • February 19 to March 20 - Battle of Münster
    • April 17th to May 17th - fighting near Metzeral
  • May 18 to June 3 - Reserve of the OHL
  • 0June 4th to 11th - 11th Army Reserve
  • June 12-15 - breakthrough battle of Lubaczów
  • June 16 - Skirmishes near Oleszyce and Dachnow
  • June 17th to 22nd - Battle of Lviv
  • June 23 to July 15 - Reserve the OHL with the 11th Army and Army Detachment Falkenhausen
  • from July 16 - positional battle in Upper Alsace
    • July 20 to October 14 - Second battle for Munster
    • November 7th to 12th - Battle on the Hilsen ridge

1916

  • until July 4th - trench warfare in Upper Alsace
  • 04th to 19th July - OHL reserves in the 2nd Army
  • July 19 to August 23 - Battle of the Somme
  • 0September 1st to 25th - Trench warfare at Roye- Noyon
  • September 25th to October 8th - 2nd Army Reserve
  • 0October 8th to 18th - Reserve of the OHL
  • October 19 to November 24 - Mountain fighting at the Red Tower Pass (parts of the division)
  • October 19 to December 22 - Mountain fighting in the Ojtoz area (parts of the division)
  • October 19 to December 8 - Mountain fighting in the Predeal and Bodza areas (parts of the division)
    • November 4th to 27th - Defensive battles in the Gyergyo Mountains
    • November 25th to 30th - pursuit battles near Curtea de Argeş - Piteşti (parts of the division)
  • November 28th to December 26th - Defense battle in the Gyimes-Uz area
  • 01st to 3rd December - Battle of the Arges (parts of the division)
  • 0December 4 to 8 - pursuit after the Battle of Argeș (parts of the division)
  • 09th to 20th December - Pursuit battles on Jalomita - Prahova and Buzaul (parts of the division)
  • December 21-27 - Battle of the Battle of Rimnicul-Sarat (parts of the division)
  • from December 26th - New Year's offensive in the Trotus area
  • from December 27th - trench warfare in the Transylvanian border Carpathians

1917

  • until January 7th - New Years offensive in the Trotus area
  • to July 11th - trench warfare in the Transylvanian border Carpathians
    • 4th to 8th January - Battle of the Putna (parts of the division)
    • January 6th to 9th - Trench warfare on Putna and Sereth (parts of the division)
    • January 8th to February 24th - positional battles between Putna and Slanic valleys (parts of the division)
  • July 13-22 - trench warfare on the Lomnica near Kalusz
  • July 23 to August 5 - Persecution battles in Eastern Galicia and Bukovina
  • 0August 6th to September 1st - trench warfare northeast of Chernivtsi
  • 0September 3 to October 10 - trench warfare on the eastern border of Bukovina
  • October 15 to December 3 - Battle of Flanders
  • from December 4th - trench warfare in Flanders

1918

  • until April 9th ​​- trench warfare in Flanders
  • 0April 9-30 - Trench warfare in Flanders and Artois
  • 0May 2 to June 18 - Fights at Richecourt, Seicheprey and Flirey
  • June 19 to July 5 - trench warfare between Meuse and Moselle
  • 0July 7th to August 3rd - Trench warfare near Reims
  • 0July 7th to August 3rd - Attack battle on the Marne and Champagne
    • July 18-25 - Defensive battle between Soissons and Reims
    • July 26th to August 3rd - Mobile defensive battle between Marne and Vesle
  • 0August 4th to October 9th - Trench warfare near Reims
  • 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 in the Hunding position
  • 02nd to 4th November - trench warfare on the Aisne
  • 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 Hermann Freiherr von Stein January 20, 1915 to January 11, 1917
Lieutenant General Albert Seekirchner January 12, 1917 to April 11, 1917
Major general Maximilian Jehlin April 12, 1917 until the end of the war

literature

  • Hall of Fame of our Old Army. Published on the basis of official material from the Reichsarchiv , Militär-Verlag, Berlin 1927, pp. 63, 101-102.
  • Bavarian War Archives : The Bavarians in the Great War. Munich 1923.
  • Histories of Two Hundred and Fifty-One Divisions of the German Army which Participated in the War (1914-1918). compiled from records of Intelligence section of the General Staff, American Expeditionary Forces, at General Headquarters, Chaumont, France 1919 (1920) (Reprint: London Stamp Exchange, 1989).

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. 670.