81st Reserve Division (German Empire)

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The 81st Reserve Division was a major unit of the Prussian army in the First World War .

structure

Division of War of December 29, 1914

  • 81st Reserve Infantry Brigade
    • Reserve Infantry Regiment No. 267
    • Reserve Infantry Regiment No. 268
    • Reserve Infantry Regiment No. 269
    • Reserve cyclist company No. 61
    • Reserve Cavalry Division No. 81
  • 81st Reserve Field Artillery Brigade
    • Reserve Field Artillery Regiment No. 67
    • Reserve Field Artillery Regiment No. 68
  • Reserve Engineer Company No. 84
  • Reserve Engineer Company No. 85

Division of war from January 1, 1918

  • 81st Reserve Infantry Brigade
  • Artillery Commander No. 81
    • Reserve Field Artillery Regiment No. 68
    • 2nd Battalion / Foot Artillery Regiment No. 26
  • Engineer Battalion No. 41
  • Division Message Commander # 481

history

The large association was formed on December 24, 1914 and used on the Eastern Front. After the ceasefire there at the end of 1917, the division moved to the Western Front , where it fought until the end of the war. After the armistice of Compiègne , she marched back home, where the demobilization and dissolution of the large association took place on January 25, 1919.

Battle calendar

1915

  • January 23 to March 30 --- Trench warfare west of the Somme
  • March 31 to April 22 --- OHL reserve and transport to the east
  • April 23-30 --- Trench warfare around Gorlice - Tarnów
  • May 1st to 3rd --- Battle of Gorlice-Tarnów
  • May 4th to 23rd --- Pursuit battles after the Battle of Gorlice-Tarnów
    • May 16 to 23 --- Crossing over the San
  • May 24th to 26th --- Fights near Radymno and San
  • May 27th to June 7th --- Fights for Przemyśl
  • June 17th to 22nd --- Battle of Lviv
  • June 22nd to July 8th --- Persecution battles on the Galician - Polish border
  • July 19-30 --- Battle of Hrubieszów
  • August 1st to 3rd --- Battle of Cholm
  • 7th to 12th August --- Battle of the Ucherka
  • August 13th to 17th --- Battle of Wlodawa
  • August 18 to 24 --- Attack on Brest-Litovsk
  • August 25-26 --- capture of Brest-Litovsk
  • August 27-28 --- Persecution on Kobrin
  • August 29th to 30th --- Battle near Kobrin
  • August 29th to 31st --- Chase through the Pripjet Marshes
  • August 31st to September 1st --- Battle of Horodec
  • September 4 to 6 --- Battle of Drohiczyn-Chomsk
  • September 8th to 15th --- persecution to Pinsk
    • September 16th --- Capture of Pinsk
  • September 17th to 18th --- Battles at Pinsk and Logischin
  • from October 1st --- position battle in the Pripjet swamps

1916

  • by April 1st --- Position battle in the Pripet swamps
  • from May 1st --- Position battle in the Pripet swamps

1917

  • until December 1st --- position battle in the Pripet swamps
  • December 2nd to 17th --- Truce
  • December 17th to 21st --- Transport to the West
  • December 21st to 31st --- Trench warfare in Flanders and Artois

1918

  • January 1st to May 13th --- Trench warfare in Flanders and Artois
  • May 13th to July 25th --- Trench warfare in Flanders
  • August 1st to October 6th --- Trench warfare in Lorraine
  • October 7th to 9th --- Defensive battle between Cambrai and St. Quentin
  • October 10th to November 4th --- Fights in front of and in the Hermann position
    • October 17th to 26th --- Fights between Oise and Serre
  • November 4th --- Battle of Guise
  • November 5th to 11th --- fighting in retreat in front of the Antwerp - Meuse position
  • from November 11th --- evacuation of the occupied territory and march home

Commanders

Rank Surname date
Lieutenant General Leopold von Stocken December 24, 1914 to October 6, 1915
Lieutenant General Alfred von Larisch October 7, 1915 to April 29, 1916
Lieutenant General Anton von Thiesenhausen May 1-4, 1916
Lieutenant General Wilhelm Johann Neugebauer May 5, 1916 to April 1, 1917
Lieutenant General Anton von Thiesenhausen April 2 to December 2, 1917
Lieutenant General Wilhelm Johann Neugebauer December 3, 1917 to July 1, 1918
Lieutenant General Oskar Gustav Albert Greßmann July 2 to December 20, 1918
Lieutenant General Gustav Richard Wilhelm Freiherr von der Wenge Graf von Lambsdorff December 21, 1918 to January 25, 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, 151.
  • 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. 544-546.

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.