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KRAUSE GENEALOGY

FRIEDRICH WILHELM "WILLIE" KRAUSE
(January 18, 1897, Bischofswerda, Saxony, Germany - December 9, 1983, Leamington, Ontario, Canada)

FROM GERMANY TO THE WESTERN FRONT
TO THE EASTERN FRONT
TO TAURIDA AND MOLOTSCHNA (SOUTH RUSSIA)

1914 - 1921

See Also Western Front: Some Background Notes for Krause Road to South Russia

See Also Eastern Front - South Russia: Some Background Notes For Krause Road to South Russia

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At the outset of the First World War, every man in Germany between 17 and 45
years of age was required to perform his mandatory military service.

https://www.rtbf.be/ww1/topics/detail_who-are-the-german-soldiers?id=8356006

August 1, 1914. Germany Declares War on Russia.
August 3, 1914. Germany declares war on France.

http://www.historyplace.com/worldhistory/firstworldwar/index-1914.html

On August 1, 1914, Friedrich Wilhelm "Willie" Krause was c. 17 1/2 years old

Military Rank

IR 182, 1 Kompagnie Friedrich Wilhelm Krause (Before November 24, 1914 - Post December 4, 1914)

Jäger-Bataillon Nr.12, 3 Kompagnie Friedrich Wilhelm Krause (By October 1, 1915 - c. December 21, 1917/February 11, 1918)

IR 182, 9 Kompagnie Soldat Friedrich Wilhelm Krause (c. December 21, 1917/February 11, 1918 - September 30, 1919)

IR 182, 9 Kompagnie Gefreiter Friedrich Wilhelm Krause (As of September 30, 1919 - )

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SUMMARY SERVICE NOTE FOR ROYAL SAXON, 16TH INFANTRY REGIMENT NO. 182

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INDEX

INTRODUCTION

FRIEDRICH WILHELM KRAUSE:
 
KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES 16 REGIMENT 182
AND
1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12, COMPANY 3

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SOLDBUCH - PAYBOOK

[No.] 1036 Der Stammrolle 711

SERVICE INFORMATION

October 1, 1915 - September 30, 1916

Jäger Friedrich Wilhelm Krause
[No ] 1036 711
1. Ersatz-Bataillon * Jäger-Bataillon 12 [Jäger Bataillon 12]

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May 11, 1916

Tag des Eintritts in das stehende H[eer] 11. 5. 16 - Day of re-entry into the standing army 11.5.16

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October 1, 1916 - September 30, 1917

Jägers Wilhelm Krause
No 711
Jäger-Bataillon [No 12] [Jäger Bataillon 12]
3, Kompagnie
Königlich Sächsisch *  Jäger Bataillon

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April 1, 1917 - March 31, 1918

Jägers W. Krause
No 711 12107
Jäger-Bataillon No 12
3, Kompagnie
Königlich Sächsisch *  Jäger Bataillon 12

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October 1, 1917 - September 30, 1918

Jägers Wilhelm Krause
No 711
[Königlich Sächsisch] *  Jäger Bataillon 12
16. Infanterie-]Regt]ment Nr.182
[9, Ko]mpagnie

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October 1, 1918 - September 30, 1919

Soldat William Kraüse
der 9. / 182

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INSIDE COVER

A. Zum Feldheer abgejandt boll 1:) - Field army

1. Ersatzbataillon, I K. S. Jäger-Btl. 12 [Jäger Bataillon 12]
3. Fdf. Kompagnie
Nr. 1036 (der Kriegsstammrolle). - Personal Service Record Book

B. Feldtruppenteil 2): - B. Field Army unit 2):

Jäger Bataillon 12
3: Kompagnie
Nr. 711 (der Kriegsstammrolle). - Personal Service Record Book

C. Für den Buchinhaber jezt zustündiger Ersatztruppenteil 2): replacement/training unit

1. Ers. Batl.
1. Jäger Bat. No 12, [Jäger Batallion 12]
in Freiberg I. Sa. [That is: i. Sa. or im Sachsen]

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SOME STAMPS

* K. S. Linien-Kommandantur Kassenverwaltung

 

A. Zum Feldheer abgejandt boll 1:) - Field army

1. Ersatz-Bati.
16. Inf.-Regt. No. 182
1. Garn.-Komp.

[ I. Ersatz-Bataillon des Kgl. Sächs. 16. Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 182 in Freiberg/Sachsen ]

Nr. 121OSZ (der Kriegsstammrolle).  - Personal Service Record Book

1. Ersat-Bataillon * Jäger-Bataillon 12 [Jäger Bataillon 12]

16. Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 182
9 Kompagnie

1. [Ersatz-Bati.]
16. Inf.-Regt 182
1. Garn. Komp.

1. Ersatz-Batl.
16. Inf.- Regt. No. 182
1. Garn.-Komp

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KRAUSE SOLDBUCH - PAYBOOK

[1. Jäg]er-Batallion No. 12 3, Kompagnie.

1036 der Stammrolle

[?]1074
     

F W Krause Printed/Stamped Soldbuch Template

DATES ON THE PAGES

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NOVEMBER 24, 1914 - OCTOBER 20, 1918

     
    November 24, 1914 - December 4, 1914
     
24/11/1914 - 30/11/1914 1. Ersatz-Batl. 16. Inf.- Regt. No. 182 1. Garn.-Komp: On Leave (beurlaubt) from November 24, 1914 to November 30, 1914, Bischofswerda
02/12/1914 - 04-12/1914 1. Ersatz-Batl. 16. Inf.- Regt. No. 182 1. Garn.-Komp: Home - Furlough from December 2 to December 4, Bischofswerda and Freiwaldau
     
    May 11, 1916 - December 30, 1916
     
11/05/1916   Re-Entry
13/05/1916   Smallpox Shot
25/05/1916   Issued a Gas Mask, Size 3
31/05/1916   Typhoid Shot
07/06/1916   Typhoid Shot
19/06/1916   Typhoid Shot
30/06/1916   Cholera Shot
07/07/1916    
08/07/1916   Cholera Shot
22/08/1916 - 29/08/1916 Training
23/08/1916 - 28/08/1916 Training: Meals
29/08/1916   Training
30/12/1916   Typhoid Shot
     
    January 25, 1917 - December 31, 1917
     
25/01/1917   Cholera Shot
14/03/1917   Typhus Shot
20/04/1917   Hospital Activity: "Jäger Batallion 12", Company 3
22/04/1917   Hospital Activity
28/04/1917   Hospital Activity: Jäger Batallion 12, Company 3
30/04/1917   Hospital Activity
01/05/1917 - 20/05/1917 K. Reservelazarett Fürth : [Hospital] K. Reserve Hospital Fürth, From May 1, 1917 to May 20, 1917
15/05/1917   Hospital Activity: Jäger Batallion 12, Company 3 - Bischofswerda mentioned
14/08/1917   Hospital Activity
16/08/1917 - ?/08/1917 Hospital Activity
05/09/1917 - 12/09/1917 Hospital Activity
20/09/1917   Hospital Activity: Jäger Batallion 12, Company 3: Hospital, "St. Johannis", Freiberg, Sachsen
06/10/1917 - 07/10/1917 Hospital, "St. Johannis", Freiberg, Sachsen
12/10/1917   Hospital Activity: Hospital, "St. Johannis", Freiberg, Sachsen
20/10/1917   Hospital Activity
01/12/1917   Pay Issue
05/12/1917   Pay Issue
21/12/1917 31/12/1917 Hospital Activity: Auskunftsnebenstelle Kronstadt [Information Extension Kronstadt (Brasov) in Southern Transylvania?)]]
     
    February 11, 1918 - October 20, 1918
     
11/02/1918   16. Infantry, Regiment No. 182, 9 Company: In Braila, Rumania?
16/02/1918 - 24/02/1918 1. Ersatz-Batl. 16. Inf.- Regt. No. 182 1. Garn.-Komp: In Braila, Rumania
17/02/1918   16. Infantry, Regiment No. 182, 9 Company: In Braila, Rumania
28/02/1918   16. Infantry, Regiment No. 182, 9 Company: In Braila, Rumania?
21/03/1918   Cholera Shot
20/06/1918   Smallpox Shot (See image below for added detail)
22/08/1918   Cholera Shot (See image below for added detail)
27/08/1918   Ist Inhaber folgender Orden und Ehr zeichen (Holds the following medals and honor sign): E.K. II. [Iron Cross, 2nd Class]
30/08/1918   Ist Inhaber folgender Orden und Ehr zeichen (Holds the following medals and honor sign): Verw. Abz. in Schwarze [Wounded Badge In Black]
20/10/1918   Medical Batallion II, Infantry Regiment 182: Typhus Shot
     
   

UNKNOWN DATES
     
21/08/191?    
12/12/191?   vorschuss an ... für ... mit ... aus der Kasse der Lin. Kdtr K I [Linien-Kommandantur Kassenverwaltung] Erhalten. Munich (Money Advance from Headquarters)

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USED COUPONS

(IN THE ORDER FOUND IN THE BOOK: )

OCTOBER 1, 1915 - c. 10 DECEMBER 1918 [SEPTEMBER 30, 1919]

[Year: ?]

 

 April, Mai, Juni, Juli, August, September [?]
1915 Oktober, November, Dezember Kupons zu dem Soldbuch  1036 711 des jäger Friederich Wilhelm Krause für 1. Oktober 1915 bis Ende September 1916

1. Ersatz-Bataillon * Jäger-Bataillon 12 *
1916 Januar, Februar, März Kupons zu dem Soldbuch  1036 711 des jäger Friederich Wilhelm Krause für 1. Oktober 1915 bis Ende September 1916

1. Ersatz-Bataillon * Jäger-Bataillon 12 *
1916 Oktober, November, Dezember Kupons zu dem Soldbuch  No 711 des Jäger Wilhelm Krause für 1. Oktober 1916 bis Ende September 1917

1. Jäger-Batallion No. 12
3, Kompagnie.

1917 Januar, Februar, März Kupons zu dem Soldbuch  No 711 des Jäger Wilhelm Krause für 1. Oktober 1916 bis Ende September 1917

1. Jäger-Batallion No. 12
3, Kompagnie.

[1917] April, Mai, Juni, Juli, August, September [Kupons zu dem Soldbuch  No 711 des Jäger Wilhelm Krause für 1. Oktober 1916 bis Ende September 1917

1. Jäger-Batallion No. 12
3, Kompagnie. ]
[Year: ?] April, Mai, Juni, Juli, August, September 1. Jäger-Batallion No. 12
3, Kompagnie.
1917 Oktober, November, Dezember Kupons zu dem soldbuch  No 711 12107 des Jäger W. Krause für 1. April 1917 bis Ende März 1918

KÖNIGLICH  SÄCHSISCHES  * JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12 *

1. Jäger-Batallion No. 12
3, Kompagnie.
1918 Januar, Februar, März Kupons zu dem soldbuch  No 711 12107 des Jäger W. Krause für 1. April 1917 bis Ende März 1918

KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES  * JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12 *

1. Jäger-Batallion No. 12
3, Kompagnie.
1918

 

 Oktober, November, [1st third of] Dezember

Kupons zu dem soldbuch No  …….. des Soldat Wilhelm Krause der 9./182 für 1. Oktober 1918  bis Ende September 1919
1918 Dezember [2nd two-thirds unused]
1919 Januar, Februar, März, April, Mai, Juni, Juli, August, September Unused
1917 Oktober, November,  Decembre,  Kupons zu dem soldbuch        No des Jager Wilhelm Krause für 1. Oktober 1917 bis Ende September 1918

[1. Ersatz-Bataillon] * Jäger-Bataillon 12 *]
 
16. Infanterie-
[Regi]ment Nr. 182
[? Ko]mpagnie]
1918 Januar,  Februar   März Kupons zu dem soldbuch        No des Jager Wilhelm Krause für 1. Oktober 1917 bis Ende September 1918

[1. Ersatz-Bataillon] * Jäger-Bataillon 12 *]
 
16. Infanterie-
[Regi]ment Nr. 182
[? Ko]mpagnie]

12/12/191?

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UNKNOWN WORDS

August 20, 1918

August 22, 1918

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SIMILAR ON THE NET

For Sealing Letters

16. Königlich Sächsische Infanterie - Regiment No. 182

http://www.veikkos-archiv.com/index.php?title=Kategorie:Siegelmarken

(A)

HIS INFANTRY REGIMENT

AND

HIS ATTACHED JÄGER  BATTALION

KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES 16 REGIMENT 182
AND
1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12 SERVICE:
1914 - 1919

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HIS INFANTRY REGIMENT

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

Regimentsgeschichte; 16. Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 182

http://www.ebay.de/itm/Regimentsgeschichte-16-Infanterie-Regiment-
Nr-182-/391378097115?hash=item5b1ff3d3db:g:uKwAAOSwXshWsnLQ

SUMMARY OF KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES 16 REGIMENT 182 INFANTRY POSTINGS

  • 02.08.1914 - 31.03.1915: 2. (kgl.sächs.) Infanterie-Brigade Nr.46 / 1. kgl.sächs. Division Nr.23

  • 01.04.1915 - 15.06.1915: 245. Infanterie-Brigade / 123. Infanterie-Division

  • 15.06.1915 - 25.06.1915: 123. Infanterie-Division

  • 26.06.1915 - 10.07.1915: 245. Infanterie-Brigade / 117. Infanterie-Division

  • 11.07.1915 - 08.09.1916: 245. Infanterie-Brigade / 123. Infanterie-Division

  • 08.09.1916 - 22.04.1917: 177. Infanterie-Brigade / 216. Infanterie-Division

  • 22.04.1917 - 20.08.1917: 86. Reserve-Infanterie-Brigade / 216. Infanterie-Division

  • 21.08.1917 - 28.02.1919: 408. Infanterie-Brigade / 212. Infanterie-Division

Countries In Which The IR 182 Fought, 1912-1919

1912 - 1919

 Russland (Russia)
Galizien (Galicia in Southern Poland)
Rumanien (Romania)
Ukraine
Belgien (Belgium)
Frankreich (France)

            

  • 27-56 PORCELAIN TABLE MEDAL COMMEMORATING INFANTERIE-REGIMENT Nr 182's SERVICE - SAXONY. This is a post WW I, top-quality porcelain table medal from Saxony’s Meissen workshops. The table medal commemorates Saxon Infanterie-Regiment Nr 182's service. It was the last of the pre war regiments before the massive war call-ups in 1914. The regiment was garrisoned in Freiburg and only existed between 1912 and 1918.
     
    The table medal is made of bisque porcelain. It measures 1 ½" in diameter, and sports the brown exterior that is often appears on Meissen bisque porcelain table medals. One side has a German soldier in uniform, complete with stahlhelm. It appears that he is holding two "potato masher" grenades. Circling the medal around him we see the various places where the regiment fought. These areas included Russland (Russia), Galizien (Galicia in Southern Poland), Rumanien (Romania), Ukraine, Belgien (Belgium), and Frankreich (France). So, the regiment fought on both the Eastern and Western Fronts. On its reverse we see printed on its edges "Unsere Gefallen - Freiburg 1922." In the center we see what appears to be the towers of an old castle. Below that we see IR 182, 1912-1919, and Meissen’s crossed swords.     ....

https://www.derrittmeister.com/tablemed.htm

Freiberg

  • A super quality commemorative table medal made by the famous Meissen porcelain works. The medal was produced as a remembrance to the fallen comrades of Infantry Regiment 182.

The Meissen porcelain works produced art works, tableware, as well as military pieces. This is an example of the latter. It's not porcelain, but rather "Böttger Steinzeug", which is a traditional material often used by Meissen. This is a table medal which commemorated "Our fallen" of Infantry Regiment 182 from Freiberg as reads the reverse. The dates 1912-1919 are noted as well as "Freiberg 1922". The medal also exhibits the crossed swords mark of the Meissen company. The medal obverse features a WWI German soldier with grenades and the names of the countries in which the regiment fought. The piece is in mint condition with no damage or chips. It's amazing that the piece has survived intact over the last 84 years!

http://www.craiggottlieb.com/engine/inspect.asp?Item=462&Filter=Archive&Name=Meissen+
World+War+One+Remembrance+Plaquette

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1913

DECEMBER 12

Max von Hausen

16th Infantry, Infantry Regiment 182

  • Sein fünfzigstes Militärdienstjubiläum feierte der verdiente Soldat am 12. Dezember 1913. Ein Menschenalter hatte Max von Hausen im Truppen- und Generalstabsdienst durch alle Dienstgrade am Ausbau der sächsischen Armee mitgewirkt. König Friedrich August III. ernannte ihn zum Chef des 16. Infanterie-Regiments Nr. 182 in Freiberg, das damit seinen Namen trug. Am 21. Mai 1914 nahm der Generaloberst seinen Abschied und zog sich in sein Loschwitzer Eigenheim zurück, wo er einen beschaulichen Lebensabend zu verbringen hoffte ...

    • https://www.sachsen-depesche.de/kultur/zur-erinnerung-an-
      generaloberst-max-freiherr-von-hausen-1846-1922.html

      • The deserved soldier celebrated his fiftieth military service jubilee on December 12, 1913. Max von Hausen, a member of the army and general staff, had contributed to the expansion of the Saxon army by means of all the various degrees of service. King Friedrich August III. appointed him as head of the 16th Infantry Regiment No. 182 in Freiberg, which bore his name. On May 21, 1914, the Generaloberst took his leave and retired to his home in Loschwitz, where he hoped to spend a quiet evening of life ...

1914

AK Freiberg, Kaserne des Infanterie-Reg. Nr. 182
(AK Freiberg, barracks of Infantry Reg. 182)

http://www.ak-ansichtskarten.de/ak/index.php?menu=91&shop=2051&card=
2068018&alte-ansichtskarten=AK_Freiberg__Kaserne_des_Infanterie-Reg__Nr__182

Ansichtskarte / Postkarte Freiberg Sachsen, Kaserne Infanterie Regiment 182 - Postcard / postcard Freiberg, Saxony, barracks Infantry Regiment 182
 http://www.akpool.de/ansichtskarten/84957-ansichtskarte-
postkarte-freiberg-sachsen-kaserne-infanterie-regiment-182 

Andrew Lucas, Jurgen Schmieschek, Fighting the Kaiser's War: The Saxons in Flanders 1914-1918, p. 9 - Introduction - https://books.google.ca/books?isbn=1473848008

The battalion flags 1-3 of the Royal Saxony 16. Infantry -
Regiments No. 182 / Freiberg i. Saxony.

Historische Zeitreise durch das sächsische Freiberg u. Umgebung

https://www.facebook.com/Historische-
Zeitreise-durch-das-s%C3%A4chsische-Freiberg-u-
Umgebung-364737050389542/photos/1301999256663312

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(1) CAREER: 1914 - 1919

Freiderich Wilhelm Krause (b. January 18, 1897, Bischofswerda, Saxony, GERMANY [Sachsen, DEUTSCHLAND]  - d. December 9, 1983, Leamington, Ontario, CANADA).
He served in WW1, in France, and on the Eastern Front, including Russia. His wife was Maria Mietz Kornelsen (b. May 5, 1900, Tiegenhagen, Molotschna, Wollost Halbstadt, SOUTH RUSSIA) - d. April 2, 1991, Leamington, Ontario, CANADA). They were married May 16, 1920, in Halbstadt, Molotschna, SOUTH RUSSIA.
After March 15, 1921, they moved to Germany.

Military Rank

IR 182 Friedrich Wilhelm Krause (Before November 24, 1914 - Post December 4, 1914)

Jäger Friedrich Wilhelm Krause (By October 1, 1915 - c. December 21, 1917/February 11, 1918)

IR 182 Soldat Friedrich Wilhelm Krause (c. December 21, 1917/February 11, 1918 - September 30, 1919)

IR 182 Gefreiter Friedrich Wilhelm Krause (As of September 30, 1919 - )

August 27, 1918 and  October 30, 1918

Iron Cross, Second Class (Eisernen Kreuzes 2, Klasse)
and Wounded Badge In Black (Verwundete Abzeichen in Schwarze)

Ist Inhaber folgender Orden und Ehr zeichen:  Holds the following medals and honor sign:

E. K II. 27. 8. 18.

Verw. Abz. in Schwarze

Awarded German Iron Cross, in the field August 27, 1918

Vorläufige Bescheinigung über den Besitz des Eisernen Kreuzes 2, Klasse -
Provisional certificate of ownership of the Iron Cross 2nd class

Im Ramen Sr. Majestät des Kaisers -
In Ramen His Majesty the Emperor

Soldat Friedrich Wilhelm Krause, 9. Kompagnie Jnfanterie Regiment Nr. 182. -
Soldier Friedrich Wilhelm Krause, 9 Company Infanterie Regiment No. 182

geboren am 18. 1. 97. in Bishchofswerda Amtish. Bautzen -
born on 18. 1. 97. in Bishchofswerda Amtish. Bautzen

das Eisernen Kreuzes 2, Klasse verliehen worden -
been awarded the Iron Cross 2nd Class

Im Felde, den 27. 8. 1918 Kommando der Rgl. Sächs. 212. Infanterie-Division -
In the field, 27. 8. 1918 Command Rgl. Saxon. 212th Infantry Division.

Awarded Black Badge for Being Wounded, in the field August 30, 1918
 

Bescheinigung über den Besitz des Abzeichen für Verwundete Dem Soldat -
Certificate of ownership of the badge for The wounded soldier

Friedrich Wilhelm Krause, 9. Komp. 16. K. S. Jnfanterie Regiment Nr. 182. -
Friedrich Wilhelm Krause, 9. Comp. 16. K. S. Infanterie Regiment Nr. 182.

ist das Schwarze Abzeichen für Verwundete verliehen worden -
Black is the badge has been awarded for wounded

im field den 30. 8. 1918 -
in field 30. 8. 1918

16. Kgl. Sächs Jnf. Rgt. Nr. 182 -
16 Kgl. Saxon Inf. Rgt. No. 182

Part of his Finger on his Left Hand was Lost
(First Left Finger Off at Second Joint)

  

F W Krause (Right), c. August 27, 1918, or later
Photographer: J. Dürr. [Julius Dürr, Bischofswerda]

Note: Iron Cross Ribbon and Hirschfänger (a hunter dagger)

[For example see below: "Fotografie Jul. Dürr, Bischofswerda" -
Photography Jul. Dürr, Bischofswerda, portrait soldier with shoulder flap 12 [Jäger-Bataillon Nr. 12?]

NOTE

[The person standing next to F W Krause may perhaps also be seen

in an earlier picture of a man in the IR 182 trenches: SEE winter 1915-16]

DR. OF PHILOSOPHY  ALEXANDER PACHE - ALFRED PACHE


IR 182 at Wytschaete, January 1916. Prof. Dr. phil. Alexander Pache, also known as Alfred was born on 31st December 1878 in Steinigtwolmsdorf near Bautzen.

http://www.royalsaxonarmy.co.uk/royalsaxonarmy/index.php/articles/26-a-teacher-in-the-trenches-ir-182-at-wytschaete-january-1916 - A Teacher in the Trenches

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Note: Iron Cross Ribbon and Hirschfänger (a hunter dagger)
http://www.ak-ansichtskarten.de/ak/index.php?tabsessfilltab=
2d966a8de1c94c0ca3e98f7a5b41461c&tabsessfilltab
=2d966a8de1c94c0ca3e98f7a5b41461c&search=standard&searchword=
Fotografie+Jul.+D%C3%BCrr%2C+Bischofswerda%2C+&id=0

Note: As of 1913: Dürr, Julius, Photograph, Kirchstraße 26, Bischofswerda
https://digital.slub-dresden.de/werkansicht/dlf/94775/40/    

On the standard German enlisted man's Feldmütze (field cap), there are two buttons:
The top button indicated the German army, the bottom button indicated what German State the soldier served.
The soldier on the left (is he missing parts of two fingers?) is wearing a post 1915 Bluse type wool tunic.
The ribbon on their tunics are for the Prussian Eiserne Kreuz II Klasse (Iron Cross II class).
In the field, only the ribbon was worn in the second button hole, while the medal would have been sent home for safekeeping.

http://www.worldwar1.com/sfgeruni.htm

 

Fig 3 and 3b: Fahrer (driver) Alwin Müller and fellow field artillery reservists from the town of Bertsdorf, serving with Reserve-Artillerie-Munitions-Kolonne Nr 5/XII Reserve-Korps in March 1915. By the time this photo was sent as a postcard on 23 April the column had been redesignated Artillerie-Munitions-Kolonne Nr 1/123 Infanterie-Division. All present wear the uniform of their original peacetime regiment, FAR 28 from Bautzen. Courtesy Andrew Lucas.

http://www.westernfrontassociation.com/the-great-war/great-war-on-
land/germany-allies/2833-loos-to-st-eloi-the-experience-of-the-saxon-
123-infanteriedivision-on-the-western-front-1915.html#sthash.gHokZiWc.dpbs - Stand To! No 96 January 2013, Loos to St Eloi - the Experience of the Saxon 123 Infanterie-Division on the Western Front, 1915 – Part 1, 15–20 - See Also: https://www.flickr.com/photos/westernfrontassociation/sets/
 72157632510845695/with/8377018975/

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1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12, COMPANY 3

"Jäger Battalion 12", Company 3

Hospital, "St. Johannis", Freiberg, Sachsen

September 20, 1917; October 6-7, 1917; October 12, 1917

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Iron Cross 2nd Class: For Individual Merit In Combat
(For 2nd Class - The ribbon was warn looped through the second button hole in the front of the uniform)

The Black Wound Badge was awarded for less than three wounds

http://www.jasta5.org/Jagdstaffeln_5/red_baron_j5_awards.htm

  • By a Royal Decree of the 3 of March, 1918, published in the Army Gazette /Armee-Verordnungsblatt) for the 9th of March, 1918, the Emperor / Kaiser Wilhelm II created the Army Wound badge. The enabling statute read:- "In extraordinary appreciation I wish to confer a special badge of recognition on all those soldiers who have been wounded (lost blood) for the Fatherland and for those who have lost their health during service against the enemy and have been invalided from the service. The Ministry for War will issue the required orders and regulations . . . ."

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(2) INFANTRY REGIMENT 182: TYPICAL UNIFORM

photo encadrée d'un soldat allemand du IR 182 avant 1914
photo de studio d'un soldat allemand avant 1914 du Infanterie Regiment 182 (16° régiment saxon, créé en 1912 et stationné à Freiberg)
http://www.ebay.fr/itm/photo-encadree-dun-soldat-allemand-du-IR-182-avant-1914-/162463001701?hash=item25d38cac65:g:9ZEAAOSw4CFY54kC

Ansichtskarte Soldatenfoto, Infanterie Regiment 182 Freiberg, Königreich Sachsen, WKI Militär -
Photo Postcard Soldiers, Infantry Regiment 182 Freiberg, Saxony Kingdom, WKI Military
For more details: See: http://www.meinansichtskartenshop.de/Ansichtskarte-
Soldatenfoto-Infanterie-Regiment-182-Freiberg-Koenigreich-Sachsen-WKI-Militaer

Infantryman, Kgl. Sächs. 16. Infanterie-Regiment Nr.182
For more details: See:http://www.flickr.com/photos/drakegoodman/3952737980/in/photostream/

Regiment and Garrison

Cuff Pattern & Color

Buttons

Straps

Wappen
( Kgl. Sächs. 16. Infanterie-Regt. Nr.182
(Freiberg) XIX Armee Korps [XII Armee Korps?]		 Sachsen Piped in Blue Gilt "Squared" Blue w/ Red Piping w/ Yellow 182 Gilt Sachsen Wappen on Silver Star

http://www.kaisersbunker.com/gtp/New/infantry1.htm

[OCTOBER 1, 1914]

[See Colour Version Below]

Letter on reverse (below) with postage cancelled at Freiberg on 1.10.1914. Freiberg was the hometown of Kgl. Sächs. 16. Infanterie-Regiment Nr.182.

He wears a M1892 Überzug (helmet cover) with his regiment's number sewn onto the front in thin, dark green cloth, M1910 tunic and his boots are the standard infantry boot, the Model 1866 Infanteriestiefel and he is armed with a Gew 98.

The 123rd Infantry Division initially fought on the Western Front, entering the line in the Aisne region in mid-April 1915. Later in 1915, it fought in the Battle of Loos. It remained on the front in the Flanders and Artois regions into 1916, and in July entered the Battle of the Somme, where it reportedly lost 6,000 men.

It was transferred to the Eastern Front at the end of the month, where it went into the line near Lake Narač [Lake Narach (Naroch) - North-West Belarus) [Lake Narotoch] until November 1917, when it returned to the Western Front. It went into the line near Verdun until May 1918. It later fought in the Second Battle of the Marne and then returned to the line near Verdun.

Late in 1918, it faced the Allied Meuse-Argonne Offensive. It remained in the line until the end of the war. Allied intelligence rated the Division as third class and of mediocre combat value.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/drakegoodman/5531760050/

OCTOBER 1, 1914

The Great War Königlich Sächsische 16 Infanterie Regiment Nr.182 - 1st of October 1914

http://www.ddoughty.com/ww1-in-colour.html

1 Ers. Komp.
16. Kgl. Sächs. Inf. Reg.
No 182
11 Korporalschaft
1915

http://www.ebay.fr/itm/Regiment-Foto-Ak-1-Ers-Komp-16-Kgl-
Sachs-Inf-Reg-No-182-11-Korp-1915-/331031230935

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4 x WK1 Foto Infanterie Regiment Nr.182 Freiberg Königsbrück Sachsen 5469

Birvak I-Rgts. 182 Koniglich
Bivouac Infantry Regiment 182 Royal

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Konigsbruck-Sachsen-5469-/371552982385?hash=item5682489571:g:dJ0AAOSwDuJWt5zy

4 x WK1 Foto Infanterie Regiment Nr.182 Freiberg Königsbrück Sachsen 5470

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4 x WK1 Foto Infanterie Regiment Nr.182 Freiberg Königsbrück Sachsen 5468

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INFANTRY REGIMENT 182: SITUATION: 1914

August, 1914

http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bataille_des_Fronti%C3%A8res

Belgium and France, 1914, Battle of Frontiers-North, 2-26 August 1914

http://www.patriotfiles.com/forum/showthread.php?t=110523

August 15, 1914

 http://www.1914-1918.net/bat1.htm

August 20, 1914

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Battle_of_Frontiers_-_Map.jpg

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August 21 - 21, 1914

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Frontiers

September 14, 1914

http://www.battlefield-tours.com/introduction.htm

Imperial Germany's Third Army, 2 August 1914

  • Oberbefehlshaber: Generaloberst Max Klemens FH von Hausen
    Stabschef: Generalmajor Ernst von Hoeppner
    1.Generalstabsoffizier: Oberstleutnant Hasse
    Adjutant: Major Bramsch
    Oberquartiermaster: Generalmajor Leuthold
    General der Pioniere: Generalmajor Franz Adams
    HQ: Clervaux, Lux (formed in Dresden)  ....

XII. Armeekorps (1. Sächsischses): General der Infanterie Karl Ludwig d'Elsa
Stabschef: Oberst Hans von Eulitz
1.GSO: Major von Loeben
Adjutant: Major von Zeschau
Garnison: Dresden

23. Infanterie Division (1. Sächsischse) - Dresden: Generalleutnant Karl FH von Lindeman [Generalleutnant Karl Freiherr von Lindeman]
Stabschef: Major von Hingst
Adjutant: Major Gericke

2. Infanterie-Brigade Nr. 46 - Dresden: Generalmajor Bernhard von Watzdorf  [46. (Sächsische) Landwehr-Division - Bernhard Gustav von Watzdorf -His assignment and command:  02.08.1914 46. Infanterie-Brigade (2. Königlich Sächsische) = 3. Armee]
Adjutant: Hauptmann von Wittern
Königlich Sächsisches Schützen (Füsilier)-Regiment Prinz Georg Nr. 108 - Dresden: Oberst Woldemar Graf Vitzthum v. Eckstädt
Königlich Sächsisches 16. Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 182 - Freiberg: Oberst Franz Francke

http://home.comcast.net/~jcviser/army/OBc.htm and http://home.comcast.net/~jcviser/akb/watzdorf.htm

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XII. (I. Königlich Sächsisches) Armeekorps
http://www.worldlingo.com/ma/dewiki/de/23._
Division_(1._K%C3%B6niglich_
S%C3%A4chsische)
 
23. Division (1. Königlich Sächsische) (Das Divisionskommando stand in Dresden)
46. Infanteriebrigade (2. Königlich Sächsische) in Dresden
16. Königlich Sächsisches Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 182 in Freiberg und Königsbrück

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/23._
Division_(1._Königlich_Sächsische)

 

 XII. Army Corps District (I. Royal Saxon) Army Corps (Division Command in Dresden)

 23. Division (1st Royal Saxon)

 46. Infantry Brigade (2nd Royal Saxon) in Dresden

16. Royal Saxon Infantry Regiment 182 in Freiberg and Königsbrück

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2nd (Kgl.sächs.) Infanterie-Brigade Nr.46 - 46. Infantry Brigade (2nd Royal Saxon)

Brigade Headquarters: 1914 - Dresden

Subordinated units:

KGL. Sachs. Schützen (Fusilier) Regiment Prinz-Georg Nr.108 - Mušketiersky Regiment (Royal Saxon) 108

KGL. Sachs. 16th Infanterie-Regiment Nr.182 - Infantry Regiment (16th Royal Saxon) 182

Superior to the levels:

1914

3rd Army - 3 army
XII. Armeekorps (1st KGL. Sachs) - Dec. armádny Choir (1st Royal Saxon)
23rd Division (1st KGL. Sachs) - 23 Division (1st Royal Saxon)

http://en.valka.cz/viewtopic.php/t/64322

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INFANTRY REGIMENT 182 of the 23rd Division:

COMMANDERS

[Note: The 182 was with the 23rd for 1914-1915, and was apparently transferred to the 123rd in 1915, so something is wrong here.

It appears to be all the Commanders up to 1918 or 1919  for the remaining 123, 216 and 212 divisions where the 182 was placed]

 

COMMANDER FRANZ SAMUEL LUDWIG FRANKE (1914 - )

COMMANDER VON ABEKEN (May 7, 1915)

COMMANDER VON HALKETT (February 16, 1916)

COMMANDER THOMAS (September, 1916)

COMMANDER MARTINI

COMMANDER SCHULTZE

COMMANDER RÜHLEMANN

COMMANDER MAX BUNDE

COMMANDER NAÜMANN

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

Königlich Sächsisches Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 182

  • Francke
  • 07.05.1915 von Abeken
  • 16.02.1916 Freiherr von Halkett
  • September 1916 Thomas
  • Martini
  • Schultze
  • Rühlemann
  • Bunde [1918 for certain]
  • Naumann [Näumann?] [1914]

 

                
Royal Saxon Infantry Regiment No. 182
  • Francke
  • 07/05/1915 Von Abeken
  • 02/16/1916 Baron Von Halkett
  • September 1916 Thomas
  • Martini
  • Schultze
  • Rühlemann
  • Bunde [1918 for certain]
  • Naumann  [Näumann?] [1914]

 

http://www.militaerpass.net/23id.htm

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INFANTRY REGIMENT 182: PLATOON AND COMPANY LEADER AND REGIMENTS ADJUTANT

1914 - 1920

(i) HANS WOLFGANG REINHARD [11 December 1888 – 6 October 1950]

http://ww2gravestone.com/people/reinhard-hans-wolfgang/

LIEUTENANT HANS WOLFGANG REINHARD [11 December 1888 – 6 October 1950]

  • 01.10.1912 Bataillons-Adjutant im Kgl. Sächs. 16. Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 182, Freiberg

    • Battalion adjutant in the Royal. Saxon. 16 Infantry Regiment No. 182, Freiberg

  • 22.06.1914 mit dem 01.10.1914 kommandiert zur Kriegsakamie (infolge Mobilmachung später aufgehoben)

    • commanded the Military Academy (later overturned due to mobilization)

  • 12.12.1914 Kompanie-Führer im Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 182

    • Company leader in the Infantry Regiment No. 182

  • 15.02.1915 Bataillons-Adjutant im Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 182

    • Battalion adjutant in the Infantry Regiment No. 182

  • 27.09.1915 verwundet

    • wounded

  • 28.11.1915 Kompanie-Führer im Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 182

    • Company leader in the Infantry Regiment No. 182

  • 02.11.1916 Führer des II. Bataillons des Infanterie-Regiments Nr. 182

    • Leader of the Second Battalion of Infantry Regiment No. 182

  • 15.10.1917 im Generalstab der 19. Ersatz-Division

    • the General Staff of the 19th Replacement Division

  • 17.03.1919 Kompanie-Führer in einer Grenzjäger-Abteilung der Freiwillligen Grenzjäger-Brigade 2 im Bereich des Generalkommandos XII. Armeekorps, Dresden (Freistaat Sachsen)

  • Reinhard, Hans Wolfgang, born 11-12-1888 in Hohenstein Ernsttal, four months before Adolf Hitler, joined the Army Service age 19, on 30-03-1908 as Fahnenjunker in the Kaiserliche Armee, with the Königlich Sächsisches 8. Infanterie-Regiment “Prinz Johann Georg” Nr. 107. Promoted to Lieutenant on 20-08-1907 and was in the fields of the first war as an Oberleutnant with the 182nd Königlich Sachsische Infantry Regiment. He was awarded with both the Iron Crosses [WWI and WW2] ...

  • Iron Cross (1914), 2nd Class, 1st Class

(ii) RICHARD HEIDRICH

https://de.allbuch.online/wiki/Heidrich,_Richard
(1 October 1916-15 May 1920: Platoon and Company Leader in the Royal Saxon 16. Infanterie-Regiment Nr.182.)

http://www.geocities.com/~orion47/WEHRMACHT/LUFTWAFFE/
General/HEIDRICH_RICHARD.html

  • Am 1. Oktober 1916 kam er zum königlich-sächsischen 16. Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 182, wo er zuerst Zugführer wurde, dann Kompanieführer und zuletzt war er Regiments-Adjutant. Bei Kriegsende war er Leutnant und wurde 1920 Zugführer im Reichswehr-Infanterie-Regiment 24 ...)
    (On 1 October 1916 he joined the Royal Saxon 16th Infantry Regiment 182, where he was first platoon leader, company commander and then finally he was regimental adjutant. When the war ended he was a lieutenant and platoon leader in 1920 in the Reichswehr Infantry Regiment 24 ...)

http://www.lexikon-der-wehrmacht.de/Personenregister/HeidrichR.htm

  • Am 1. Oktober 1916 wurde er dann zum 16. Königlich Sächsisches Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 182 versetzt, wo er zuerst als Zugführer eingesetzt wurde. Hier war er bis zum Kriegsende im Westen und im Osten als Zug- und MGK-Kompanieführer sowie schließlich als Regimentsadjutant eingesetzt. Bedingt durch An der Somme wurde er 1914 verwundet. 1918 kehrte Richard Heidrich im November hoch ausgezeichnet in die Heimat zurück. Als Freikorps 1919 ging Heidrich mit nach Litauen und wurde dann 1920 in die Reichswehr übernommen.
     

