84th Division (German Empire)

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The 84th Division was a major unit of the Prussian army in the First World War .

history

The division was formed from units from the Poznan Fortress after the outbreak of World War I and was deployed on the Eastern Front until the end of December 1917 . Then she was transferred to the West , where she participated in the fighting there until the end of the war. After the armistice , the remnants of the division marched back home, where the large unit was demobilized and finally dissolved in February 1919.

Battle calendar

1914

1915

  • until June 14th --- Battle of Rawka-Bzura
  • July 17th to August 5th --- Fighting for Warsaw
  • August 8th to 18th --- Pursuit battles between the Vistula and the Bug
  • August 19 to 24 --- Battle of the Pulwa - Nurzec
  • August 25th to 31st --- Persecution battles on the Bialowieska-Puszcza
  • September 1 to 12 --- Fights on the Jasiolda and the Zelwianka
  • September 13th to 18th --- Battle of Slonim
  • from September 19 --- Fighting on the upper Shchara -Servetsch

1916

  • until July 30th --- fighting on the upper Shchara-Servetsch
  • from July 30th --- position battles on the Berezina , Olschanka and Krewljanka

1917

  • until June 30th --- Trench warfare on the Berezina, Olschanka and Krewlyanka
  • July 1 to September 11 --- Trench warfare on the Servetsch, Nyemen , the Berezina, Olschanka and Krewlyanka
    • July 19 to 27 --- Defensive battle Smorgon-Krewo (parts of the division)
  • September 12th to December 14th --- Trench warfare on the upper Shchara-Serwetsch-Nyemen
  • December 15-17 --- Truce
  • December 17th to 27th --- Armistice
  • from December 28th --- Reserve of the OHL and transport to the west

1918

  • until January 2nd --- Reserve of the OHL and transport to the west
  • January 3 to May 15 --- Position battles in front of Verdun
  • May 15 to June 8 --- Fighting on the Avre and near Montdidier and Noyon
  • June 9th to August 7th --- Fighting on the Avre and Matz
    • June 9-13 --- Battle of Noyon
  • August 8th to September 3rd --- Defensive battle between Somme and Oise
    • August 12th to 20th --- Fights on the forest mountains north of the Matz
    • August 29th to September 3rd --- Battle of the Forest Mountains east of 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 17th --- Fights in front of and in the Hermann position
  • October 17th --- Fights between Oise and Serre
  • October 18 to November 4 --- Fights in the dog position
  • November 5th to 11th --- fighting in retreat in front of the Antwerp - Meuse position
  • from November 12th --- evacuation of the occupied territory and march home

structure

Division of War of June 2, 1916

  • 167th Infantry Brigade
    • Infantry Regiment No. 333
    • Infantry Regiment No. 334
  • 168th Infantry Brigade
    • Infantry Regiment No. 335
    • Infantry Regiment No. 336
    • Cavalry Regiment No. 84
  • Staff / Reserve Foot Artillery Regiment No. 6
  • Landwehr Pioneer Company / XII. (I. Royal Saxon) Army Corps

Division of War of November 3, 1918

  • 168th Infantry Brigade
  • Artillery Commander No. 54
    • Field Artillery Regiment No. 248
    • III. Battalion / Foot Artillery Regiment No. 25
  • Engineer Battalion No. 84
  • Division Message Commander # 84

Commanders

Rank Surname date
Lieutenant General Kurt von Kehler June 25, 1915 to August 9, 1916
Major general Max von Hake August 10 to September 13, 1916 (in charge of the tour)
Lieutenant General Kurt von Kehler September 14, 1916 to March 25, 1917
Major general Ernst von Reuter March 26, 1917 to June 20, 1918
Major general Walter Leu June 21, 1918 to February 15, 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, 152.
  • 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. 554-557.

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. 140.