General Command 57

The Generalkommando 57 was a large unit of the army of the German Empire in the First World War .

structure

The General Command 57 was a General Command z. BV ( General Command for Special Use ). These emerged from 1916 and were purely command posts; the military units were assigned to him as required.

history

At the beginning of the war in 1914, the Prussian 7th , Saxon 8th and Bavarian cavalry divisions , which were deployed in the 6th Army during the battle in Lorraine and in front of Nancy-Épinal, were subordinate to the higher cavalry commander 3 . In September 1914 the command moved to the Eastern Front and took part in the fighting on the Masurian Lakes, around Warsaw , around Łódź and the Rawka and Bzura .

The General Command 57 emerged on November 26, 1916 from the Higher Cavalry Command No. 3. After the armistice on the Eastern Front , the subordinate troops took part in the occupation of Greater Russia until the end of March 1918 . Then the large association moved to the western front and dissolved the XXVI from April 6, 1918 . Reserve Corps as a " group Dormoise " in the position of fighting in the Champagne from. Because of a pneumonia Frommel was replaced and spent the next few weeks in the hospital . Initially, the Bavarian Lieutenant General Bernhard von Hartz acted as a deputy until he was finally appointed Commanding General on May 11, 1918.

The General Command 57 dissolved May 8, 1918 the XXXVIII. Reserve Corps as " Gruppe Gorze ". In September 1918, the command established in advance of the Metz fortress was subordinate to the 10th Division , the 8th Landwehr Division , the 77th Reserve Division and the 255th Division . Together with the "Gruppe Combres" (General Command VAK ) and the "Gruppe Mihiel " (General Command XII. RK ), the projecting front arch had to be given up before the Franco-American attacks during the Battle of St. Mihiel .

Commanding general

Rank	Surname	date
General of the cavalry	Rudolf von Frommel	August 2, 1914 to April 7, 1918
Lieutenant General	Bernhard von Hartz	April 7 to May 10, 1918 (substitute)
Lieutenant General	Bernhard von Hartz	May 11 to December 13, 1918
Lieutenant General	Hermann von Burkhardt	December 14, 1918 to January 4, 1919 (responsible for the tour)

literature

• Konrad Krafft von Dellmensingen , Friedrichfranz Feeser : The Bavaria book of the world wars 1914-1918. Volume 1. Chr. Belser AG. Stuttgart 1930.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Reichsarchiv: The World War 1914-1918, Volume XIV, ES Mittler and Son, Berlin 1944, p. 600