    • (On 1 October 1916, he became the 16th Royal Saxon Infantry Regiment No. 182 put, where he was first employed as train drivers. Here he was employed until the end of war in the west and east as train and MGK [Machine Gun Company]-company commander, and finally as a regimental adjutant. Due to the Somme he was wounded 1914th. 1918 Richard Heidrich came back in November awarded high into the home. As a volunteer corps in 1919 after Heidrich went to Lithuania and then was taken in 1920 in the Army.

http://de.metapedia.org/wiki/Heidrich,_Richard

  • als solcher wurde er zu dem in Freiberg beheimateten Königlich-Sächsischen 16. Infanterieregiment Nr. 182 versetzt und tat hier bis zum Kriegsende im Westen und im Osten als Zug- und MGK-Kompanieführer sowie schließlich als Regimentsadjutant Dienst.
    An der Somme wurde er verwundet und kehrte im November 1918 hoch ausgezeichnet in die Heimat zurück. 1919 ging Heidrich mit einem Freikorps nach Litauen und wurde dann 1920 in die Reichswehr übernommen, wo das 10. (Sächsische) Infanterieregiment für das nächste Jahrzehnt seine soldatische Heimat wurde.
     

    • (as such, he was based in Freiberg to the Royal Saxon 16th Infantry Regiment 182 was added and did this until the end of war in the west and east as train and MGK [ [Machine Gun Company]-company commander, and finally as a regimental adjutant service.
      On the Somme he was wounded and returned in November 1918 awarded back up into the home. Heidrich in 1919 went with a volunteer corps to Lithuania in 1920 and was then transferred to the Army, where the 10th (Saxon) Infantry Regiment for the next decade was his soldier home.)

http://www.ritterkreuztraeger-1939-45.de/Luftwaffe/H/Heidrich-Richard.htm

  • Im Ersten Weltkrieg war er zunächst als Zug-, später als Kompanieführer tätig, zuletzt als Regiments-Adjutant im 16. Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 182 (Freiberg). Nach Kriegsende schloss er sich einem Freikorps in Litauen an und wurde 1920 in die Reichswehr übernommen.
     

    • (During World War I he worked as train, later as company commander, most recently as regimental adjutant in the 16th Infantry Regiment 182 (Freiberg). After the war he joined a volunteer corps in Lithuania and was incorporated in 1920 in the Army)

http://de-de.facebook.com/pages/Richard-Heidrich/108116355876402

 RICHARD HEIDRICH
(1 October 1916-15 May 1920: Platoon and Company Leader in the Royal Saxon 16. Infanterie-Regiment Nr.182.)

1916-1920

PROMOTIONS

  • War Volunteer: 18 August 1914

  • Gefreiter: 17 November 1914

  • Unteroffizier: 18 May 1915

  • Fähnrich: 14 July 1915

  • Leutnant: 20 August 1915 – Patent 17 December 1915, later established at 1 September 1915

COMMANDS AND ASSIGNMENTS

  • 18 August 1914-10 April 1915: Entered the Army as a War Volunteer in Reserve Infantry Regiment 101.

  • 11 April 1915-30 September 1916: Transferred to the Royal Saxon 3. Infanterie-Regiment König Ludwig III von Bayern Nr.102.

  • 1 October 1916-15 May 1920: Platoon and Company Leader in the Royal Saxon 16. Infanterie-Regiment Nr.182.

  • 16 May 1920-30 September 1920: Platoon Leader in Reichswehr Border Jäger Regiment 24 of Reichswehr-Brigade 12.

  • 1 October 1920-26 August 1924: Platoon Leader in the 10th (Saxon) Infantry Regiment upon the formation of the new Reichsheer from the Übergangsheer or Transitional Army.

  • Richard Heidrich trat am 18. August 1914 als Kriegsfreiwilliger in das Reserve-Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 101 ein. Im April 1915 kam er zum 3. Königlich Sächsisches Infanterie-Regiment "König Ludwig III von Bayern" Nr. 102 an die Front. Bei diesem wurde er am 20. August 1915 zum Leutnant befördert. Am 1. Oktober 1916 wurde er dann zum 16. Königlich Sächsisches Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 182, wo er zuerst als Zugführer eingesetzt wurde. Später wurde er dann in seinem Regiment auch als Kompanieführer und zuletzt als Regimentsadjutant eingesetzt. Im 1. Weltkrieg wurde er nicht nur verwundet, was sich in der Verleihung des Verwundetenabzeichens in Schwarz widerspiegelte. Im Ersten Weltkrieg wurden ihm neben beiden Eisernen Kreuzen auch noch andere sächsische Auszeichnungen verliehen. Bei Kriegsende war er noch immer Leutnant und wurde dann als solcher auch in das Reichsheer übernommen. Sein Rangdienstalter wurde dabei auf den 1. September 1915 festgelegt. Beim 200.000 Mann-Übergangsheer im Frühjahr 1920 wurde er dann als Zugführer in der Minenwerfer-Kompanie vom Reichswehr-Infanterie-Regiment 24 eingesetzt. Bei der Bildung des 100.000 Mann-Heeres der Reichswehr wurde er dann als solcher in die 13 ...

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OTHER

HELMUT BERNHARD FRANZ BECHLER

  • Helmut Bernhard Franz Bechler wurde am 02.06.1898 in Grün im Vogtland/Sachsen geboren und trat am 10.06.1915, als Fahnenjunker, dem I. Ersatz-Bataillon des Kgl. Sächs. 16. Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 182 in Freiberg/Sachsen bei. Mit Ende der Ausbildung wir Bechler am 24.11.1915 zur 8. Kompanie ins Feld versetzt, nachdem er vor zu einem Einjährigen-Kur und zu einem Fahnenjunker-Kurs nach Döberitz kommandiert wurde. Bei den Kämpfen an der Westfront, am 11.07.1916 verwundet, wird er nach seiner Wiederkehr an die Front, am 21.12.1916 Ordonnanz-Offizier beim Stab des II. Bataillons des Infanterie-Regiments 182, nachdem er während seines Lazarettsaufenthalts am 21.10.1916 zum Leutnant befördert wurde ....

  • Helmut Bechler
     

    • Entered Army Service (10 Jun 1915)
      Famenjunker in the 16th Royal Saxon 182nd Infantry-Regiment (10 Jun 1915-11 Jul 1916)
      Detached to Fahnenjunker-Course at Dbberitz (01 Sep 1915-06 Nov 1915)
      Wounded, in Hospital (11 Jul 1916-21 Dec 1916)
      Ordinance-Officer with the Staff of the 11. Battalion of the 182nd Infantry-Regiment (21 Dec 1916-14 Mar 1918)
      Platoon-Leader and Signals-Officer in the 11. Battalion of the 182nd Infantry-Regiment (14 Mar 1918-04 Dec 1918)
      At the same time, was Company-Leader in the 182nd Infantry-Regiment (06 Aug 1918-14 Aug 1918)
      Adjutant of the 1. Battalion of the 182nd Infantry-Regiment (04 Dec 1918-19 Feb 1919)
      Granted Leave for Studies at Berlin (19 Feb 1919-27 Mar 1919)
      Platoon-Leader and Temporary-Adjutant of the I. Battalion in the Assault-Infantry-Regiment of the Guards-Cavalry-Rifle-Division (27 Mar 1919-21 Jun
      1919)
      Company-Leader in the 56th Reichswehr-Infantry-Regiment (21 Jun 1919-10 Dec 1919)
      Adjutant of the 11. Battalion of the 20th Infantry-Regiment (10 Dec 1919-01 Mar 1920)
      Ordinance-Officer with the Staff of the III. Battalion of the 37th Infantry-Regiment (01 Mar 1920-01 Oct 1920)
      Transferred into the 24th Infantry-Regiment (01 Oct 1920-31 Dec 1920)

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HIS ATTACHED JÄGER  BATTALION

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1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12, COMPANY 3

Jäger Friedrich Wilhelm Krause
(By October 1, 1915 - c. December 21, 1917/February 11, 1918)

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Das Königlich Sächsische 1. Jäger Bataillon Nr. 12

ROLL OF HONOUR: MEMORY OF OUR FALLEN SOLDIERS - 1914 - 1919

COMPANY 3

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1914

  • The army of the Kingdom of Saxony added two Jäger battalions, which were included in the Imperial German Army order of battle as Kgl. Sächsisches 1. Jäger-Bataillon Nr. 12 and Kgl. Sächsisches 2. Jäger-Bataillon Nr. 13. The Saxon Jäger had a number of dress distinctions - notably tunics of a darker green than the Prussian colour, black facings instead of red and a black buffalo-hair plume buckled to the side of the shako. .....

    On mobilization in August 1914, each of these Prussian, Saxon and Bavarian Jäger battalions raised a reserve Jäger battalion. In September 1914, an additional 12 reserve Jäger battalions were raised (10 Prussian and 2 Saxon). In May 1915, the German Army began joining the Jäger battalions to form Jäger regiments, and in late 1917, the Deutsche Jäger-Division was formed.

    During the early stages of the First World War the German Jäger maintained their traditional role as skirmishers and scouts, often in conjunction with cavalry units. With the advent of trench warfare they were committed to an ordinary infantry role, integrated into divisions and losing their status as independent units. Cyclist Jäger served in the Balkan and Russian theatres of war while Wurttemberg and Bavaria raised Ski-Jäger during the winter of 1914-15. Another specialist formation was the Jäger Storm Companies, serving as trench raiders during 1917-1918.

    http://www.digplanet.com/wiki/J%C3%A4ger_%28military%29

     

  • In 1914, the Jaeger battalions had a very important role when attached to the cavalry. A German cavalry unit would normally send out mounted patrols of varying sizes to contact the enemy. Once contact was made, an assessment would be made as the nature of the enemy forces. If it was deemed appropriate to attack, the Jaegers would be pushed forward to pin the attacker in front. Mounted units would then be free to work their way round the flanks. Sordet, the French cavalry corps commander, complained about how difficult it was to get at the German cavalry. Typically the patrols would melt away and the French cavalry would find themselves coming up against the Jaegers, with their accurate rifle fire and machine guns.

    In retreat, the Jaegers would feature in rear guard actions. They would fall back behind a thin screen of mounted troopers. If a delaying action was needed, the Jaegers would occupy a defensive feature/s such as buildings on the far side of a river crossing or a wood/village on a forward slope. Typically, some field guns of the cavalry would be located in support, such as on a ridge further back. The troopers would be allowed to fall back through the Jaegers, who would then open fire on the approaching cavalry/infantry advance guards. There are numerous instances of this occurring in the retreat to the Aisne.

    From the outset of the war, trucks/lorries would sometimes be used to facilitate the forward or rearward movements of the Jaegers.

    Königliches Sächsisches 1. Jäger-Bataillon Nr.12

    By Krätzer in Dresden. Unused, but marked 1915 on the back.

    • Unit: Königliches Sächsisches 1. Jäger-Bataillon Nr.12

    • Rank: Jäger equivalent of a Gefreiter

    • Headwear: Distincitve Saxon Tschako with black horse-hair plume. The Wappen is a gilt Sachsen Wappen on Silver Horn and Star.

    • Tunic: Dark green pre-war (Jäger) tunic with Saxon cuffs, shoulder straps are marked with a horn above 12.

    • Awards: Iron Cross

    • Buckle: Saxon “PROVIDENTIAE MEMOR”

    • Armament: Private purchase hunting knife for use as trench knife.

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/paranoid_womb/7791611250/

KÖNIGLICHES SACHSISCHES 1. JAGER-BATAILLON NR. 12:

Bataillonskommandeur

Dienstgrad Name Datum
Oberstleutnant von Kiesenwetter  ??? bis 1. August 1914
Major von Carlowitz 2. August 1914 bis 19. Oktober 1915
Hauptmann von Einsiedel 20. Oktober 1915 bis 8. November 1916
Hauptmann von der Pforte 9. November 1916 bis 8. April 1917
Major Hassel 9. April 1917 bis 24. Juli 1918
Major von Kracht 25. Juli 1918 bis 21. September 1918

 

Dienstgrad Name Datum
Generaloberst Freiherr von Hausen ab 1906

  • Maximillian von Kracht: Das Kgl. Sächs. 1. Jäger-Bataillon Nr. 12
     

  • [Max Clemens Lothar Freiherr von Hausen - Für seine Verdienste wurde Hausen vielfach geehrt. So stand er à la suite des 1. Jäger-Bataillons Nr. 12 in Freiberg und war unter anderem Träger des Hausordens der Rautenkrone, Ritter des Schwarzen Adlerordens sowie des Roten Adlerordens mit der Kette - http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_von_Hausen ]
     

  • 12th Royal Saxon Jäger Battalion
    The Königlich Sächsisches 1. Jäger-Batallion Nr.12     was formed in was formed in 1809 as part of the the Saxon contingent of the Confederation of the Rhine and as such took part in the Invasion of Russia in 1812. They fought against Prussia in the Austro-Prussian War at Königgrätz and alongside Prussia the Franco-Prussian War (notably at the Battles of Gravelotte-St.Privat and Sedan and the Siege of Paris).

    In 1914 they were garrisoned at Freiburg and formed part of the XII Army Corps. During the First World War they served on the Western Front at the Battles of the Marne, the Somme and the Spring Offensive of 1918. [The 1918 Spring Offensive or Kaiserschlacht (Kaiser's Battle), also known as the Ludendorff Offensive, was a series of German attacks along the Western Front during World War I, beginning on 21 March 1918 ..http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spring_Offensive ]
     

1914 - 1918

KÖNIGLICHES SACHSISCHES 1. JAGER-BATAILLON NR. 12

Jäger Regiment No.10 (12th Jäger Battalion, 13th Reserve Jäger Battalion)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_J%C3%A4ger_units

1914

OCTOBER 16 - 31

THE BATTLE OF THE YSER

Crisp shot of a soldier of the Royal Saxon Jäger Battalion Nr. 12,
engaged in bitter warfare over the Yser canal
  https://www.flickriver.com/photos/paranoid_womb/tags/j%C3%A4ger/

1916

JANUARY 17

Ausmarschbild / Kgl. Sächs. Reserve-Jäger-Bataillon Nr. 12

Letter on reverse (below) authored in "Westen" (Western Front) on 17.1.1916
and addressed to the sender's brother Soldat Johannes Schöne,
serving with 1. Batl. of the 3. Kompanie of 4. Infanterie-Regiment Nr.103,
12 Armee-Korps, 32. Division. Soldaten-Brief: Res.-Jäger-Batl. 12.
Postage cancelled a day later (23. Reserve Division). Photogr. Max Seifert, Freiberg i. Sa.

Having just completed basic training, these fellows will soon be
departing for the Western Front where in July,
they will take part in the Battle of the Somme.

Notes:

Kgl. Sächs. Reserve-Jäger-Bataillon Nr. 12
Aufgestellt in Freiberg v. Jg.-Btl.Nr. 12
Unterstellung:23. Res.Div.
Kommandeur:Major v. Einsiedel (s. Jg.-Btl.Nr. 12)

https://www.flickr.com/photos/drakegoodman/8105014416/in/photostream/

MAY

Interesting study of German uniforms,
Salle de lecture Librairie at Marle near Vervins, May 1916. Photograph from a soldier of the
Jäger - Bataillon Nr. 12 (Saxon).

https://twitter.com/foxton44/status/1276590537743761408/photo/1

Chasseurs saxons Collection privée

http://www.sambre-marne-yser.be/article.php3?id_article=21

JULY - OCTOBER

  • Later, in the period  from July to October 1916; Jäger Regiments 4-10 joined together ....

    • Imperial German Army, 1914-18: Organisation, Structure, Orders of Battle By Hermann Cron. p. 117 - books.google.ca/books?isbn=1874622299 

1917


 SEPTEMBER 14

Jäger-Division

  • Jäger-Division (Deutsches Kaiserreich) .... Die Division wurde während des Ersten Weltkriegs am 14. September 1917 gebildet und während des Kriegsverlaufs zunächst an der Italien-, dann an der Westfront eingesetzt. Nach dem Waffenstillstand von Compiègne kehrten die Reste der Division in die Heimat zurück, wo sie am 14. Dezember 1918 in Berlin aufgelöst wurden.  [The division was formed during World War I on September 14, 1917 and then used during the course of the war, first in the Italy- on the Western Front]

Credit:
WWI German field kitchen of Saxon Jager Battalion No.12 in the Macedonian mountains, 1914-18 (b/w photo),
German Photographer (20th Century) / Private Collection / Peter Newark Pictures / The Bridgeman Art Library

http://www.bridgemanart.com/en-GB/search/keyword/field+kitchen

  • Most Jager battalions, by 1917, were consolidated into Jager Regiments, then allocated to specific divisions ...

  • 302 Division
    Macedonian Front.
    Jager Regiment 10 --Garde Jager Btn, 9 Jager Btn, 12 Res Jager Btn

  • Jager Regiment 9
    Vosges 1918--Garde Schutzen Btn, 12 Jager Btn, 13 Res Jager Btn

1918

MAY
 

  • and as the last installment Jäger Regiments 11-14 in May 1918 ...

    • Imperial German Army, 1914-18: Organisation, Structure, Orders of Battle By Hermann Cron. p. 117 - books.google.ca/books?isbn=1874622299

POST WW1

 

MILITÄR: 10 Mark, Porzellan-Medaille. SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER-BATAILLON 12, DRESDEN.

"Very interesting brown porcelain medal related to WWI. The medal was produced to commemorate the killed soldiers of Jaeger-Bataillon 12. "

http://www.ebay.de/itm/MILITAR-10-Mark-Porzellan-Medaille-SACHSISCHES-
JAGER-BATAILLON-12-DRESDEN-/282033063391?hash=
item41aa7b05df:g:KAgAAOSwP~tW1xJB

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SOME JAGER BATAILLON UNIFORM DETAILS

Sachsen Jäger Bataillon 12 Feldpost 1916

http://www.zkauf.de/7791a-sachsen-j%C3%A4ger-
bataillon-12-feldpost-1916-e180881618809.html

1. Kgl. Sähs. Jäger-Bataillion Nr. 12

... the typically Saxon habit of rolling the trouser legs over
the boot tops and a likewise typically casual attitude to his uniform and equipment ...

Andrew Lucas, Jurgen Schmieschek, Fighting the Kaiser's War: The Saxons in Flanders 1914-1918, p. 15 - Introduction - https://books.google.ca/books?isbn=1473848008

1923

Historische Zeitreise durch das sächsische Freiberg u. Umgebung

https://www.facebook.com/
Historische-Zeitreise-durch-das-s%C3%A4chsische-Freiberg-u-Umgebung-364737050389542/videos/169732384319953

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KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES 16 REGIMENT 182 DETAILS

23 DIVISION / 123 DIVISION / 216 DIVISION / 212 DIVISION

AND

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12

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1914 - 1919

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According to 251 Division book IR182 was in:

23 Division in 1914-1915 Belgium/Marne/Aisne [12th Army Corps]
123 Division in 1915 Champagne/Artois/Flanders/Somme
216 Division in 1916 Galicia-Transylvania/Roumania
212 Division in 1917-1918 Roumania/Ukraine

http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=24278 and http://www.1914-18.info/
http://www.wehrmacht-awards.com/forums/showthread.php?t=180853

See 23 Division - Western Front for Background Information
See 123 Division - Western Front for Background Information
See 216 Division (Independent Division) - Eastern Front for Background Information
 See 212 Division (Independent Division) - Eastern Front for Background Information

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WESTERN FRONT

KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES 16 REGIMENT 182
AND
1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12
 ON THE WESTERN FRONT: 1914 - 1916

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1914 - 1916

Infanterie-Regiment Nr.182
Königlich Sächsisches 16. Infanterie-Regiment Nr.182
 (46.Inf.-Brig./23.Inf.-Div./XII. Armeek./3.Armee)
(Standort: Freiberg)
Kommandeur: Oberst Francke

According to 251 Division book IR182 was in:

23 Division in 1914-1915 Belgium/Marne/Aisne
123 Division in 1915 Champagne/Artois/Flanders/Somme

http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=24278 and http://www.1914-18.info/

Belgium/Marne/Aisne (1914-1915) and Champagne/Artois/Flanders/Somme (1915)

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INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

AUGUST 2, 1914 - MARCH 31, 1915:
2. (kgl.sächs.) Infanterie-Brigade Nr.46 / 1. kgl.sächs. Division Nr.23

wiki-de.genealogy.net/IR_182

AND

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12

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AUGUST 9, 1914 - APRIL, 1915

23d DIVISION (1914 - 1915)

(STANDING DIVISION)

3 ARMY, XII ARMY CORPS (I ROYAL SAXON), 23 (I ROYAL SAXON) INFANTRY DIVISION
46 INFANTRY BRIGADE, 16 ROYAL SAXON, 182 INFANTRY REGIMENT

Histories of Two Hundred and Fifty-One Divisions of the German Army which Participated in the War (1914-1918), pp. 333-335  - https://archive.org/stream/historiesoftwohu00unit#page/n5/mode/2up

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AUGUST 9 - 11, 1914

23 INFANTRY DIVISION

GERMANY

EIFEL, NORTH OF TREVES [TRIER]

  • 1. The 23rd Division, on mobilization, was a part of the 12th Army Corps with the 32d Division (2d Army,Von Hausen). It detrained on August 9-11, 1914, at Eifel, north of Treves ....

Histories of Two Hundred and Fifty-One Divisions of the German Army which Participated in the War (1914-1918), pp. 333-336. http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924027835317 - https://archive.org/stream/historiesoftwohu00unit#page/n5/mode/2up

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AUGUST 12, 1914

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12

AUFFE

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF OCTOBER 10, 1914

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12, Freiberg

  • AUFFE [Belgium], 12 AUGUST, 1914

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/254308  - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 10, 1914, Page 1111, Edition 93

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AUGUST 23, 1914 - JANUARY 27, 1915

23 INFANTRY DIVISION

23. INFANTERIE-DIVISION (Sächsisch)

SUMMARY

Calendar of Battles and Engagements

  23. Infanterie-Division (S.) (Westfront)
23.08.–24.08.1914

 

 Schlacht bei Dinant

[AUGUST 23, 1914 - AUGUST 24, 1914: Battle of Dinant]
23.08.1914

 

 Dinant und Les Rivages

[AUGUST 23, 1914: Dinant and Rivages]
24.08.–27.08.1914

 

 Eingreifen der 3. Armee in den Kampf der 2. Armee bei Namur in Richtung Mettet-Philippeville und anschließende Verfolgung in südwestlicher und südlicher Richtung bis an die Sormonne

[AUGUST 24, 1914 - AUGUST 27, 1914: Intervention of third Army in the battle of the second Army at Namur towards Mettet-Philippe Ville and subsequent persecution in a southwesterly and southerly direction up to the Sormonne]
24.08.1914 Rosée; Onhaye

[AUGUST 24, 1914: Rosée; Onhaye]
25.08.1914 Villers en Fagne, Fagnolie, Nismes

[AUGUST 25, 1914: Villers en Fagne, Fagnolie, Nismes]
26.08.1914 Rocroi, Rimogne, La Tremblois

[AUGUST 26, 1914: Rocroi, Rimogne, La Tremblois]
27.08.–30.08.1914 Schlacht an der Maas und Verfolgung bis an die Aisne

[AUGUST 27, 1914 - AUGUST 30, 1914: Battle of the Meuse and tracking up to the Aisne]
27.08.1914 La Tremblois, Blombay, l'Echelle

[AUGUST 27, 1914: La Tremblois, Blombay, l'Echelle]
29.08.1914 Vieil-St. Remy, Novion-Porcien

[AUGUST 29, 1914: Vieil-St. Remy, Novion-Porcien]
30.08.1914 Rethel und Bertoncourt

[AUGUST 30, 1914: Rethel und Bertoncourt]
31.08.–05.09.1914 Schlacht an der Aisne und Verfolgung bis über die Marne

[AUGUST 31, 1914 - SEPTEMBER 5, 1914: Battle of the Aisne and tracking to over the Marne]
31.08.1914 Biermes, Ménil-Annelles

[AUGUST 31, 1914: Biermes, Ménil-Annelles]
01.09.1914 Annelles, Ménil-Annelles, Pauvres

[SEPTEMBER 1, 1914: Annelles, Ménil-Annelles, Pauvres]
02.09.–03.09.1914 Moronvilliers (Abteilung Franke der 23. Infanterie-Division)

[SEPTEMBER 2, 1914 - SEPTEMBER 3, 1914: Moronvilliers (Department Franke of the 23th Infantry Division)]
03.09.1914 Mourmelon (Abteilung Arnim der 23. Infanterie-Division)

[SEPTEMBER 3, 1914:Mourmelon (Department Arnim of the 23th Infantry Division)]
03.09.–04.09.1914 Livry

[SEPTEMBER 3, 1914 - SEPTEMBER 4, 1914: Livry]
06.09.–11.09.1914 Schlacht an der Marne

[SEPTEMBER 6, 1914 - SEPTEMBER 11, 1914: Battle of the Marne]
06.09.–10.09.1914 Maisons en Champagne westlich Vitry le François

[SEPTEMBER 9, 1914 - SEPTEMBER 10, 1914:Maisons en Champagne westlich Vitry le François
15.09.1914–28.08.1916 [sic 1914] Kämpfe an der Aisne

[SEPTEMBER 15, 1914 - SEPTEMBER 28, 1914:Fighting on the Aisne]
15.09.–22.09.1914 Schlacht bei Juvincourt

[SEPTEMBER 15, 1914 - SEPTEMBER 22, 1914: Battle of Juvincourt]
17.09.1914 Eroberung von La Ville aux Bois

[SEPTEMBER 17, 1914: Conquest of La Ville aux Bois]
25.01.–27.01.1915 Gefecht bei Hurtebise

[JANUARY 25, 1915 - JANUARY 27, 1915: Battle of Hurtebise]

http://www.militaerpass.net/23id.htm -
German infantry divisions 1914–1918 at http://www.militaerpass.net/inf_div.htm

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XII CORPS

23 INFANTRY DIVISION

KÖNIGLICHES SÄCHSISCHES 1. JAGER-BATAILLON NR. 12

Sächsische Armee

1. Königlich Sächsisches Jäger-Bataillon Nr. 12 (Freiberg) - XII. (I. Königlich Sächsisches) Armee-Korps
Reserve-Jäger-Bataillon Nr. 12 (Freiberg)

2. Königlich Sächsisches Jäger-Bataillon '''Nr. 13''' (Dresden) - XIX. (II. Königlich Sächsisches) Armee-Korps
Reserve-Jäger-Bataillon Nr. 13 (Dresden)
Königlich Sächsisches Reserve-Jäger-Bataillon Nr. 25 (Dresden) 53. Reserve-Division (3. Königlich Sächsische) XXVII. Reserve-Korps
Reserve-Jäger-Bataillon Nr. 26 (Freiberg) 54. (Württembergische) Reserve-Division
mit Maschinengewehr-Abteilung 9

http://diejaeger1860-1918.npage.de/liste-deutscher-jaegerbataillone-vor-1918.html

(I)

BELGIUM

(August 15, 1914 - August 26, 1914)

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AUGUST 15, 1914

BATTLE OF DINANT

 XIX. Armeekorps

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1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12

Der erste Kampfeinsatz im Weltkrieg war die Schlacht um Dinant am 15. August 1914. Gemeinsam mit seinem Schwesterbataillon (Jäger-Bataillon Nr. 13) und zwei Batterien der Reitenden Abteilung des 5. Feldartillerie-Regiments Nr. 5 wurde dem Bataillon die Einnahme des Ortes zugeteilt. Nachdem die Bataillone den Ort eingenommen hatten, mussten sie ihn wieder aufgeben, denn die Franzosen griffen den Ort mit einem kompletten Regiment an. Nach der Unterstellung unter das XIX. Armeekorps wurde das Bataillon zur Absicherung des Vormarsches Richtung Marne verwandt, in der Hauptsache als Vorauskommando und Vorhut ....

  • The first combat mission in World War II was the Battle of Dinant on 15 August 1914. Together with its sister battalion ( hunter Battalion No. 13) and two batteries of the riding ends of the 5th Division Field Artillery Regiment No. 5 was assigned to the battalion taking the place. After the battalions had taken the place they had to give it back, because the French attacked the place with a full regiment. After the applicability of the XIX . Army Corps battalion to secure the advance direction of Marne was used mainly as an advance party and advance guard ....

23 INFANTRY DIVISION

  • 23d Division ... Composition ... 1914 ... Infantry ... Brigade ... 46 ... Regiment ... 182 ...

  • 23d Division ... Composition ... 1914 ... Infantry ... 12 Jag. Btn. ...

  • 23d Division ... Composition ... 1915 ... Infantry ... Brigade ... 46 ... Regiment ... 182 ...
         [Note: In 1915, Jäger 12 is not identified as attached to Division 23]

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AUGUST 15, 1914

Combat de Dinant

J. Bts nr 12
[Kgl. Sächsisches 1. Jäger-Bataillon Nr. 12]

[Note  I. Ersatz-Bataillon des  Königliches Sächsisches 16. Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 182, Freiberg,
to which Nr. 12 is attached, will attack Dinant on August 23, 1914]

  • Forces en présence

    Du côté français :
    - 148e R.I.
    - 3e bataillon du 33e R.I.
    - 8e R.I. (qui interviendra par la suite)
    - 73e R.I.(qui appuiera le 8e R.I.)

    Du côté allemand :
    - 12e bataillon de chasseurs de Freyberg.
    - 11e bataillon des Garde-Schützen.
    - 13e bataillon des Garde-Jäger ...
     

  • Le 15 août a lieu une tentative sérieuse. Deux divisions de cavalerie, la 5e et celle de la Garde, appuyées par plusieurs bataillons dont les 12e et 13e bataillons de chasseurs se présentent face à Dinant. Il y a dans cette ville deux compagnies du 148e.Un bataillon du 33e et une section de mitrailleuses occupent la citadelle sur la rive droite. Des éléments de la 2e division (général Deligny), sont établis sur la rive gauche ...

  • On 15 August 1914, German troops captured the Citadel of Dinant overlooking the town until it was recaptured by a French counter-attack during the afternoon. French troops spent the next few days fortifying the Meuse crossings and exchanging fire with German troops on the east bank ...

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AUGUST 15, 1914

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12, COMPANY 3

DINANT

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12, Company 3, Freiberg - Action and Deaths

AUGUST 18, 1914

BELGIUM

  • BELGIUM.
     

  • 1. .... and entered Belgium on the 18th by the north of Luxemburg ...

Histories of Two Hundred and Fifty-One Divisions of the German Army which Participated in the War (1914-1918), pp. 333-336. http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924027835317 - https://archive.org/stream/historiesoftwohu00unit#page/n5/mode/2up

AUGUST 20

1. JAGER-BATAILLON NR. 12

L'INVASION ALLEMANDE DANS LES PROVINCES
DE NAMUR ET DE LUXEMBOURG, 1921, LE COMBAT DE DINANT, p. 13

https://bel-memorial.org/books/04_quatrieme_partie_partie_1.pdf

AUGUST 21/22

  • A German raiding-party drove into Dinant on the night of 21/22 August but the attack degenerated into a fiasco, in which Germans may have fired at each other. Rather than assume that the small-arms fire had come from the French on the west bank, the Germans blamed Belgian civilians, killing seven and burning down 15–20 houses in reprisal. The raiders ran away, with 19 dead and 117 wounded ...

  • Night raid, 21/22 August A German raiding party mounted in motor vehicles attacked Dinant in the night of 21/22 August. German infantry and pioneers advanced from Ciney along the central road into Dinant, killed seven civilians and burned 15–20 houses. Members of the reconnaissance force claimed later that civilians had attacked them and civilians thought that it had been an attack by drunken soldiers.[2] A German soldier wrote later that they had been ordered to ... kill everyone and wipe off the map one part on the left bank [sic] of the Meuse!!! It was a tremendously (kolossal) honourable task and if successful, it would be famous for all time. — Private Kurt Rasch[2].

The party moved along rue Saint-Jacques in the dark and threw a hand grenade into a café, at which gunfire was opened; the party panicked and ran off, leaving 19 dead and 117 wounded. The foremost troops had reached the Meuse, where they were fired on from all sides; in the panic, Germans may have shot at each other but claimed later that revolvers and shotguns had been used by civilians (no survivors admitted to taking up arms). French soldiers held the bridge over the Meuse and had patrols in the town, which may have engaged the Germans in the rue Saint-Jacques and probably fired on the Germans at the river. In the aftermath the Germans took Dinant to be full of hostile civilians.[2] ...

  • Fires set by the Germans on the night raid of 21/22 August, provoked the flight of 2,500 inhabitants the next day ...

https://howlingpixel.com/wiki/Battle_of_Dinant

AUGUST 23, 1914

DINANT

2. It went into action on August 23 at Dinant ...

Histories of Two Hundred and Fifty-One Divisions of the German Army which Participated in the War (1914-1918), pp. 333-336. http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924027835317 - https://archive.org/stream/historiesoftwohu00unit#page/n5/mode/2up

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AUGUST 23, 1914 - AUGUST 24, 1914

23 INFANTRY DIVISION

23. INFANTERIE-DIVISION (Sächsisch)

BATTLE OF DINANT

23.08.–24.08.1914 Schlacht bei Dinant

[AUGUST 23, 1914 - AUGUST 24, 1914: Battle of Dinant]

 
23.08.1914 Dinant und Les Rivages

[AUGUST 23, 1914: Dinant and Rivages]

 

http://www.militaerpass.net/23id.htm -
German infantry divisions 1914–1918 at http://www.militaerpass.net/inf_div.htm

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GENERAL KARL LUCIUS

  • General Karl Lucius served Imperial Germany during the Great War as commander of a Royal Saxon Infantry Division. He replaced General Adolph von Carlowitz as commanding general the the Saxon XIXth Army Corps for the final three months prior to Armistice ...

02.08.1914 45. Infanterie-Brigade
20.03.1915 123. Infanterie-Division
21.05.1917 Generalleutnant
09.08.1918 XIX. Armeekorps (replaced Adolph von Carlowitz)

XII CORPS

23 INFANTRY DIVISION

46TH BRIGADE

KÖNIGLICHES SÄCHSISCHES 16. INFANTERIE-REGIMENT NR. 182
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1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12

German 3rd Army Battle by Dinant 23 - 24 August 1914

XII Corps : General of Infantry d'Elsa

23rd Division : Generalleutnant Freinehrr von Lindenau

45th Brigade : Generalmajor Lucius

1/,2/,3/100th Grenadier Regiment

1/,2/,3/101st Grenadier Regiment

46th Brigade : Generalmajor von Watzdorff

1/,2/,3/108th Fusilier Regiment

1/,2/,3/182nd Infantry Regiment

Attached

12th Jäger Battalion

Cavalry :

1/,2/,4/,5/20t h Hussar Regiment

23rd Artillery Brigade : Generalmajor Zincke

1/12th Field Artillery Regiment (3 btrys, 4 - 77mm guns ea)

2/12th Field Artillery Regiment (3 btrys, 4 - 77mm guns ea)

1/48th Field Artillery Regiment (3 btrys, 4 - 77mm guns ea)

2/48th Field Artillery Regiment (3 btrys, 4 - 105mm howitzers ea)

4 Light Munition Columns

Support Troops

1st Company, 12th Pioneer Battalion

1st & 3rd Medical Companies

23rd Divisional Bridging Train

http://www.cgsc.edu/CARL/nafziger/914GHAP.pdf

AUGUST 23, 1914

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

DINANT

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF OCTOBER 23, 1914

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182, Freiberg und Barackenlager Königsbrück

  • DINANT [Belgium], 23 AUGUST, 1914 [Headquarters III Battalion]

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/447193 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 23, 1914, Page 1743, Edition 137

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/448005  - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 23, 1914, Page 1744, Edition 137

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SUNDAY, AUGUST 23, 1914

http://horizon14-18.eu/cimetiere-militaire-de-dinant.html

[Note: Attached Königliches Sächsisches 1. Jäger-Bataillon Nr.12 had attacked Dinant on August 15, 1914]

SUNDAY, AUGUST 23, 1914

  • and Infantry Regiment 182 (IR 182), accompanied by artillery moved along rue Saint Jacques into the town just north of the bridge, where they were fired on by the French. The Germans killed male civilians during the day and at 5:30 p.m., 27 men were shot by IR 108 in the rue des Tanneries. The German troops barricaded streets with furniture and soldiers from IR 182 captured a man on suspicion of firing at them, although he was unarmed and tied him to a barricade as a human shield. When German artillery mistakenly bombarded the force, the man was shot before the Germans withdrew.

  • Immediately after crossing the Belgian frontier the XII. Army Corps had difficulties with the civilian population of Belgium, which reached their climax in and around Dinant ...

On August 21st the XII. (Ist Royal Saxon) Army Corps engaged in operations before Dinant ...

On August the 23rd the left bank of the Meuse was to be taken by the XII. Corps. After preliminary artillery fire the infantry advanced in the direction of Dinant — the 32nd Infantry Division to the north, the 23rd Infantry Division to the south. On the left wing the (Guards) Grenadier Regiment No. 100 forced its way into the town, on the right of them Infantry Regiment No. 180, and in close conjunction Rifle Regiment No. 108, whilst in the Leffe valley Infantry Regiment No. 178 reached Leffe ...

The Regiments No. 108 and No. 182 had similar experiences when they, to the north of the Guards Regiment, reached Dinant. From the moment they reached the most easterly houses they came under fire. The farm of Malais was stormed by the ist Battalion of the Rifles (Fusilier) Regiment No. 108, and the whole of the francs-tireurs who made a stand there were destroyed. Fighting hotly for every house, our men pressed forward in the direction of the market, all the time expecting to be fired at by invisible foes from cellars, caves, and hill-sides. It was here that, among others. Major Lommatzsch of Infantry Regiment No. 182 was fatally wounded by the bullets of two civilians  from the windows of a house. They even fired down from the cathedral (Apps. 12, 14, 18). Already in the course of the forenoon the Commanding Officer of the 46th Brigade recognised that it was impossible, without artillery bombardment, to gain the mastery over the fanatical population ...

 [Note: Georg Lommatzsch; Death: Aug. 23, 1914, Burial: Vladslo German Military Cemetery Diksmuide West Flanders (West-Vlaanderen), Belgium, Inscription: Oberstleutnant [lieutenant colonel]  - http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Lommatzsch&GSbyrel=in&GSdyrel
=in&GSob=n&GRid=36321350&

  • On 23 August, the Germans attacked Dinant again, under the impression that the town was full of francs-tireurs and massacred 674 unarmed Belgian civilians, while fighting the French dug in along the west bank and on the east end of the bridge. The massacre was a systematic attack on assumed civilian resisters and was the largest German atrocity perpetrated during the invasion, which became known as The Rape of Belgium ...

