Army Division B
The Army Division B (originally Army Group Gaede , from November 1914 Army Department Gaede ) was during the First World War, one of three army divisions of the German Army on the Western Front , in 1914 to protect the Empire State Alsace-Lorraine were set up. She held the front in the Upper Rhine in trench warfare and was until December 1918th
history
During the mobilization for the First World War in August 1914, the 5th Army Inspection located in Karlsruhe was converted to the 7th Army under Josias von Heeringen and the Baden XIV. Army Corps together with the XV. Army Corps and the XIV Army Reserve Corps . As the commander of the newly formed Deputy General Command of the XIV. Army Corps, since 1907 z. D. appointed Prussian General Hans Gaede , who lives in Freiburg , who was in command in Upper Alsace.
The "Gaede" army group was created in mid-August as a provisional grouping of the units deployed to cover the Upper Rhine, essentially three Landwehr brigades. During the battle in Lorraine they covered the southern flank of the German army as far as the Swiss border against the French Armée d'Alsace . After the failure of the Schlieffen Plan in the Battle of the Marne , the 7th Army was completely withdrawn from the Reichsland and transferred to the Aisne . On September 19, Gaede's army group was given the new name "Army Department Gaede". Their main combat area was the southern Vosges , for whose peaks and passes were fought fiercely again and again, for example for the Hartmannswillerkopf , and the approaches to Mulhouse on the Altkirch - Thann line . To the north it found a connection to the Falkenhausen Army Division, which was formed around the same time under General Ludwig von Falkenhausen . Falkenhausen was put before Gaede in December 1914 on tactical and operational issues, which was reversed in August 1915.
Gaede was replaced by General Erich von Gündell in September 1916 due to a serious illness and the army department was renamed "Army Department B". In March 1917, as part of the reorganization of the Western Front, she was placed under the Army Group of Duke Albrecht . In 1917 the Army Division had eight infantry divisions and one unmounted cavalry division in the front. It also had well-developed rear lines of defense. After the Armistice of Compiègne in November 1918, Alsace was evacuated and the army department was dissolved on December 23rd.
people
Commander in chief
- Hans Gaede - from August 1914
- Erich von Gündell - from September 3, 1916
Chiefs of Staff
- Wilhelm von Wolff - from September 19, 1914
- Bernhard Bronsart von Schellendorff - from January 6, 1915
- Hans Hesse - from May 6, 1915
- Theodor Renner - from September 8, 1916
- Hermann Drechsel - from April 23, 1917