V. Reserve Corps (German Empire)

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The V. Reserve Corps was a large unit of the army of the German Empire .

structure

At the beginning of the war, the corps was subordinate to the 5th Army and was structured as follows:

  • 9th Reserve Division
    • 17th Reserve Infantry Brigade
    • 19th Reserve Infantry Brigade
    • Reserve Dragoon Regiment No. 3
    • Reserve Field Artillery Regiment No. 9
    • 4th Company / Engineer Battalion No. 5
  • 10th Reserve Division
    • 77th Reserve Infantry Brigade
    • 18th Reserve Infantry Brigade
    • Reserve Uhlan Regiment No. 6
    • Reserve Field Artillery Regiment No. 10
    • 1st and 2nd Reserve Company / Engineer Battalion No. 5

history

Erich von Gündell

With the mobilization on August 2, 1914 at the outbreak of the First World War , the corps was set up. The commanding general was General of the Infantry von Gündell , the Chief of Staff was Lieutenant Colonel von Stockhausen. The assigned 9th Reserve Division was under Lieutenant General von Guretzky-Cornitz , the 10th Reserve Division was under Lieutenant General von Wartenberg .

In association with the 5th Army , the corps marched through neutral Luxembourg to France . The association remained exclusively on the Western Front during the further course of the war .

The corps fought in the Battle of Longwy on August 22nd - the 10th Reserve Division fought for the town of Ville de Montois and reached the Crusnes River at Pierrepont. The 9th Reserve Division, in conjunction with the 34th Division, forced the march through Fillieres and pursued the enemy on Joppecourt. After further battles the Corps was on the east bank of the Maas on the Wöevre level in trench warfare against Verdun .

At the end of February 1916, the corps went on the attack in the Battle of Verdun . During the fighting for the village and Fort Vaux , his large association suffered heavy losses and finally had to be pulled from the front in mid-June. It was then moved to Champagne for rest and refreshment .

Franz von Soden

In early October 1916, the 9th and 10th Reserve Divisions were thrown into the Battle of the Somme . The 5th Reserve Corps (Group Section D) under General von Garnier established itself on the northern bank of the Somme opposite the French 6th Army on the Rancourt- Bouchavesnes line . The 113th division in the front and the 211th division as reserve were also subordinate to the command . Almost all of the units were relieved by October 18, and then the 103rd and 211th Divisions and the 8th replacement division brought up from the Moselle front were subordinated to the Garnier Corps on the same sector .

Between November 22, 1917 and June 1, 1918, the corps command took over the command of a section on the Lorraine Moselle front as " Gruppe Ornes ". On June 12, 1918, the V Reserve Corps took over the section "Maasgruppe Ost", which had to be evacuated at the beginning of November as a result of the Meuse-Argonne offensive .

Commanding general

Rank Surname date
General of the Infantry Erich von Gündell August 2, 1914 to September 3, 1916
Lieutenant General Otto von Garnier September 3, 1916 to August 27, 1917
Lieutenant General Viktor Kuehne August 27 to November 16, 1917
General of the Infantry Franz von Soden November 17, 1917 to January 31, 1919

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Reichsarchiv: Volume I. Kriegsgliederungen pp. 676 and 677
  2. ↑ Reichsarchiv Volume XI., Map supplement No. 3–5, Troop sketch October 7 and 17, 1916
  3. ↑ a b c d Dermot Bradley (ed.), Günter Wegner: Occupation of the German Army 1815-1939 Volume 1: The higher command posts 1815-1939 , Biblio Verlag, Osnabrück 1990, ISBN 3-7648-1780-1 , p. 628