XVII. Reserve Corps (German Empire)

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The XVII. Reserve Corps was a large unit of the army of the German Empire , which was initially also called Korps Graudenz or Korps Zastrow . It went in the general command z. b. V. No. 67 on.

structure

The corps was created at the beginning of the war from troops from the fortress Graudenz and structured as follows:

  • Wernitz division
  • Breugel division

history

On September 12, 1914, General of the Artillery Ernst von Zastrow became the first commander of the Zastrow Corps of the Prussian Army set up in the Graudenz area and concentrated on the Drewenz . On July 21, 1915, the Zastrow corps finally became the XVII. Reserve corps formed. During the second battle of Przasnysz (July 13-15, 1915), the corps covered the right wing of the Gallwitz Army Group , which was later renamed the 12th Army . After the breakthrough of the Gallwitz Army Group over the Narew , the Suren group with the 14th and 85th Landwehr Divisions advanced to the Lydynia section until July 15. In mid-July 1915, the XVII. Reserve corps, the Dickhuth corps (main reserve Thorn) and several Landwehr brigades were deployed against the Novogeorgiewsk fortress . On July 20, 1915, the commanding general of III. Reserve Corps assumed command of the Beseler army group designated for this purpose . The XVII. Reserve Corps under Lieutenant General Surén were subordinate to the 85th Landwehr Division and the Saxon Brigade Pfeil, it took over the border of the Northwest Front and advanced between Płońsk and Ciechanów to the fortress. At the beginning of the siege there were about 90,000 soldiers (Russian General Command XXVII. Corps) under the fortress commander Nikolai Pavlovich Bobyr with 1,600 guns in the fortress. On August 13th began after several hours of artillery preparation against the outer works. On the evening of August 20, 1915, the fortress was completely in the possession of the German troops.

Lieutenant General Reinhard von Scheffer-Boyadel was on September 3, 1916 as Surén's successor to the commanding general of the XVII. Reserve Corps appointed, which was now part of the 9th Army . In space Nowogrodek used, the corps were the 5th and 49th Reserve Division and the 84th Division assumed.

Scheffer Army Division

On October 9, 1916, the 12th Army had been disbanded from the command of the XVII. Reserve Corps, the Scheffer Army Department was formed, which now took over the old front section of AOK 12 in the Lida area . The newly established General Command 57 (Gruppe Frommel ) on the left wing of the XVII. Reserve Corps pushed in, the front extended north to Krewo. In April 1917 the General Command 66 on the right wing of the Scheffer Army Detachment was added, the "Gruppe Held " took over the command of the southern wing in the Nowogrodek area.

In mid-September 1917, the Scheffer Army Department was dissolved, and the staff of the Scheffer Army Department was used to form AOK 14 . The front section of the army division was subsequently called "Section Lida". In the latter section the newly established General Command now led z. b. V. No. 67 , which in turn comes from the staff of the XVII. Reserve Corps emerged and was subordinated to the 10th Army .

Commanding general

Rank Surname date
General of the artillery Ernst von Zastrow September 12, 1914 to September 24, 1915
Lieutenant General Karl Surén September 25, 1915 to September 2, 1916
Lieutenant General Reinhard von Scheffer-Boyadel September 3, 1916 to September 17, 1917

literature

  • Reichsarchiv (Ed.): The World War 1914–1918. Volume VIII, ES Mittler und Sohn, Berlin 1932, p. 104.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The conquest of Nowo Georgiewsk, Gerhard Stalling Verlag, Oldenburg 1925. p. 50
  2. ↑ a b c 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 .