Jäger Division (German Empire)

Hunter Division
active	September 14, 1917 to December 14, 1918
Country	German Empire
Armed forces	German army
Armed forces	army
Type	Hunter - Division
structure	See: Outline
First World War	Italian front Western front
Commanders
Please refer:	List of commanders

The Jäger Division was a large unit of the Prussian army as part of the German army during the First World War .

structure

Division of War 1917

• Staff 5th replacement infantry brigade with staff Dragoon Regiment "von Bredow" (1st Silesian) No. 4
  • Guard Reserve Hunter Battalion
  • Guard Reserve Rifle Battalion
• Staff Uhlan Regiment "von Katzler" (Silesian) No. 2
  • Reserve Hunter Battalion No. 1
  • Pomeranian Jäger Battalion "Fürst Bismarck" No. 2
• Staff 8th Royal Bavarian Chevaulegers Regiment
  • Reserve Hunter Battalion No. 8
  • Württemberg Mountain Battalion
  • Brandenburg Jäger Battalion No. 3

Division of War of April 26, 1918

• 5th Replacement Infantry Brigade
  • Jäger Regiment No. 11
  • Hunter Regiment No. 12
  • Jäger Regiment No. 13
  • 1. Squadron / Dragoon Regiment "King Albert of Saxony" (East Prussian) No. 10
• Artillery Commander No. 224
  • Holstein Field Artillery Regiment No. 24
  • 4th Bavarian foot artillery regiment
• Engineer Battalion No. 422
• Division News Commander # 901

history

The division was formed on September 14, 1917 during the First World War and was deployed first on the Italian front (see Twelfth Isonzo Battle ) and then on the western front during the course of the war . After the Armistice of Compiègne , the remnants of the division returned home. The dissolution took place on December 14, 1918 in Berlin .

Battle calendar

1917

• September 15 to October 15 --- Deployment behind the Isonzo front
  • October 3rd to 23rd --- Position battles on the Isonzo
• October 24th to 27th --- Breakthrough through the Julian Alps
• October 27th --- San Giorgio
• October 28th to 29th --- Resiutta
• October 28th to November 3rd --- Battle of Udine
• November 4th to 11th --- pursuit from Tagliamento to Piave
  • November 5th to 6th --- Pielungo
  • November 9-11 --- Fights in the upper Piave valley
• November 12th to January 22nd --- Mountain fighting in the Venetian Alps
  • November 18th --- Storming of Monte Monfenara
  • November 22nd --- Storming of Monte Tomba

1918

• 23 January to 20 February --- OHL reserve in Northern Italy
• 25 February to 29 March --- Trench warfare in Upper Alsace
• March 30th to April 6th --- Great battle in France
• April 7th to 24th --- Fights on the Avre , Montdidier and Noyon
• April 24th to 26th --- Battle of Villers-Bretonneux , Luce and Avre
• April 25th to May 24th --- Fights on the Ancre , Somme and Avre
• June 9-27 --- Fights on the Avre and Matz
  • June 9-13 --- Battle of Noyon
• July 5th to 18th --- Position battle in Upper Alsace
• July 18th to 25th --- Defensive battle between Soissons and Reims
• July 26th to August 3rd --- Mobile defensive battle between Marne and Vesle
• 4th to 16th August --- Position battles between Oise and Aisne
• 17th August to 4th September --- Defensive battle between Oise and Aisne
• September 8th to October 8th --- Defensive battle between Cambrai and St. Quentin
• October 9-21 --- Fights in front of and in the Hermann position
• from November 13th --- evacuation of the occupied territory and march home

Commanders

Rank	Surname	date
Colonel	Georg von Wodtke	September 14 to November 23, 1917
Major general	Johannes von Dassel	November 24, 1917 to December 14, 1918

literature

• Hall of Fame of our Old Army , published on the basis of official material from the Reichsarchiv , Militär-Verlag, Berlin 1927, pp. 59, 79–80