  • Occupation and massacres, 23 August

    At 4:50 a.m. on 23 August in a thick fog, 57 German artillery batteries began to bombard Dinant. Most of the 40th Division was sent south to Givet and Fumay, thence to cross the Meuse and attack the right flank of the Fifth Army, which reduced the attack on Dinant to XII Corps.[13] The 32nd Division (Major-General Horst von der Planitz) and the 23rd Reserve Division (Major-General Alexander von Larisch) crossed the Meuse on barges and pontoons at Leffe, north of the town and the 23rd Division (Major-General Karl von Lindemann) crossed to the south at Les Rivages.[2]

    The French I Corps had been moved north-west to reinforce X Corps (General Gilbert Desforges) at Arsimont, having been relieved by the 51st Reserve Division (Général de division René Boutegourd) and two brigades of the 2nd Division.[2] Four columns of the German 46th Infantry Brigade of the 23rd Division advanced into Dinant, against a regiment of the 51st Reserve Division and (allegedly) Belgian irregulars.[14] The northern column entered Leffe and the hamlet of Devant-Bouvignes, as two columns advanced into the Dinant town centre, along rue Saint-Jacques and a road down into Faubourg Saint-Nicolas and the Place d'Armes. The southern column attacked along the Froidvau road into Les Rivages. French troops on the west bank engaged the Germans with small-arms fire and artillery; the French also held both ends of the principal Dinant bridge and some advanced posts in the town centre.[2]

    Leffe was overlooked by an abbey and a factory and as Infantry Regiment 178 (IR 178) and Infantry Regiment 103 (IR 103) advanced into the area, they thought that civilians fired on them as well as the French from Bouvignes on the west bank. Three civilians were shot at the riverbank where they had fled from the soldiers, who later admitted that they had no idea if the victims had taken up arms. The 3rd Company of IR 178 was ordered to clear Leffe of francs-tireurs, who had supposedly fired at the Germans from a saw-mill.[15] Infantry Regiment 108 (IR 108) and Infantry Regiment 182 (IR 182), accompanied by artillery moved along rue Saint Jacques into the town just north of the bridge, where they were fired on by the French. The Germans killed male civilians during the day and at 5:30 p.m., 27 men were shot by IR 108 in the rue des Tanneries. The German troops barricaded streets with furniture and soldiers from IR 182 captured a man on suspicion of firing at them, although he was unarmed and tied him to a barricade as a human shield. When German artillery mistakenly bombarded the force, the man was shot before the Germans withdrew.[16]

    The Germans set fire to houses and by late afternoon the area was on fire; in Leffe and Saint-Jacques 312 civilians had been killed by the Germans. Near the town centre, Grenadier Regiment 100 entered Faubourg Saint-Nicolas, where they were fired on by French troops. The Germans had anticipated attacks by civilians, moved forward in two columns and as they reached a door they stopped, fired through windows and threw bombs into cellars. To cross the Place d'Armes, which was visible to the French across the river, the Germans used civilians as a human shield. Dinantais forced from houses were held at an iron works and the prison in the Place d'Armes. German soldiers on high ground outside the town fired on civilians in the prison courtyard for a time. In the late afternoon, 19 men at the ironworks were shot; the rest were taken to the Place d'Armes, being made to shout, "Long live Germany! Long live the Kaiser!" along the way. Soldiers of Grenadier Regiment 100 separated 137 men, lined them up against a garden wall and shot them, on the orders of Lieutenant-Colonel von Kielmannsegg, the I Battalion commander.[17][a]

    Grenadier Regiment 101 and the 3rd Pioneer Company entered Les Rivages during the afternoon, to build a pontoon bridge over the Meuse. The right bank narrows to a defile between the escarpment and the river, with only a road and one line of dwellings. The area was particularly exposed to French fire but for an hour no resistance was encountered. Houses were searched, hostages were taken and 40 metres (44 yd) of the bridge assembled. At about 5:00 p.m. several Germans working on the bridge were shot and killed and German soldiers later claimed that the shots came from francs-tireurs on both sides of the river, while Belgian civilians said they came from the French on the west bank. Some inhabitants of Dinant cheered the success of the French and the cliffs nearby created echoes, which made it difficult to judge the direction of fire. The unusual acoustics contributed to the German belief that they were attacked from behind by civilians, as they were being engaged by the French from Bourdon on the west bank.[19]

    A local magistrate was sent across the river to warn francs-tireurs, that the hostages would be shot if the firing continued. The magistrate returned, having been shot by the Germans on the way and said that only French soldiers were firing. After more gunfire, civilians were lined up against a wall and shot. Of the 77 victims, seven were men over 70, 38 were women or girls and 15 were children under 14 (seven being babies).[20] When the Grenadiers reached the west bank, they killed 86 civilians in Neffe; 23 were found hiding under a railway viaduct, where they were shot and 43 were taken to the east bank and shot there.[21] German attacks between Houx and Dinant were repulsed but the Germans got across the Meuse at Hastierès and pushed the 51st Division reservists back 2 km (1.2 mi) to Onhaye. Boutegourd called on I Corps for reinforcements and d'Esperey ordered the corps to reverse direction. Two battalions of the 8th Infantry Brigade were in reserve with an attached cavalry regiment and d'Esperey ordered the commander, Charles Mangin to rush to Dinant. The reinforcements met the remnants of the 51st Reserve Division, made a bayonet charge towards Onhaye, on the Philippeville road and established a blocking position east of Onhaye. With the 51st Reserve Division to the north, the 8th Infantry Brigade restricted the Germans to a bridgehead from Onhaye to Anhée.[22][23][24] Next day the French I Corps arrived from the Sambre to Dinant and contained the 3rd Army in bridgeheads on the west bank of the Meuse, as the Fifth Army retreated from the Sambre–Meuse angle.[25] ...

  • On 23 August, about 674 civilians were massacred, 1,200 houses were burned down and 400 people were deported to Germany and interned until November. This massacre was the largest of "The Rape of Belgium", which was instrumental in the US involvement in the war.[26] ...

SUNDAY, AUGUST 23, 1914

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

DINANT

FIRST CLASS PRIVATE JOHANN GEORG SÄRING

NÄUMANN

SCHWARZBACH

  • My name is Johann Georg Säring, I am 22 years old, a Lutheran, locksmith by trade, and a first class private in the twelfth company of Infantry Regiment No. 182.

On Sunday, August 23, 1914, at Dinant I observed during the forenoon the arm of a man protruding out of a first story window of the pharmacy ...

Read, approved, signed.

(Signed) Johann Georg Säring.

The witness was thereupon sworn.

(Signed) Näumann. (Signed) Schwarzbach.

SUNDAY, AUGUST 23, 1914

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

DINANT - MEUSE

LA MALMAISON

RESERVE FIRST CLASS PRIVATE KARL HERMAN EINAX

NÄUMANN

SCHWARZBACH

CAPTAIN BARON VON GREGORY

MAJOR LOMMATSCH, BATTALION COMMANDER,  16TH INFANTRY REGIMENT NO. 182

  • ANNEX C-18

La Malmaison, December 9, 1914.

Present: Military Court Councillor Näumann.

Military Court Clerk Schwarzbach.

In matters of investigation concerning the violations of international law committed against German troops first class private of reserve; Einax of the 11th company of infantry regiment No. 182 appeared and after being informed of the meaning of the oath testified as follows:

My name is Karl Hermann Einax, twenty-eight years of age, a Protestant, cooper by profession, first class private since November 21, 1914.

On Sunday, August 23, 1914, at 2 P. M., when we marched into Dinant, we were fired upon. It was found that the firing came from the other side of the Meuse. We then entered the houses and searched them. I saw that an elderly looking man with gray, unkempt hair, cams out of a house which our troops had entered, and shot at us. Major Lommatsch who was severely wounded died in the afternoon as the result of his injuries ...

Our Captain, Baron von Gregory, himself had entered the house from which the priest was brought out. The captain is in Freiberg at present.

Read, approved, signed.

(Signed) Karl Hermann Einax.

Witness was then sworn.

(Signed) Näumann. (Signed) Schwarzbach.

SUNDAY, AUGUST 23, 1914

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

DINANT

ERWIN MÜLLER

SERGEANT FEHRMANN

RESERVE ENGINEER KRETZSCHMANN

My name is Erwin Müller. I am twenty-six years of age, a Protestant and a fruit grower.

On August 25, 1914, in the afternoon Sergeant Fehrmann and I noticed the corpses of a number of male civilians and one woman lying outside a house in a cross street at Dinant. We entered the house. In the room to the right lay an officer, lieutenant of Infantry Regiment No. 182, a cushion below his head. His head and part of his chest were covered with a white cloth. Two soldiers lay on one side of him, and [p. 85] one soldier on the other. All three soldiers wore the uniform of regiment No. 182. In the adjoining room a sergeant and five soldiers of the same regiment lay likewise dead ...

Reserve Engineer Kretzschmann was in the house together with Fehrmann and myself ...

SUNDAY, AUGUST 23, 1914

46TH INFANTRY BRIGADE

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

DINANT - MEUSE

  • C. App. 12.

Extract from the Reports of the Staff of the 46th Infantry Brigade and of Regiments Nos. 108 and 182 on the fighting at Dinant, August 23rd, 1914.

Staff of the 46th Infantry Brigade.

Towards 9 o'clock in the forenoon Regiment Nos. 108 and 182 reached the eastern slopes of the Meuse.

There now ensued a hot fight for the town of Dinant, which was defended by francs- tireurs ...

The commanders of the two regiments met in the marketplace. Since no decisive result was possible without artillery against the enemy who were concealed in houses, cellars, and caves, and who were even firing from the cathedral, they resolved to gradually evacuate the town ...

Both regimental commanders (of the 108th and 182nd Regiments) came to the conclusion that the Meuse could not be reached without the support of our artillery, and therefore ordered the return of the regiments at 3.30 in the afternoon. At 5 o'clock the bombardment of Dinant by our artillery began. On the following morning the brigade crossed the Meuse on the pontoon bridge at Leffe which was built by the 32nd Infantry Division, since it was impossible to march through burning Dinant.

Infantry Regiment No. 182.

During the advance of the regiment along the edge of a valley it received a continuous shrapnel fire from the western bank of the Meuse and infantry fire from the buildings and copses on the edge of the valley, causing losses. Captain Klotz, the leader of the machine-gun company, fell through a shot from above, apparently from one of the fortress-like watch-towers which stand there. Two battalions penetrated into Dinant and on towards the bridge, and received a detached fire from the houses and from the cliffs of the east bank, in numerous rocky caves of which francstireurs were hidden. At 5.30 in the evening the regiment stood again on the heights above Dinant while our artillery from the north furiously bombarded the town on both sides of the river.

In the evening and during the night enemy sharpshooters still continued to fire from the woods and buildings on the edge of the valley, which they had reached by passages in the rocks unknown to us, and into which they again disappeared.

SUNDAY, AUGUST 23, 1914

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

MAJOR LOMMATSCH, BATTALION COMMANDER,  16TH INFANTRY REGIMENT NO. 182

  • As to Case : On the Sorinnes-Dinant road the following occurrence took place in the part of the town of Dinant which hes on both sides of the road. I witnessed how two male civilians discharged pistol-shots at Major Lommatsch, Battalion Commander, 16th Infantry Regiment No. 182, from the first storey of a house standing directly on the road. Major Lommatsch immediately collapsed ...

SUNDAY, AUGUST 23, 1914

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

MAJOR-GENERAL FRANZ SAMUEL LUDWIG FRANCKE,
REGIMENTAL COMMANDER,  INFANTRY REGIMENT NO. 182

  • There appeared as witness Major-General Francke, who, after reference to the significance of the oath, was examined as follows :

As to Person : My name is Franz Samuel Ludwig Francke. I am 51 years old; Protestant; Major-General and Regimental Commander, Infantry Regiment No. 182 ...

Signed : Franz Francke ...

AUGUST 23, 1914

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

CORPORAL JOHANN GEORG SARING, 12TH COMPANY

MAJOR-GENERAL FRANZ SAMUEL LUDWIG FRANCKE,
REGIMENTAL COMMANDER,  INFANTRY REGIMENT NO. 182

  • In the investigation concerning the violation of international law committed against the German troops, there appeared as witness Corporal Saring, who, after reference to the significance of the oath, was examined as follows :

    My name is Johann Georg Saring. I am 22 years of age ; Protestant ; locksmith by trade ; corporal, 12th Company, Infantry Regiment No. 182.

    On the afternoon of Sunday the 23rd August, 1914, I saw in Dinant the arm of a man ... This man was taken to Colonel Francke, whilst the other civilians were detained in the corner of a house ...

    Signed: Johann Georg Saring ...

AUGUST 23, 1914

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

CAPTAIN PECHWELL 

  • The commander of the detachment asked for companies from Captain Pechwell, 3rd Company, Infantry Regiment No. 182, and proceeded with these to the position ordered ...

AUGUST 23, 1914

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

  • On the same day, according to his statement, a further batch of four civilians were shot because they had attacked a sentry of Infantry Regiment No. 182 ...

AUGUST 1914

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

  • The company advanced with the pontoon waggons on the steep, narrow road into Dinant behind Rifle (Fusilier) Regiment No. 108 and Infantry Regiment No. 182 ...

AUGUST 23, 1914

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

  • We entered the house. In the room on the right there lay an officer—a lieutenant of Infantry Regiment No. 182—a sofa-cushion under his head ; his head and a part of his chest were covered with a white cloth. All three civilians wore the uniform of Infantry Regiment No. 182. In the adjoining room there lay stretched out dead a non-commissioned officer and five privates of the same regiment.

I lifted up the cloth covering the lieutenant and saw that he had received a shot in the head. I did not see any further injuries to the officer.

One of the privates who lay beside the lieutenant had his trousers unbuttoned in front so that one could see his body. This soldier had a shot in the lower part of the body. Extending from the larynx to at least 10 cm. to the left was a cut which was bloody and the edges were probably 1 cm. apart. The blood had flowed down towards the side. I am convinced that it could only have been a wound from a cut.

In the other room the trousers of one of the soldiers were unbuttoned so that one could see the body. This man had a cut or stab wound in the lower body about 3 cm. wide. The clothing of the remaining soldiers showed no disarrangement, they all bore shot-wounds.

The scene conveyed the impression that the officer, the non-commissioned officer and the men had been attacked in their sleep by the inhabitants in that quarter. I infer this from the fact that the officer had a sofa-cushion and the others either a cloth or a knapsack under their heads. The rifles stood in a corner ...

 

August 23, 1914 - IR 182

 

DATE?

  • The soldier was from the 12th Jäger Battalion ....

  • The men on whose evidence Loutalot based his story were Delling, IR 103 and Bieler, 12th Jäger Battalion ...

John N. Horne, Alan Kramer, German Atrocities 1914: A History Of Denial, 2001, p. ?

SUNDAY, AUGUST 23

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

DINANT

L'INVASION ALLEMANDE DANS LES PROVINCES
DE NAMUR ET DE LUXEMBOURG, 1921, LE COMBAT DE DINANT, p. 13

https://bel-memorial.org/books/04_quatrieme_partie_partie_1.pdf

MONDAY, AUGUST 24, 1914

  • On 24 August, the area of Dinant south of the bridge, which had not been attacked on 23 August, was systematically burned down by the Germans.[20] Dinant was looted and German troops destroyed public and historic buildings, including the collegial church and the town hall. When IR 178 crossed the Meuse to Bouvignes, 31 villagers were killed and south of Dinant at Hastière-par-delà and Hastière-Lavaux, civilians were caught between Infantry Regiment 104 and Infantry Regiment 133 as they tried to cross the Meuse and French troops on the west bank. The Germans claimed that the civilians helped the French and 19 people, including two ten-year-olds from Hastière-par-delà, were killed and the village burned.[21] By 24 August, when the German advance resumed, the French had gone.[11][25] ...

  • The killings continued on 24 August, houses burned for days and lit up the countryside. A stench of corpses polluted the air as they decomposed in the sun.[20] ...

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AUGUST 30, 1914

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12

VEDANCOURT [VADENCOURT]

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg 

REPORT OF OCTOBER 7, 1914

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12, Freiberg

  • VEDANCOURT, 30 AUGUST, 1914 [Vadencourt- Aisne]

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/258705  - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 7, 1914, Page 962, Edition 83

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  • Formed in October 1912 and garrisoned at Freiberg, it [Kgl. Sächs. 16. Infanterie-Regiment Nr.182, Germany's youngest peacetime infantry regiment] fought in 1914 with 23. Infanterie-Division / XII. Armeekorps on the Marne and subsequently held the line north of Reims ...

http://www.royalsaxonarmy.co.uk/royalsaxonarmy/index.php/
articles/26-a-teacher-in-the-trenches-ir-182-at-wytschaete-january-1916
A Teacher in the Trenches

SEPTEMBER 3, 1914

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12

MOURMELON

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF OCTOBER 7, 1914

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12, Freiberg

  • MOURMELON [Marne - Southeast of Reims], 3 SEPTEMBER, 1914

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/254308  - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 7, 1914, Page 962, Edition 83

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SEPTEMBER 3, 1914

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12, COMPANY 3

MOURMELON

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12, Company 3, Freiberg - Action and Deaths

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SEPTEMBER 3, 1914

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12

CHALONS

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF OCTOBER 7, 1914

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12, Freiberg

  • CHALONS [Marne - Southeast of Reims] (TRUPPENÜBUNGSPLATZ - PARADE GROUND), 3 SEPTEMBER, 1914

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/254308  - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 7, 1914, Page 962, Edition 83

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FRANCE: BATTLE OF THE MARNE

(September 5 - September 10, 1914)

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23  INFANTRY DIVISION

  • MARNE.

[1914]

... crossed the Meuse on the 24th, entered France on the 26th, went to the west of Chalons and took part in the battle of the Marne on September 7 at Sompuis (west of Vitry 'le Francois) ...

Histories of Two Hundred and Fifty-One Divisions of the German Army which Participated in the War (1914-1918), pp. 333-336. http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924027835317 - https://archive.org/stream/historiesoftwohu00unit#page/n5/mode/2up  

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AUGUST 23, 1914

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

DINANT

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF OCTOBER  6, 1914

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182, Freiberg und Barackenlager Königsbrück

  • DINANT [Belgium] 23 AUGUST 1914 [Machine Gun Company]

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/221653 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 6, 1914, Page 908, Edition 78.

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/221832 -  DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 6, 1914, Page 909, Edition 78.

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AUGUST 24, 1914 - AUGUST 27, 1914

23 INFANTRY DIVISION

23. INFANTERIE-DIVISION (Sächsisch)

INTERVENTION

24.08.–27.08.1914

 

 Eingreifen der 3. Armee in den Kampf der 2. Armee bei Namur in Richtung Mettet-Philippeville und anschließende Verfolgung in südwestlicher und südlicher Richtung bis an die Sormonne

[AUGUST 24, 1914 - AUGUST 27, 1914: Intervention of third Army in the battle of the second Army at Namur towards Mettet-Philippe Ville and subsequent persecution in a southwesterly and southerly direction up to the Sormonne]
24.08.1914 Rosée; Onhaye

[AUGUST 24, 1914: Rosée; Onhaye]
25.08.1914 Villers en Fagne, Fagnolie, Nismes

[AUGUST 25, 1914: Villers en Fagne, Fagnolie, Nismes]
26.08.1914 Rocroi, Rimogne, La Tremblois

[AUGUST 26, 1914: Rocroi, Rimogne, La Tremblois]

http://www.militaerpass.net/23id.htm -
German infantry divisions 1914–1918 at http://www.militaerpass.net/inf_div.htm

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AUGUST 27, 1914 - AUGUST 30, 1914

23 INFANTRY DIVISION

23. INFANTERIE-DIVISION (Sächsisch)

BATTLE OF THE MEUSE

27.08.–30.08.1914 Schlacht an der Maas und Verfolgung bis an die Aisne

[AUGUST 27, 1914 - AUGUST 30, 1914: Battle of the Meuse and tracking up to the Aisne]

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AUGUST 27, 1914

23 INFANTRY DIVISION

23. INFANTERIE-DIVISION (Sächsisch)

BATTLE OF THE MEUSE

LA TREMBLOIS, BLOMBAY, L'ECHELLE

27.08.1914 La Tremblois, Blombay, l'Echelle

[AUGUST 27, 1914: La Tremblois, Blombay, l'Echelle]

http://www.militaerpass.net/23id.htm -
German infantry divisions 1914–1918 at http://www.militaerpass.net/inf_div.htm

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AUGUST 29, 1914

23 INFANTRY DIVISION

23. INFANTERIE-DIVISION (Sächsisch)

BATTLE OF THE MEUSE

29.08.1914 Vieil-St. Remy, Novion-Porcien

[AUGUST 29, 1914: Vieil-St. Remy, Novion-Porcien]

http://www.militaerpass.net/23id.htm -
German infantry divisions 1914–1918 at http://www.militaerpass.net/inf_div.htm

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AUGUST 30, 1914

23 INFANTRY DIVISION

23. INFANTERIE-DIVISION (Sächsisch)

BATTLE OF THE MEUSE

30.08.1914 Rethel und Bertoncourt

[AUGUST 30, 1914: Rethel und Bertoncourt]

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AUGUST 30, 1914

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

RETHEL

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF OCTOBER 17, 1914

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182 Freiberg und Barackenlager Königsbrück

  • RETHEL [Champagne-Ardenne - North East of Reims], 30 August, 1914

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/361527 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 17, 1914, Page 1439, Edition 116.

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/364519  - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 17, 1914, Page 1440, Edition 116

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/362995  - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 17, 1914, Page 1441, Edition 116

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AUGUST 31, 1914 - SEPTEMBER 5, 1914

23 INFANTRY DIVISION

23. INFANTERIE-DIVISION (Sächsisch)

BATTLE OF THE AISNE

31.08.–05.09.1914 Schlacht an der Aisne und Verfolgung bis über die Marne

[AUGUST 31, 1914 - SEPTEMBER 5, 1914: Battle of the Aisne and tracking to over the Marne]

http://www.militaerpass.net/23id.htm -
German infantry divisions 1914–1918 at http://www.militaerpass.net/inf_div.htm

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AUGUST 31, 1914

23 INFANTRY DIVISION

23. INFANTERIE-DIVISION (Sächsisch)

BATTLE OF THE AISNE

31.08.1914 Biermes, Ménil-Annelles

[AUGUST 31, 1914: Biermes, Ménil-Annelles]

http://www.militaerpass.net/23id.htm -
German infantry divisions 1914–1918 at http://www.militaerpass.net/inf_div.htm

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AUGUST 31, 1914

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12

SEUNEY

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF OCTOBER 10, 1914

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12, Freiberg

  • SEUNEY, 31 AUGUST, 1914

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/254308  - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 10, 1914, Page 1111, Edition 93

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[SEPTEMBER ?], 1914

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

SOMPUIS

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF OCTOBER 17, 1914

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182 Freiberg und Barackenlager Königsbrück

  • SOMPUIS [Marne - South of Reims]

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/361527 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 17, 1914, Page 1439, Edition 116.

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/364519  - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 17, 1914, Page 1440, Edition 116

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/362995  - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 17, 1914, Page 1441, Edition 116

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SEPTEMBER ?, 1914

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

JUVINCOURT

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF OCTOBER 17, 1914

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182 Freiberg und Barackenlager Königsbrück

  • JUVINCOURT [Aisne - North of Reims]

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/361527 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 17, 1914, Page 1439, Edition 116.

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/364519  - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 17, 1914, Page 1440, Edition 116

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/362995  - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 17, 1914, Page 1441, Edition 116

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SEPTEMBER 1, 1914

23 INFANTRY DIVISION

23. INFANTERIE-DIVISION (Sächsisch)

BATTLE OF THE AISNE

01.09.1914 Annelles, Ménil-Annelles, Pauvres

[SEPTEMBER 1, 1914: Annelles, Ménil-Annelles, Pauvres]

http://www.militaerpass.net/23id.htm -
German infantry divisions 1914–1918 at http://www.militaerpass.net/inf_div.htm

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SEPTEMBER 1 , 1914

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

ANNELLES

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF OCTOBER 23, 1914

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182, Freiberg und Barackenlager Königsbrück

  • ANNELLES [Ardennes - Champagne-Ardenne - Southeast of Reims], 1 SEPTEMBER, 1914

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/447193 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 23, 1914, Page 1743, Edition 137

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/448005  - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 23, 1914, Page 1744, Edition 137

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SEPTEMBER 2, 1914 - SEPTEMBER 3, 1914

23 INFANTRY DIVISION

23. INFANTERIE-DIVISION (Sächsisch)

BATTLE OF THE AISNE

02.09.–03.09.1914 Moronvilliers (Abteilung Franke der 23. Infanterie-Division)

[SEPTEMBER 2, 1914 - SEPTEMBER 3, 1914: Moronvilliers (Department Franke of the 23th Infantry Division)]

http://www.militaerpass.net/23id.htm -
German infantry divisions 1914–1918 at http://www.militaerpass.net/inf_div.htm

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SEPTEMBER 3, 1914

23 INFANTRY DIVISION

23. INFANTERIE-DIVISION (Sächsisch)

BATTLE OF THE AISNE

03.09.1914 Mourmelon (Abteilung Arnim der 23. Infanterie-Division)

[SEPTEMBER 3, 1914: Mourmelon (Department Arnim of the 23th Infantry Division]

http://www.militaerpass.net/23id.htm -
German infantry divisions 1914–1918 at http://www.militaerpass.net/inf_div.htm

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SEPTEMBER 3, 1914

BATTLE OF THE AISNE

MOURLMELON-LE-GRAND

 XIX. Armeekorps

KÖNIGLICHES SACHSISCHES 1. JAGER-BATAILLON NR. 12

  • Im kleinen Ort Mourmelon-le-Grand geriet das Bataillon in einen Hinterhalt, und der Vormarsch geriet ins Stocken. Unter erheblichen Verlusten wurde das Dorf eingenommen und gehalten. Nach Unterstützung durch die Kavallerie wurde die französischen Truppen zurückgedrängt. Der Vormarsch und die Vorbereitungen zur Marneschlacht gingen weiter. Am 26. September 1914 betrug die Gefechtsstärke des Bataillons nur noch 17 Offiziere und insgesamt 762 Unteroffiziere und Mannschaften. Die 2. Kompanie wurde abgezogen und als Vortrupp der Division nach Mourmelon gesandt ...
     

    • In the small town Mourmelon-le-Grand [Battle:September 3, 1914], the battalion fell into an ambush , and the advance came to a standstill . Under considerable losses the village was taken and held. After the support of the cavalry , the French troops were pushed back. The advance and the preparations for the Battle of the Marne went on. On 26 September 1914 was the combat strength of the battalion only 17 officers and 762 NCOs and men . The second Company was withdrawn and sent as a vanguard of the division after Mourmelon [Battle:September 3, 1914]

    • http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/1._K%C3%B6niglich_S%C3%A4chsisches_J%C3%A4ger-Bataillon_Nr._12

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SEPTEMBER 3, 1914 - SEPTEMBER 4, 1914

23 INFANTRY DIVISION

23. INFANTERIE-DIVISION (Sächsisch)

BATTLE OF THE AISNE

03.09.–04.09.1914 Livry

[SEPTEMBER 3, 1914 - SEPTEMBER 4, 1914: Livry]

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SEPTEMBER 6, 1914 - SEPTEMBER 10, 1914

THIRD ARMY

23 INFANTRY DIVISION

46TH BRIGADE

182 INFANTRY REGIMENT

BATTLE OF THE MARNE

http://www.militaerpass.net/23id.htm -
German infantry divisions 1914–1918 at http://www.militaerpass.net/inf_div.htm

  • Third Army: Generaloberst Max von Hausen

    • XII. Corps: Gen.d.Inf. Karl Ludwig d'Elsa

http://home.comcast.net/~jcviser/battles/ww1marne.htm

 

Max von Hausen's Third Army Hausen's Third Army corps commanders were: d'Elsa (XII) ...

http://home.comcast.net/~jcviser/battles/mediabattles/mapmarne.jpg

German 3rd Army
Battle by Fère - Champenoise
6 - 10 September 1914

XII Corps : General of Infantry d'Elsa

23rd Division : Generalleutnant Freinehrr von Lindenau

45th Brigade : Generalmajor Lucius

1/,2/,3/100th Grenadier Regiment

1/,2/,3/101st Grenadier Regiment

46th Brigade : Generalmajor von Watzdorff

1/,2/,3/108th Fusilier Regiment

1/,2/,3/182nd Infantry Regiment

Attached

12th Jäger Battalion

Cavalry :

1/,2/,4/,5/20t h Hussar Regiment

23rd Artillery Brigade : Generalmajor Zincke

1/12th Field Artillery Regiment (3 btrys, 4 - 77mm guns ea)

2/12th Field Artillery Regiment (3 btrys, 4 - 77mm guns ea)

1/48th Fiel d Artillery Regiment (3 btrys, 4 - 77mm guns ea)

2/48th Field Artillery Regiment (3 btrys, 4 - 105mm howitzers ea)

4 Light Munition Columns

Support Troops

1st Company, 12th Pioneer Battalion

1st & 3rd Medical Compaines

23rd Divisional Bridging Train

http://www.cgsc.edu/CARL/nafziger/914GIAG.pdf

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SEPTEMBER 6, 1914 - SEPTEMBER 11, 1914

BATTLE OF THE MARNE

23 INFANTRY DIVISION

23. INFANTERIE-DIVISION (Sächsisch)

06.09.–11.09.1914 Schlacht an der Marne

[SEPTEMBER 6, 1914 - SEPTEMBER 11, 1914: Battle of the Marne]

http://www.militaerpass.net/23id.htm -
German infantry divisions 1914–1918 at http://www.militaerpass.net/inf_div.htm

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SEPTEMBER 6 - SEPTEMBER 19, 1914

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12, COMPANY 3

VITRY-LE-FRANCOIS

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12, Company 3, Freiberg - Action and Deaths

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SEPTEMBER 7, 1914

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12

VITRY-LE-FRANCOIS

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF OCTOBER 11, 1914

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 SEPTEMBER 7, 1914

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12, Freiberg

  • VITRY-LE-FRANCOIS [Marne] 7 SEPTEMBER, 1914

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/281979  - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 11, 1914, Page 1173, Edition 97 [Page 1174 does not list further companies]

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SEPTEMBER 7, 1914

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12, COMPANY 3

VITRY-LE-FRANCOIS

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12, Company 3, Freiberg - Action and Deaths

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SEPTEMBER 7 - 10, 1914

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

SOMPUIS

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF OCTOBER  6, 1914

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182, Freiberg und Barackenlager Königsbrück

  • SOMPUIS [Marne - South of Reims] - 7 to 10 SEPTEMBER, 1914

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/222198  - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 6, 1914, Page 908, Edition 79.

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/221877 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 6, 1914, Page 909, Edition 79.

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SEPTEMBER 7 - 10, 1914

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

SOMPUIS

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF OCTOBER  6, 1914

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182, Freiberg und Barackenlager Königsbrück

  • SOMPUIS [Marne - South of Reims], 7 TO 10 SEPTEMBER, 1914

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/221653 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 6, 1914, Page 908, Edition 78.

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/221832 -  DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 6, 1914, Page 909, Edition 78.

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SEPTEMBER 7 - 10, 1914

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

SOMPUIS

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF OCTOBER  25, 1914

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182, Freiberg und Barackenlager Königsbrück

  • SOMPUIS [Marne - South of Reims] - 7, 9 AND 10 SEPTEMBER, 1914

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/485669 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 25, 1914, Page 1846, Edition 144.

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/509414  - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 25, 1914, Page 1847, Edition 144.

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SEPTEMBER 7 and 10, 1914

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12

VITRY-LE-FRANCOIS

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF OCTOBER 10, 1914

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12, Freiberg

  • VITRY-LE-FRANCOIS [Marne], 7 AND 10 SEPTEMBER, 1914

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/254308  - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 10, 1914, Page 1111, Edition 93

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SEPTEMBER 8, 1914

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

SOMPUIS

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF JANUARY 27, 1915

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182.

  • SOMPUIS  [Marne - South of Reims] - 8 SEPTEMBER, 1914

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/1357122 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, January 27, 1915, Page 4545, S. 99, Edition 344

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/1356519 DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, January 27, 1915, Page 4546, S. 99, Edition 344

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SEPTEMBER 8, 1914

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12

MOURMELON

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF OCTOBER 21, 1914

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12, Freiberg

  • MOURMELON [Marne - Southeast of Reims] 8 SEPTEMBER, 1914

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/456846 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 21, 1914, Page 1626, Edition 129

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/425584 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 21, 1914, Page 1626, Edition 129

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SEPTEMBER 8 - 9, 1914

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

SOMPUIS

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF FEBRUARY 3, 1915

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182.

  • SOMPUIS [Marne - South of Reims] - SEPTEMBER 8 - 9, 1914

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/1390508 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, February 3, 1915, Page 4667, S. 102, Edition 352

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SEPTEMBER 9, 1914 - SEPTEMBER 10, 1914

BATTLE OF THE MARNE

23 INFANTRY DIVISION

23. INFANTERIE-DIVISION (Sächsisch)

06.09.–10.09.1914 Maisons en Champagne westlich Vitry le François

[SEPTEMBER 9, 1914 - SEPTEMBER 10, 1914:Maisons en Champagne westlich Vitry le François

http://www.militaerpass.net/23id.htm -
German infantry divisions 1914–1918 at http://www.militaerpass.net/inf_div.htm

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SEPTEMBER 9, 1914

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

SOMPUIS

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF OCTOBER 23, 1914

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182, Freiberg und Barackenlager Königsbrück

  • SOMPUIS [Marne - South of Reims], 9 SEPTEMBER, 1914

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/447193 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 23, 1914, Page 1743, Edition 137

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/448005  - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 23, 1914, Page 1744, Edition 137

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SEPTEMBER 9, 1914

SOMPUIS

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF JANUARY 23, 1915

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182.

  • SOMPUIS [Marne - South of Reims] - SEPTEMBER 9, 1914

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/439060 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, January 23, 1915, Page 4469, B. 141 - S. 97, Edition 338

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SEPTEMBER 10, 1914

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

SOMPUIS

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF OCTOBER 23, 1914

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182, Freiberg und Barackenlager Königsbrück

  • SOMPUIS [Marne - South of Reims], 10 SEPTEMBER, 1914

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/447193 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 23, 1914, Page 1743, Edition 137

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/448005  - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 23, 1914, Page 1744, Edition 137

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SEPTEMBER 10, 1914

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

SOMPUIS

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF JANUARY 23, 1915

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182.

  • SOMPUIS [Marne - South of Reims] - SEPTEMBER 10, 1914

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/439060 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, January 23, 1915, Page 4469, B. 141 - S. 97, Edition 338

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SEPTEMBER 10, 1914

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

SOMPUIS

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF OCTOBER 17, 1914

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182 Freiberg und Barackenlager Königsbrück

  • SOMPUIS [Marne - South of Reims], 10 September, 1914

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/361527 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 17, 1914, Page 1439, Edition 116.

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/364519  - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 17, 1914, Page 1440, Edition 116

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/362995  - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 17, 1914, Page 1441, Edition 116

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SEPTEMBER 11, 1914

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12

LE PIN

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF OCTOBER 21, 1914

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12, Freiberg

  • LEPIN [LE PIN] 11 SEPTEMBER, 1914 [Cyclist Company]

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/456846 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 21, 1914, Page 1626, Edition 129

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/425584 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 21, 1914, Page 1626, Edition 129

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 SEPTEMBER 11 - 12, 20, 26 AND 30, 1914

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12

AUBERIVE SUR SUIPPES

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF OCTOBER 21, 1914

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12, Freiberg

  • AUBERIVE (Haute-Marne) SUR SUPPES [Suippes - Marne] 11, 12, 20, 26 AND 30 SEPTEMBER, 1914

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/456846 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 21, 1914, Page 1626, Edition 129

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/425584 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 21, 1914, Page 1626, Edition 129

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 SEPTEMBER 12, 1914

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12

ST HILAIRE

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF OCTOBER 21, 1914

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12, Freiberg

  • ST. HILAIRE [Aude] 12 SEPTEMBER, 1914

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/456846 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 21, 1914, Page 1626, Edition 129

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/425584 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 21, 1914, Page 1626, Edition 129

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SEPTEMBER 12, 1914

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

MOURMĖLON

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF JANUARY 23, 1915

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182.

  • MOURMĖLON [Marme - Southeast of Reims]- SEPTEMBER 12, 1914 [Machine Gun Company]

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/439060 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, January 23, 1915, Page 4469, B. 141 - S. 97, Edition 338

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 SEPTEMBER 12, 1914

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12

ST. HILAIRE-LE-GRAND

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF OCTOBER 10, 1914

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12, Freiberg

  • ST. HILAIRE-LE-GRAND  [Marne], 12 SEPTEMBER, 1914

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/254308  - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 10, 1914, Page 1111, Edition 93

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SEPTEMBER 12, 1914

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12, COMPANY 3

ST. HILAIRE-LE-GRAND

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12, Company 3, Freiberg - Action and Deaths

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SEPTEMBER 12, 1914

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12, COMPANY 3

VITRY-LE-FRANCOIS

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12, Company 3, Freiberg - Action and Deaths

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SEPTEMBER 12, 15 - 20, AND 26 , 1914

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

SOMPUIS

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF OCTOBER 17, 1914

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182 Freiberg und Barackenlager Königsbrück

  • SOMPUIS [Marne - South of Reims], 12, 15 to 20, and 26 September, 1914

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/361527 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 17, 1914, Page 1439, Edition 116.

