Marine Division

A naval division is a large unit of the navy that is deployed ashore or amphibious . The German Navy designated two support groups as naval divisions .

Germany

German Empire

The Imperial Navy established the following naval divisions during the First World War:

• Marine Division
• 1st Marine Division
• 2nd Marine Division
• 3rd Marine Division

After the First World War , the three naval brigades

• 1st Marine Brigade ( Colonel Emmo von Roden ) (1st and 2nd Marine Regiment )
• 2nd Marine Brigade ( Korvettenkapitän Hermann Ehrhardt ) (3rd and 4th Marine Regiment)
• 3rd Marine Brigade (Korvettenkapitän Wilfried von Loewenfeld ) (5th and 6th Marine Regiment and Storm Battalion Arnauld de la Perière )

in April 1919 merged with the Schutztruppen - Regiment No. 1 and the Field Artillery Regiment Osiander to form the Marine Division. The division was led by Major General Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck . Together with the Guard Cavalry Rifle Division , it was subordinate to the Guard Cavalry Rifle Corps .

The Marine Division was involved in the Kapp Putsch , as a result of which it was dissolved.

Federal Navy

In the German Navy there were two naval divisions from 1967 to 1974, to which a larger number of land departments were assigned:

• Marine Division North Sea
• Baltic Sea Division

United States

The US Marine Corps consists of four divisions :

• 1st U.S. Marine Division
• 2nd U.S. Marine Division
• 3rd U.S. Marine Division
• 4th U.S. Marine Division

See also

• Division (military)
• Marine infantry

literature

• Georg Tessin : German associations and troops: 1918-1939. Biblio-Verlag, Osnabrück 1974, ISBN 3-7648-1000-9 .
• Hall of Fame of our Old Army , published on the basis of official material from the Reichsarchiv , Militär-Verlag, Berlin 1927