93rd Infantry Division (German Empire)

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The 93rd Infantry Division was a major unit of the Prussian army in the First World War .

history

The division was assembled on September 10, 1916 on the Eastern Front , where it fought until the Brest-Litovsk Peace Treaty was signed . She then took part in the occupation of Greater Russia and intervened on the part of Ukraine in the fighting against the Bolsheviks . Parts of the division remained in Ukraine until March 1919, after which they were returned home and demobilized there .

Battle calendar

1916

  • from October 10th - trench warfare on the Beresina , Olschanke and Krewljanka

1917

  • until June 30th - trench warfare on the Beresina, Olschanke and Krewljanka
  • 0July 1 to September 17 - trench warfare on the Servetsch, Nyemen , the Berezina, Olschanke and Krewlyanka
    • 19-27 July - Smorgon- Krewo defensive battle
  • September 18 to December 5 - trench warfare between Nyemen-Berezina-Krevo-Smorgon- Narotsch- Veretsch
  • 0December 6-17 - Truce
  • from December 17th - armistice

1918

  • until February 18 - armistice
  • February 18 to March 3 - Persecution through White Ruthenia
  • 0March 3rd to April 21st - occupation of Great Russian territory
  • April 21 to June 21 - fighting in support of Ukraine
  • June 22nd to November 15th - Occupation of Ukraine
  • from November 16 - evacuation of Ukraine

1919

  • until March 16 - evacuation of Ukraine

structure

Division of War of February 12, 1917

Medical company 233 in the 93rd Infantry Division

Division of War of May 8, 1918

  • 215th Infantry Brigade
    • Infantry Regiment No. 433
    • Infantry Regiment No. 434
    • 5th Squadron / 2nd Hanover Dragoons Regiment No. 16
    • Landwehr Field Artillery Regiment No. 253
    • 1. Landwehr Pioneer Company / XVII. Army Corps
    • 2nd Landwehr Pioneer Company / I. Army Corps
  • Mine thrower company No. 93
  • Division News Commander No. 93

Commanders

Rank Surname date
Lieutenant General Eduard Maximilian von Adriani September 10 to November 19, 1916
Dignity. General of the Infantry z.D. Rudolf von Freudenberg November 20, 1916 to September 2, 1918
Lieutenant General Ernst von Reuter 0September 3, 1918 to April 1919

literature

  • Hall of Fame of our Old Army. Published on the basis of official material from the Reichsarchiv , Militär-Verlag, Berlin 1927, pp. 73, 155.
  • 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. 575-578.

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. 143.