9th Reserve Division (German Empire)

9th Reserve Division
active	August 2, 1914 to December 20, 1918
Country	German Empire
Armed forces	Prussian Army
Type	Infantry Division
structure	See: Outline
Insinuation	V. Reserve Corps

The 9th Reserve Division was a major unit of the Prussian army in the First World War .

structure

Organization of war during mobilization in 1914

• 17th Reserve Infantry Brigade
  • Reserve Infantry Regiment No. 6
  • Reserve Infantry Regiment No. 7
• 19th Reserve Infantry Brigade
  • Reserve Infantry Regiment No. 19
  • Reserve Hunter Battalion No. 5
• Reserve Dragoon Regiment No. 3
• Reserve Field Artillery Regiment No. 9
• 4th Company / Lower Silesian Pioneer Battalion No. 5

Division of War of March 2, 1918

• 18th Reserve Infantry Brigade
  • Reserve Infantry Regiment No. 6
  • Reserve Infantry Regiment No. 19
  • Infantry Regiment No. 395
  • 3rd Squadron / Reserve Dragoon Regiment No. 3
• Artillery Commander No. 97
  • Reserve Field Artillery Regiment No. 9
  • Foot Artillery Battalion No. 29
• Engineer Battalion No. 309
• Division News Commander No. 409

Battle calendar

1914

• August 22-27 --- Battle of Longwy- Longuyon and the Othain Sector
• September 1st --- Damvillers
• September 6th to 12th --- Battle of Vaubecourt-Fleury
• October 6-10 --- Battle at Etain
• October 29th --- Battle at Gercourt
• November 5th to 25th --- Battle of the Yser
• from November 26th --- position battles in front of Verdun

1915

• January 1st to December 31st --- Position battles in front of Verdun

1916

• until February 20th --- Position battles in front of Verdun
• February 21st to April 21st --- Battle of Verdun
• April 22nd to May 31st --- Trench warfare in Lorraine
• June 1st to September 29th --- Trench warfare in Champagne
• September 30th to October 19th --- Battle of the Somme
• October 21 to November 23 --- Trench warfare in Upper Alsace
• from November 27th --- Trench warfare on the Somme

1917

• until March 15th --- Trench warfare on the Somme
• March 16 to April 16 --- Fighting in front of the Siegfried Front
• April 17th to May 20th --- Spring battle near Arras
• May 21st to June 1st --- Trench warfare in Flanders and Artois
• June 2nd to September 22nd --- Battle of Flanders
• from September 23rd --- fighting in the Siegfried position
  • November 20-29 --- Tank battle at Cambrai
  • November 30th to December 7th --- Assault battle near Cambrai

1918

• until January 31, 1918 --- Fighting in the Siegfried Line
• February 1st to March 20th --- Fighting in the Siegfriedstellung and preparation time for the Great Battle in France
• March 21st to April 6th --- Great battle in France
• April 7th to 9th --- Fights on the Ancre , Somme and Avre
• April 9th ​​to 18th --- Battle of Armentières
• April 9th ​​to 30th --- Trench warfare in Flanders and Artois
• May 1st to August 4th --- Trench warfare in French Flanders and Artois
  • May 26th to 27th --- Ancre transition with Albert
• August 5th to September 6th --- Fighting on the Ypres Front - La Bassée
• September 7th to 28th --- Fighting on the Armentiéres- Lens front
• September 27th to October 8th --- Defensive battle between Cambrai and St. Quentin
• October 9th to 26th --- Fights in front of and in the Hermann position
• October 27th to November 4th --- Fighting in the Hermann position on the Scheldt
• November 5th to 11th --- fighting in retreat in front of the Antwerp - Meuse position
• November 12th to December 19th --- Evacuation of the occupied territory and march home

Commanders

Rank	Surname	date
General of the Infantry	Hans von Guretzky-Cornitz	August 2, 1914 to July 11, 1917
Lieutenant General	Julius August Hildemann	July 12, 1917 to January 9, 1918
Lieutenant General	Wilhelm Georg Ernst von Zglinicki	January 10 to December 20, 1918

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. 63, 102-103.
• 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. 171-173.

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. 169.