82nd Reserve Division (German Empire)

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The 82nd Reserve Division was a major unit of the Prussian army in the First World War .

structure

Division of War of December 29, 1914

Division of War of January 4, 1918

history

The division was set up in December 1914, transported to the Western Front via Belgium and unloaded at Kortrijk in January 1915 . In February 1915, the large association fought in the Chaulnes area west of the Somme . On March 28th the transport to Galicia on the Eastern Front for the XXXXI took place. Reserve Corps . At the beginning of May she took part in the Gorlice-Tarnow offensive , crossed the San and took part in the fighting for Przemysl . On May 9th she fought near Jaslo , from May 12th to 21st in the south of Radymno and in early June near Medyka . In mid-June 1915, the division fought in the Battle of Lemberg and was involved in the conquest of Brest-Litovsk and Pinsk in August 1915 , before moving on to trench warfare in the swamp there .

At the beginning of December 1917, the division was relocated to the western front and initially deployed northwest of Conflans (Verdun area). In August 1918 she was in position at Arvillers and on the 18th was withdrawn from the area northwest of Roye . Between August 27 and September 2, she defended the Canal du Nord, roughly along the Chaulnes line to the north of Moyencourt . At the end of the war in November 1918, she fought south of Guise .

After the end of the war, the division marched back home, was demobilized and disbanded on February 2, 1919.

Battle calendar

1915

  • January 23 to March 30 --- Position battle west of the Somme
  • March 31 to April 22 --- OHL reserve and transport to the east
  • April 23rd to 30th --- Position battle near Gorlice-Tarnow
  • May 1st to 3rd --- Battle of Gorlice-Tarnow
  • May 4th to 23rd --- Pursuit battles after the Battle of Gorlice-Tarnow
  • May 16 to 23 --- Crossing over the San
  • May 24th to 26th --- Fights near Radymno and San
  • May 27th to June 7th --- Fights for Przemysl
  • June 17th to 22nd --- Battle of Lviv
  • June 22nd to July 8th --- Persecution battles on the Galician-Polish border
  • July 19-30 --- Battle of Hrubieszow
  • 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 31st --- Chase through the Pripet Marshes
  • August 31st to September 1st --- Battle of Horodec
  • September 4 to 6 --- Battle of Drohiczyn-Chomsk
  • September 8-15 --- persecution to Pinsk
  • September 16th --- Capture of Pinsk
  • September 17th to 18th --- Battles at Pinsk and Logischin
  • from October 1st --- position battle in the Pripet swamps

1916

  • January 1st to December 31st --- Trench warfare in the Pripet Marshes

1917

  • until December 1st --- position battle in the Pripet swamps
  • December 2-7 --- Truce
  • December 8th to 15th --- Transport to the west
  • December 16 to 30 --- OHL reserves at Army Division C
  • from December 30th --- Position battles on the Meuse heights near Lamorvill-Spada and St. Mihiel

1918

  • until April 22nd --- Position battles on the Meuse heights near Lamorvill-Spada and St. Mihiel
  • April 22nd to 28th --- Reserve of the OHL
  • April 29th to May 7th --- 18th Army Reserve
  • May 7th to June 8th --- Fights on the Avre and near Montdidier and Noyon
  • June 9th to August 7th --- Fighting on the Avre and Matz
  • August 8-10 --- Defensive battle between Somme and Avre (parts of the division)
  • August 8th to 9th --- Tank battle between Ancre and Avre (parts of the division)
  • August 8 to September 3 --- Defensive battle between the Somme and Oise
    • August 28 to September 3 --- Battle of the North Canal and Nesle and Noyon
  • September 4th to 18th --- 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
    • 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-Maas position
  • from November 12th --- evacuation of the occupied territory and march home

Commanders

Rank Surname date
Major general Karl Friedrich Siegfried Fabarius December 24, 1914 to November 29, 1915
Major general Dietrich Freiherr von Speßhardt November 30, 1915 to August 12, 1916
Major general Eberhard von Hofacker August 13 to December 19, 1916
Major general Erich von Redern December 20, 1916 to November 1, 1917
Major general Oskar Friedrich Alfred by Lorne de St. Ange November 2, 1917 to February 2, 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. 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. 547-549.

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. 186.