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/364519  - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 17, 1914, Page 1440, Edition 116

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/362995  - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 17, 1914, Page 1441, Edition 116

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(III)

FRANCE: THE FIRST BATTLE OF THE AISNE

(September 14 - September 27, 1914)

Return To Index

23  DIVISION

  • AINSE. [September 14, 1914 - September 27, 1914]

[1914]

3. The 23d Division, with the 2d [XII?] Army Corps, established itself in the area north-west of Rheims

Histories of Two Hundred and Fifty-One Divisions of the German Army which Participated in the War (1914-1918), pp. 333-336. http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924027835317 - https://archive.org/stream/historiesoftwohu00unit#page/n5/mode/2up 

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SEPTEMBER 14, 1914 - OCTOBER 16, 1915

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF MARCH 15, 1916

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/1555012  - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, March 15, 1916, Page 11637, S. 262 - w. 356, Edition 907

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SEPTEMBER 14, 17 - 18 AND 20, 1914

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12

VITRY-LE-FRANCOIS

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF OCTOBER 11, 1914

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12, Freiberg

  • VITRY-LE-FRANCOIS [Marne] 7 SEPTEMBER, 1914

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/281979  - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 11, 1914, Page 1173, Edition 97 [Page 1174 does not list further companies]

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SEPTEMBER 14, 16, 18 - 19, 1914

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12

AUBERIVE

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF OCTOBER 10, 1914

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12, Freiberg

  • AUBERIVE (Haute-Marne), 14, 16, 18 TO 19 SEPTEMBER, 1914

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/254308  - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 10, 1914, Page 1111, Edition 93

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SEPTEMBER 14, 1914 - SEPTEMBER 27, 1914

FIRST AISNE

XII CORPS

VII ARMY

  • Seventh Army: Generaloberst Josias von Heeringen

    • XII. Corps: Gen.d.Inf. Karl d'Elsa (from Third Army)

 http://home.comcast.net/~jcviser/battles/ww1aisne1.htm

http://home.comcast.net/~jcviser/battles/ww1aisne1.htm

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SEPTEMBER 15, 1914 - SEPTEMBER 28, 1914

23 INFANTRY DIVISION

23. INFANTERIE-DIVISION (Sächsisch)

FIGHTING ON THE AISNE

15.09.1914–28.08.1916 [sic] Kämpfe an der Aisne

[SEPTEMBER 15, 1914 - SEPTEMBER 28, 1914: Fighting on the Aisne]

http://www.militaerpass.net/23id.htm -
German infantry divisions 1914–1918 at http://www.militaerpass.net/inf_div.htm

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SEPTEMBER 15

23 INFANTRY DIVISION

23. INFANTERIE-DIVISION (Sächsisch)

BATTLE OF JUVINCOURT

15.09.–22.09.1914 Schlacht bei Juvincourt

[SEPTEMBER 15, 1914 - SEPTEMBER 22, 1914: Battle of Juvincourt]

http://www.militaerpass.net/23id.htm -
German infantry divisions 1914–1918 at http://www.militaerpass.net/inf_div.htm

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SEPTEMBER 15 - 16, 18 - 19, 1914

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

JUVINCOURT

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF OCTOBER  6, 1914

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182, Freiberg und Barackenlager Königsbrück

  • JUVINCOURT [Aisne - North of Reims], 15 TO 16, 18 TO 19 SEPTEMBER, 1914

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/221653 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 6, 1914, Page 908, Edition 78.

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/221832 -  DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 6, 1914, Page 909, Edition 78.

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SEPTEMBER 15 - 16, 18 - 19, 1914

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

JUVINCOURT

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF OCTOBER  6, 1914

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182, Freiberg und Barackenlager Königsbrück

  • JUVINCOURT [Aisne - North of Reims]- 15 TO 16, 18 TO 19 SEPTEMBER, 1914

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/222198  - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 6, 1914, Page 908, Edition 79.

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/221877 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 6, 1914, Page 909, Edition 79.

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German Guard Corps
3rd Army
End of the Battle of the Marne
16 September 1914

XII Corps: General of Infantry d'Elsa

23rd Division: Generalleutnant Freinehrr von Lindenau

45th Brigade: Generalmajor Lucius

1/,2/,3/100th Grenadier Regiment

1/,2/,3/101st Grenadier Regiment

46th Brigade: Generalmajor von Watzdorff

1/,2/,3/108th Fusilier Regiment

1/,2/,3/182nd Infantry Regiment

Attached

12th Jäger Battalion

Cavalry:

1/,2/,4/,5/20th Hussar Regiment

23rd Artillery Brigade: Generalmajor Zincke

1/12th Field Artillery Regiment (3 btrys, 4-77mm guns ea)

2/12th Field Artillery Regiment (3 btrys, 4-77mm guns ea)

1/48th Field Artillery Regiment (3 btrys, 4-77mm guns ea)

2/48th Field Artillery Regiment (3 btrys, 4-105mm howitzers ea)

4 Light Munition Columns

Support Troops

1st Company, 12th Pioneer Battalion

1st & 3rd Medical Compaines

23rd Divisional Bridging Train

http://www.cgsc.edu/CARL/nafziger/914GIAC.pdf

 

SEPTEMBER 16 - 17, 21 - 23, 1914

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

JUVINCOURT

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF OCTOBER 17, 1914

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182 Freiberg und Barackenlager Königsbrück

  • JUVINCOURT [Aisne - North of Reims], 16, 17, 21 to 23 September, 1914

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/361527 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 17, 1914, Page 1439, Edition 116.

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/364519  - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 17, 1914, Page 1440, Edition 116

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/362995  - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 17, 1914, Page 1441, Edition 116

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SEPTEMBER 16, 20, 23 - 24, 1914 AND OCTOBER 1, 1914

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

JUVINCOURT

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF OCTOBER  25, 1914

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182, Freiberg und Barackenlager Königsbrück

  • JUVINCOURT [Aisne - North of Reims] - 16, 20 23 AND 24 SEPTEMBER AND 1 OCTOBER, 1914

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/485669 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 25, 1914, Page 1846, Edition 144.

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/509414  - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 25, 1914, Page 1847, Edition 144.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 1914

23 INFANTRY DIVISION

23. INFANTERIE-DIVISION (Sächsisch)

17.09.1914 Eroberung von La Ville aux Bois

[SEPTEMBER 17, 1914: Conquest of La Ville aux Bois]

http://www.militaerpass.net/23id.htm -
German infantry divisions 1914–1918 at http://www.militaerpass.net/inf_div.htm

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SEPTEMBER 17 - 18, 21 - 25 AND OCTOBER 4, 1914

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF OCTOBER 23, 1914

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182, Freiberg und Barackenlager Königsbrück

  • 17 -18, 21 TO 25 SEPTEMBER AND 4 OCTOBER, 1914

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/447193 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 23, 1914, Page 1743, Edition 137

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/448005  - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 23, 1914, Page 1744, Edition 137

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SEPTEMBER 17 - 18, 21, AND 27, 1914

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

JUVINCOURT

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF OCTOBER 17, 1914

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182 Freiberg und Barackenlager Königsbrück

  • JUVINCOURT [Aisne - North of Reims], 17, 18, 21 and 27 September, 1914

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/361527 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 17, 1914, Page 1439, Edition 116.

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/364519  - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 17, 1914, Page 1440, Edition 116

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/362995  - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 17, 1914, Page 1441, Edition 116

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SEPTEMBER 17, 19 - 20, 1914

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

JUVINCOURT

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF OCTOBER 17, 1914

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182 Freiberg und Barackenlager Königsbrück

  • JUVINCOURT [Aisne - North of Reims], 17, 19 and 20 September, 1914

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/361527 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 17, 1914, Page 1439, Edition 116.

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/364519  - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 17, 1914, Page 1440, Edition 116

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/362995  - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 17, 1914, Page 1441, Edition 116

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SEPTEMBER 17, 21 SEPTEMBER, 1914 AND 6 AND 8 OCTOBER, 1914

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

JUVINCOURT

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF OCTOBER  25, 1914

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182, Freiberg und Barackenlager Königsbrück

  • JUVINCOURT [Aisne - North of Reims] - 17, 21 SEPTEMBER, 6 AND 8 OCTOBER, 1914

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/485669 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 25, 1914, Page 1846, Edition 144.

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/509414  - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 25, 1914, Page 1847, Edition 144.

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SEPTEMBER 17 - 19, 23 - 24, 1914

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

JUVINCOURT

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF OCTOBER 17, 1914

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182 Freiberg und Barackenlager Königsbrück

  • JUVINCOURT [Aisne - North of Reims], 17 to 19, 23 and 24 September, 1914

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/361527 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 17, 1914, Page 1439, Edition 116.

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/364519  - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 17, 1914, Page 1440, Edition 116

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/362995  - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 17, 1914, Page 1441, Edition 116

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SEPTEMBER 17, 21 AND 26, 1914

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

JUVINCOURT

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF OCTOBER 17, 1914

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182 Freiberg und Barackenlager Königsbrück

  • JUVINCOURT [Aisne - North of Reims], 17, 21, und 26 September, 1914

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/361527 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 17, 1914, Page 1439, Edition 116.

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/364519  - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 17, 1914, Page 1440, Edition 116

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/362995  - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 17, 1914, Page 1441, Edition 116

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SEPTEMBER 17 - 26, 1914

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

JUVINCOURT

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF OCTOBER 17, 1914

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182 Freiberg und Barackenlager Königsbrück

  • JUVINCOURT [Aisne - North of Reims], 17 to 26 September, 1914

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/361527 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 17, 1914, Page 1439, Edition 116.

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/364519  - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 17, 1914, Page 1440, Edition 116

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/362995  - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 17, 1914, Page 1441, Edition 116

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SEPTEMBER 17 AND 26, 1914

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

JUVINCOURT

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF OCTOBER 17, 1914

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182 Freiberg und Barackenlager Königsbrück

  • JUVINCOURT [Aisne - North of Reims], 17 and 26 September, 1914

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/361527 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 17, 1914, Page 1439, Edition 116.

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/364519  - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 17, 1914, Page 1440, Edition 116

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/362995  - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 17, 1914, Page 1441, Edition 116

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SEPTEMBER 18, 1914

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12, COMPANY 3

AUBĖRIVE

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12, Company 3, Freiberg - Action and Deaths

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SEPTEMBER 19, 1914

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12, COMPANY 3

AUBĖRIVE

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12, Company 3, Freiberg - Action and Deaths

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SEPTEMBER 19, 1914

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

SOMPUIS

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF OCTOBER 23, 1914

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182, Freiberg und Barackenlager Königsbrück

  • SOMPUIS [Marne - South of Reims], 19 SEPTEMBER, 1914

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/447193 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 23, 1914, Page 1743, Edition 137

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/448005  - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 23, 1914, Page 1744, Edition 137

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SEPTEMBER 19, 1914

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF SEPTEMBER 19, 1914

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182, Freiberg

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/233772 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, September 19, 1914, Page 270, Edition 33

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/30650  - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, September 19, 1914, Page 271, Edition 33

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SEPTEMBER 20. 26 - 27 AND 30, 1914

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12

AUBERIVE

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF OCTOBER 21, 1914

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12, Freiberg

  • AUBERIVE (Haute-Marne) 20, 26, 27  und 30 SEPTEMBER. 1914

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/456846 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 21, 1914, Page 1626, Edition 129

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/425584 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 21, 1914, Page 1626, Edition 129

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SEPTEMBER 21 AND 24 SEPTEMBER, 1914

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

SOUAIN

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF OCTOBER 17, 1914

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182 Freiberg und Barackenlager Königsbrück

  • SOUAIN [Champagne-Ardenne - South East of Reims], 21 AND 24 SEPTEMBER, 1914

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/361527 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 17, 1914, Page 1439, Edition 116.

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/364519  - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 17, 1914, Page 1440, Edition 116

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/362995  - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 17, 1914, Page 1441, Edition 116

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 SEPTEMBER 21 AND 26, 1914

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12

AUBERIVE

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF OCTOBER 21, 1914

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12, Freiberg

  • AUBERIVE (Haute-Marne), 21 AND 26 SEPTEMBER, 1914 [Cyclist Company]

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/456846 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 21, 1914, Page 1626, Edition 129

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/425584 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 21, 1914, Page 1626, Edition 129

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SEPTEMBER 22, 1914

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12, COMPANY 3

AUBĖRIVE

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12, Company 3, Freiberg - Action and Deaths

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 SEPTEMBER 22, 24 - 26, 1914

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF OCTOBER 21, 1914

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12, Freiberg

  • VITRY-LE-FRANCOIS [Marne] 22, 24, 25 AND 26 SEPTEMBER, 1914?]

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/456846 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 21, 1914, Page 1626, Edition 129

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/425584 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 21, 1914, Page 1626, Edition 129

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 SEPTEMBER 22, 24 - 26, 1914

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12

AUBERIVE

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF OCTOBER 21, 1914

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12, Freiberg

  • AUBERIVE (Haute-Marne) 22, 24, 25 AND 26 SEPTEMBER, 1914

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/456846 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 21, 1914, Page 1626, Edition 129

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/425584 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 21, 1914, Page 1626, Edition 129

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SEPTEMBER 24, 1914

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12, COMPANY 3

AUBĖRIVE

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12, Company 3, Freiberg - Action and Deaths

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 SEPTEMBER 24 AND 26, 1914

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12

AUBERIVE

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF OCTOBER 21, 1914

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12, Freiberg

  • AUBERIVE (Haute-Marne) 24 AND 26 SEPTEMBER, 1914 [Cyclist Company]

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/456846 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 21, 1914, Page 1626, Edition 129

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/425584 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 21, 1914, Page 1626, Edition 129

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SEPTEMBER 26, 1914

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

LA TEMPLE-FERME

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF JANUARY 23, 1915

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182.

  • LA TEMPLE-FERME - SEPTEMBER 26, 1914

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/439060 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, January 23, 1915, Page 4469, B. 141 - S. 97, Edition 338

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SEPTEMBER 26, 1914

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

LA TEMPLE-FERME

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF OCTOBER 17, 1914

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182 Freiberg und Barackenlager Königsbrück

  • LA TEMPLE-FERME, 26 September, 1914

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/361527 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 17, 1914, Page 1439, Edition 116.

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/364519  - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 17, 1914, Page 1440, Edition 116

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/362995  - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 17, 1914, Page 1441, Edition 116

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SEPTEMBER 26, 1914

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182, Freiberg und Barackenlager Königsbrück

SOLDAT FRIEDRICH BÖHME - 8 KOMPAGNIE

LE TEMPLE FERME

Foto

Dienstgrad

Name

Vorname

Geburtsdatum & Ort

Todesdatum & Ort

Einheit

Bemerkungen

Persönliche Angaben
  Musketier BÖHME Friedrich 06.06.1893 Eisenach Fiel am 26.09.1914 im Gefecht bei Le Temple ferme.

[Fell on 26.09.1914 in the Battle of Le Temple ferme.]

 IR 182, 2.Ba   Dekorationsmaler, Sohn des Töpfers Wilhelm Böhme – Dohna bei Pirna

[Decorative painter, son of the potter Wilhelm Böhme - Dohna near Pirna]

 

http://www.denkmalprojekt.org/2010/eisenach_gb_wk1_A-G_thuer.htm

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/448005  - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 23, 1914, Page 1744, Edition 137

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SEPTEMBER 26, 1914

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

JUVINCOURT

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF OCTOBER 17, 1914

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182 Freiberg und Barackenlager Königsbrück

  • JUVINCOURT [Aisne - North of Reims], 26 September, 1914 [Machine Gun Company]

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/361527 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 17, 1914, Page 1439, Edition 116.

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/364519  - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 17, 1914, Page 1440, Edition 116

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/362995  - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 17, 1914, Page 1441, Edition 116

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SEPTEMBER 26, 1914

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

JUVINCOURT

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF OCTOBER 23, 1914

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182, Freiberg und Barackenlager Königsbrück

  • JUVINCOURT [Aisne - North of Reims], 26 SEPTEMBER, 1914

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/447193 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 23, 1914, Page 1743, Edition 137

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/448005  - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 23, 1914, Page 1744, Edition 137

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SEPTEMBER 26, 1914

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF OCTOBER 23, 1914

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182, Freiberg und Barackenlager Königsbrück

  • 26 SEPTEMBER AND 3 OCTOBER, 1914

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/447193 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 23, 1914, Page 1743, Edition 137

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/448005  - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 23, 1914, Page 1744, Edition 137

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SEPTEMBER 26, 1914

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

LA VILLE-AUX-BOIS

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF OCTOBER  25, 1914

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182, Freiberg und Barackenlager Königsbrück

  • LA VILLE-AUX-BOIS [Aisne, Picardie - South-East of Reims] - 26 SEPTEMBER, 1914

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/485669 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 25, 1914, Page 1846, Edition 144.

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/509414  - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 25, 1914, Page 1847, Edition 144.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 1914

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

AUBERIVE

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF OCTOBER  25, 1914

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182, Freiberg

  • AUBERIVE [Champagne-Ardenne - North of Dijon] - 26 SEPTEMBER, 1914

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/509414  - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 25, 1914, Page 1847, Edition 144.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 1914

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12, COMPANY 3

AUBĖRIVE

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12, Company 3, Freiberg - Action and Deaths

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SEPTEMBER 26 - 27, 1914

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

JUVINCOURT

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF OCTOBER 23, 1914

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182, Freiberg und Barackenlager Königsbrück

  • JUVINCOURT [Aisne - North of Reims], 26-27 SEPTEMBER, 1914

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/447193 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 23, 1914, Page 1743, Edition 137

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/448005  - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 23, 1914, Page 1744, Edition 137

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SEPTEMBER 26 AND 30, 1914

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12

AUBERIVE

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF OCTOBER 21, 1914

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12, Freiberg

  • AUBERIVE (Haute-Marne), 26 AND 30 SEPTEMBER, 1914 [Machine Gun Company]

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/456846 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 21, 1914, Page 1626, Edition 129

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/425584 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 21, 1914, Page 1626, Edition 129

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 SEPTEMBER 26 and 30, 1914

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12

AUBERIVE

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF OCTOBER 21, 1914

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12, Freiberg

  • AUBERIVE (Haute-Marne) 26 AND 30 SEPTEMBER, 1914

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/456846 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 21, 1914, Page 1626, Edition 129

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/425584 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 21, 1914, Page 1626, Edition 129

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SEPTEMBER 26 AND OCTOBER 1, 1914

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

JUVINCOURT

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF OCTOBER 23, 1914

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182, Freiberg und Barackenlager Königsbrück

  • JUVINCOURT [Aisne - North of Reims], 26 SEPTEMBER, 1 OCTOBER, 1914

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/447193 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 23, 1914, Page 1743, Edition 137

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/448005  - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 23, 1914, Page 1744, Edition 137

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SEPTEMBER 26 AND OCTOBER 3, 1914

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF OCTOBER 23, 1914

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182, Freiberg und Barackenlager Königsbrück

  • 26 SEPTEMBER AND 3 OCTOBER, 1914

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/447193 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 23, 1914, Page 1743, Edition 137

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/448005  - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 23, 1914, Page 1744, Edition 137

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SEPTEMBER 27, 1914

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

JUVINCOURT

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF OCTOBER  25, 1914

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182, Freiberg und Barackenlager Königsbrück

  • JUVINCOURT [Aisne - North of Reims] - 27 SEPTEMBER, 1914

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/485669 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 25, 1914, Page 1846, Edition 144.

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/509414  - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 25, 1914, Page 1847, Edition 144.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 1914

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12, COMPANY 3

AUBĖRIVE

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12, Company 3, Freiberg - Action and Deaths

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SEPTEMBER 29, 1914

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12, COMPANY 3

AUBĖRIVE

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12, Company 3, Freiberg - Action and Deaths

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SEPTEMBER - DECEMBER

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

DECEMBER 13, 1914

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF DECEMBER  13, 1914

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182, Freiberg Und Trupp. üb. Blatz [Truppenübungsplatz]

  • SOMPUIS [Marne - South of Reims] - SEPTEMBER 10, 1914

  • JUVINCOURT [Aisne - North of Reims] - DECEMBER 26, 1914

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/1049393 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, December 13, 1914, Page 3628, S. 74, Edition 272

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1914

OCTOBER

THE BATTLE OF THE YSER

The Royal Saxon Jäger Battalion Nr. 12 was
engaged in bitter warfare over the Yser canal
  https://www.flickriver.com/photos/paranoid_womb/tags/j%C3%A4ger/

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1914

OCTOBER 31

POSSIBILITY THAT THIS IS F W KRAUSE

IR 182, IErsBati Oct 1914

1914 - 1916

POSSIBILITY THAT THIS IS F W KRAUSE: SECOND FROM RIGHT

Albert Schreiner: Middle Figure

On 2018-10-15 12:21:52 PM, Cole Henley .... wrote:

  • Hi Eric

    I was pointed in the direction of your research/website after correspondence with Andi Lucas. I am researching my great-grandfather who was in the 182 Infantry Regiment during the First World War until his injury late in 1916. His name was Albert Schreiner and I was wondering whether you had come across him in your research at all?

    From his lebenslauf he was in "Mach. Gen. Kom. Inf. Regt. 182, Freiberg" and achieved the rank of Offizierstellung in 1916 (although I gather this is technically not a rank as such). After recovery from his injury (Kieferdurchschuss - shot in the jaw), he apparently returned to the Western Front in the summer of 1918 with Inf. Regt. 101. In September 1918 he deserted from leave at Königsburck / Sa to return to Stuttgart and prepare for the Revolutions that took place across Germany on November 9th. After the revolution, he became Minister for War of the Free People's Republic of Wurttemberg and leader of the Soldier's Council there. He went on to become a prominent member of the KPD until fleeing Germany with his family in 1933.

    I have no records of his time in the military but do have a photo of him from the war (attached). I look forward to hearing if you had any further information on the regiment that might be of interest.

    Kind regards,

    Cole Henley

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    ALBERT H SCHREINER
    (August 7, 1892, Aglasterhausen, Mosbach (Baden) - August 4, 1979, Birlin)

     

  • Albert H. Schreiner                   Berlin, im Januar 1978
    1157 Berlin
    Rud. Große Str. 16

Lebenslauf
 

Herkommen: Am 7. August 1892 wurde ich in Aglasterhausen, Kreis Mosbach (Baden) geboren als viertes Kind von Franz Hermann Schreiner (6. 3. 1867 - Sept 1927) und Sophie Schreiner, geb. Merlock (27. 4. 1865 - 1940). ....
 
[p. 4]
 
Gesellenzeit und Militärjahre: ....
 
Im Oktober 1912 wurde ich zum Militärdienet eingezogen (Masch. Gew. Komp. inf. Regt. 182. Freiberg). Wenige Wochen vor Beendigung der aktiven Dienstzeit, im August 1914 wurden wir an die Westfront geschicht. Dort war ich bis 1917 im Frontdienst [p. 5] (einmal verwundet): 1917 - 1918 krank, Sommer 1918 noch einmal kurzer Fronteinsatzin Westen (Inf. Reg. 101) dienstgrad seit 1916 Offizier-Stellvertretor. .... Im September 1918 benutzte ich einen Urlaub von meinem GarnisonTruppenteil (Königebrück/Sa.) um nich endgültig von der Truppe zu entfernen .....

https://github.com/cole007/schreiner/blob/master/assets/schreiner.pdf , pp. 1, 4-5

  • Im Oktober 1912 zur Infanterie nach Freiberg eingezogen, erlebte Schreiner den Beginn des Ersten Weltkrieges als Soldat. Im August 1914 kam er an die Westfront und war bis 1917 im Frontdienst, seit 1916 als Offiziersstellvertreter. Im September 1918 verwundet, benutzte er seinen Urlaub, um sich von der Truppe zu entfernen. Am 13. September 1918 heiratete er Emma Hermann (1892-1973).

Ende Oktober 1918 wurde Schreiner Mitglied des Stuttgarter Arbeiter- und Soldatenrates. Am 5. November 1918 gab er dessen Zeitung heraus, die den Titel „Die Rote Fahne“ trug. ...

Mit Ausbruch der Revolution wurde Albert Schreiner Vorsitzender des Stuttgarter Arbeiter-und Soldatenrates, der ihn Ende November 1918 als Kriegsminister in die erste württembergische Revolutionsregierung berief. Er übte diese Funktion aber nur einen Tag aus. Im Dezember nahm er am ersten Reichsrätekongreß in Berlin teil und wurde Mitbegründer der KPD in Württemberg .....

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ALBERT SCHREINER

JANUARY 26, 1917

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg
[They appeared as an appendix to the Army Gazette
and were also published in the German Empire Gazette as well as the Prussian State Gazette]

REPORT OF JANUARY 26, 1917

DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE

  • Page Number 17340
    Ausgabe 1354
    Datum 1917-01-26
    Last name Schreiner
    First name Albert
    Ort Aglasterhausen, Baden
    Liste Sachsen 378

[Birth: 7.8.92; schwer verwundet - severely wounded; Offz. Stellv= Offizier Stellvertreter = Acting Officer]

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/5364217

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OCTOBER 1 , 1914

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

LA VILLE-AUX-BOIS

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF OCTOBER 23, 1914

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182, Freiberg und Barackenlager Königsbrück

  • LA VILLE-AUX-BOIS [Aisne, Picardie - South-East of Reims], 1 OCTOBER, 1914

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/447193 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 23, 1914, Page 1743, Edition 137

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/448005  - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 23, 1914, Page 1744, Edition 137

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OCTOBER 1, 1914

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

AUBERIVE

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF OCTOBER  25, 1914

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182, Freiberg

  • AUBERVE [Champagne-Ardenne - North of Dijon] FOR SUIPPES [Marne - East of Reims] - 1 OCTOBER, 1914

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/509414  - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 25, 1914, Page 1847, Edition 144.

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OCTOBER 2, 1914

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

JUVINCOURT

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF OCTOBER 23, 1914

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182, Freiberg und Barackenlager Königsbrück

  • JUVINCOURT [Aisne - North of Reims], 2 OCTOBER, 1914

Page 1743, Edition 137

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/448005  - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 23, 1914, Page 1744, Edition 137

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OCTOBER 4, 1914

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

AUBERIVE

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF OCTOBER  25, 1914

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182, Freiberg

  • AUBERIVE [Champagne-Ardenne - North of Dijon] - 4 OCTOBER, 1914

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/509414  - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 25, 1914, Page 1847, Edition 144.

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OCTOBER 8 - 10, 1914

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

LA VILLE-AUX-BOIS

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF OCTOBER  25, 1914

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182, Freiberg und Barackenlager Königsbrück

  • LA VILLE-AUX-BOIS [Aisne, Picardie - South-East of Reims] - 8 AND 9 OCTOBER, 1914

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/485669 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 25, 1914, Page 1846, Edition 144.

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/509414  - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 25, 1914, Page 1847, Edition 144.

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NOVEMBER 6, 1914

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF NOVEMBER  6, 1914

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/124178 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, November 6, 1914, Page 2342, W. 52, Edition 178

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NOVEMBER 12, 1914

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

ST. ETIENNE

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF DECEMBER 2, 1914

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182, Freiberg

  • ST. ETIENNE [Massif Central - Southwest of Lyon] - 12 NOVEMBER, 1914

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/1135607 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, December 2, 1914, Page 3231, S. 67, Edition 244.

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NOVEMBER, 15 - 16, 1914

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

AUBERIVE

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF DECEMBER 2, 1914

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182, Freiberg

  • AUBERIVE [Champagne-Ardenne - North of Dijon] -15 AND 16 NOVEMBER, 1914

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/1135607 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, December 2, 1914, Page 3231, S. 67, Edition 244.

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NOVEMBER 17, 1914

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

AUBERIVE

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF DECEMBER 2, 1914

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182, Freiberg

  • AUBERIVE [Champagne-Ardenne - North of Dijon] -17 NOVEMBER, 1914

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/1135607 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, December 2, 1914, Page 3231, S. 67, Edition 244.

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NOVEMBER 20, 1914

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF NOVEMBER 20, 1914

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182, Freiberg und Barackenlager Königsbrück

Berichtigungen Früherer Angaben

CORRECTIONS

  • 4. Kompagnie

    • names listed

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/767213 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, November 20, 1914, Page 2768, S. 58, Edition 210.

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NOVEMBER  24, 1914 TO DECEMBER 4, 1914

BISCHOFSWERDA AND FREIWALDAU

FRIEDRICH WILHELM KRAUSE

24/11/1914 - 30/11/1914 1. Ersatz-Batl. 16. Inf.- Regt. No. 182 1. Garn.-Komp: On Leave (beurlaubt) from November 24, 1914 to November 30, 1914, Bischofswerda
02/12/1914 - 04-12/1914 1. Ersatz-Batl. 16. Inf.- Regt. No. 182 1. Garn.-Komp: Home - Furlough from December 2 to December 4, Bischofswerda and  Freiwaldau

Note re Freiwaldau: Perhaps visiting his Grandmother, Maria Luise Krause (September 23, 1849 - September 3, 1932).

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DECEMBER 2, 1914

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

JUVINCOURT

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF OCTOBER 23, 1914

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182, Freiberg und Barackenlager Königsbrück

  • JUVINCOURT [Aisne - North of Reims] - 2 DECEMBER, 1914 [Machine Gun Company]

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/447193 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 23, 1914, Page 1743, Edition 137

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/448005  - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 23, 1914, Page 1744, Edition 137

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DECEMBER 10 - 16, 1914

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

JUVINCOURT

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF JANUARY 7, 1915

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182. Freiberg und Truppenübungsplatz Königsbrück

  • JUVINCOURT [Aisne - North of Reims] - DECEMBER 10 to 16, 1914

  • JUVINCOURT [Aisne - North of Reims] - DECEMBER 10 to 16, 1914

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/1181325 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, January 7, 1915, Page 4091, S. 87, Edition 308

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DECEMBER 12, 1914

        LIEUTENANT HANS WOLFGANG REINHARD [11 December 1888 – 6 October 1950]

  • 12.12.1914 Kompanie-Führer im Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 182

    • Company leader in the Infantry Regiment No. 182

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DECEMBER 15 - 21, 1914

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

JUVINCOURT

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF JANUARY 7, 1915

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182. Freiberg und Truppenübungsplatz Königsbrück

  • JUVINCOURT [Aisne - North of Reims] - DECEMBER 15 to 21, 1914

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/1181325 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, January 7, 1915, Page 4091, S. 87, Edition 308

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DECEMBER 21, 1914

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

JUVINCOURT

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF JANUARY 7, 1915

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182. Freiberg und Truppenübungsplatz Königsbrück

  • JUVINCOURT [Aisne - North of Reims] - DECEMBER 21, 1914

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/1181325 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, January 7, 1915, Page 4091, S. 87, Edition 308

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DECEMBER 22, 1914

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12

ST. ETIENNE ?

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF JANUARY 7, 1915

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12, Freiberg

ST. ETIENNE ? [Massif Central - Southwest of Lyon]  - 22 DECEMBER, 1914

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/1188281  - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, January 7, 1915, Page 4094, S. 88, Edition 308

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1915

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

ROYAL SAXON, 16TH INFANTRY REGIMENT 182, 12TH COMPANY

1915

FRANCE (VERNON [?])

Fritz Gebelein

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JANUARY 1, 1915 - JULY, 1916

23 INFANTRY DIVISION

CRAONNE-BERRY AU BAC

  • AINSE. [1915 - July, 1916]

1. The division held the front from Craonne-Berry au Bac until July, 1916. In this sector the losses were very slight ...

Histories of Two Hundred and Fifty-One Divisions of the German Army which Participated in the War (1914-1918), pp. 333-336. http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924027835317 - https://archive.org/stream/historiesoftwohu00unit#page/n5/mode/2up  

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JANUARY 3, 1915

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF JANUARY 3, 1915

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12, Freiberg

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/628320 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, January 3, 1915, Page 3985, S. 85 - W. 88, Edition 300

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JANUARY 6, 1915

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

JUVINCOURT

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF JANUARY 23, 1915

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182.

  • JUVINCOURT [Aisne - North of Reims] - JANUARY 6, 1915

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/439060 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, January 23, 1915, Page 4469, B. 141 - S. 97, Edition 338

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JANUARY 7, 1915

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

LA VILLE-AUX-BOIS

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF JANUARY 23, 1915

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182.

  • LA VILLE-AUX-BOIS [Aisne, Picardie - South-East of Reims] - JANUARY 7, 1915 [Machine Gun Company]

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/439060 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, January 23, 1915, Page 4469, B. 141 - S. 97, Edition 338

JANUARY 9, 1915

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

JUVINCOURT

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF JANUARY 23, 1915

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182.

  • JUVINCOURT [Aisne - North of Reims] - JANUARY 9, 1915

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/439060 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, January 23, 1915, Page 4469, B. 141 - S. 97, Edition 338

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JANUARY 16, 1915

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

JUVINCOURT

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF FEBRUARY 3, 1915

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182.

  • JUVINCOURT [Aisne - North of Reims] - JANUARY 16, 1915

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/1390508 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, February 3, 1915, Page 4667, S. 102, Edition 352

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JANUARY 18, 1915

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

LA VILLE-AUX-BOIS

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF FEBRUARY 3, 1915

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182.

  • LA VILLE-AUX-BOIS  [Aisne, Picardie - South-East of Reims] - JANUARY 18, 1915

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/1390508 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, February 3, 1915, Page 4667, S. 102, Edition 352

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JANUARY 20 - 21, 1915

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

JUVINCOURT

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF FEBRUARY 3, 1915

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182.

  • JUVINCOURT [Aisne - North of Reims] - JANUARY 20 - 21, 1915

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/1390508 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, February 3, 1915, Page 4667, S. 102, Edition 352

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JANUARY 25-26, 1915

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

HURTEBISE

CHEMIN DES DAMES

Mais les combats des 25 et 26 janvier 1915 ont été particulièrement meurtriers : plus de 2 000 tués (au moins 850 Allemands, 1 000 à 1 500 Français, en comptant les blessés qui n’ont pas survécu à leurs blessures). De source allemande, 1 100 Français ont été faits prisonniers ...

Saxon troops belonging at the 32nd division of the Twelfth army ... I.R. 159 ... I.R. 182 ... Chemin des Dames ...

[NOTE: The 23rd Division, on mobilization, was a part of the 12th Army Corps with the 32d Division (2d Army,Von Hausen)]

http://www.chemindesdames.fr/photos_ftp/contenus/lettre_6.pdf

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JANUARY 25, 1915 - JANUARY 27, 1915

23 INFANTRY DIVISION

23. INFANTERIE-DIVISION (Sächsisch)

25.01.–27.01.1915 Gefecht bei Hurtebise

[JANUARY 25, 1915 - JANUARY 27, 1915: Battle of Hurtebise]

http://www.militaerpass.net/23id.htm -
German infantry divisions 1914–1918 at http://www.militaerpass.net/inf_div.htm

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FEBRUARY ?, 1915

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

BATTLE

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF MARCH 2, 1915

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182.

  • BATTLE - ?

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/1563717 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, March 2, 1915, Page 5077, S. 114, Edition 383

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FEBRUARY 8, 1915

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

BATTLE

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF MARCH 2, 1915

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182.

  • BATTLE - February 8, 1915

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/1563717 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, March 2, 1915, Page 5077, S. 114, Edition 383

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FEBRUARY 9 TO 7, 1915

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

BATTLE

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF MARCH 2, 1915

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182.

  • BATTLE - February 9 to 17, 1915

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/1563717 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, March 2, 1915, Page 5077, S. 114, Edition 383

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FEBRUARY 11, 1915

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

BATTLE

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF MARCH 2, 1915

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182.

  • BATTLE - February 11, 1915

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/1563717 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, March 2, 1915, Page 5077, S. 114, Edition 383

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FEBRUARY 15, 1915

        LIEUTENANT HANS WOLFGANG REINHARD [11 December 1888 – 6 October 1950]

  • 15.02.1915 Bataillons-Adjutant im Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 182

    • Battalion adjutant in the Infantry Regiment No. 182

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FEBRUARY 24, 1915

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

BATTLE

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF MARCH 13, 1915

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182.

  • Gefecht 24. II 15. - BATTLE - FEBRUARY 24, 1915

  • Gestorben Infolge Krankheit - DIED DUE TO ILLNESS

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/1682334 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, March 13, 1915, Page 5264, S. 119, Edition 400

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FEBRUARY 25, 1915

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

BATTLE

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF MARCH 2, 1915

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182.

  • BATTLE - February 25, 1915

  • BATTLE - February 25, 1915

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/1563717 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, March 2, 1915, Page 5077, S. 114, Edition 383

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MARCH, 1915

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12

RICHARD PAUL BEHR

BERRY-AU-BAC

(IV)

FRANCE: CHAMPAGNE

(March 1915 - c. September 1915)

Return To Index

23 INFANTRY DIVISION

182 INFANTRY REGIMENT

MARCH - 1915

CHAMPAGNE

AINSE

In March, 1915, some of its [23d Division] were in Champagne for a short time ....

Histories of Two Hundred and Fifty-One Divisions of the German Army which Participated in the War (1914-1918), pp. 333-336. http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924027835317 - https://archive.org/stream/historiesoftwohu00unit#page/n5/mode/2up  

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INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

APRIL 1, 1915 - JUNE 15, 1915:

245. Infanterie-Brigade / 123. Infanterie-Division

wiki-de.genealogy.net/IR_182

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INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

JUNE 15, 1915 - JUNE 25, 1915:

123. Infanterie-Division

wiki-de.genealogy.net/IR_182 

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INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

JUNE 26, 1915 - JULY 10, 1915:

245. Infanterie-Brigade / 117. Infanterie-Division

wiki-de.genealogy.net/IR_182

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INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

JULY 11, 1915 - SEPTEMBER 8, 1916:

245. Infanterie-Brigade / 123. Infanterie-Division

wiki-de.genealogy.net/IR_182

AND

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12

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123 DIVISION

123d DIVISION (1915 - 1916)

(INDEPENDENT DIVISION)

123 INFANTRY DIVISION (SAXON),
245TH INFANTRY BRIGADE,
16 ROYAL SAXON, 182 INFANTRY REGIMENT

Histories of Two Hundred and Fifty-One Divisions of the German Army which Participated in the War (1914-1918), pp. 620-622  - https://archive.org/stream/historiesoftwohu00unit#page/n5/mode/2up

Grenadier for " Royal Saxon 16th Infantry Regiment No. 182 " , the so-called " Freiberger

1915 and 1916 Battle of the Somme (Lightly Wounded: August 8, 1916)

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1915 -1916

123 INFANTRY DIVISION, 182 INFANTRY REGIMENT, 345 [45?] INFANTRY BRIGADE, 

 

Company 9, 3 fer

Feldpostbrief S.B. VIII KOMP. 182

"Foto 1917 Musiker vom Kgl. Sächs. 16. Infanterie Regiment Nr. 182 im 1 WK" - Error: the 182 was no with the 123 in 1917
"Photo 1917 Musicians from the Kgl. Sachs. 16. Infantry Regiment No. 182 in the 1 WK"

http://www.ebay.pl/itm/Foto-1917-Musiker-vom-Kgl-Sachs-16-Infanterie-Regiment-Nr-182-im-1-WK-/152368187039?hash=item2379da069f:g:FroAAOSwiDFYPtm2

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APRIL, 1915

123 INFANTRY DIVISION

186 INFANTRY REGIMENT

[1915]

AINSE

In April, the 182d Infantry Regiment was taken [from the 23 Division] for the 123d Division (a new formation) ...

