94th Division (German Empire)

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The 94th Division was a major unit of the Prussian army in the First World War .

history

The division was formed on July 1, 1917 on the Eastern Front , where it fought until the conclusion of the Brest-Litovsk Peace Treaty . She then took part in the occupation of Greater Russia and then acted as the German police force in Livonia and Estonia . In mid-September 1918, the division moved to the Western Front and was briefly deployed here until the end of the war.

Battle calendar

1917

  • July 1 to September 11 --- Trench warfare on the Servetsch, Nyemen , the Berezina , Olschanka and Krewlyanka
  • September 12th to December 14th --- Trench warfare on the upper Shchara-Servach-Nyemen
  • December 15-17 --- Truce
  • from December 17th --- armistice

1918

  • until February 18th --- Armistice
  • February 18 to March 3 --- Persecution through White Ruthenia
  • March 3rd to April 19th --- occupation of Great Russian territory
  • April 30 to September 18 --- Occupation of Livonia and Estonia as German police power
  • September 18 to October 5 --- OHL reserve and transport to the west
  • October 5th to 10th --- Position battles in the Woëvre plain and west of the Moselle
  • October 11 to November 11 --- Trench warfare in the Woëvre plain
  • from November 12th --- March back through Lorraine , the Rhine provinces and the Palatinate during the armistice

1919

  • until January 4th --- March back through Lorraine, the Rhine provinces and the Palatinate during the armistice

structure

Division of war 1917/18

  • 170th Landwehr Infantry Brigade

Commanders

Rank Surname date
Major general Karl von Dalwigk zu Lichtenfels July 1, 1917 to September 22, 1918
Lieutenant General Georg von Heimburg September 23, 1918 to January 18, 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. 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. 577-578.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dermot Bradley (ed.), Günter Wegner: Occupation of the German Army 1815-1939. Volume 1: The higher command posts 1815–1939. Biblio Publishing House. Osnabrück 1990. ISBN 3-7648-1780-1 . P. 143.