Histories of Two Hundred and Fifty-One Divisions of the German Army which Participated in the War (1914-1918), pp. 333-336. http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924027835317 - https://archive.org/stream/historiesoftwohu00unit#page/n5/mode/2up  

123 INFANTRY DIVISION

BRIGADE 245

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

Histories of Two Hundred and Fifty-One Divisions of the German Army which Participated in the War (1914-1918), pp. 620-622 http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924027835317 - https://archive.org/stream/historiesoftwohu00unit#page/n5/mode/2up

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APRIL, 1915

123 INFANTRY DIVISION

182 INFANTRY INVASION

Histories of Two Hundred and Fifty-One Divisions of the German Army which Participated in the War (1914-1918), pp. 620-622 http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924027835317 - https://archive.org/stream/historiesoftwohu00unit#page/n5/mode/2up

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APRIL 1, 1915

123 INFANTRY DIVISION

182 INFANTRY REGIMENT

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FIRST HALF OF APRIL, 1915

123 INFANTRY DIVISION

ROZOY-SUR-SERRE

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APRIL 1, 1915

123 INFANTRY DIVISION

245 INFANTRY BRIGADE

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

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MID-APRIL, 1915

123 INFANTRY DIVISION

245 INFANTRY BRIGADE

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

AISNE REGION

APRIL 20, 1915

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

BATTLE

MAY 15, 1915

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF MAY 15, 1915

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182

  • BATTLE - APRIL 20, 1915

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/1918915 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, May 15, 1915, Page 6379, S. 146, Edition 489

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APRIL 27, 1915

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

BATTLE

MAY 15, 1915

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF MAY 15, 1915

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182

  • BATTLE - APRIL 27

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/1918915 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, May 15, 1915, Page 6379, S. 146, Edition 489

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APRIL 27, 1915

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12, COMPANY 3

BERRY AU BEC

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12, Company 3, Freiberg - Action and Deaths

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MAY, 1915

123 INFANTRY DIVISION

CHAMPAGNE

RHEIMS

CHAMPAGNE

1. In May, 1915, the 123d Division occupied the region northwest of Rheims ...

Histories of Two Hundred and Fifty-One Divisions of the German Army which Participated in the War (1914-1918), pp. 620-622 http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924027835317 - https://archive.org/stream/historiesoftwohu00unit#page/n5/mode/2up

MAY 1, 1915

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

BATTLE

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF MAY 15, 1915

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182

  • BATTLE - I MAY, 1915

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/1918915 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, May 15, 1915, Page 6379, S. 146, Edition 489

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MAY 1, 1915

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF MAY 1, 1915

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182. Berichtigung, Früherer Angaben

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/1820939 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, May 1, 1915, Page 6180, S. 141, Edition 474

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END OF MAY MAY, 1915

123 INFANTRY DIVISION

LILLE

2. At the end of May it was transported to Lille, where it seems to have been transferred as a reserve ...

Histories of Two Hundred and Fifty-One Divisions of the German Army which Participated in the War (1914-1918), pp. 620-622 http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924027835317 - https://archive.org/stream/historiesoftwohu00unit#page/n5/mode/2up

  • 123.ID soon moved to the Lille area in OHL reserve ....

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APRIL 27, 1915

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12, COMPANY 3

BERRY AU BEC

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12, Company 3, Freiberg - Action and Deaths

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MAY 30, 1915

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12, COMPANY 3

BERRY AU BEC

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12, Company 3, Freiberg - Action and Deaths

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MAY 31, 1915

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12, COMPANY 3

BERRY AU BEC

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12, Company 3, Freiberg - Action and Deaths

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 JUNE 8, 1915

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12, COMPANY 3

BERRY AU BEC

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12, Company 3, Freiberg - Action and Deaths

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MIDDLE OF JUNE, 1915

123 INFANTRY DIVISION

ARRAS

2. At the end of May it was transported to Lille, where it seems to have been transferred as a reserve; in the middle of June it was in the vicinity of Arras ...

Histories of Two Hundred and Fifty-One Divisions of the German Army which Participated in the War (1914-1918), pp. 620-622 http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924027835317 - https://archive.org/stream/historiesoftwohu00unit#page/n5/mode/2up

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JUNE 23, 1915

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12, COMPANY 3

BERRY AU BEC

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12, Company 3, Freiberg - Action and Deaths

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JULY 6, 1915

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF JULY 6, 1915

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182.

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/2289047 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, July 6, 1915, Page 7434, B. 199 - S. 166, Edition 574

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JULY 17, 1915

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF JULY 17, 1915

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/2386881 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, July 17, 1915, Page 7675, B. 202 - S. 171, Edition 593

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/2414494  - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, July 17, 1915, Page 7676, B. 202 - S. 171, Edition 593

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JULY 25, 1915

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF JULY 25, 1915

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182.

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/2517403 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, July 25, 1915, Page 7816, S. 174, Edition 605

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JULY 27, 1915

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12

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REPORT OF JULY 27, 1915

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/2505397 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, July 27, 1915, Page 7860, S. 175, Edition 609

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AUGUST 5, 1915

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF AUGUST 5, 1915

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182.

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/499493 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, August 5, 1915, Page 8028, S. 178 - W. 235, Edition 623

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AUGUST 5, 1915

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12, COMPANY 3

BERRY AU BEC

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12, Company 3, Freiberg - Action and Deaths

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AUGUST 18 - AUGUST 19, 1915

182 INFANTRY REGIMENT

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AUGUST 27, 1915

123 INFANTRY DIVISION

182 INFANTRY REGIMENT

ARTOIS

 LENS (LORETTOHÖHE - LORETTO HEIGHTS)

West of Lens

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_World_War_I_memorials_and_cemeteries_in_Artois

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SEPTEMBER 11, 1915

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

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REPORT OF SEPTEMBER 11, 1915

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/2773597 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, September 11, 1915, Page 8713, S. 198, Edition 681

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SEPTEMBER 27, 1915

        LIEUTENANT HANS WOLFGANG REINHARD [11 December 1888 – 6 October 1950]

  • 27.09.1915 verwundet

    • wounded

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SEPTEMBER 28, 1915

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF SEPTEMBER 28, 1915

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/2580002 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, September 28, 1915, S. 199, Page 9063, Edition 709

SEPTEMBER 29, 1915

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

FRANCE: BATTLE OF SECOND ARTOIS

(c. September, 1915 - mid-October, 1915)

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123 INFANTRY DIVISION

3. It next occupied different sectors in Artois.
4. In September it held the Souchez front ... and left Artois in the middle of that month ...

Histories of Two Hundred and Fifty-One Divisions of the German Army which Participated in the War (1914-1918), pp. 620-622 http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924027835317 - https://archive.org/stream/historiesoftwohu00unit#page/n5/mode/2up  

Fighting the Kaiser's War: The Saxons in Flanders 1914-1918, By Andrew Lucas, Jurgen Schmieschek, p. 89 - Souchez, September 1915

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Jäger Friedrich Wilhelm Krause
(By October 1, 1915 - c. December 21, 1917/February 11, 1918)

1915

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON

Taken sometime in 1915
Am 1.8.1916 aufgelöst.

Kgl. Sächs. 1. Jäger-Bataillon Nr.12
Divided reverse. No correspondence. Photogr. Max Seifert, Freiberg i/Sa.

During the Great War, the battalion suffered the following losses:

Officers: Killed / wounded: 19 / 35 Missing: 3 POW: 2

NCOs Killed / wounded: 105 / 250 Missing 10 POW:10

Jäger Killed / wounded: 775 / 2081 Missing 134 POW: 103

https://www.flickr.com/photos/drakegoodman/5750032383

The Saxon Jäger had a number of dress distinctions –
notably tunics of a darker green than the Prussian colour,
black facings instead of red and a black buffalo-hair plume buckled to the side of the shako.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/drakegoodman/6122227547

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OCTOBER 3, 1915

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12, COMPANY 3

BERRY AU BEC

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12, Company 3, Freiberg - Action and Deaths

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FRANCE: BATTLE OF LOOS

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Autumn, 1915

  • FAR 245 (123.ID), a unit known to have shelled the 9th East Surreys at St. Eloi in autumn 1915. This regiment was raised from the depots of my great-grandad’s FAR 48 in Dresden, and my display included the Militärpass of a fellow who served (among others) both with FAR 48 and with FAR 245 - including the period in question at St. Eloi ..

[123.ID ... was committed ... to] the murderous Souchez sector facing Notre Dame de Lorette and bore the brunt of the French offensive there on 25 September. Within four days IR 182 alone lost 39 officers and 1,250 NCOs and men killed, wounded or missing. Although himself wounded, Pache remained in action and became a company commander on 29 September as replacement for the slain Oltn. von Mücke of 8./182. From 30 September to 14 October his regiment was in Bereitschaft (immediate reserve) at Wingles, where it received large replacement drafts and began rebuilding. It then returned to Wytschaete, initially (like IR 178 and RIR 106) holding exactly the same sector as in July....

The small wood north of Wytschaete known to Pache as Bayernwald had many names. To the Flemish it was Kroonaard- or Croonaertbos, and accordingly Croonaert Wood to the British. They also knew it as Wood 40, referring like the French Bois Quarante to the height above sea level from which it dominated the terrain to the north and west ...

[Battle of Loos, September 25, 1915- October 14, 1915]

HILL 70

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c6/Jagger_Cambrai.jpg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Loos

OCTOBER

OCTOBER 8, 1915

123 INFANTRY DIVISION

OCTOBER 8, 1915

123 INFANTRY DIVISION

182 INFANTRY REGIMENT

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245 INFANTRY BRIGADE (Morgenstern–Döring)

This series of articles grew from material collected for two chapters, regarding a Saxon division which opposed the British 24th Division both at the Battle of Loos and subsequently at St Eloi in the Ypres Salient. Jürgen and I share a particular interest in the Royal Saxon Army, and we were able to provide additional insight from unpublished sources, including personal diaries and correspondence ...

After some thought, it was decided that the most immediately promising subject was the Royal Saxon 123rd Infantry Division (123 Inf Div). In Autumn 1915, two of its battalions played a critical part in the Battle of Loos, where they participated in the recapture of Hill 70 and the bloody repulse of the British 24th Division's assault (during which 9/East Surrey, on the British right flank, passed directly across their frontage);...

Several derive from an album (in Jürgen's collection) of over 200 photos by members of IR 178, covering the whole of 1915 and compiled with the approval of the regimental commander; with the exception of fifteen specifically censored pictures (depicting front–line positions, POWs, aircraft and artillery) the remainder were offered as postcards by a Dresden publisher for fifteen pfennigs each

This article then – the first in a series of three concerning 123 Inf Div on the Western Front in 1915 – briefly introduces the Royal Saxon Army and concisely describes the experiences of the division from its formation in April 1915 until the eve of the Anglo–French offensive on 25 September ...

'Triangularisation'
 
In Spring 1915, the Germans were reorganising their divisions on the basis of a single brigade of three infantry regiments (nine battalions) instead of the traditional two brigades of two regiments each (twelve battalions); establishments of battalions and companies remained initially unchanged, since many reserve divisions needed to be brought up to the 'active' standard of one machine-gun company per infantry regiment before any increase in that standard could be considered. This 'triangularisation' process produced a pool of 'surplus' regiments and brigade staffs, which were used to form the new (likewise 'triangular') divisions of the 'fifties' (50, 52, 54, 56 and 58) and 'hundreds' (101, 103, 105, 107–109, 113, 115, 117, 121 and 123) series. As far as artillery was concerned, the adoption, since December 1914, of the four–gun battery (instead of six) as standard in the field artillery provided a pool of men and materiel for the formation of one ('hundreds' series) or two ('fifties' series) new regiments (some highly heterogeneous) for each division.

In the Royal Saxon Army, this process produced 58 Infanterie–Division (from XIX Armeekorps and non–Saxon XIV Reservekorps) at the beginning of March, initially as a 'mixed' division containing Württemberg units but exclusively Saxon from January 1917. It was followed on 1 April by the purely Saxon 123 Infanterie-Division (from XII Armeekorps and XII Reservekorps). No further Saxon divisions would be formed until 1916; the under-trained 53 Reserve-Division and incomplete 19 Ersatz-Division would not be triangularised until 1917.

Formation
  
123 Infanterie–Division was assembled in the area around Rozoy-sur-Serre (17 miles northwest of Rethel) during the first half of April 1915. At its head was a newly-formed divisional staff under Generalmajor Karl Lucius, former commander of the elite 45 Infanterie-Brigade (Saxon Grenadiers) in 23 Infanterie–Division.

The 'new' 245 Infanterie-Brigade was headed by Generalmajor Max Morgenstern–Döring and his staff from the dissolved 64 Infanterie–Brigade, taken from 32 Inf Div together with 3 Kgl Sächs Infanterie-Regiment Nr 178 (IR 178), formed in April 1897 and garrisoned at Kamenz in north–eastern Saxony. The elite 23 Inf Div had donated its only line regiment, 16 Kgl Sächs Infanterie-Regiment Nr 182 (IR 182), the youngest and highest-numbered in the Prussian peacetime sequence, garrisoned since October 1912 at Freiberg in southern Saxony. Both regiments had been copiously replenished after severe losses in 1914 (which had seen IR 178 reduced to five officers and 493 ORs organised as two provisional companies), and had experienced no significant action since the German capture of Hurtebise and La Creute farms west of Craonne between 25 and 27 January. The 'new' brigade was completed by Reserve-Infanterie-Regiment Nr 106 (RIR 106), raised at mobilisation in the north–western towns of Glauchau, Wurzen and Borna and originally part of 24 Reserve-Division. They too had suffered heavily; on 26 September 1914 alone their 4 Kompanie lost all of its officers, whilst on the following day the regimental commander Oberstlt Graf von Mandesloh was shot through the arm and rendered hors de combat until November. Hundreds of replacements had arrived since October, but the arrival of 400 more as late as 6 May 1915 suggests that RIR 106 was still rebuilding when it joined the new division. Consequently the original differences between the two active regiments (mainly young conscripts and full–time soldiers) and the reserve regiment (overwhelmingly reservists in their late 20s or 30s) were already increasingly blurred, and would later disappear completely.

Upon arrival in the concentration area, all three regiments were dismayed to be rearmed with old 1888 commission rifles in place of the trusty 1898 Mausers they had left with their old divisions. The following week was spent in re-familiarisation and practice with the 'new' weapon; although normally serviceable, its Mannlicher–derived action would prove insufficiently robust in the appalling conditions at Souchez that autumn.

Initially the division possessed only one regiment of field artillery, Feldartillerie-Regiment Nr 245 (FAR 245), comprising one Abteilung each from Reserve-Feldartillerie-Regiment Nr 23 and 24 (XII Reservekorps); each Abteilung consisted of three, four-gun batteries, all with the standard 7.7 cm field gun. By Autumn 1915 this rather meagre force would gradually increase to a brigade of two regiments, including several 10.5 cm light field howitzer batteries. Like the rest of the 'independent' divisions of the 'fifties' and 'hundreds' series 123 Inf Div was also formed with organic heavy artillery (ordinarily a corps asset), specifically a battery of four 15 cm howitzers. This was 3 Battr/ Reserve-Fußartillerie-Bataillon Nr 19, the only divisional element taken from the Eastern Front (where its parent battalion was still engaged); in autumn 1915 it was redesignated Fußartillerie-Batterie Nr 123.

With the exception of the two squadrons of Kavallerie-Abteilung 123 (1 Eskadron/Kgl Sächs 1 Husaren–Regiment 'König Albert' Nr 18 and 5 Eskadron/Kgl Sächs 3 Husaren-Regiment Nr 20, both from XII Armeekorps), the division's remaining units all had new numbers. However the medical (Sanitäts) and supply (Train) formations were simply existing units renumbered. Engineering assets were limited, comprising a single field company (Pionier–Kompagnie Nr 245) and a searchlight platoon (Scheinwerferzug Nr 123); a second field company would be added in the Autumn.

Into the line

The new division first went into the line in mid-April to the left of XII Armeekorps, holding the still largely intact villages of Loivre and Courcy on the west bank of the Aisne-Marne Canal, two to three miles north of Reims. With observation from Fort de Brimont and the adjacent Batterie de Loivre, the German artillery was dominant; according to the regimental history of RIR 106, 'a couple of 21 cm howitzer rounds', fired at Reims sufficed to halt any French shelling, ensuring that this remained an extremely quiet sector. Regimental histories, photos and correspondence all depict this as an idyllic period, punctuated by bathing in the canal and inter–company football tournaments. Nevertheless, the regimental history of IR 178 lists fourteen dead for this tour, including illness and accidents; IR 182 lost three men dead, one officer and eight men wounded and one man with 'nervous shock'.

On 18-19 May 1915 this comfortable existence came to an abrupt end with designation as a 'fliegende division' and transportation to the Lille area, there to form a reserve for reinforcements and reliefs on the Flanders and Artois fronts. Here too life was still quite pleasant, with opportunities to catch up with family and friends in XIX Armeekorps. It was expected that, as part of the meagre German reserve in the West (efforts then being focused in the East), 123 Inf Div would be an object of major interest for Entente espionage. Consequently the regimental history of IR 178 – quartered in the suburb of Hellemes – describes numerous railway embarkation exercises leading to 'day trips' for training in the countryside, also intended to keep any spies guessing. For similar reasons there were frequent parades through the centre of Lille, with the regimental band playing and battalion flags flying. This was useful practice for the formal celebration of the King of Saxony's birthday on 25 May, and for an even grander exhibition of Saxon military pageantry on 12 June when the amiable monarch visited the city. In a contrastingly modern addition to the traditional pomp, the leading Saxon aviator Oberlt Max Immelmann gave an aerobatic display. At this time the future ace was still flying two-seaters, and had narrowly survived being shot down behind German lines on 3 June; by the end of 1915 he would gain fame flying the Fokker Eindecker as the 'Eagle of Lille'. Barely a year later he would be shot down and killed at Sallaumines on 18 June 1916, aged 25.

This parade also marked the end of the first period at Lille for IR 178. On 13 June it was transported to Loison near Lens, where RIR 106 had arrived the previous day. IR 182 and half of FAR 245 had already left the Lille area on the night of 6-7 June, but had travelled further south to Chauny as reinforcements for IX Armeekorps. The division would not be reunited until mid-July.

Facing the British

IR 178 and RIR 106 were now temporarily subordinated to the Silesian 117 Inf Div as relief for its own infantry, all 'fought out' as reinforcements in the major battle still raging on Vimy Ridge. Consequently the Saxons now held the front where the British would overrun the luckless Silesians on 25 September. IR 178 was on the left at Cité St Pierre holding the Double Crassier, and RIR 106 in the centre to the west and northwest of Loos. Following a brief rest at Lille from 23-25 June after their deployment at Chauny, which had cost them Fähnrich Jungandreas and 20 men dead, plus 65 wounded, IR 182 joined them on 26 June, to the right of RIR 106. [Note: On this date IR 182 joined Silesian 117 Inf Div until July 10, 1915]

This experience would later prove invaluable to the Saxons during the Battle of Loos. They now faced the British for the first time, although evidently seeing very little of them. In the front line they found 'model' trenches as yet unaffected by any experience of major fighting:

The position was well excavated in chalky soil, the trench walls extensively faced with wood; this later proved to result in the blocking of all traffic through the trenches when under heavy bombardment. In every platoon sector stood a basin of lime solution, in which the protective pad worn on the left shoulder was to be dipped in the event of an enemy gas attack. (2)

This rudimentary pad mask and (chlorine–neutralising) hyposulphite solution were still in front-line use at the Battle of Loos; despite the numerous shortcomings of their PH 'smoke helmets', the British would actually enjoy superior protection for their first gas attack. Issue of the advanced Gummimaske began in September, but was not complete on the Western Front until the winter.

In June 1915 the future battlefield was still quiet. For the first few days the Second Battle of Artois was still audibly and visibly raging on the heights further south. The only direct consequence in the Loos area was a modest increase in artillery fire when the French resumed their offensive on 16 June. After the unsuccessful attack at Aubers Ridge in May, the British gunners could ill afford to be lavish with ammunition, and little damage was inflicted.

The three Saxon regiments were relieved over the successive nights of 8-11 July by the Silesians and returned to Lille; the 123 Inf Div would now be deployed at the front together for the first time in two months. In the interim, the divisional artillery had been significantly reinforced. On 31 May Hptm Faber had arrived from the Saxon training ground at Königsbrück with a new III Abteilung for FAR 245, comprising two batteries (7 and 8) of 10.5 cm howitzers. However, until 23 July, when the I Abteilung and 8 Batterie returned from Chauny, the division remained badly under-gunned.

Over the successive nights of 13-16 July, the three infantry regiments replaced fellow Saxons of 53 Reserve-Division at St Eloi, where the latter had spent the past month anxiously awaiting a British attack which never came; they now returned to their usual sectors north of the Menin Road. First to arrive was IR 178 in the centre, followed by IR 182 on the left at Wytschaete and finally RIR 106 on the right at the Ypres-Comines Canal. 123 Inf Div now formed the extreme right flank of 6 Armee, facing the British for the second time; within a week it was relieved by Bavarians. This brief tour was chiefly memorable for a German mine detonation on 17 July; it is unlikely that the divisional engineers were seriously involved. The division would return to St Eloi after the Battle of Loos, when the three regiments would occupy exactly the same sub–sectors.

For the rest of the summer 123 Inf Div remained in OHL reserve in the Lille-Roubaix area, where the troops were kept busy with tactical exercises and working parties, resulting in a steady trickle of casualties, ten dead and thirty–nine wounded from IR 182 alone. These tasks took individual units further afield than in May, with IR 178 detached from 6-11 August to work on the defences as far south as Arras. However, there were also welcome opportunities for open-air bathing and sightseeing in the pretty Flemish towns in the rear areas. Best of all, home leave was finally granted to those who had been longest in the field – for the first time, at least in IR 178.

Wretched conditions

As noted earlier, the division suffered from a shortage of engineers, an endemic problem on the Western Front even before its formation. Since the onset of trench warfare the services of the Pioniere had been in unprecedented and overwhelming demand, and measures taken to address this in 123 Inf Div were typical. During the summer each infantry regiment sent a contingent (from IR 178: 3 officers and 125 ORs) to Hem for a three-week training course conducted by Pionier-Kompagnie 245. Upon their return each contingent formed a quasi–official regimental 'Infanterie Pionier Kompagnie', semi-skilled 'pioneers' (in the British sense) who worked under Pionier (engineer) direction. This stop-gap system would be phased out in the first half of 1916 – by which time such formerly specialist skills as construction of field fortifications and use of hand grenades had been promulgated throughout the infantry, whilst provision of actual Pioniere and of unarmed labour units had greatly increased.

During the night of 11-12 August, RIR 106 temporarily held the devastated Vimy sector opposite Neuville St Vaast, where the French onslaught had ground to a bloody halt in late July; it relieved Saxon IR 134 'borrowed' from XIX Armeekorps earlier that summer. During the night of 18-19 August, RIR 106 was relieved by IR 182, in turn relieved during the night of 23-24 August, and returned to Roubaix; for two days (24-25 August) IR 178 was also attached to 11 Inf Div/VI Armeekorps near Vimy.

On 26 August, the entire division was assembled at Lens, where it was subordinated to the Prussian IV Armeekorps from 'Prussian Saxony', mostly former Saxon territory annexed after the Napoleonic Wars. At this time IV Armeekorps held the front from Souchez in the south to Hulluch in the north, with (south to north) its own 8 and 7 Inf Div and the aforementioned 117 Inf Div. Heavily engaged against the final French push in late July, 8 Inf Div was in serious need of rest and was relieved by the Saxons during the course of 26-27 August, it replaced them as OHL reserve at Douai. The resulting divisional dispositions remained unchanged until the Battle of Loos.

123 Inf Div had seen virtually no action since its formation, and many of the men had never fought in an actual battle; the regimental history of IR 178 lists a total of 'only' twenty dead for the entire period between 1 April and 26 August 1915. Now their luck had run out, for the new sector would have been one of the worst on the Western Front even without the threat of an impending offensive. The loss of Ablain and Carency to the French in the previous battle meant that the front line around Souchez now constituted a precarious salient on dangerously low ground, under clear observation from multiple sides – most acutely, from the commanding heights of the Lorettohöhe, better known perhaps as Notre Dame de Lorette. This tenuous position was anchored by German possession of the Giesslerhöhe, a long wooded hill between Souchez and Givenchy which constituted the only remaining high ground between the front and the vital communications hub of Lens, where corps and divisional headquarters were located. Thus there was no question of voluntarily ceding any ground here, even though traffic between front and rear was suicidal by day and fraught with peril by night; the approach routes for all regimental sectors ran along the valley of the Souchez stream from Angres, clearly overlooked from the heights to the southwest. This ran diagonal or roughly parallel to the front, so that IR 178 (in the centre) and IR 182 (on the left) had to pass uncomfortably close behind their neighbour's front line – often over open ground – to reach their own. The trenches had been hastily constructed in battle and maintained with extreme difficulty under constant artillery harassment, so that there was no proper system of successive defensive lines and not even one continuous line along the entire divisional frontage. Only a proportion of the wretched dug-outs were proof against the lightest artillery fire, and many trenches lacked even the basic protection of traverses; effective wire obstacles were largely absent.

The divisional front was narrow, with each regimental sector held by a single battalion; regiments operated a three-day cycle of battalion reliefs between the front line, support and rest in the Lens area. RIR 106 on the right was in the least invidious position; as well as the safest approach route to their rear, they had the widest stretch of no man's land to their front and the 'luxury' of telephone cables that ran as far as the front line. In the centre IR 178, holding the Hexenkessel ('witches' cauldron', the name of several dangerous spots on the Western Front) and the Torgauer Graben, was mostly 80-150 metres from the enemy, dwindling to as little as 30 metres at two places marked by incessant hand grenade exchanges. By far the worst off was IR 182 on the western edge of the ruins of Souchez; the opposing lines were uncomfortably close and the ground especially wet, tending towards outright swamp in the south. A front-line tour here was a scarcely imaginable 72-hour ordeal, standing in waist–high water or crouching on sandbag islands, constantly tormented by the merciless attentions of bombing parties, snipers and artillery observers.

The Saxons knew that a major offensive was imminent, and that the armies in the west would have to withstand it with minimal reserves. From mid-September the French bombardment steadily increased, while aircraft roamed largely unmolested over the German hinterland directing artillery and dropping bombs. Consequently the division worked feverishly to improve inadequate defences with vast numbers of sandbags brought up nightly from the Pionierpark at the Angres crossroads. A major construction effort was required every night merely to rectify the damage inflicted during the day; somehow, however, a continuous front line was established, except in the swamp on the far left.

The main Allied bombardment began on 20 September, increasing to overwhelming 'drum fire' on 24 September. By this time the date of the offensive had been discovered from a deserter and, in accordance with contemporary doctrine, the front line packed with troops; probing attacks on 24 September were easily repelled. Little did the Saxons suspect that the following day would bring not only the anticipated frontal assault, but also a breakthrough further north which would threaten their rear in Lens – and pit them simultaneously against the British and French Armies ...

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Bibliography Unpublished Sources ...

Pache Oberleutnant d.R. a.D. Alexander Das Kgl. Sächs. 16. Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 182 ...Pache: History Infantry Regiment 182 pp 101–102 [Prof. Dr. phil. Alexander Pache, also known as Alfred was born on 31st December 1878 in Steinigtwolmsdorf near Bautzen.]

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OCTOBER 19, 1915

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1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12, COMPANY 3

BERRY AU BEC

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12, Company 3, Freiberg - Action and Deaths

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BELGIUM: FLANDERS

(November, 1915 - July 5, 1916)

Return To Index

5. ... the division went to Flanders (November), where it held a sector south of the canal from Ypres to Comines ...

Histories of Two Hundred and Fifty-One Divisions of the German Army which Participated in the War (1914-1918), pp. 620-622 http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924027835317 - https://archive.org/stream/historiesoftwohu00unit#page/n5/mode/2up \

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NOVEMBER, 1915

123 INFANTRY REGIMENT

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NOVEMBER 10, 1915

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF NOVEMBER 10, 1915

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/1458344 -  DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, November 10, 1915, Page 10029, S. 223 - W. 296, Edition 780

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NOVEMBER 11, 1915

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF NOVEMBER 11, 1915

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/2963435 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, November 11, 1915, Nr. 377 - S. 223, Page 10061, Edition 782.

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November 18, 1915

Namen der Gefallenen:

1. Weltkrieg:

Dienstgrad

Name

Vorname

Todesdatum & Ort

Einheit

Bemerkungen
Soldat SPARSCHUH Kurt Erich 18.11.1915 Comines in Belgien 16. IR 182 Artillerietreffer in Unterkunft

Limbach-Oberfrohna (OT Kändler), Landkreis Zwickau, Sachsen: - http://www.denkmalprojekt.org/dkm_deutschland/limbach-oberfrohna_
kaendler_7jk_1870-71_wk1_sachs.htm

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NOVEMBER 23, 1915

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF NOVEMBER 23, 1915

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/3374261 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, November 23, 1915, Page 10329, S. 288, Edition 802.

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NOVEMBER 28, 1915

        LIEUTENANT HANS WOLFGANG REINHARD [11 December 1888 – 6 October 1950]

 

DECEMBER 6, 1915

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF DECEMBER 6, 1915

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182 [12 Company - complete?]

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/2923521 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, December 6, 1915, Page 10577, B 239 - S 233, Edition 822

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DECEMBER 18, 1915

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF DECEMBER 6, 1915

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182 [12 Company - complete?]

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/3332563 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, December 18, 1915, Page 10762, S. 238, Edition 835.

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WYTSCHAETE

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Above: A cramped dugout entrance in the IR 182 trenches.
Note the use of sandbags made from patterned civilian fabrics, common in the first winter in the trenches but far less so by the end of 1915.

Above: British Blindgänger (duds) collected in the IR 182 trenches in winter 1915-16.
[Person with beard possibly same one standing next to F W Krause, later, in 1918]

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1916

Soldaten Infanterie Regiment 182 Freiberg mit Offiziere, Handgranaten 1916

https://picclick.de/Soldaten-Infanterie-Regiment-182-Freiberg-
mit-Offiziere-Handgranaten-362415134474.html

123 INFANTRY DIVISION

BRIGADE 245

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

Histories of Two Hundred and Fifty-One Divisions of the German Army which Participated in the War (1914-1918), pp. 620-622 http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924027835317 - https://archive.org/stream/historiesoftwohu00unit#page/n5/mode/2up

1916

JANUARY

 

  • Above: Trench map of Wytschaete from the regimental history of Saxon IR 179 (24.ID), which took over the marked sector in November 1916. In January 1916 the sector assigned to IR 182 extended from the red dot-dash line at the western end of Bayernald southwards and westwards as far as Dingelreiterhof and Markwald (Petit Bois, hidden under the map key). This line was held by two battalions abreast, each with three companies in line and one in immediate reserve. After IR 182 left in March ....

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German 2nd army
1 July 1916

245th Brigade
          178th Infantry Regiment
                    1 Machine Regiment

182nd Infantry Regiment
           1 Machine Gun Company
           195th Machine Gun Sharpshooter Troop

106th Reserve Regiment
          1 Machine Gun Company

Organization of German Divisions 1916, p. 63 - http://carl.army.mil/nafziger/916GXIA.pdf

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JANUARY 15, 1916

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF JANUARY 15, 1916

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12, Freiberg

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/3400044 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, January 15, 1916, Page 11026, S. 244, Edition 857

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JANUARY 18, 1916

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12, COMPANY 3

BERRY AU BEC

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12, Company 3, Freiberg - Action and Deaths

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JANUARY 28, 1916

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JANUARY 31, 1916

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF JANUARY 31, 1916

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182.

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/3570176 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, January 31, 1916, Page 11168, S. 249, Edition 869

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FEBRUARY 10, 1916

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF FEBRUARY 10, 1916

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182.

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/2760761 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, February 10, 1916, Page 11280, S. 252, Edition 878

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/1538830 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, February 10, 1916, Page 11281, S. 252, Edition 878

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FEBRUARY 15, 1916

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF FEBRUARY 15, 1916

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/3449687  - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, February 15, 1916, Page 11326, S. 253, Edition 882

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FEBRUARY 19, 1916

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF FBRUARY 19, 1916

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/3470078 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, February 19, 1916, Page 11372, S. 255, Edition 886

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FEBRUARY 27, 1916

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

NOTE ACCORDING TO THE BOOK:  Teacher In The Trenches

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/3463479

Above: Field Kitchen (Feldkuche or colloquially Gulaschkanone) of IR 182
on an unknown front, taken from the same photo group as the preceding pictures from Messines.

1. In the middle of March, 1916, the 123d Division was put at rest near Bruges.
2. It was temporarily in line about April 9 at St. Eloi; then remained as a reserve to the armies in the vicinity of Menin and Courtrai until July 5 ...

Histories of Two Hundred and Fifty-One Divisions of the German Army which Participated in the War (1914-1918), pp. 620-622 http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924027835317 - https://archive.org/stream/historiesoftwohu00unit#page/n5/mode/2up

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MARCH 2, 1916

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF MARCH 2, 1916

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12

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  • 1. Kompagnie

    • names listed

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/1549042  - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, March 2, 1916, Page 11498, S. 258 - W. 350, Edition 896

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MARCH 9, 1916

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF MARCH 9, 1916

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182.

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/3519437 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, March 9, 1916, Page 11570, S. 261, Edition 902

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MARCH 15, 1916

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF MARCH 15, 1916

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/1555012  - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, March 15, 1916, Page 11637, S. 262 - w. 356, Edition 907

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MARCH 17, 1916

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF MARCH 17, 1916

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182.

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF MARCH 28, 1916

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182.

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/3735031 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, March 28, 1916, Page 11785, Nr. 491 - S. 266, Edition 918

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APRIL=- MAY, 1916

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182

  • Meanwhile the infantry regiments of the 123. ID were in quarters south of Bruges in 4. Armee reserve; due to the attack their rifle companies were placed at the disposal of 46. Reserve-Division on 3 April and returned to their previous rear area. Here they were mainly employed for several weeks in constructing new defences behind the '1B' line, and incurred significant losses from artillery fire. II./IR 182 however was put back into the front line from 3 to 9 April; their commander Hptm. Max Bunde was awarded the MStHO(R) on 12 May, having remained at his post throughout although wounded. After the successful counter-attack at the craters on 6 April by RIR 216, RIR 106 was used to relieve RIR 215 in the left flank sector (8-25 April) and did not rejoin 123, ID until 22 May ... [MStHO(R) is the Military St. Henry Order or Militär-St. Heinrichs-Orden]

On 20 May, 4. Armee decreed that XXIII. RK would have continued use of one battalion from the division (II./IR 182, then I. and II./RIR 106) on a fortnightly relief cycle. From 25 May a further battalion (II./IR 178 until 5 June, then III./RIR 106 until 24 June) served in the front line with 4. Ersatz-Division, facing the inundations near Woumen south of Diksmuide (see map on p. 124). IR 178 was reunited at Kortriik on 5 June at the disposal  of XII. AK, leading to dangerous working parties on the Menin Road. During this period the elements in reserve south of Bruges were fully occupied with tactical exercises an the training of newly arrived placements ...

On 27 June the reassembled division was placed on alert to entrain at six hours' notice. The fateful order came on 5 July, and the division departed for Cambrai to take part in the Battle of the Somme ....

Yser, Dixmude, Woumen

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/89
/Yser_inundations_and_western_approaches_to_Houthoulst_Forest%2C_1914.jpg

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APRIL 6, 1916

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF APRIL 6, 1916

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182.

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/3443377 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, April 6, 1916, Page 11929, S. 269, Edition 930

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APRIL 17, 1916

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF APRIL 17, 1916

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/3699091  - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, April 17, 1916, Page 12094, S. 273, Edition 944

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APRIL 27, 1916

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

AGUILCOURT

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12, Company 3, Freiberg - Action and Deaths

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MAY, 1916

RUDDERVOORDE

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1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12

MAY, 1916

MARLE, AISNE, WEST FLANDERS

Eight Soldiers of the Jäger - Bataillon Nr. 12 (Saxon) are photographed
standing in front of the
Salle de lecture Librairie at Marle near Vervins, May 1916.

(Deutsche Lese Halle - German Reading Halle - A. Cury, Owner)

https://twitter.com/foxton44/status/1276590537743761408/photo/1

 

MAY 2, 1916

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF MAY 2, 1916

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182.

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/3827692 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, May 2, 1916, Page 12285, Br. 519 - S. 276, Edition 959

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MAY 8, 1916

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF MAY 8, 1916

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182.

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/3806786 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE. May 8, 1916, Page 12374, S. 278, Edition 966.

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MAY 16, 1916

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF MAY 16, 1916

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/3490385  - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, May 16, 1916, Page 12525, B. 267 - S. 282, Edition 980

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JUNE 11, 1916

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182

WHITSUN

Pfingsten in Flanders 1916

A group of friends from Infanterie-Regiment 182 and an unidentified
non-Saxon unit celebrate Whitsun, which fell on 11 June 1916

Andrew Lucas, Jurgen Schmieschek, Fighting the Kaiser's War: The Saxons in Flanders 1914-1918, p. 99 - The Year 1916. 123. INFANTERIE-DIVISION - https://books.google.ca/books?isbn=1473848008

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JUNE 12, 1916

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12, COMPANY 3

LA VILLE AUX BOIS

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12, Company 3, Freiberg - Action and Deaths

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(VIII)

FRANCE: SOMME

(July 5, 1916 - July 22, 1916)

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SUMMER, 1916

JULY 5, 1916 - JULY 22, 1916

123 INFANTRY DIVISION

SOMME

TRÔNES WOOD

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capture_of_Montauban

[Trônes Wood lies to the north-east of Montauban]

Somme : la prise du Bois des Trônes

– Suite à la contre-attaque manquée de von Stein et von Kehl contre Montauban le 2 juillet, von Falkenhayn décide d’envoyer des renforts à la II. Armee afin de tenir le front de la Somme. Par conséquent, le Gossler-Gruppe (123. ID, avec des éléments des 11. et 12. RD) est envoyé d’urgence renforcer le secteur de Longueval.

At this date [July 5, 1916) it was transferred to the Somme and fought near Hardecourt and Maurepas until July 22, losing more than 6,000 men ...

Histories of Two Hundred and Fifty-One Divisions of the German Army which Participated in the War (1914-1918), pp. 620-622 http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924027835317 - https://archive.org/stream/historiesoftwohu00unit#page/n5/mode/2up

JULY 5, 1916

123 INFANTRY DIVISION

BATTLE OF THE SOMME

JULY 7, 1916

JULY 8, 1916 - JULY 9, 1916

123 INFANTRY DIVISION

II BATTALION, INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

BATTLE OF THE SOMME

TRÔNES WOOD

« Z-Day ». Le 6 juillet, Henry Rawlinson et Emile Fayolle se retrouvent pour dresser les plans d’attaque. L’attaque doit donc s’effectuer le 8 juillet, en coopération avec le XXe Corps Français. Recevant ses ordres, Congreve ordonne à la 30th Division de Stanley, déjà éprouvée lors du « Z-Day », de s’emparer du Bois des Trônes. La 30th Divsion doit agir de concert avec la 39e DI française du Général Nourrisson, l’objectif et jointure des deux divisions étant la Ferme « Maltz Horn ». Du côté allemand, ce sont les RIR. Nr 38 et 51 (12. RD) et les restes de l’IR. Nr. 62. Et les premiers éléments de la 123. ID (Karl Lucius) arrivent dans le secteur de Guillemont dans la matinée du 8 juillet ...

Mais le II/Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 183 arrive en renfort depuis le secteur de Ginchy – ....

JULY 9, 1916

123 INFANTRY DIVISION

II BATTALION, INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

BATTLE OF THE SOMME

TRÔNES WOOD

JULY 9 - 16, 1916

  • Together with his company Ltn. Pache distinguished himself in the battle of the Somme by outstanding courage in the fierce, bloody fighting for the possession of Trônes Wood in the sector of 12. Reserve-Division during the days 10 to 16 July 1916. After II. Batl. / Inf.-Regt. 182 had taken the wood in a magnificent assault on 9 July, it had to repel an extremely strong English counterattack which was pressed home following the strongest drumfire. The Englishmen who broke into the wood were thrown out again by Ltn. Pache after heavy, dogged single combat. Numerous prisoners were taken and the entire position held. It is only thanks to the valiant conduct of him and his men, his vigilance and initiative, that this attack too - driven home by the English northwest of Combles with superior forces - entirely failed ....

JULY 10, 1916

123 INFANTRY DIVISION

II BATTALION, INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

BATTLE OF THE SOMME

TRÔNES WOOD

JULY 12, 1916

123 INFANTRY DIVISION

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

BATTLE OF THE SOMME

TRÔNES WOOD

JULY 18, 1916

123 INFANTRY DIVISION

BATTLE OF THE SOMME

Can you provide his name? I want to see if I have the Verlustlisten for this period and regiment, thanks ....

THE PICTURE WAS UNAVAILABLE

Typical Iron Cross

Iron Cross, Ist Class, received in 1918.
Awarded, on August 17, 1916, to Lieutenant Theodor Günther , Infantry Regiment 182

http://www.kaiserscross.com/60401/90001.html

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JULY 24, 1916

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12, COMPANY 3

MISSERY

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12, Company 3, Freiberg - Action and Deaths

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JULY 25, 1916

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF JULY 25, 1916

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/4100178 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, July 25, 1916, Page 13561, S. 307, Edition 1064

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JULY 25, 1916

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12, COMPANY 3

BELLOYS

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12, Company 3, Freiberg - Action and Deaths

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JULY 27, 1916

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12, COMPANY 3

BELLOYS

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12, Company 3, Freiberg - Action and Deaths

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INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

HEM, NORD DEPARTMENT

http://1914-1918.invisionzone.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=26536

  1. The second map is from the History of Infantry Regiment 182, a Saxon regiment, at that time part of 23rd Infantry Division (I am fairly sure). This action took place while piecemeal reinforcement was almost the norm, as the German army attempted to fight fires on the Somme. So, whilst the 1st and 3rd Bns IR 182 were deployed down near Hem, the 2nd Bn was deployed forward under command of 12th Res Div, to reinforce the severely depleted RIR 51 and assist in the 9 Jul 16 counter-attack against Trones Wood , which had had to be evacuated the previous night due to the immense weight of shelling to which it was being subjected. The actual attack seems to have been preceded by a very effective German barrage and the wood was taken relatively easily. A number of prisoners were captured. According to the history of IR 182, they were from 16th and 17th Bns Manchester Regiment ...

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    NOTE:

    1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12, COMPANY 3

        AND

    I BATTALION, INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

    AUGUST 22, 1916 - OCTOBER 10, 1918

    AT THIS POINT JÄGER-BATAILLON, NR. 12, COMPANY 3 LEAVES THE SOMME
    BUT DOES NOT GO TO THE RUSSIAN FRONT
    AS WOULD INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

NOTE:

Jäger

The records for Friedrich Wilhelm Krause indicate that
he was in the Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12, Company 3, Freiberg,
for the period by October 1, 1915 but not on March 31, 1918.
However, for all of 1917 he was in and out of hospital.

NOTE:

IR 182
By February 11, 1918 Friedrich Wilhelm Krause had returned to his former Infantry Regiment 182 in Romania.

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KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES 16 REGIMENT 182
ON THE RUSSIAN FRONT

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1916

AUGUST - OCTOBER, 1916

RUSSIA

123 INFANTRY DIVISION

AUGUST 8, 1916

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF AUGUST  8, 1916

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/4239057  - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, August 8, 1916, Page 13890, S. 312, Edition 1088.

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/4227108  - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, August 8, 1916, Page 13891, S. 312, Edition 1088.

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/2743920 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, August 8, 1916, Page 13892, S. 312, Edition 1088.

ERNST BAUCH:

AUGUST 8, 1916

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182

Bauch, Ernst, Ort Dresden-A. - 1 Compagnie, Leicht verwundet (slightly wounded) [In Russia?]

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/4239057  - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, August 8, 1916, Page 13890, S. 312, Edition 1088

Note: He died in Galicia on October 16, 1916

Namen der Gefallenen

[Names of the Fallen]

Name

[Name]

Vorname

[First Name]

Todesdatum & Ort

[Death Date and Place]

Einheit

[Unit]

Bemerkungen

[Comments]

BAUCH

Ernst

16.10.1916 Galizien [Galicia]

I.R.182

 

Dresden-Laubegast, Sachsen: Säulenhalle inmitten des Kirchplatzes in Dresden-Laubegast -
[Dresden-Laubegast, Saxony: portico in the middle of the church square in Dresden-Laubegast]

 http://www.denkmalprojekt.org/dkm_deutschland/dresden-laubegast_wk1_sachs.htm

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AUGUST 12, 1916

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF AUGUST 12, 1916

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182.

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/3643382 - - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, August 12, 1916, Page 14007, S. 314, Edition 1096

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/3664021 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, August 12, 1916, Page 14008, S. 314, Edition 1096

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/2269919  - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, August 12, 1916, Page 14009, S. 314, Edition 1096

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AUGUST 23, 1916

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF AUGUST 23, 1916

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182.

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/4317813 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, August 23, 1916, Page 14295, S. 319, Edition 1118.

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Histories of Two Hundred and Fifty-One Divisions of the German Army which Participated in the War (1914-1918), pp.  684-686. http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924027835317 - https://archive.org/stream/historiesoftwohu00unit#page/n5/mode/2up

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SEPTEMBER 1 - 2, 1916

  • Two large German Armies, one commanded by General von Falkenhayn, a former Chief of Staff, the other by General Mackensen, a mighty strategist who had compelled the Russian retreat during the previous winter, were dispatched to the scene. Falkenhayn was to operate from the north, driving the Romanians back across the Carpathians, while Mackensen was to assault the Romanians from the south with the aid of Bulgarian, German and Turkish forces operating along the line of the Danube. They hoped to crush the Romanians between them as in a vice ...

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SEPTEMBER 6, 1916

[Note: By some accounts, the 182nd Infantry Regiment was not transferred from the 123 Division to the 216 Division until October, 1916.
Other Accounts say September 6, 1916]

SEPTEMBER 8, 1916 - JANUARY 29, 1918

212 INFANTRY DIVISION

COMMANDER

FRANZ SAMUEL LUDWIG FRANKE

Kommandeure

Generalmajor Franz Franke 8. September 1916 bis 29. Januar 1918
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/212._Division_%289._
K%C3%B6niglich_S%C3%A4chsische%29

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INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

SEPTEMBER 8, 1916 - APRIL 22, 1917:

177. Infanterie-Brigade / 216. Infanterie-Division

wiki-de.genealogy.net/IR_182

177. Infanterie-Brigade (war vorher die Brigade Zenker)

16. Kgl. Sächs. Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 182 - 08.09.1916 - 22.04.1917

http://wiki-de.genealogy.net/216._Infanterie-Division_%28WK1%29

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INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

APRIL 22, 1917 - AUGUST 20, 1917:

86. Reserve-Infanterie-Brigade / 216. Infanterie-Division

wiki-de.genealogy.net/IR_182

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1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12, COMPANY 3

AUGUST 22, 1916 - DECEMBER, 1918

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216 DIVISION

 KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES 16 REGIMENT 182
AND
1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12, COMPANY 3

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ON THE EASTERN FRONT

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REGIMENT 182 WITH 216 DIVISION BEGINNING OF OCTOBER, 1916 UNTIL SEPTEMBER, 1917

1916 - 1921

Eastern Front - South Russia: Some Background Notes For Krause Road to South Russia

216th DIVISION (1916-1917)

(INDEPENDENT DIVISION)

216 INFANTRY DIVISION, 16 ROYAL SAXON, 182 INFANTRY REGIMENT

Histories of Two Hundred and Fifty-One Divisions of the German Army which Participated in the War (1914-1918), pp. 684-686 - https://archive.org/stream/historiesoftwohu00unit#page/n5/mode/2up

Histories of Two Hundred and Fifty-One Divisions of the German Army which participated in the War (1914-1918) (Washington Government Printing Office, 1920)- http://www.archive.org/details/historiesoftwohu00unit

Brigade:
          182nd Infantry Regiment [Note: It went to the 216th Division in October 1916 following tour in Russia]
          354th Infantry Regiment
          21st Reserve Regiment

Calvary:
           Unknown

Artillery Brigade:
          54th Field Artillery Regiment

Engineers:
          2nd Guard Landwehr Pioneer

Organization of German Divisions 1916, p. 68 - http://carl.army.mil/nafziger/916GXIA.pdf

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AUGUST 22, 1916

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12, COMPANY 3

ESTRĖES, AINSE

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12, Company 3, Freiberg - Action and Deaths

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AUGUST 23, 1916

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12, COMPANY 3

ESTRĖES, AINSE

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12, Company 3, Freiberg - Action and Deaths

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AUGUST 24, 1916

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12, COMPANY 3

ESTRĖES, AINSE

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12, Company 3, Freiberg - Action and Deaths

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SEPTEMBER 4, 1916

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12, COMPANY 3

ESTRĖES, AINSE

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12, Company 3, Freiberg - Action and Deaths

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SEPTEMBER 4,  1916

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12

RICHARD PAUL BEHR

SOYÉCOURT, SOMME

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Dienstgrad: Gefr.; Name: BEYER; Vorname: Paul; Todesdatum & Ort: 03.08.1916, Estrées;  Einheit: 4.Kp

http://www.denkmalprojekt.org/2014/koeniglich-saechsisches-1-jaeger-bataillon-nr12%20_a-g_wk1.html

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SEPTEMBER 5, 1916

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12, COMPANY 3

ESTRĖES, AINSE

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12, Company 3, Freiberg - Action and Deaths

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SEPTEMBER 6, 1916

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12, COMPANY 3

ESTRĖES, AINSE

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12, Company 3, Freiberg - Action and Deaths

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SEPTEMBER 6, 1916

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF SEPTEMBER 6, 1916

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/4477105  - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, September 6, 1916, Page 14635, [S. 325?], Edition 1142

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SEPTEMBER  22, 1916

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12, COMPANY 3

 GARDELOVO, MACEDONIA

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12, Company 3, Freiberg - Action and Deaths

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SEPTEMBER 29, 1916

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF SEPTEMBER 29, 1916

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/2675612  - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, September 29, 1916, Page 15174, S. 334, Edition 1182

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OCTOBER 14, 1916

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF OCTOBER 14, 1916

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/4827701 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 14, 1916, Page 15547, S. 342, Edition 1208

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NOVEMBER 9, 1916

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF NOVEMBER 9, 1916

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/5011747  - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, November 9, 1916, Page 16154, S. 352, Edition 1253

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NOVEMBER 14, 1916

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12, COMPANY 3

  NOVAK, MACEDONIA

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12, Company 3, Freiberg - Action and Deaths

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NOVEMBER 18, 1916

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12, COMPANY 3

DOBROMIR, MACEDONIA

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12, Company 3, Freiberg - Action and Deaths

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NOVEMBER 25, 1916

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12, COMPANY 3

DOBROMIR, MACEDONIA

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12, Company 3, Freiberg - Action and Deaths

DOBROMIR, MACEDONIA

Hill 1050, Paralovo

https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-95nhN8848OQ/VjUanuAStSI/AAAAAAAAbXg/KdL4u265YjoSV4Fe5dgbPC1V1Q9TKD_7g/s1600/kota-1050-macedonia-8.jpg

  • The German army realized that the loss of Elevation 1050, would put into question the defense of all their positions in the bow of the Crna Reka and would open the road for conquest of Central Macedonia, so it put a great effort in its defense. Both warring sides paid great attention to this location and a number of soldiers gave their lives on this area.

The German command took very seriously the defense of this position and the task was confided to the Hunting Guard battalion [Guard Jäger Bataillon], which managed to maintain their positions and repel the attacks of the Serbian army in the month of November 1916. At that time, quite heavy battles were also fought for conquering Grunishki Vis. Serbian army failed to win the Elevation 1050 and the advent of winter 1916/17 year led to stagnation of the Macedonian front and its transformation into trench warfare.

https://off-road.mk/elevation-1050-first-world-war-location-on-the-macedonian-front/ 

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NOVEMBER 26, 1916

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12, COMPANY 2

PARALOVO NEAR HILL 1050, MACEDONIA

  • Leutnant der Reserve Paul Schneider, 2nd comp., 1st Royal Saxon Jäger Battalion 12, killed in action on 26 November 1916 at Paralovo near Hill 1050 in Macedonia.
       
    The battalion history reports the following about this day:
       
    "Early on 26 November, lively artillery fire began against our position in the Crna Bend and continued unabated until noon. From 3 o'clock in the afternoon the enemy worked his way against our position. His attack was particularly directed against the 2nd company, which in turn suffered considerably from enemy machine gun fire. In spite of effective defence and our well-placed fire, the enemy managed to get to our position at 200m and to take hold of the Schleiergraben (base II). In order to make it more difficult for him to nest, the forecourt was kept under constant machine gun and infantry fire until a counterattack threw him back to his starting position. During this process Lt. d. R. Schneider met his heroic death."
      
    Collection: Mark Beirnaert

https://www.facebook.com/ZeemeringColouring/

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NOVEMBER 27, 1916

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12, COMPANY 3

DOBROMIR, MACEDONIA

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12, Company 3, Freiberg - Action and Deaths

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NOVEMBER 28, 1916

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12, COMPANY 3

 BEI ARMATUS HILL 1050, NORTH OF MONASTIR, MACEDONIA

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12, Company 3, Freiberg - Action and Deaths

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NOVEMBER 29, 1916

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12, COMPANY 3

 BEI ARMATUS HILL 1050, NORTH OF MONASTIR, MACEDONIA

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12, Company 3, Freiberg - Action and Deaths

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DECEMBER 5, 1916

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12, COMPANY 3

 BEI ARMATUS HILL 1050, NORTH OF MONASTIR, MACEDONIA

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12, Company 3, Freiberg - Action and Deaths

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DECEMBER 6, 1916

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12, COMPANY 3

 BEI ARMATUS HILL 1050, NORTH OF MONASTIR, MACEDONIA

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12, Company 3, Freiberg - Action and Deaths

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DECEMBER 9, 1916

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12, COMPANY 3

 BEI ARMATUS HILL 1050, NORTH OF MONASTIR, MACEDONIA

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12, Company 3, Freiberg - Action and Deaths

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DECEMBER 10, 1916

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12, COMPANY 3

 BEI ARMATUS HILL 1050, NORTH OF MONASTIR, MACEDONIA

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12, Company 3, Freiberg - Action and Deaths

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DECEMBER 11, 1916

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12, COMPANY 3

 BEI ARMATUS HILL 1050, NORTH OF MONASTIR, MACEDONIA

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12, Company 3, Freiberg - Action and Deaths

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DECEMBER 16, 1916

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12, COMPANY 3

 BEI ARMATUS HILL 1050, NORTH OF MONASTIR, MACEDONIA

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12, Company 3, Freiberg - Action and Deaths

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DECEMBER 20, 1916

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12, COMPANY 3

 BEI ARMATUS HILL 1050, NORTH OF MONASTIR, MACEDONIA

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12, Company 3, Freiberg - Action and Deaths

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MARCH [2?], 1917

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12, COMPANY 3

LESKOVAC, SERBIA

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12, Company 3, Freiberg - Action and Deaths

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MARCH 11, 1917

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12, COMPANY 3

LESKOVAC, SERBIA

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12, Company 3, Freiberg - Action and Deaths

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MARCH 12, 1917

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12, COMPANY 3

LESKOVAC, SERBIA

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12, Company 3, Freiberg - Action and Deaths

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MARCH 13, 1917

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12, COMPANY 3

LESKOVAC, SERBIA

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12, Company 3, Freiberg - Action and Deaths

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MARCH 15, 1917

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12, COMPANY 3

LESKOVAC, SERBIA

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12, Company 3, Freiberg - Action and Deaths

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MARCH 16, 1917

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12, COMPANY 3

LESKOVAC, SERBIA

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12, Company 3, Freiberg - Action and Deaths

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MARCH 17, 1917

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12, COMPANY 3

LESKOVAC, SERBIA

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12, Company 3, Freiberg - Action and Deaths

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MARCH 18, 1917

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12, COMPANY 3

LESKOVAC, SERBIA

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12, Company 3, Freiberg - Action and Deaths

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MARCH 18, 1917

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12, COMPANY 3

PRILEP, MACEDONIA

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12, Company 3, Freiberg - Action and Deaths

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MAY 3, 1917

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12, COMPANY 3

A.D. CRVENA STENA, MACEDONIA

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12, Company 3, Freiberg - Action and Deaths

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MAY 7, 1917

A.D. CRVENA STENA, MACEDONIA

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12, Company 3, Freiberg - Action and Deaths

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MAY 8, 1917

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12, COMPANY 3

A.D. CRVENA STENA, MACEDONIA

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12, Company 3, Freiberg - Action and Deaths

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MAY 10, 1917

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12, COMPANY 3

A.D. CRVENA STENA, MACEDONIA

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12, Company 3, Freiberg - Action and Deaths

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MAY 13, 1917

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12, COMPANY 3

A.D. CRVENA STENA, MACEDONIA

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12, Company 3, Freiberg - Action and Deaths

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MAY 15, 1917

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12, COMPANY 3

A.D. CRVENA STENA, MACEDONIA

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12, Company 3, Freiberg - Action and Deaths

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MAY 16, 1917

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12, COMPANY 3

A.D. CRVENA STENA, MACEDONIA

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12, Company 3, Freiberg - Action and Deaths

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OCTOBER 21, 1917

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12, COMPANY 3

STRAVANJ, MACEDONIA

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12, Company 3, Freiberg - Action and Deaths

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OCTOBER 30, 1917

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12, COMPANY 3

STRAVANJ, MACEDONIA

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12, Company 3, Freiberg - Action and Deaths

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MARCH 26, 1918

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12, COMPANY 3

BEI ARMATUS HILL 1050, NORTH OF MONASTIR, MACEDONIA

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12, Company 3, Freiberg - Action and Deaths

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SEPTEMBER - OCTOBER, 1918

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12

Click the Following For:

KÖNIGLICHES SACHSISCHES 1. JAGER-BATAILLON NR. 12 - MACEDONIA

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SEPTEMBER 19, 1918

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12, COMPANY 3

 RASIMBEJ-BRÛCKE, MACEDONIA

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12, Company 3, Freiberg - Action and Deaths

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OCTOBER 10, 1918

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12, COMPANY 3

GRAMAGJA, SERBIA

1. Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12, Company 3, Freiberg - Action and Deaths

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DECEMBER, 1918

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12

  • Im Dezember 1918 wurde das Bataillon in Lichtenberg aufgelöst ...

    • In December 1918, the battalion was disbanded in Lichtenberg ...

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/1._K%C3%B6niglich_
S%C3%A4chsisches_J%C3%A4ger-Bataillon_Nr._12

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216 DIVISION

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Above: Working party of IR 182 in Romania, circa 1917.

GALICIA - TRANSYLVANIA - ROMANIA (ROUMANIA)

BEGINNING OF OCTOBER, 1916 - SEPTEMBER, 1917

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INTRODUCTION TO GALICIA, TRANSLVANIA AND ROMANIA (ROUMANIA)

1916-1918

According to 251 Division book IR182 was in:

216 Division in 1916 Galicia-Transylvania/Roumania
212 Division in 1917-1918 Roumania/Ukraine

http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=24278 and http://www.1914-18.info/

GALICIA [Now South western Ukraine]  (1916)

TRANSYLVANIA / RUMANIA (September, 1916 - December 6, 1916)

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216  DIVISION

1916

Army Group Mackensen (Romania)

AUGUST 29, 1916 - NOVEMBER 10, 1918

[Anton Ludwig August von Mackensen]

Army Group Mackensen (Romania) later occupation army Romania
  29.08.1916 - 10.11.1918: Army Group Mackensen (Romania)

Heeresgruppe Mackensen (Rumänien)
später Besatzungsheer Rumänien
29.08.1916 - 10.11.1918:
Heeresgruppe Mackensen (Rumänien)

[He followed this up in 1916 with a successful campaign against
Romania (under the overall command of General Erich von Falkenhayn).
He was in command of a multi-national army
of Bulgarians, Ottoman Turks, and Germans. - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_von_Mackensen ]

http://wiki-de.genealogy.net/HGr._Mackensen_%28Rum%C3%A4nien%29

1916 Rumänien

9th Army Falkenhayn/Mackensen - August 27, 1916 - September 18, 1916

http://www.emersonkent.com/map_archive/romanian_campaign_01.htm

AUGUST 27, 1916

Romania declared war on Austria-Hungary

http://wiki-de.genealogy.net/HGr._Mackensen_%28Rum%C3%A4nien%29

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  • 7. September 1916 Konrad Krafft von Dellmensingen ...

Gen. Lt. Konrad Krafft von Dellmensingen awarded on - 7 Sept. 1916. He was awarded Oakleaves on 11 Dec. 1916 ...

http://www.hotlinecy.com/KCPix/BlueMaxRecipients.pdf  and http://www.pourlemerite.org/

AUGUST 28, 1916

Formation of the Army Group Mackensen and the army of the Danube

http://wiki-de.genealogy.net/HGr._Mackensen_%28Rum%C3%A4nien%29

SEPTEMBER 1, 1916

SEPTEMBER 6, 1917

BRZEZANY

SEPTEMBER 20, 1916

BRZEZANY

   

Brusilov Offensive, June 4, 1916 - September 30, 1916

books.google.ca/books?isbn=1851096728
A Global Chronology of Conflict: From the Ancient World to the Modern Middle ... edited by Spencer C. Tucker - p. 1622

http://www.worldwar1.com/tgws/big/romap1.jpg

OCTOBER 2, 1916

  • On the morning of October 2, 1916, a Romanian division, planning a surprise attack on Mackensen's rear, laid a pontoon bridge across the Danube River, between Silistria and Tutrakan. After crossing the Danube, the Romanians seized several villages, but they quickly retreated across the river when an Austrian monitor began shelling the bridge ....

 

OCTOBER 5, 1916

   

LONDON, October 5 .... In view of the lull on the Somme, interest is now concentrated
on the Balkan situation, particularly the positions in Rumania ...

LONDON, October 6 ... the Rumanians surprised Marshal von Mackenson by unexpectedly crossing the Danube marshes ...
Petrograd reports that a great battle is proceeding in the Dobrudja ...

http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&d=NOT19161007.2.28 -
TRAPPING MACKENSEN North Otago Times, Volume CIV, Issue 13693, 7 October 1916, Page 5

["Rumanians Flank Mackenson by Crossing Danube"[29 September and 5 October 1916] - http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F1071EFD3D5412738FDDAA0894D8415B868DF1D3 - NY Times, October 3, 1916]

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216 DIVISION

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GALICIA

BEGINNING OF OCTOBER, 1916 TO NOVEMBER 8, 1916

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Galicia

http://www.dirkbilland.de/Reisen/Galizien%202007/index.htm

Galicia

http://www.conflicts.rem33.com/images/Ukraine/1918_ukr.jpg

216 DIVISION

182 INFANTRY REGIMENT

Histories of Two Hundred and Fifty-One Divisions of the German Army which Participated in the War (1914-1918), pp. 620-622 http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924027835317 - https://archive.org/stream/historiesoftwohu00unit#page/n5/mode/2up

OCTOBER 1, 1916

 RICHARD HEIDRICH
(1 October 1916-15 May 1920: Platoon and Company Leader in the Royal Saxon 16. Infanterie-Regiment Nr.182.)

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

 OCTOBER 1, 1916

RICHARD HEIDRICH
(1 October 1916-15 May 1920: Platoon and Company Leader in the Royal Saxon 16. Infanterie-Regiment Nr.182.)

216 INFANTRY DIVISION

1. In Galicia (Brzezany) beginning of October [1916], the 216th Division [Independent Division] ....

Histories of Two Hundred and Fifty-One Divisions of the German Army which Participated in the War (1914-1918), pp.  684-686. http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924027835317 - https://archive.org/stream/historiesoftwohu00unit#page/n5/mode/2up

OCTOBER 9, 1916  

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OCTOBER 13, 1916

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF OCTOBER 13, 1916

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182.

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/4826341 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 13, 1916, Page 15517, S. 342, Edition 1206

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/4818698 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 13, 1916, Page 15518, S. 342, Edition 1206

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OCTOBER 16, 1916

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF OCTOBER 16, 1916

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/4961936 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 16, 1916, Page 15843, B 311 - S. 348, Edition 1230

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/4883507  - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, October 16, 1916, Page 15844, B 311 - S. 348, Edition 1230

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OCTOBER 16, 1916

GALICIA

Namen der Gefallenen

[Names of the Fallen]

Name

[Name]

Vorname

[First Name]

Todesdatum & Ort

[Death Date and Place]

Einheit

[Unit]

Bemerkungen

[Comments]

BAUCH

Ernst

16.10.1916 Galizien [Galicia]

I.R.182

 

Dresden-Laubegast, Sachsen: Säulenhalle inmitten des Kirchplatzes in Dresden-Laubegast -
[Dresden-Laubegast, Saxony: portico in the middle of the church square in Dresden-Laubegast]

 http://www.denkmalprojekt.org/dkm_deutschland/dresden-laubegast_wk1_sachs.htm

NOTE RE ERNST BAUCH:

AUGUST 8, 1916

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182

Bauch, Ernst, Ort Dresden-A. - 1 Compagnie, Leicht verwundet (slightly wounded)

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/4239057  - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, August 8, 1916, Page 13890, S. 312, Edition 1088

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NOVEMBER 2, 1916

        LIEUTENANT HANS WOLFGANG REINHARD [11 December 1888 – 6 October 1950]

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216 DIVISION

TRANSLVANIA

NOVEMBER 8, 1916 - EARLY NOVEMBER, 1916

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9TH ARMY

FALKENHAYN

216 DIVISION

182 INFANTRY REGIMENT

NOVEMBER, 1916

216 DIVISION

182 INFANTRY REGIMENT

NOVEMBER 8, 1916

TRANSYLVANIA

216 INFANTRY DIVISION

VALLEY OF THE OLT

... the 216th Division [Independent Division] was transferred to the Transylvanian front (Valley of the Olt) on November 8

Histories of Two Hundred and Fifty-One Divisions of the German Army which Participated in the War (1914-1918), pp.  684-686. http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924027835317 - https://archive.org/stream/historiesoftwohu00unit#page/n5/mode/2up  

NOVEMBER, 1916

[COUNTY] OLT

Germaine ...

[9th Army - 216 Division - Krafft Group]

3) Sectorul Olt Grupul Kraftt ]Krafft Group]

Corp alpin bavarez (Tuschek)
Divizia 216 infanterie (Veit) [Vett]
Divizia 2 Cavalerie (Etzl)

http://1914-1918.invisionzone.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=124744&st=175

NOVEMBER 10, 1916

NOVEMBER, 1916

[VALLEY OF THE ALT - ALUTA (also called OLT)]

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216 DIVISION

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ROMANIA (ROUMANIA) 1916

EARLY NOVEMBER, 1916 - DECEMBER, 1916

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9TH ARMY

FALKENHAYN

GROUP KRAFFT

216 DIVISION

182 INFANTRY REGIMENT

9th Army - The War in Rumania (November 1, 1916 - December 31, 1916)

Romanian Front - 1 November - 31 December 1916 (Master Cartographer Larry Hoffman)
 http://www.warchron.com/imagePages/maps/hoffman/Romania/Romania-1November1916.htm

2. It took part in the Roumanian campaign

Histories of Two Hundred and Fifty-One Divisions of the German Army which Participated in the War (1914-1918), pp.  684-686. http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924027835317 - https://archive.org/stream/historiesoftwohu00unit#page/n5/mode/2up 

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

ROYAL SAXON, 16TH INFANTRY REGIMENT 182, 12TH COMPANY

ROMANIA

Fritz Gebelein

 

LATE NOVEMBER, 1916

Crossing of the Danube

[The Danube remained a barrier to military operations until half of Mackensen's army crossed it in late November, 1916 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fl%C4%83m%C3%A2nda_Offensive ]

  • Donauübergang

http://wiki-de.genealogy.net/HGr._Mackensen_%28Rum%C3%A4nien%29

EARLY NOVEMBER, 1916 - NOVEMBER 23, 1916

9TH ARMY

GROUP KRAFFT (Krafft von Dellmensingen)

216 INFANTRY DIVISION

Meanwhile, Groups Morgen and Staabs were engaged in fierce battles with Romanian 2nd Army at the Kronstadt Passes. Here the Romanians resisted on the southern side of the mountain passes with nearly 100,000 soldiers.[224] Once Group Krafft advanced into the Wallachia plain, however, 2nd Army’s left flank became exposed. The Romanians withdrew the bulk of their forces south and established a concentric position northwest of Bucharest ... Groups Morgen and Staabs reached Campolung and Sinaia by November 25. The Romanians had abandoned every major mountain pass along the Transylvanian Alps. Falkenhayn’s feints the previous month, as well as the skillful use of Group Kühne to endanger the Romanian left wing, had borne fruit as the entire 9th Army stood inside Wallachia in late November ...

Still, all was not perfect with the German dispositions. On the one hand, Schmettow’s Corps and the 109th Division crossed the Alt River and threatened the Romanian 1st Army’s left wing . Groups Staabs, Morgen, and Krafft linked up and positioned themselves along the line Pitesti-Sinaia ...

http://www.michiganwarstudiesreview.com/2005/20050501.asp / http://www.michiganwarstudiesreview.com/2005/downloads/20050501.pdf

2. It took part in the Roumanian campaign ...

Histories of Two Hundred and Fifty-One Divisions of the German Army which Participated in the War (1914-1918), pp.  684-686. http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924027835317 - https://archive.org/stream/historiesoftwohu00unit#page/n5/mode/2up 

NOVEMBER, 1916

GROUP KRAFFT (Krafft von Dellmensingen)

216 INFANTRY DIVISION

Austrian Army Romanian and Russian Theater Beginning of November 1916

NOVEMBER, 1916

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NOVEMBER 1, 1916

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF NOVEMBER 1, 1916

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182.

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/5004227 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, November 1, 1916, Page 15983, S. 350, Edition 1240

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NOVEMBER 23, 1916

NOVEMBER 25, 1916

Received November 26 .... LONDON, November 25 ... A Russian communique says: In the Alt Valley the enemy energetically attacked and pressed back the Roumanians towards the south of Kalimanesht and Moldarosh ... Germans crossed the Danube near Zimnita ... A German evening communique says: A force of Mackensen's army crossed the Danube at several points ...

http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&d=WC19161127.2.28.1 - Wanganui Chronicle, 27 November 1916, Page 6, MACKENSEN ACROSS THE DANUBE.

NOVEMBER 25, 1916

LONDON. November 25 ... A German communiqué says: - ..."General von Mackensen's army is likewise engaged at other points ... "We have captured Orsova and Turnu-Severin on the Danube in Western Roumania". ...

http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&d=CHP19161127.2.47 - A BLACK HOUR. Press, Volume LII, Issue 15758, 27 November 1916, Page 7

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NOVEMBER 26, 1916

http://www.worldwar1.com/tgws/big/romap2.jpg

NOVEMBER 27, 1916 - DECEMBER 3, 1916

KRAFFT GROUP

216 INFANTRY DIVISION

NORTH-WEST OF BUCHAREST

At 29th of November, the line of the German Front advanced like an invasion wave. The circle arch have diminished its ray. At North-East, Kraftt Group [Krafft Group] has occupied Pitesti and was advancing along the driveway with railways towards Golesti-Titu. The Group was now made of three Divisions of Infantry: the Bavarian Alpine Corps , the 216th German Division and the 73rd Austro-Hungarian Division ...

The three Armies: Kraft, Kuhne and Kosch, represented with this face a force of 12 Divisions of Infantry and four Cavalry Divisions ...

For the systematization of the description of the fights given in the days of 30th of November-3rd of December, the battle theatre may be separated in three Sectors ...

On the side of the enemy operated in this direction [Krafft Army]  Kraftt Army von Delmensiengen, made out of the Bavarian Alpine Corps, the 73rd Austro-Hungarian Division, the 216th Division the 2nd German Cavalry Division, as well as two Divisions: 301st and 41st of Kuhne Army ...

The plan for the battle of Bucharest ... After the informations of the Great Romanian Headquarter, the enemy was advancing in to two Groups: a Northern Group-Kraftt Army [Krafft Army] -was in Pitesti-Costesti region, and a Southern group -Kosch Army, along the driveway Alexandria -Bucharest .....

She had in front the four Divisions of Kraftt Army [Krafft Army] ...

NOVEMBER 30, 1916 - DECEMBER 3, 1916

GROUP KRAFFT
The Battle of Neajlov and Arges, 1916
[Battle for Bucharest]

 Grupul Krafft

http://www.panoramio.com/photo/45558714  

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9th Army - November 26, 1916 - January 7, 1916

Kraftt Army von Delmensiengen

http://www.emersonkent.com/map_archive/romanian_campaign_03.htm

Final Operations - November 26, 1916 - January 7, 1917

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Romania-WW1-3.jpg

DECEMBER, 1916

Orders of Battle:  Roumania, November 1916
Immediately following the defeat of Roumania
Army Front Erzherzog Karl, Generaloberst Karl Franz Josef
 IX. Deutsch Armee, Gen. d. Inf. von Falkenhayn
     K.u.K. Group Szivo, Oberst von Szivo
     LIV. Deutsch Korps, Genlt. Kühne
          XI. Bayerisch inf. div., Genlt. Kneußl
          CCCI. inf. div., Genmj. von Busse
     Schmettow kav. Korps, Genlt. Schmettow
          VI. Deutsch kav. div., Genmj. Sägner
          VII. Deutsch kav. div., Genmj. von Mutius
          XLI. Deutsch inf. div., Genmj. von Knobelsdorf
     Krafft Group, Genlt. Krafft von Dellmensingen
          LXXIII. K.u.K. inf. div., Feldmlt. Goiginger
          Alpine Korps div., Genmj. von Tutschek
          CCXVI. Deutsch inf. div., Genmj. Vett
     I. Deutsch res. Korps, Genlt. von Morgen
          XII. Bayerisch inf. div., Genlt. Huller
          LXXVI. Deutsch res. div., Genlt. Elstermann
          XXXIX. Deutsch res. Korps, Genlt. von Staabs
          LI. Honved inf. div., Genmj. Tanarky

9th Army - 216 Division - Krafft Group

http://www.oocities.org/veldes1/falkenhayn.html

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DECEMBER, 1916 - JANUARY, 1917

War theatre at Casin, Vrancea
and Focsani,

Grupul Morgen and Grupul Krafft

http://www.panoramio.com/photo/45558714

 

Rumania

Deutsche Soldaten-Zeitung, 4, Number 24, December 13, 1916

http://digital.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/
werkansicht?PPN=PPN778487652&PHYSID=PHYS_
0306&DMDID=DMDLOG_0001

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DECEMBER 1, 1916 - DECEMBER 5, 1916

Battle of the Arges

  • 01.12.1916 - 05.12.1916: Schlacht am Arges

http://wiki-de.genealogy.net/HGr._Mackensen_%28Rum%C3%A4nien%29

 

DECEMBER 1, 1916

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF DECEMBER 1, 1916

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182, Freiberg

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/3202819 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, December 1, 1916, Page 16652, S. 363, Edition 1290

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DECEMBER, 1916

The battle at Cricov
8-11th of December

The enemy was advancing with the two Armies of his. The IXth Army had as axis of advance the railway Ploiesti-Buzau. On the left of her, in the mountainous region, has constituted a Group Kraftt [Krafft], composed of all the elements Alpine Germans and Austro-Hungarians; then followed Morgen Group, increased as number of Divisions, and at the right was Kuhne Army ...

The attack unfolds favorable in the beginning;at 10:30 [December 8] in the morning the 12th Division is at Albesti and the 23rd Division beyond Tomsani. In this moment, though, Morgen, which was holding the enemy Front with three Divisions, 12th,76th and 216th, pronounced a strong counterattack on the two wings of the Romanian Group of Attack ...

Early in the morning, the enemy attacks the entire line of the IInd Romanian Army with Kraftt [Krafft] and Morgen Corps ...

The battle of Rimnicu Sarat ...

The battle at Rimnicu Sarat has been engaged by the Germans with the totality of their forces, existing between Carpathian Mountains and Danube : 17 Divisions. At the left , the IXth Army, under the Command of General Falkenhayn , had to execute the principal mission with the mass of the 10 Divisions from Infantry of his . The advancing axis of the IXth Army was the driveway and railway Buzau-Rimnicu Sarat; his operational field was the region of hills and mountains in the North of Buzau County and Rimnicu Sarat County, until Buzau River. When the Romanian-Russian position will be broke through , will begin the action also the Danube Army, Commanded by General Kosch, made out of five Divisions of Infantry German-Turk-Bulgarian and two Cavalry Divisions. She will operate in the flat region between Buzau River and Danube River, with the direction towards Braila. ...

The battle at Rimnicu Sarat has lasted six days, from 22nd to 27th of December and it was the greatest battle in the retreat times. The Germans name her also "Weihnachtsschlacht"-Christmassbattle , because her decissive action was given in the days of Chatolic Cristmass. General Falkenhayn , of which IXth Army, will carry the weight of the battle, has set to its left wing Kraftt Group [Krafft Group], made out of the totality of its mountain troops; this one would operate against the Group of Romanian Divisions in the mountaineous region and of hills; its mission was to operate a turning of the Romanian flank in Dumitresti region . Mounted on Buzau-Rimnic driveway was Morgen Group; its mission was to breakthrough the Russian lines and conquer Rimnicu Sarat city.

http://www.panoramio.com/photo/45558714

Siret line

After the victory at Rimnicu Sarat , Falkenhayn had a moment of hesitation. The hardships of the winter, which was announcing more and more threatening , the exhaustion of his troops and the resistance of the enemy showed him the continuation of the advance as a risky bussiness. At 31st of December however, the Great German Headquarter ordered the continuation of the operations ;the IXth German Army and the Danube Army have to occupy line Focsani -lower Siretului Valley ...

The Front of the two Armies was descending thus , from Oituz mountains and of Vrancei ,along Milcov River , continuing then with Putna Valley and at the Sout of Siret until Braila region, occupied by the enemy at 4th of January. [1917] The grouping of the enemy forces was the following: in Oituz-Vrancea Sector was operating ,just as until now, Gerock Group, from the Army of Archduke Iosif ; in Odobesti Sector, against Vaitoianu Group, was operating Kraftt Group[Krafft Group] made out of the Divisions of German Alpiners and Austro-Hungarians; in Focsani and Putna Sector, against the right of the IVth Russian Army, was operating Morgen Group; Kuhne and Kosch Army were operating in Siret Sector ...

For the conquer of Magura-Odobestilor, Falkenhayn destined to Kraftt Group ]Krafft Group] two more Divisions from the left of Morgen Group, which will make a veiling attack. At 5th of January, the Bavarian Alpine Corps has attacked at the junction point of Rimnic Group and Mannerheim Divisions 12th and 1st Romanians ...

Romanian Campaign of 1916.The Invasion History of the War for Wholing Romania/Constantin Kiritescu  - http://1914-1918.invisionzone.com/forums/

Generalleutnant Konrad Krafft von Dellmensingen 11.12.1916 .    24.11.1862-22.08.1953 ...

....
3. At the end of December it was south of Rimmieu-Sarat. [Rimnicu Sarat]

Histories of Two Hundred and Fifty-One Divisions of the German Army which Participated in the War (1914-1918), pp.  684-686. http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924027835317

https://archive.org/stream/historiesoftwohu00unit#page/n5/mode/2up 

Rumania

Deutsche Soldaten-Zeitung, 4, Number 25, December 20, 1916

http://digital.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/werkansicht?PPN=
PPN778487652&PHYSID=PHYS_0319&DMDID=DMDLOG_0001

(5)

216 DIVISION

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1917

IR 182, 11th Company

1917 Recruits -
Zur Erinnerung an die Rekrutenzeit 1917

http://imgur.com/a/9mhEj

https://www.reddit.com/r/history/comments/
3kygo5/my_grandmother_found_some_old_images_of_my_great/

(D) ROMANIA (ROUMANIA) 1917

JANUARY, 1917 - AUGUST, 1917

MACKENSEN ARMY GROUP

9TH ARMY I (GERMAN) RESERVE CORPS: VON MORGAN

216 DIVISION

182 INFANTRY REGIMENT
JANUARY, 1917
 
 
182nd Infantry Regiment, 216th Infantry Division
 
standard overcoat, with field-grey covers ...
 
Nigel Thomas, The German Army in World War I (2): 1915-17, p. 47
 
https://books.google.ca/books?id=qAgLrRyS1vIC&pg=
PA61&lpg=PA61&dq=182nd+focsani+january+1917
&source=bl&ots=OysxmNQ5oW&sig=
jOFHd6AXjcuAOWBCMQZA6D5soJ0&hl
=en&sa=X&ei=h9vkVMz_KozfsASM84DQDg&ved=0CB0Q6AEwAA#v=
onepage&q=182nd%20focsani%20january%201917&f=false
 
JANUARY, 1917

1. In January, 1917, the 216th Division [Independent Division] was in line east of Foesani [Focsani], where it remained until August.

Histories of Two Hundred and Fifty-One Divisions of the German Army which Participated in the War (1914-1918), pp.  684-686. http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924027835317 - https://archive.org/stream/historiesoftwohu00unit#page/n5/mode/2up  

[1917]

War of Position

  • Stellungskrieg

http://wiki-de.genealogy.net/HGr._Mackensen_%28Rum%C3%A4nien%29

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JANUARY 10, 1917

177. Infanterie-Brigade / 216. Infanterie-Division

177. (Kgl. Sächs.) Infanterie-Brigade 

Kriegsgliederung am 10.01.1917 - War division on 01.10.1917

16. Kgl. Sächs. Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 182
Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 354
Reserve-Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 21
Kavallerie-Eskadron 205
Neumärkisches Feldartillerie-Regiment Nr. 54
Stab und IV. Bataillon Reserve-Fußartillerie-Regiment Nr. 14
2. Kompanie/Garde-Landwehr-Pionier-Scheinwerferzug Nr. 262
Gebirgs-MG-Kompanie Nr. 170
Fernsprech-Doppelzug Nr. 416
Feldsignal-Zug Nr. 438
Feldsignal-Zug Nr. 439

http://wiki-de.genealogy.net/177._Infanterie-Brigade

http://www.linkfang.de/wiki/216._Division_%28Deutsches_Kaiserreich%29

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1917 [Rumänien]

[From 1917 on, Mackensen was the military governor
of the parts of Romania (mainly Wallachia) controlled by the Central Powers
 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_von_Mackensen ]

JANUARY 12, 1917

Annexation of the Military Administration in Romania

  • 12.01.1917: Angliederung der Militärverwaltung in Rumänien.

http://wiki-de.genealogy.net/HGr._Mackensen_%28Rum%C3%A4nien%29

MACKENSEN ARMY GROUP

9TH ARMY I (GERMAN) RESERVE CORPS: VON MORGAN (May, 1917: Robert Paul Theodor Kosch)

216 INFANTRY DIVISION

182 INFANTRY REGIMENT

January 1917 - June 1917

ROUMANIA / SOUTHERN MOLDAVIA

The German army in World War I.: 1917-18, Volume 3 By Nigel Thomas, Ramiro Bujeiro, p. 14 -
http://books.google.ca/books?id=AodiUXZo5R0C&pg=
PA7&lpg=PA7&dq=%22september
+1917%22+%22rumania22&source=bl&ots=QqrGdoPxzO&sig=
tZG8V1CF0FayklzWrn3fGsI0Ijk&hl=en&ei=MhETeapBIOC8gbOsZGzAQ&sa
=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CDAQ6AEwAw#v=snippet&q=212&f=false

http://books.google.ca/books?id=_1PJ4GwRSKUC&printsec=frontcover&dq=isbn:
1780965753&hl=en&sa=X&ei=4v-XUpCEL7PQsATbg4GIBg&ved
=0CDAQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false - Page 14

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1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12, COMPANY 3

JÄGER KRAUSE LIGHTLY WOUNDED, C. APRIL 20, 1917

APRIL 20, 1917 - APRIL 30, 1917

20/04/1917   Hospital Activity: "Jäger Batallion 12", Company 3
22/04/1917   Hospital Activity
28/04/1917   Hospital Activity: Jäger Batallion 12, Company 3
30/04/1917   Hospital Activity

Probably wounded in either Wallachia, or in western or southern Moldavia

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[NOTE: Romania signs an armistice with the Central Powers on April 20, 1917, ending Romanian involvement in World War I
http://althistory.wikia.com/wiki/Russian_Surrender_%28WW_I_Central_Powers_Victory%29 ]

INJURIES REPORTED JUNE 4, 1917

REPORT OF JUNE 4, 1917

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg
[They appeared as an appendix to the Army Gazette
and were also published in the German Empire Gazette as well as the Prussian State Gazette]

REPORT OF JUNE 4, 1917

DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE

1917-06-04, Krause, Wilhelm, Bischofswerda, Bautzen

Page Number 18853
Ausgabe 1483
Datum 1917-06-04
Last name Krause
First name Wilhelm
Ort Bischofswerda, Auerbach
[NOTE: Auerbach is the birth place for another soldier listed directly below Wilhelm Krause]
Liste Sachsen 412
Reg. o.ä.

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/5986836  - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, June 4, 1917, Page 18853, S. 412, Edition 1483.

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APRIL, 1917 - MAY, 1917

LIGHT INFANTRY (Jäger) BATTALIONS - 12 SAXON

The German Army in World War I (3): 1917-18, Volume 3 By Nigel Thomas, p. 21

books.google.ca/books?isbn=1780965753   

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MAY 1, 1917 - MAY 20, 1917

1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12, COMPANY 3

KRAUSE IN HOSPITAL - FÜRTH, GERMANY

MAY 1, 1917 - MAY 20, 1917

Jäger Friedrich Wilhelm Krause

01/05/1917 - 20/05/1917 K. Reservelazarett Fürth : [Hospital] K. Reserve Hospital Fürth, From May 1, 1917 to May 20, 1917
15/05/1917   Hospital Activity: "Jäger Battalion 12", Company 3 - Bischofswerda mentioned

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[JULY]

JULY 19 - MID-AUGUST

https://fedora.e-book.fwf.ac.at/fedora/get/o:850/bdef:Content/get#page=36&zoom=auto,-12,657  -
Wolfram Dornik, The Emergence of Ukraine. Self-Determination, Occupation, and War in Ukraine, 1917-1922. (2015), Chapter 1A, p. 5.

216 INFANTRY DIVISION

182 INFANTRY DIVISION

JULY 22, 1917 - SEPTEMBER 3, 1917

Romanian Front - 22 July - 3 September 1917 (Master Cartographer Larry Hoffman)
http://www.warchron.com/imagePages/maps/hoffman/Romania/Romania-22July1917.htm

216 INFANTRY DIVISION

182 INFANTRY DIVISION

JULY 22, 1917 - SEPTEMBER 3, 1917

Romanian Front - 22 July - 3 September 1917 (Master Cartographer Larry Hoffman)
http://www.warchron.com/imagePages/maps/hoffman/Romania/Romania-22July1917.htm

216 INFANTRY DIVISION IN RUMANIA

JULY 23, 1917

Austrian Army Russo - Romanian Theater 23 July 1917

 

[AUGUST, 1916 - Ist Corps - I. Korps - I. Armeekorps]

a) Sector I reserve Corps, stretching from Suraia to a line which would cut Putna valley and Susita, with south-north direction, between Ivancesti village and Satu Nou village. The terrain is flat with gorges, some of them with water some of them dry, with the west –east direction and and cut across by the road and railway Focsani –Marasesti, of which direction is north-south. General von Morgen, the commander of the Ist reserve Corps, had in this sector, without counting the divisions, 89 prusian, 12 bavarian and 216 saxon, which were making the Ist Corps, of two more divisions: reserve 76 and 115. To have the troops concentrated in the attack zone itself, Divission 12th Bavarian, which previously occupied the shore of Siret, between Biliesti and Suraia, was withdraw and taken south of Padurea Neagra (black forrest), between Paraipan and Biliesti. In the place of this division was created a new one, Divission 303 commnded by General Wehmer-made out of seven infantry battalions de Landsturm, taken from the occupation force of Muntenia. this subsector will have a pure defensive and observation role ...

As a reserve for the IXth army there were: german Division 12 at Focsani ...

AUGUST, 1917

216 INFANTRY DIVISION

182 INFANTRY DIVISION

Histories of Two Hundred and Fifty-One Divisions of the German Army which Participated in the War (1914-1918), pp.  684-686. http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924027835317 - https://archive.org/stream/historiesoftwohu00unit#page/n5/mode/2up  

AUGUST ENGAGEMENTS

RUMANIA

AUGUST 6, 1917 - AUGUST 19, 1917

[AUGUST]

The Breakthrough of the Russian Front.

In the night of 5-6 August the german artillery started a strong bombardment over the line Faurei-Siret and over the eastern shore of Siret river, south of Movileni. Shells of different calibers, grenades, shrapnel, machinguning, they were all falling like the rain over the Russian lines between the railway and Siret river, and also over the Romanian positions across the river. Towards morning, waves of axfixiant gass emerged from the enemy lines especially over Padurea Neagra( Black Forrest), chocking the air into a dense fog. Between the clocks 4 and 7 in the morning the bombardment reached an extreme of violence.

General von Morgen had the order to execute with the Ist german Corps the breakthrough of the Russian front. He had thus aligned on the first line of the front three divisions: 12th Division on the right side leaned over Siret river, 89th Division on the left ,at Faureni; 76th Division in the middle, between the other two. Behind 12th Division he sat 216th Division, and in the reserve he kept the 115th Division.

Like a restrained resort, which unstrains instantly, he then started the attack at 7:30 in the morning, the infantery of the three german divisions against the russian lines. It wasn’t even needed so much power. The Russians are leaving, one by one their strong positions. Till midday they lose three lines of defence, which was one in front of the other. The germans cross Putna river on the northern shore, then they cross Sovarga valley and finally Putna-Seaca valley. The 12th german Division occupied the village Radulesti, Padurea-Neagra,and then Ciuslea village ....

At the left wing of the Ist german Corps, the 76th Division and the left wing of the 89th Division conquered the forrest Balta-Ratei (The Duck_Pond), pushing the left wing of the 13th Russian Division, neighbor with the 34th Russian Division, captured thus ten cannons positioning themselves in the front of Bizighesti village. Between the two wings which were going to left and right, Morgen pushed the  216th Division, which was in reserve till then, and by nightfall occupied Strajescu village without fight. The village has been evacuated by the Russians in their hasty run.

In the night of that day, the german victory seemed complete. The Russian front has been broken on a length of 10km at right, along the Siret river and with 3km along the railway Focsani-Marasesti. The Russian forces were blown away, some of them crossed on the left side of the Siret shore, under the protection of the Romanian artillery, and the big chunk was running disorderly to the north, leaving their strongholds one after the other, without putting up the slightest of fights. It was after the expression of a Russian historyograph “the first act of cowardice made by the Russians on the Romanian front”. Many will follow ...

Mackensen renounces at the plan of crossing Siret. After not being able to do “the surprise crossing”, von Eben reports that neither the plan of “crossing the river by force” has more of a chance. The front shore of the river is well fortified with Romanian troops and artillery,and this artillery is wonderfully shooting making heavy losses in the day to 12th bavarian Division. Today the german attack would have in the ribs also the 5th romanian Division, which is on the righy shore of Siret. This enterprise will be risky and exposed to a bloody failure. So the plan of crossing the SIret is renounced altogether: the 12th Bavarian Division is let to rest and observe on the shore of the river, and Morgen receives the order to push with full strength the other three divisions -216,76,89 - and to put in to the fighting line also the 115th Division, which was kept in reserve. Morgen attacks with full power the front of the 5th romanian Division. The german artillery starts to bobard the Russian-romanian lines, mostly the points Bizichesti, Moara-Alba, Moara –Rosie and Doaga village; the artillery of the 5th romanian divisions responds with”shot by shot” The germans have discovered the vulnerable point of the Romanian front At the right wing of the romanians are the leftovers of the 34th russian Division. One column of the 89th german Division attacks this very spot. The russians don’t hesitate much and run off their positions, leaving the right Romanian flank uncovered. Through this breach, storms the thick of the 76th german division, to turn the Romanian position. It is a critical moment. General Razu, the commander of the 5th Romanian Division, sends two battalions of the 7th Regiment, which he kept till then in reserve, behind the 32th Regiment. The romanians arrive in a hurry, they attack in point 77 the enemy, which was coming from Bizighesti, managing to stop the “stream of germans “and to fill the breach.

The preparations for the final german attack are finished around 11 o’clock. All the artillery has been brought near the new front,and the troops of the three german divisions: 89,76 and 216 are ready to throw themselves over the line occupied by the for Romanian regiments:7,32,3 and 8.At half past eleven, the german bombardment, ignited from cannons of all kind of calibers, especially 105 caliber and 150, becomes frightening. Our positions( romanian) organized in haste, during the night, by the troops tiered by marching all day, are carefully distroied. The german artillery aimings, goes over and beyond our lines to the reserves. In Jugastru valley,a company of 32 Regiment, gathered here, without trenches is completely destroyed-amongst the dead is also their commander, Captain Andreescu. The bridge over Siret, from Cosmest i, is bombed with 210mm shells ....

The attack of the 8th of August was combined with the attack of the Gerock Group, on the mountaineous front of the west ...The attack will be commenced by the 115th german Division, which was kept in reserve, at Faurei; she was elongated by 89th and 76th divisions, on a line from Ivancesti, on Putna-the south of Calin forrest, in the Susita elbow. The right flank of the german attack front was defended by the 212th Division along Siret, in the region Ciuslea-Radulesti, replacing thus the 12th bavarian Division which was taken out and brought back to Faureni ...

With all the yesterday’s succes on the Russian Front, the german commandment has no reason to be pleased: the target proposed by the new offensive to north-west has not been touched and the line Clipicesti-Diocheti was still far away. So the action wil continue doday with power in the same direction and by the same units, as yesterday, by the 115th, 89th and 78th divisions, from east to west. In the left of the german attack sector, the 62nd austro-hungarian Division will join the fight, as far as the circumstances will permit, and on the right side, the  216th german division will attack the positon occupied by the 5th romanian Division. Along Siret, in Ciuslea sector, the 212th and 303rd german divisions will maintain their resistance positions, facing east. The main blow will be received by the 71th Russian Division, seated in front of 76th and 89th german divisions, as well as the 13th russian Division, disposed in font of the 115th german Division and 62nd Austrian. The germans were following consecvent their tactic program: attacking only the Russian troops ...

All the gain made by the germns, with heavy losses, is now lost. Towards east, the artillery on the left shore of Siret violently bombards in flank the german lines, making big losses to  216th, 212th and 303rd divisions. At the center, in the middle of the duel of the two artilleries adversary, which does not weakens the strength, german troops attack the front ...The commander of the Romanian battalion takes measures for defence, by rising a wall of dead bodies in the driveway trench; the germans ar doing the same on the other side and, sheltered by this double dead bodies wall  ...

The offensive action wil be given on the whole front of 5th and 9th Divisions, with the involvement of the Russian divisions from the right. As the Romanian command was taking measures ,the german commandment, was measuring himself for a great offensive which he has also planned for the same day. Under the impression of the success obtained yesterday on the Russian front, Mackensen was sure that he will be able to give today a major blow. This was supposed to be made out of two attacks: one attack wil be given at the left side of the IXth german Army, in the sector of XVIIIth Wenninger Corps, which was inactive up until now. The concentrations of forces of this Corps was now complete. The Alpine Corps was now in position, over imposed between 62nd Austrian Division, which has gathered her front- and 115th German Division. The 13th Austrian Division was in the Corps reserve, and the 217th Division was taken from Gallawitz Army, and passed under the orders of XVIIIth Corps. Wenninger wil attack with the Alpine Corps, leaned on the right, by 1st german Corps: Morgen will attack wit 76th and 12th Bavarian Divisions - the las one taken again into front, after rest and recovery. He will hit the Russian troops, made out from the remains of the 71st and 34th Divisions, along the driveway and railway Focsani-Marasesti-Adjud,in the right flank of the 9th Romanian Division. So ,a double offensive, both hitting the Russian troops. The day of 11th August was announced to be a bloody one, filled with high hopes, both sides. The German offensive has started in the morning in Wenninger sector. The Alpine Corps attacks fith full strength the 15th Russian Division, assaulting Poiana village, advancing all the way in to Susita valley. At the left the Austrians have occupied the village Sirb. The German front has made in this way an important advance; he mastered Susita valley,Putna valley up to Vitanesti....

The Germans confess that their divisions,  216th and 76th have sufferd this day great losses, because of the Romanian artillery fire on the eastern shore of Siret river ....

on the left shore of Siret river, in front of the 212th and 303rd German Divisions. ...

The 9th day, 14th of August

The Germans have concentrated against the Romanian position of Prisaca Forest the whole 216th Division, which has been given to dispose of a very powerful artillery of all calibers, especially a lot of heavy artillery. The bombardment have started during the previous night and continued all morning. In the afternoon it has reached an intensity almost unknown till then. Shells of big caliber ,especially 150 mm, explosives mines, bombards, grenades, shrapnels, are beating like stonerain over the defensive workings. The terrain being weak in this sandy field of Siret River, the works are easily destroyed. The sticks of the wire nets are pulled altogether, the trenches are undone, burring alive the defenders. Clouds of smoke, of axfixiant gas and tear gas unfolds then everything in thick veil black-redish. It is complete blackness. It is an Inferno. At 5 in the afternoon the bombardment has reached paroxysm. Their effects are crushing. The entires of the first and the second Romanian defensive lines does not exist anymore; the strongholds of the third line are turned over as well. The phone lines, between battalions, artillery and commandments are destroyed. The soldiers in the trenches are killed by bombardment or axfixiated by gas and covered by the blowing Earth. The enemy artillery is elongating its aiming; She hits Cosmesti village, the bridge over Siret and the opposite shore, to stop any attempt of help. A cloud of axfixiant gas is waved down over the artillery of the 14th Division; all servants of a battery (four cannons) are out of service. At 7:45 in the evening ,under the protection of a cloud of dust and smoke, the Germans are beginning their attack. One column, in the power of almost two regiments, attacks in the connection point of 8th and 9th Romanian Regiments. The defenders are few and weak. It is the 9th day since the 5th Romanian Division is in the first line of fire, receiving blow after blow; the effectives of the Division are reduced at one third of what was in the beginning, and the man , unexchanged, are torn with exhaust at body and soul. The strongholds workings, destroyed cannot oppose any resistance; the soldiers of the Ist Battalion of the 8yh Regiment are pushed back and the front is broken. The enemy flow is pouring more and more and the breach is widened .The Germans open in three columns: one towards the left ...

15th-18th of August.

Mackensen has choose for applying the decisive blow, the Romanian portion of front between Panciu and Marasesti. The position was occupied in this sector by 13th Romanian Division and what was left from the heavy trialed 9th Division. On the map it draws an oblique line north-west-south –east, stretched from east of Dumbrava Village, where it was connected with the 10th Division, passing then south-west of the Razoare Forest, cutting the railway Marasesti-Panciu close to the height point 100,cutting the railways Focsani-Marasesti and Marasesti-Tecuci one half kilometer south of the Fabrica de Zahar(sugar factory) to link with the 14th Romanian Division near an arm of Siret River, one km or so further fromn the estern corner of Marasesti Village . In this sector, Mackensen proceeded in the days of 17th-18th of August to a new grouping of forces of infantry and artillery. Five infantry Divisions have constituted the attack group, which command has been given to Commander von Morgen. It was ,starting from north –west towards south-east, the 13th Austro-Hungarian Division, in the right angle of the railway Marasesti-Panciu; The 115th German Division , in continuation, south –east of the first one; the 76th German Division , south of Marasesti; in reserve has been brought the 89th German Division and set behind 115th and 12th Divisions.I n the left side of the attack group was XVIIIth German Corps; at the right Divisions 216th, 212th and 303rd;they will sustain with all their infantry and artillery the primer blow, which will be given by the attack group. The five Divisions of this, aimed against two Romanian Divisions were making, of course , a crushing superiority. The Marshall was sure that the day of 19th will bring him the so long waited success ...

The battle has begun at 6th of August by attacking the front, made exclusively by Russian troops. The Russian position of Iresti to Siret River, which constituted the fighting zone itself, was occupied by three Russian divisions The Austro Germans were opposing, on the same stretch, seven divisions. In the attack zone, between Siret and the railway, three German Divisions-76th,  216th and 12th have attacked the 34th Russian Division. The unfolding of the battle constituted then a double manoeuvre .On one side, the Germans have stretched , step by step the fighting zone westward, until the Muncelu plateau , in constant search of points of lesser resistance, represented by the Russian sectors ...

For the attack [August 6, 1917] which was to start from Focpni [Focsani] the following were placed in readiness under the command of Lt.-Gen. von Morgen (I. Res. Corps): the 12th Bavarian Inf. Div., 76th Res. Inf. Div., and the 89th Inf. Div., to be followed in second line by the 216th Inf. Div. As army reserve there stood at Focpni  [Focsani] the 212th and 115th Inf. Divs. On Aug. 6 the attack began, and had indeed the desired success on the first day in a N.W. direction. The attempt to cross to the E. bank of the Sereth, however, failed ...

A bridge-head on the W. bank of the Sereth threatening the German flank, held by the Rumanian 5th Div., was stormed by the 216th Inf. Div. of the I. Res. Corps on Aug. 14, severe losses being inflicted on the Rumanians. The further attempts of the I. Res. Corps, under which was placed the newly arrived 13th Rifle Div., to advance over the line Marasesti - Panciu, failed through Russian and Rumanian counter-attacks ...

On Aug. 28 the XVIII. Res. Corps, with the 216th Inf. Div. and the Alpine Corps, attacked from the line Panciu - N. edge of the Mt. Odobeshti in a N.W. direction, to gain the upper course of the Susita. After stubborn engagements lasting for many days against the Rumanian II. Corps, Jresci and the heights S. of the Susita were captured, upon which practically the old line, as it stood before the Rumanian attack, was reached. On Sept. 3 attacks from the German side were again suspended.

http://www.armyacademy.ro/e-learning/working/capitol_6.html

AUGUST, 1917

Battle of Marasesti (August-September 1917) ...

Both Divisions 216 Infantry and 212 Infantry Locations Can Be Seen near Focsani

http://www.worldwar2.ro/foto/?id=274&section=9&article=117

AUGUST, 1917

VALUE - 1917 ESTIMATE

Histories of Two Hundred and Fifty-One Divisions of the German Army which Participated in the War (1914-1918), pp.  684-686. http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924027835317 - https://archive.org/stream/historiesoftwohu00unit#page/n5/mode/2up  

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INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

AUGUST 21, 1917 - FEBRUARY 28, 1919:

408. Infanterie-Brigade / 212. Infanterie-Division

wiki-de.genealogy.net/IR_182

Übergeordnete Einheiten - Parent Units

ab 12.01.1917: 212. Infanterie-Division - From 12.01.1917: 212 Infanterie-Division

Untergeordnete Einheiten - Subordinate Units

(kgl. Sächs.) Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 415: 13.01.1917 - 28.02.1919
(kgl. Sächs.) Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 416: 13.01.1917 - Jan. 1919
16. Kgl. Sächs. Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 182:  21.08.1917 - 28.02.1919

http://wiki-de.genealogy.net/408._Infanterie-Brigade

AND
1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12

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212 DIVISION

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ROMANIA (ROUMANIA) 1917-1918

SEPTEMBER, 1917 - FEBRUARY 18, 1918

MACKENSEN ARMY GROUP

9TH ARMY I (GERMAN) RESERVE CORPS: VON MORGAN
 (Robert von Kosch: Commander On 1 May 1917 replacing Erich von Falkenhayn)

212 DIVISION

182 INFANTRY REGIMENT

212th DIVISION (1917-1918)

(INDEPENDENT DIVISION)

212 INFANTRY DIVISION (SAXON), 408TH (SAXON) INFANTRY BRIGADE,
16 ROYAL SAXON, 182 INFANTRY REGIMENT, 9TH COMPANY

JANUARY, 1917

212 INFANTRY DIVISION

In January 1917, the division was reorganized ... Later its infantry composition was completely changed until the Division from being Prussian became entirely Saxon ...

Histories of Two Hundred and Fifty-One Divisions of the German Army which Participated in the War (1914-1918), pp.  674-676. http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924027835317 - https://archive.org/stream/historiesoftwohu00unit#page/n5/mode/2up 

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212 INFANTRY DIVISION

182 INFANTRY

MARCH 25, 1917 - SEPTEMBER, 1917

[SEPTEMBER, 1917]

3. Relieved about March 25 [1917], before the attacks [in France] began and sent to Roumania.
The 415th and 416th [Saxon regiments] were sent to the Russian-Roumanian front (region of Braila in July, then Focsani-Tecucin). The division was brought up to three regiments by the assignment of the 182d (from the 216th Division - [An Independent Division]), a Saxon regiment. The division suffered heavy losses, especially the 182d Infantry, on September 9.

Histories of Two Hundred and Fifty-One Divisions of the German Army which Participated in the War (1914-1918), p.  675. http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924027835317 - https://archive.org/stream/historiesoftwohu00unit#page/n5/mode/2up

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MARCH 21, 1917 - MARCH 31, 1917

212 INFANTRY DIVISION TRANSPORT TO RUMANIA

http://wiki-de.genealogy.net/212._Infanterie-Division_%28WK1%29

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MARCH 27, 1917 - MAY 30, 1917

212 INFANTRY DIVISION IN RUMANIA - ARMY GROUP MACKENSEN

Rumänien

http://wiki-de.genealogy.net/212._Infanterie-Division_%28WK1%29

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MAY 30, 1917 - AUGUST 5, 1917

212 INFANTRY DIVISION IN RUMANIA - WAR OF POSITION

http://wiki-de.genealogy.net/212._Infanterie-Division_%28WK1%29

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JULY 22 - JULY 25, 1917

212 INFANTRY DIVISION IN RUMANIA - DEFENSIVE BATTLES

http://wiki-de.genealogy.net/212._Infanterie-Division_%28WK1%29

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JULY 23, 1917

212 INFANTRY DIVISION IN RUMANIA

Austrian Army Russo - Romanian Theater 23 July 1917

MACKENSEN ARMY GROUP

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JULY 26 - AUGUST 5, 1917

212 INFANTRY DIVISION IN RUMANIA - BREAKTHROUGH BATTLE

http://wiki-de.genealogy.net/212._Infanterie-Division_%28WK1%29

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AUGUST 21, 1917

Battle of Marasesti (July 24 - August 21, 1917)

Division 212 Infantry Location Can Be Seen near Focsani
(Note: D. 216 not indicated on this version below D. 12 Bav.)

http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?523075-WIP-The-WW1-mappack-%28-
 New-map-video-GALICIA-p-27-new-map-Easternfront-p29-fort-de-Vaux-p31%29/page4

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BY SEPTEMBER, 1914

212 INFANTRY DIVISION

182 INFANTRY REGIMENT

Histories of Two Hundred and Fifty-One Divisions of the German Army which Participated in the War (1914-1918), pp. 674-675  - https://archive.org/stream/historiesoftwohu00unit#page/n5/mode/2up

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AUGUST, 1917

SEPTEMBER, 1917

182 INFANTRY REGIMENT TRANSFERRED
FROM THE 216 INFANTRY DIVISION TO THE 212 INFANTRY DIVISION

SEPTEMBER, 1917

Histories of Two Hundred and Fifty-One Divisions of the German Army which Participated in the War (1914-1918), pp.  684-686. http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924027835317 - https://archive.org/stream/historiesoftwohu00unit#page/n5/mode/2up  

Max von Hausen

ON THE MACEDONIAN FRONT

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BATTLE OF MARASESTI [RUMANIA]

Battle of Marasesti (August-September 1917) ...

Both Divisions 216 Infantry and 212 Infantry Locations Can Be Seen near Focsani

http://www.worldwar2.ro/foto/?id=274&section=9&article=117

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SEPTEMBER ENGAGEMENTS

RUMANIA

SEPTEMBER 9, 1917

212 INFANTRY DIVISION

182 INFANTRY REGIMENT

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1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12, COMPANY 3

SEPTEMBER 20 - OCTOBER 12, 1917

KRAUSE IN HOSPITAL - FREIBERG, GERMANY
20/09/1917   Hospital Activity: "Jäger Battalion 12", Company 3: Hospital, "St. Johannis", Freiberg, Sachsen
06/10/1917 - 07/10/1917 Hospital, "St. Johannis", Freiberg, Sachsen
12/10/1917   Hospital Activity: Hospital, "St. Johannis", Freiberg, Sachsen

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OCTOBER 15, 1917

        LIEUTENANT HANS WOLFGANG REINHARD [11 December 1888 – 6 October 1950]

NOVEMBER 28, 1917

EGON VON NEINDORFF

http://www.lexikon-der-wehrmacht.de/Personenregister/N/NeindorffEv.htm

 

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1. KÖNIGLICH SÄCHSISCHES JÄGER BATAILLON NO. 12, COMPANY 3

DECEMBER 1, 1917

JÄGER BATAILLON NR. 12

Note: FRIEDRICH WILHELM "WILLIE" KRAUSE did not go to the Italian Front

Divisional Structure 1918

Jäger-Division part of the 54th Corps z.b.V [sur besonderen verwendung]

German Second Army

Divisional Order of Battle 1918

5th Ersatz Infantry Brigade

Jäger-Division (Deutsches Kaiserreich)

Die Division wurde während des Ersten Weltkriegs am 14. September 1917

gebildet und während des Kriegsverlaufs zunächst an der Italien-, dann an der Westfront eingesetzt. ...

[The division was formed during the First World War on 14 September 1917

and used during the course of the war, first on the Italy, then on the Western Front]

[15 September to 15 October --- deployment behind the Isonzo front 3rd to 23rd of October --- positional fighting on the Isonzo ....]

[NOTE: Jäger-Regiment Nr. 12 was not mentioned in 1917]

War division of 26 April 1918

5th Replacement Infantry Brigade

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DECEMBER 10, 1917 - MAY 7, 1918

TRUCE ON THE ROMANIAN FRONT

212 DIVISION

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/212._Division_%289._
K%C3%B6niglich_S%C3%A4chsische%29


DECEMBER 9, 1917

RUMANIA

DECEMBER, 1917 - DECEMBER 20, 1917- BEGINNING OF 1918

212 INFANTRY DIVISION

182 INFANTRY REGIMENT

4. In December the division was relieved from the sector west of Tecutin. The 415th and 416th were identified southeast of Panciu December 14; the 182d, northwest of Namoloasa, on the 20th.

RECRUITING

The division at the end of 1917 was entirely Saxon.

VALUE - 1917 ESTIMATE

Remained on the Roumanian front during a part of 1917 and the beginning of 1918. Moderate fighting value.

Histories of Two Hundred and Fifty-One Divisions of the German Army which Participated in the War (1914-1918), pp.  674-676. http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924027835317 - https://archive.org/stream/historiesoftwohu00unit#page/n5/mode/2up  

DECEMBER 21, 1917 - DECEMBER 31, 1917

KRAUSE ON THE EASTERN FRONT - TRANSYLVANIA

21/12/1917 31/12/1917 Hospital Activity: Auskunftsnebenstelle Kronstadt [Information Extension Kronstad  (Brasov) [Rumania] in Southern Transylvania?)]

DECEMBER 10, 1917 - MAY 7, 1918

212 INFANTRY DIVISION IN RUMANIA

http://wiki-de.genealogy.net/212._Infanterie-Division_%28WK1%29

DECEMBER 9, 1917

Truce of Focsani

  • 09.12.1917: Waffenstillstand von Focşani

http://wiki-de.genealogy.net/HGr._Mackensen_%28Rum%C3%A4nien%29

1918

212th DIVISION (INDEPENDENT DIVISION)
212 INFANTRY DIVISION (SAXON), 408TH (SAXON) INFANTRY BRIGADE,
16 ROYAL SAXON, 182 INFANTRY REGIMENT, 9TH COMPANY

1918

The German Forces in the Field, 6th Revision, April 1918, Independent Divisions, p. 151 - http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924027944838

JANUARY 30, 1918

MAX MORGENSTERN-DÖRING (Replaced Franz Francke]

COMMANDER - 212 INFANTRY DIVISION

http://home.comcast.net/~jcviser/army/id3.htm

JANUARY 30, 1918 - MARCH, 1919

MAX MORGENSTERN-DÖRING

DIVISION COMMANDER

212 INFANTRY DIVISION

http://wiki-de.genealogy.net/212._Infanterie-Division_%28WK1%29

JANUARY 30, 1918 - MARCH, 1919

212 INFANTRY DIVISION

DIVISION COMMANDER

Kommandeure

Generalmajor Max Morgenstern-Döring 30. Januar 1918 bis März 1919

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/212._Division_%289._
K%C3%B6niglich_S%C3%A4chsische%29

FEBRUARY 9, 1918

Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

GERMAN EAST ARMY

VOLHYNIA, KIEV, KHARKOV

FEBRUARY 11, 16 - 24, 28, 1918

182 INFANTRY REGIMENT

Friedrich Wilhelm Krause

11/02/1918   16. Infantry, Regiment No. 182, 9 Company: In Braila, Rumania?
16/02/1918 - 24/02/1918 1. Ersatz-Batl. 16. Inf.- Regt. No. 182 1. Garn.-Komp: In Braila, Rumania
17/02/1918   16. Infantry, Regiment No. 182, 9 Company: In Braila, Rumania
28/02/1918   16. Infantry, Regiment No. 182, 9 Company: In Braila, Rumania?

Brăila

http://content.answcdn.com/main/content/img/factbook/maps/ro-map.gif

ROUMANIA

APRIL 15, 1918

212 INFANTRY DIVISION

Histories of Two Hundred and Fifty-One Divisions of the German Army which Participated in the War (1914-1918), pp.  674-676. http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924027835317 - https://archive.org/stream/historiesoftwohu00unit#page/n5/mode/2up  

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APRIL 19, 1918

    

Similar Appearance to
Jäger Friedrich Wilhelm Krause

MAY 7, 1918

Treaty of Bucharest

http://wiki-de.genealogy.net/HGr._Mackensen_%28Rum%C3%A4nien%29

MAY, 1918

MACKENSEN GROUP AND 9TH ARMY 1ST RESERVE

May - June, 1918

9th Army - Transferred to western Front: June 19, 1918
Group Mackenson Group: Retreated from Rumania: November 10, 1918

The German army in World War I.: 1917-18, Volume 3 By Nigel Thomas, Ramiro Bujeiro, p. 14 -
http://books.google.ca/books?id=AodiUXZo5R0C&pg=
PA7&lpg=PA7&dq=%22september
+1917%22+%22rumania22&source=bl&ots=QqrGdoPxzO&sig=
tZG8V1CF0FayklzWrn3fGsI0Ijk&hl=en&ei=MhETeapBIOC8gbOsZGzAQ&sa
=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CDAQ6AEwAw#v=snippet&q=212&f=false

http://books.google.ca/books?id=_1PJ4GwRSKUC&printsec=frontcover&dq=isbn:
1780965753&hl=en&sa=X&ei=4v-XUpCEL7PQsATbg4GIBg&ved=0CDAQ6AEwAA#v
=onepage&q&f=false - Page 14

JULY 1, 1918

Renamed Occupation Army Romania

http://wiki-de.genealogy.net/HGr._Mackensen_%28Rum%C3%A4nien%29

OCTOBER 10, 1918

Collapse of the Bulgarian front, Re-declaration of war Romania

http://wiki-de.genealogy.net/HGr._Mackensen_%28Rum%C3%A4nien%29

 NOVEMBER 10, 1918

The Army Group was Disbanded

  • 10.11.1918: Die Heeresgruppe wurde aufgelöst.

http://wiki-de.genealogy.net/HGr._Mackensen_%28Rum%C3%A4nien%29

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212 DIVISION

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 TAURIDA

FEBRUARY 18, 1918 - 1922

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I Reserve Corp - General Kosch

212 DIVISION

182 INFANTRY REGIMENT

TAURIDA

1918 - 1921

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INTRODUCTION TO TAURIDA

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According to 251 Division book IR182 was in:

212 Division in 1917-1918 Roumania/Ukraine

http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=24278 and http://www.1914-18.info/

PRE-GERMAN OCCUPATION INTRODUCTION

http://www.zum.de/whkmla/region/russia/xgovtaurida.html 

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Terretory_given_away_after_Brest-Litovsk.jpg

http://www.traveltoukraine.org/images/ukraine_map_big.jpg

 http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c5/Taurida_Governornate_Map.jpg

http://www.acpasion.net/foro/showthread.php?t=26761&page=128

http://www.zum.de/whkmla/region/russia/xgovtaurida.html

http://cryptojews.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/800px-
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PODOLIA / KIEV / POLOTAVA / KHERSON / EKATERINOSLAV / TAURIA / [CRIMEA]

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GERMAN OCCUPATION INTRODUCTION

1918

212 INFANTRY DIVISION

 
In 1918, the 16. Royal Saxon Infantry Regiment 182 was now within the 212th Division (Saxon) ... [Independent Division]
INDEPENDENT DIVISION

212 INFANTRY DIVISION
 
212th DIVISION (SAXON) - (Field Post No. 757.)
(Maj.-Gen. Francke) [Command of the 212th]
408th (Saxon) Infantry Brigade.
(Maj.-Gen. De Vaux)
182nd (16th Saxon) Infantry Regt.
XII Corps District

[1918: That is, the 16. Royal Saxon Infantry Regiment 182 had been incorporated into the 212th Division (Saxon)]

Great Britain. War Office. General Staff, The German forces in the field (1918), pp. 51-54, 151

http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924027944838

FEBRUARY, 1918 - NOVEMBER, 1918

German Occupation: February, 1918 - November, 1918

http://www.conflicts.rem33.com/images/Ukraine/1918_ukr.jpg

MARCH, 1918 - NOVEMBER, 1918

March, 1918 to November, 1918

http://www.conflicts.rem33.com/images/Ukraine/UKR%201918.JPG

MARCH, 1918 - NOVEMBER, 1918

As of March, 1918 - November 1918

Central Powers Occupation Force in the Ukraine - 1918

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212 DIVISION

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THE BATTLES TO OCCUPY TAURIDA

FEBRUARY 18 - MARCH 3, 1918 - MAY 10, 1918

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https://fedora.e-book.fwf.ac.at/fedora/get/o:850/bdef:Content/get - the emergence of ukraine self-determination, occupation, and war in ukraine, 1917–1922, p. 159

FEBRUARY 18, 1918

OCCUPATION OF THE UKRAINE

212 INFANTRY DIVISION

  • In the first echelon of the advancing occupational forces were the I Reserve Corps [Ist Reserve Corps] and the group of southern divisions: the 10th, 7th, 212th, and 214th. The rest of the corps were moved up in proportion as the territory was occupied. The German forces began their advance on the 18th of February;* [The Austrian corps launched their offensive on the 28th of February] ...

FEBRUARY 18, 1918 - APRIL 8, 1918

  • By 18 February 1918, the Russians had evacuated the last zone occupied by them in Eastern Galicia (Western Ukraine), which was immediately reoccupied by the Austrians. There began on the same day a rapid movement by the Germans eastward along the railway lines. The southern wing (Lisingen) went via Rovno/Rivne [Ukraine] and Zhitomir [Ukraine], such that, by the end of February, it was before Kiev [Ukraine], which was occupied on 3rd March. The Germans then occupied Odessa on the 13th [March], Nikolaev/Mykolaiv [Ukraine] on the 17th [March] and Khar'kov/Kharkiv [Eastern Ukraine] on 8 April 1918 ...

-The Austro-Hungarian Army in the Ukraine: March-November 1918 by Dan Grecu, pp. 74-75 - http://ufdc.ufl.edu/UF00076781/00041/76j , http://ufdc.ufl.edu/UF00076781/00041/78j and http://membres.multimania.fr/dgrecu/AUtxt.html

  • In the situation at the time, it was only assistance from the Central Powers that could have rescued the Central Rada and its government. On the night of 8–9 February, a peace treaty was signed between the Ukrainian People’s Republic and the Central Powers. On 18 February, after a formal request for military assistance from the UNR, German troops began to advance into Ukrainian territory. They were followed ten days later by Austro-Hungarian units. On 8 May 1918 German troops occupied Rostov on the Don, having crossed the Ukrainian border and driven the Bolsheviks from Ukrainian territory. Earlier, on 28 March 1918, an agreement was signed on establishing the “zones of influence” of the “occupying powers.”49 All this was portrayed as military assistance for an ally. In the initial period the occupying troops were forbidden to take military action against the local population in the event of “unfriendly actions” (which rarely occurred

  • The Invasion of Ukraine by the Central Powers, February to May 1918 ...

Throughout the campaign, the Germans had to improvise in order to make up for inadequate military preparations. At the beginning of March, the troops were increased to nine divisions, later to twelve, organized in three army corps: Korps Gronau (later renamed the XXXXI Reserve Corps) in the north covered the border with Soviet Russia; Groener’s I Army Corps in the center was to advance on Poltava and Kharkiv; in the south, Korps Knoerzer was to advance in the direction of the Sea of Azov and later into the Donets Basin.7 The Germans wanted in particular to gain control of the fertile agricultural land in the Crimea, while providing the new Ukrainian state with a solid economic foundation by taking the coal reserves of the Donets Basin. In the far south, from 6 March, the 52nd Corps advanced from Romania toward the Black Sea ports with two infantry divisions, the Bavarian Cavalry Division, and the Austro-Hungarian 145th Infantry Brigade, which all came from the 9th Army (Army Group Mackensen).8 ...

AFTER FEBRUARY 18, 1918

PODOLIA

AUSTRIAN ARMY

  • [After February 18 and February 28, 1918] On the coasts of the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov and in Podolia, the Germans were already operating jointly with the Austrians: three Austrian corps - the XII, XVII, and XXV with a total number of 11 1/2 divisions (15th, 59th, 34th, 11th, 30th, 31st, 32rd, 54th, and 154th infantry divisions and the 2nd and 7th cavalry divisions and the 145th Infantry Brigade) were marching preparatory to the occupation of Podolia and the Odessa area (XXV Corps), the Kherson area (XII Corps), and Yekaterinoslav area (XIII Corps).

FEBRUARY 20, 1918

BATTLE STATUS

212 INFANTRY DIVISION

182 INFANTRY REGIMENT

212. Division (9. Königlich Sächsische)

Kriegsgliederung vom 20. Februar 1918

  • 408. Infanterie-Brigade

    • Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 182

    • Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 415

    • Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 416

    • 1. Eskadron/1. Königlich Sächsisches Husaren-Regiment „König Albert“ Nr. 18

  • Artillerie-Kommandeur Nr. 212

    • Feldartillerie-Regiment Nr. 279

    • II. Abteilung/1. Garde-Reserve-Fußartillerie-Regiment

  • Pionier-Bataillon Nr. 212

  • Divisions-Nachrichten-Kommandeur Nr. 212

MARCH, 1918

UKRAINE

  • The French inherited a most dangerous situation, which required a political finesse. On the one hand, the Austrian- German troops stationed in Russia were part of the armistice (about a million people). The Germans were reluctant to help the French and Bolsheviks attacked and sabotaged wherever they could.

The Austrian\German forces had been in the area since March 1918. .... The Germans could have easily caused way more problems than they did, so in that sense, the French were lucky! After the French units arrived [1918-1919], the 15th German division moved to Nikolaïeff and the idle time proved damaging to some Germans who were influenced by the Reds. Its officers, lacking in all authority, failed to control some men. The Germans delayed sending delegates to Kharkov, to negotiate with the commissioner of Moscow. Vice-Admiral Hopman (the former commander of the German fleet of the Black Sea), was sent to delay the implementation of armistice in South Russia, and to apprise the French authorities of the state of affairs and to await instructions. Fortunately, General d'Anselme received information on the arrival of a couple of battalions from the 7th Greek Regiment hurried from Salonica. Destined for Nikolaïeff, Anselme invited Admiral Hopman to prepare for the relief of German soldiers according to the armistice. Hopman, dragged his feet about this, allowing his men to be disruptive to its implementation. Nearby, there was close danger from an attack by red forces. Gregorieff , controlled Red forces near Ekaterinoslav and threatened Nikolaïeff and Kherson. The Reds entered Kiev and advanced towards Kharkov opposed by White Forces near the Sea of Azov. His military equipment came from the older Austrian-Hungarian stockpiles, they were no substitute for German soldiers ...

MARCH, 1918

  • With the dissolution of the Donau-Armee in March 1918, Kosch and his GenKdo 52 [52nd Corps - Army of the Danube] troops were tasked with the occupation of Ukraine ...

  • However, in spite of these rivalries and mutual dislike, military comradeship functioned more or less at the regional level, as, for instance, in southern Ukraine, with the 52nd Corps under General Robert Kosch

MARCH, 1918

OCCUPATION OF THE UKRAINE

KOSCH

212 INFANTRY DIVISION

MARCH, 1918

KOSH

GENERAL COMMAND 52 [52nd Corps]

  • Nach Auflösung der Donau-Armee im März 1918 nahm Kosch als Führer des Generalkommandos 52 an der Besetzung der Ukraine und der Kämpfe gegen die Rote Armee teil ...

    • After dissolution of the Danube Army in March 1918 Kosch took part in the occupation of the Ukraine and the fighting against the Red Army as a leader of the General Command 52 ...

MARCH 2, 1918

KIEV ENTERED

  • on March 2nd the German troops entered Kiev ...

MARCH 3, 1918

  • Following the terms of the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, on 3 March, "Linsingen" (later 'Eichhorn-Kiew') commenced a brutal occupation of the Chernihiv, Kharkov, Kiev, Poltava, Taurida, and Volhynia provinces of northern and eastern Ukraine ...

  • [ Thomas Nigel Thomas and Ramiro Bujeiro, German Army in World War I, 1917-18: 1917-1918 (Published by Osprey Publishing, 2004), p. 13] - [Baron Mumm von Schwarzenstein was the ambassador]

MARCH 3, 1918

KIEV SEIZED

  • German Ukrainian Offensive To clear the Bolsheviks out of the Ukraine, the Germans and Austrians dispatched an expeditionary force into the Ukraine. They seized Kiev on March 3rd ... The Ukraine became a critical granary for the Central Powers, which faced severe food shortages due to the Allied blockade ...

MARCH 3, 1918

IN ZHMERINKA

  • and on the 3rd of March they were in Zhmerinka [Central Ukraine] ....

MARCH 3, 1918

  • On 3 March 1918 Trotskii and his fellow delegates at Brest Litovsk negotiated a treaty between the new Lenin government and the Central powers which would cede Ukraine to its nationalist claimants and their German-Austrian allies who controlled the key portions of the region by now. Viewed as hated foreign invaders by most Ukrainians, the Austro-German forces arrived in die south Ukrainian Mennonite colonies as liberators from their Bolshevik over-lords, and much needed force for order and stability ....

MARCH 3, 1918 

I. ARMEEKORPS

  • The railway campaign, February-May 1918 ... German troops occupied the Ukraine in a Blitzkrieg-style campaign, although the quality of the army in the East was rather poor. Most of the younger ranks and the best officers had been transferred to units on the Western Front. ...

The forces initially designated for this mission were relatively small in numbers: only six infantry and Landwehr divisions as well as one cavalry brigade. Yet, the campaign quickly gained momentum due to various unforeseen factors.

The Germans soon realized that they had to rely on speed and surprise in order to achieve their mission. Hence, only two days after the start of the campaign they decided to advance not on roads, but largely on railway lines instead. Even though Ukrainian public life lay in a state of anarchy, the railways remained functional and the personnel supported the Germans ... Instead of advancing on a broad front the Germans concentrated on key terrain, mostly communication centres. German troops advanced on trains to the next major station, took Bolsheviks or Red Guards prisoner, jumped onto the trains again, and moved further east. The operation in the Ukraine became the 'railway campaign'.  

The Korps Knoerzer, which served as the spearhead in the campaign noted: 'Taking into account the strength of our forces it is not possible to occupy the whole Ukraine. It is about to take quickly the provincial capitals and economic centres' ... ... In this sense General Wilhelm Groener, in March/April 1918 Commander of I Armee-Korps, wrote to Ludendorff on 22 March, 'We urgently need more troops for the vast areas; otherwise we will lose our authority'....

 On 3 March the first German troops arrived in Kiev ... This meant they needed only two weeks to cross 340 miles from Kovel [North West Ukraine] on the armistice line to the Ukrainian capital ... From early March 1918 on, however, the campaign slowed down, as the Bolsheviks started to destroy parts of the infrastructure ...  Yet the onslaught to Rostov for another 560 miles did not take longer than another two months [early May]...

Dr. Peter Lieb, Chapter 13 - The German Occupation of the Ukraine, 1918 in World War I Companion, By Matthias Strohn http://books.google.ca/books?id=TZ65AQAAQBAJ&pg=PT219&lpg
=PT219&dq=%22I.+Armeekorps%22+1918&source=
bl&ots=O0Sz_u6rgs&sig=
LP8-PrI0lRJovn3xcHFwVDmVwSI&hl=en&sa=X&ei=
E8IIU6elGMfuyAGp_IGwDA&ved=0CDUQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q
=%22I.%20Armeekorps%22%201918&f=false

MARCH 7-14, 1918 [Seized March 13, 1918]

ODESSA

German Battle Locations in the Ukraine

February 18, 1918 - November, 1918

Ballantine's History of the First World War - http://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic.php?f=72&t=23191APRIL 20, 1918

MARCH 13, 1918

ODESSA SEIZED

MARCH 13, 1918

ODESSA

212 INFANTRY DIVISION
 

MARCH 17, 1918

NICOLAIEV SEIZED [NICOLAEV, NIKOLAYEZ, NIKOLAEV]

212 INFANTRY DIVISION

27th Jäger Battalion [of the Austro-Hungarian Army]: Subordinate to the 16th Infantry Brigade of the 30th Infantry Division on 28 February 1918. It was in Nikolaev/Mykoläiv on 1st June (in Odessa, according to other sources) with the German 212th Infantry Division [Independent Division] of the [Austro-Hungarian] 17th Army Corps. It was subordinate on 15th June to the 60th Brigade of the 30th Infantry Division; on 30th August with the German 42nd Infantry Division in Nikolaev, directly subordinate to the Ostarmee [German and Austo-Hungarian Eastern Army of occupation]. Under the 2nd Cavalry Division on 15th October ...

-The Austro-Hungarian Army in the Ukraine: March-November 1918 by Dan Grecu, pp. 74-75 - http://ufdc.ufl.edu/UF00076781/00041/76j , http://ufdc.ufl.edu/UF00076781/00041/78j and http://membres.multimania.fr/dgrecu/AUtxt.html

NOTE:

  • Only now I have learned that the 1800 Finnish volunteers - 27th Jäger Battalion - were trained in Germany ...

27th Jäger Battalion became a strong unit, which consisted of four infantry divisions, two machine guns and a sapper mouth, artillery battery, communications platoon and the cavalry unit. He was well-trained and gained military experience on the eastern front. For us it is vital to use the rangers as trainers and commanders of the units that will soon be formed of conscripts, especially as the huntsman, who has arrived in Finland and became commanders and teachers, a proven [102] training. The return of the battalion is welcome, even with pressure - every day was very expensive ...

MARCH 17, 1918

NICOLAIEV SEIZED [NICOLAEV, NIKOLAYEZ, NIKOLAEV]

http://tneua.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/ukraine_nikolaev.jpg

MARCH 20-APRIL 5, 1918

KHERSON

MARCH 21, 1918

KHERSON

MARCH 22-25, 1918 [Fell March 21, 1918]

KHERSON

German Battle Locations in the Ukraine

February 18, 1918 - November, 1918

Ballantine's History of the First World War - http://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic.php?f=72&t=23191APRIL 20, 1918

MARCH 29, 1918

LATE MARCH, 1918

SOUTH RUSSIA

212 INFANTRY DIVISION

MARCH 31, 1918

POLTAVA FALLS

 

APRIL 4, 1918 [Captured May 1, 1918]

SEVASTOPOL, CRIMEA

German Battle Locations in the Ukraine

February 18, 1918 - November, 1918

Ballantine's History of the First World War - http://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic.php?f=72&t=23191 , April 20, 1918

APRIL 5, 1918

EKATERINOSLAV

APRIL 5

EKATERINOSLAV SEIZED

APRIL 8, 1918

KHARKOV AND ROSTOV SEIZED

APRIL 15, 1918

ALEXANDROVSK

APRIL 15

ALEXANDROVSK FELL

APRIL 16, 1918 or APRIL 17, 1918

MELITOPOL

APRIL 16 OR 17, 1918

MELITOPOL AND NORTHERN PORTION OF SOUTH RUSSIA

212 INFANTRY DIVISION

APRIL 17

MELITOPOL FELL

APRIL 19, 1918

MOLOTSCHNA

  • [Hierschau] ... April 19, 1918   German troops occupied the area ...

    The German Occupation

    On Friday, April 19, 1918 German troops arrived in the Molotschna ...

  • Hierschau: an example of Russian Mennonite life By Helmut Huebert, pp. xxi, 238, 240-241, 250, 261

http://books.google.ca/books?id=vlCs3O2cTxkC&printsec=frontcover&dq
=Hierschau:+an+example+of+Russian+Mennonite+life+By+Helmut+Huebert&source
=bl&ots=5xREDuIh3G&sig=UlCoutAhvd4jwShGrQXYuvUW6f4&hl=en&ei=CKdITYjcEcG78gbY-pjjBg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CBUQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false

APRIL 19, 1918

  • It was with relief that the Molotschna Mennonites greeted the German troops on April 19, 1918 ...

APRIL 19, 1918

APRIL 19, 1918

  • The arrival of German troops caught the Mennonites by surprise. The Mennonite world had isolated itself from the mainstream of events and existed within a sort of vacuum, relying to a great extent on rumours for information. Feelings of disbelief and then of relief swept through the colonies:

    Then [with the German occupation] came a short respite, during which tears and repentance were turned into expressions of gratitude and joy ....This was a most welcome period of peace, a breathing space sent by God ...

    Never in the history of the colonies had there been such celebration and expression of joy as on the day of the coming of the German armies ...

    Hurrah! Our liberators have finally arrived not quite, actually, but Melitopol, the neighboring town, has been taken. This time it's the truth.,..But we want to thank God for our liberation ...

    About 5 o'clock a long train of Prussians arrived in Halbstadt. They were greeted joyfully by the populace. It was such an up-lifting sight that one's eyes filled with tears ...

    On April 19 the first trainload of German troops arrived at the Lichtenau Station in Molotschna ... One observer described the atmosphere of mystery and excitement that preceeded the arrival of the troop train ...."big things are happening. Our tormentors have suddenly disappeared .... People are rushing to the railway depot"... Apparently there were no Russians or Ukrainians among this group, only Mennonites and a few Germans from nearby Prishib. "Tables were brought and set up on the platform; and as if by magic coffee and cookies and other foods appeared. Mennonite girls stood behind the tables ready to serve ....A train slowly approached. Soldiers in German uniform stood on the locomotive."... Then an incident occurred which shocked many of those present. Three prisoners, well-known bandits and murderers, were brought forward from one of the coaches and shot by the Germans in sight of everybody. To be sure, they were murderers, but they were also Ukrainians and they were being shot by German invaders in a town populated by German-speaking people who were welcoming them with joy and celebration ... The Mennonites thus firmly identified themselves with their "liberators". Had the Mennonites known, or even suspected, that the Germans would be forced to evacuate the Ukraine within nine months, they might have behaved quite differently ...

    Non-Mennonites were aware of the fact that some students were involved with the Selbstschutz. A. Reinmaris, for example, writes that, "Already on the second day after the "liberation", armed students from the Halbstadt Kommerzschule [Commerce School] were standing at their posts at the railway station". He is scornful of these "mennonitischer Bourgeois-Soehnehen" (little sons of the Mennonite Bourgeoisis ...

    • Josephine Chipman, The Mennonite Selbstschutz  in the Ukraine: 1918-1919. MA Thesis (University of Manitoba, March, 1988), pp. 98-99, 127-128.

APRIL 19, 1918

  • In April of 1918, the German troops arrived in the Molotschna colony and with them they brought a semblance of peace and security to the Ukraine. The Mennonites were sympathetic to the German occupation, since it offered them relief from the brutality of the Bolsheviks and the anarchistic robber bands. Some of the Mennonites even loaned funds to the German occupation government ...

APRIL 19, 1918

  • 19. April [NS] 1918 - German troops enter Halbstadt and are welcomed as deliverers- thanks to God (!?) ...

14. April [1918], Sunday - Soldiers and sailors requisitioned meat, bread, eggs, etc. at various places in Halbstadt and Muntau ...

- Berdjansk - battles between Whites and Reds - end on 18. April [1918] with victory of Whites- Charkow - occupied by Ukrainians and Germans on 8. April
- Alexandrowsk - fell to Whites on 15. Apirl [1918]
- Melitopol - fell to Whites on 16. April [1918]
- Ukraine, Kiev - 6.April: ]1918] negotiations between Germans and Ukrainians on export of food and grain products ...

APRIL 19, 1918

APRIL 19, 1918

  • Then, in the morning of 17 April, both the Reds and the anarchists had fled the scene in utter disarray ... Finally, on the nineteenth, the first Germans had appeared ... our [train] station has never - even during the first days of mobilization - seen a gathering of people as on that 19 April ... The entire cohort - some 700 to 800 men - was put up for night [in private homes] in Halbstadt, Neuhalbstadt, and Muntau ... No sooner had the German troops moved into the Molotschna colony than Peter Braun, on 24 April, 1918, wrote his brother Abraham in Germany ... The last German troops left on 27 November, 1918 ...

[http://books.google.com/books?id=CnA-xZ1vEswC&pg=
PA278&lpg=PA278&dq=%22german+troops%22+Ukraine+
1918&source=web&ots=WTdufIyLhM&sig=
9lEcXWy8X9SUr0LrmEUwtvbdSzo&hl=
en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=3&ct=
result#PPA277,M1 - In Defense of Privilege: Russian Mennonites and the State Before and During World War I By Abraham Friesen Published by Kindred Productions, 2006 ISBN 189479107X, 9781894791076 520 pages]

APRIL 19, 1918

LINDEMEIER
 

HOAR

  •  On 19 April at 1:30 p.m. two officers, Lindemeier  and Hoar, entered Halbstadt in the Molotschna Mennonite settlement to announce that a company of soldiers would be arriving by train momentarily.2

Large crowds had gathered at the train station to greet the new arrivals, delayed for several hours, they learned, by a tumultuous welcome and an abundant meal for the German troops at the  Lichtenau station. When the train did appear in Halbstadt at 5:30 p.m., cheering onlookers waved an overjoyed welcome3.

Several hundred or more soldiers and their officers remained to be lodged in Halbstadt, as well as Neuhalbstadt and Muntau. Two hundred horses were brought to Halbstadt, presumably for the use of the new occupiers during their stay in the colony4,

3 The arrival of the German troops put an immediate end to the excavation of Chortitza over the Dnieper bridge already begun by the Russians forces with efforts to remove livestock and other goods from the villages there, The assembly of families to leave was also well underway ...

  • History and Mission in Europe: Continuing the Conversation, pp. 50-51 - books.google.ca/books?isbn=3937896988

APRIL 19, 1918

LINDEMEIER

HOAR

  • On 19 April at 1:30 p.m. two officers, Lindemeier and Hoer, entered Halbstadt in the Molotschna colony to announce that a company of German soldiers would be arriving by train momentarily2. Large crowds had gathered at the train station to greet the new arrivals, delayed for several hours, they learned, by a tumultuous welcome and a meal of abundance in the village of Lichtenau. When the train did arrive in Halbstadt at 5:30 p.m., cheering onlookers waved an overjoyed welcome. As one reporter put it, “The greeting at the arrival itself is hard to describe. One had to be present there”3. Several hundred soldiers and their officers remained to be lodged in Halbstadt, as well as Neuhalbstadt and Muntau. Two hundred horses were brought to Halbstadt, presumably for the use of the Germans during their stay in the colony4 ...

    • Notes

2 A first-hand account of the reception of the Germans among the Mennonites was given in “Erste Ankunft der deutschen Truppen in Halbstadt”, Volksfreund (Vfrd). 20. April 1918, 1. See also J.G.Dyck’s letter to B.B.Janz, dated 15 September 1956 in the B.B. Janz papers, Centre for Mennonite Brethren Studies Archives (CMBSA) File l, d. See also Gerhard P. Schroeder, Miracles of Grace and Judgment: A Family Strives for Survival in the Russian Revolution (Lodi, CA: by the author, 1974), 28 ff. and the Peter Dyck diary entry for 19. April 1918 in John P. Dyck ed., Troubles and Triumphs 1914-1924: Excerpts from the Diary of Peter J Dyck, Ladekapp, Molotschna Colony, Ukraine (Springstein, MB: by the editor, 1981), 46. All entries in this diary are New Style dates.

3 Kroeker, “Erste Ankunft,“ 1.

4 B.H. Unruh, „Tatsachen,“ Der Bote (DB), 15. September 1937, 2. See also a letter from Neuhalbstadt dated 21. April 1918, printed in Mennonitische Rundschau (Menn Rund), 9.Oktober 1918, 11-12. It mentions a group of 700-800 German soldiers appearing in the first contingent at Halbstadt ...

APRIL 17, 1918 AND 19 APRIL, 1918

CRIMEA

  • In the fighting at Perekop between 17 and 19 April 1918, the Germans made a breakthrough to the Crimea. According to German reports, about two thousand Bolsheviks were defending the isthmus. The 217th Infantry Division should have led the attack ..  but was unable to arrive in time in sufficient numbers. The commander of the Bavarian Cavalry Division, Major General Moritz Freiherr von Egloffstein, requested that 52nd Corps allow his division to begin the attack immediately. Permission was granted and, in a single day, the Bavarian Cavalry, with the 9th Jäger Battalion and the 29th Bavarian Jäger Regiment, broke through the Bolshevik defense lines ...

APRIL 19, 1918

CRIMEA

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1918 OR 1919

Foto 28. Меннонитский отряд самообороны 1918 или 1919 г. Selbstschutz 1918 oder 1919. Mitglieder aus Blumenort, Tiege, und Ohrloff, Molotschna Kolonie.

Self-protection in 1918 or 1919. Members of Blumenort , Tiege , and Ohrloff , Molotschna colony .

http://chort.square7.ch/FB/2/Y723.jpg - Fotos und Informationen von Н.В. Крылов (Мелитопольский педуниверситет).

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APRIL 19, 1918 - MARCH 16, 1919

  • The German occupation of the Ukraine was welcomed by most Mennonites and by most Ukranians who wanted independence and those who were not enthused by the Bolshevik philosophy. The Mennonites especially benefitted under the German occupation. The Germans restored the old volost system. Land and property was restored in most cases and the bandits were routed. The Ukranian peasant was often resentful of having to return 'stolen' property. The German occupation troops were not only Germans, but also soldiers from the Austrian Hungarian Empire. Among these were Slavs who often identified with the Ukranians who were also of Slavic descent; they were usually the poorest paid soldiers. Many of them had little loyalty to their Kaiser or Emperor. Where these battalions were stationed they often were sympathetic with the Bolshevik cause. The time was now 1918 and on the Western front Germany and Austria were suffering huge losses. Many of the latter mentioned soldiers saw little future in returning to their home land and secretly and even openly joined the bands of bandits. The Schoenfeld Volost was under Austrian-Hungarian protection and Makhno and his bands were more or less allowed to operate freely. The Molotschna was under a German battalion and they fared much better. WWI ended on Nov. 11,1918 and Germany and her Allies were defeated. Their armies were called home from the Ukraine. Ukrainian independence, so proudly proclaimed earlier that year was no more. The Bolsheviks in Moscow were now firmly entrenched and with their newly created Red Army systematically set about fighting the White Army to regain control of the Ukraine. While the official armies were fighting the bandit gangs roamed at will. The Mennonites were especially targeted. Firstly, because they had the greatest wealth in land and property; 'and secondly because they had so arrogantly cooperated with the Germans ...

  • Helen Koop Johnson, Tapestry of Ancestral Footprints (1995), p. 123.

KHERSON

Kherson To Molotshna

http://home.ica.net/~walterunger/S-Russia.htm

 

APRIL 1918 PLUS

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April 19, 1918 - DECEMBER 14, 1918

GERMAN-BACKED ANTI-SOCIALIST HETMANATE (UKRAINIAN STATE)

DISTRICT VIII - EKATERINOSLAV -
TAURIDA SELBSTSCHUTZ WOULD WEAR THEIR NUMBER ON THEIR EPAULETTES

AS OF FEBRUARY 17, 1918, PRIOR TO THE CREATION OF THE UKRAINIAN STATE THAT WOULD INCLUDE TAURIDA

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Dismembered_Russia_%E2%80%94_
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AFTER APRIL 19, 1918

TAVRIA OKRUHA  ADMINISTRATIVE UNIT

Administrative division of the Ukrainian State.
The green line indicates the extent of the State's territorial claims.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/11/Ukrainian_State_1918_divisions.png

Administrative division

Unit Central city Starosta
  Volhynian Governorate
 Zhytomyr Dmytro Andro
  Katerynoslav Governorate
 Katerynoslav Ivan Chernikov
  Kiev Governorate
 Kiev Ivan Chartoryzhski
  Podolia Governorate
 Kamyanets Serhii Kyselov
  Poltava Governorate
 Poltava Serhii Ivanenko
  Kharkiv Governorate
 Kharkiv Petro Zaleski
  Kherson Governorate
 Kherson Semen Pyshchevych
  Kholm Governorate
 Brest Olexandr Skoropys-Yoltukhovski
  Chernihiv Governorate
 Chernihiv Mykola Savicki
  Polissya Okruha
 Mozyr  
  Tavria Okruha
 Berdiansk  
  Crimean Regional Government
 Simferopol  

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukrainian_State

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APRIL 20, 1918

CRIMEA

APRIL 20, 1918

Melitopol - German and Austrian Soldiers - 1918

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d2/German_parade_in_Melitopol_%281918%29.jpg

APRIL 22, 1918

http://www.worldstatesmen.org/Ukraine.html 

[APRIL 22 OR 23, 1918] AND LATER

  • In late March and early April 1918, a few days after the advance guard of Germans routed Marusia Nikoforova's bandits, the main German occupation force, joined by a troop of Austo-Hungarians, seized Alexandrovsk [a Mennonite town in Ekaterinoslav gubernia]. The entire Old Colony settlement experienced immense relief, and we were eager to feed and house these troops ...

I first encountered the German troops in Khortitsa [Chortitza] on 2 or 3 April [1918]. A large contingent of wagons had been sent from [the village of[ Neider Khortitsa [Neider Chortitza] to transport troops and their equipment back to that village to rout the Nikiforovites and Red Army units that still controlled the Dnieper River boat crossing between the Neider Khortitsa [Neider Chortitza]  and Alexandrovsk ... I cut classes, hopped aboard his wagon ...

When we got to Nieder Khortitsa [Neider Chortitza], a German soldier signalled us into the yard of Peter Unger ...we noticed the German soldiers' fatigue. Mounted on an ancient Oldenburger horse an officer rode by while two disgruntled soldiers were unloading our wagon. With a nod to the officer, one soldier grumbled under his breath to the other, "Comes the day, then he is one of the first whom we beat to death' (Kommt der Tag, dann ist er einer der Ersten, den wir totschlagen). Clearly, revolutionary sentiment had infected the German troops, just as it had earlier swept through the Russian Imperial Army.

I recall a more pleasant experience some weeks later at the teachers. seminary. Many of the students and staff were out on the school's verandah, meeting with several German officers, most wearing uniforms, although one or two were in mufti [ordinary clothes]. Earlier, these Germans had visited Halbstadt and several other villages in the Molochna Settlement. The attractive, prosperous appearance impressed the soldiers tremendously, although the men indicated some dismay at the monotonous uniformity of the villages, with their broad main streets flanked by homes and farm buildings of nearly identical architecture and almost military placement. The Germans preferred Khortisa [Chortitza] and Rosental [a Mennonite village of the Chortitza settlement] with their irregular streets, and more diverse architecture of new brick facades, together with aged thatched structures  and the surrounding rolling, wooded countryside.

Our school's barren courtyard did not impress the Germans. The Russian government had requisitioned the buildings for a hospital when war broke out, just months after construction was complete, and in the intervening years the villages had had little money to landscape the grounds. Commenting on the bleakness, one German waxed ecstatically on what the same courtyard would look like at home, with every corner planted with salable flowers and vegetables ...

German authorities, however, did not favour our emigration [to Germany]. Nor did they want to grant us German citizenship. During the last week in April, the German consul, meeting with Mennonite representatives in Khortisa [Chortitza], recommended that we remain in Ukraine, retain its citizenship, and continue to grow grain ...Not content with this response, several private delegations of Mennonites went to Germany to explore other possibilities ...

Heinrich Epp of Khortitsa went to Berlin at least once ... Evidently, Epp received the same response - that we should remain where we were ...

A Mennonite family in Tsarist Russia and the Soviet Union, 1789-1923 By David G. Rempel, Cornelia Rempel Carlson. pp. 191-195, 199. http://books.google.ca/books?id=AYlBYi3Ndi8C&pg=PA193&lpg=PA193&dq=
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APRIL 24, 1918 and APRIL 26, 1918

APRIL 24, 1918 - MAY 9, 1918

  • On April 24 the German troops, under General Kosch, reached the City of Simferopol, in the Crimea. A week later they occupied Sebastopol, the great military and commercial seaport, famous in Russian history. A portion of the Russian Black Sea fleet fell into the hands of the Germans. On May 3 the invaders seized Taganrog, on the Sea of Azov. On May 9 they took Rostov, at the mouth of the River Don, but two days later the city was again in Russian hands. The Germans are apparently intent on occupying the seacoast from Bessarabia, on the west, to the Caucasus, on the east ...

APRIL 26, 1918

  • Then the Germans brought their units to Simferopol and positioned them in a way that finally blocked the Ukrainian units. On the morning of April 26, both sides started preparing for a battle. The Ukrainian commanders were planning to disarm the Germans or defend themselves with the help of the local population. Gen. von Kosch openly demanded that they disarm themselves and leave Crimea. In response, Bolbochan ordered his troops to take up battle positions ...

END OF APRIL, 1918

  • By the end of April, German and Austro-Hungarian forces had effectively occupied all the Ukraine, the Crimea, and areas adjacent to the northern Caucasus ...

    •  Josephine Chipman, The Mennonite Selbstschutz  in the Ukraine: 1918-1919. MA Thesis (University of Manitoba, March, 1988), p. 97.

MAY 1, 1918

SEVASTOPOL, CRIMEA

  • German Ukrainian Offensive To clear the Bolsheviks out of the Ukraine, the Germans and Austrians dispatched an expeditionary force into the Ukraine. They invaded the Crimea, capturing Sevastopol on May 1st. German forces included five Corps' with: it 7th ,11th, 15th, 16th, 20th, 22nd, 45th, and 4th divisions. The 35th division was in reserve.

MAY 1, 1918

SEVASTOPOL, CRIMEA

MAY 1, 1918

KOSCH

COMMANDER OF THE TROOPS [52nd Corps]

SOUTH RUSSIA

  • Nach Auflösung der Donau-Armee im März 1918 nahm Kosch als Führer des Generalkommandos 52 an der Besetzung der Ukraine und der Kämpfe gegen die Rote Armee teil. Am 1. Mai 1918 erfolgte die Ernennung zum Oberbefehlshaber aller Truppen in Taurien und der Krim ...

MAY, 1918

AUSTRIA ARMY

X11 CORPS

ODESSA AND KHERSON

  • Ost Armee: was established in May 1918 of 2 Army. She worked in Ukraine.

commander: Gen. d. Inf Alfred Krauss

composition:
XXV. Korps
- 155th Honved Division
- 54th Schützen divivision

XVII. Korps
-7. coffees. Div.
-11. inf. Div.

XII. Corps (sector Odessa; Governor Feldmlt. von Boltz)
-5. Honved coffees. Div.
-15. inf. Div.
-2. coffees. Div.

- IV. Generalkommando
Gruppe Siebenbürgen
-1. coffees. Div.
Oberkommando Mackenstein

- XVI Generalkommando
-62. inf. Div.

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  • The deployment of subordinate units

    the headquarters of the Ost Armee: Located in Odessa. After the beginning of the evacuation (30/10/1918) transferred to the Vinnice.

    XVII. Corps
    In May 1918 moved from By Ukraine. The headquarters was located in Kherson, where zústalo until November 1918.

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  • XII. Army Corps

In May 1918 moved from Galicia to Ukraine. Headquarters was located until the end of November 1918 in Jekatěrinaslavi.

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  • XXV. Army Corps

    In May 1918 moved from Galicia to Ukraine. Headquarters was located until November 1918 in Žmerince.

MAY 8, 1918

GERMAN UKRAINE CAMPAIGN ENDS

  • With the capture of Rostov on the Don on 8 May 1918, the campaign in Ukraine finally ended. On 28 May Kaiser Wilhelm issued a decree that there should be no further military operations beyond the already captured territory in order not to endanger the peace with Russia.

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212 DIVISION

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THE STRUGGLES TO SUPPORT TAURIDA

MAY 11, 1918 - JUNE 21, 1918

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  • UKRAINE

212 DIVISION IN THE UKRAINE

212. Infanterie-Division (9. Kgl. Sächs.)

11.05.1918 - 21.06.1918: Kämpfe zur Unterstützung der Ukraine

[Struggles to support Ukraine: May 11, 1918 - June 21, 1918]

http://wiki-de.genealogy.net/212._Infanterie-Division_%28WK1%29

MAY 1918

MID MAY 1918

GENERAL COMMAND SPECIAL FORCES 52 ADMINISTRATIVE AREA [52 CORPS]

NOTE: 212 DIVISION - 212 ID NOT YET INDICATED

 

https://fedora.e-book.fwf.ac.at/fedora/get/o:850/bdef:Content/get - the emergence of ukraine self-determination, occupation, and war in ukraine, 1917–1922, p. 193

MAY 11 - JUNE 21, 1918

STRUGGLES IN SUPPORT OF THE UKRAINE

212 INFANTRY DIVISION

END OF MAY, 1918

212 INFANTRY DIVISION

  • 2. Toward the end of May the division was identified north of Kherson. All the younger men were sent to the Western Front, but the remainder of the division did not leave this region.

VALUE - 1918 ESTIMATE

The division was rated as fourth class.

  • German Divisions in the East 1918 ...

212th Infantry Division-Ukraine, Kherson (May 1918). [Independent Division]

http://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic.php?f=72&t=23191 - See also: Histories of Two Hundred and Fifty-One Divisions of the German Army which participated in the War (1914-1918) (Washington Government Printing Office, 1920)- http://www.archive.org/details/historiesoftwohu00unit]

 MIDDLE OF MAY, 1918

UKRAINE

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212 DIVISION

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THE OCCUPATION OF TAURIDA

JUNE 22, 1918 - NOVEMBER 15, 1918

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  • UKRAINE

212 INFANTRY DIVISION IN THE UKRAINE

212. Infanterie-Division (9. Kgl. Sächs.)

22.06.1918 - 15.11.1918: Besetzung der Ukraine

[Occupation of the Ukraine: June 22, 1918 - November 15, 1918]

http://wiki-de.genealogy.net/212._Infanterie-Division_%28WK1%29

JUNE 22 TO NOVEMBER 15, 1918

OCCUPATION OF THE UKRAINE

212 DIVISION

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212 DIVISION

GENERAL

SUMMER OF 1918

JUNE, 1918

  • [June, 1918]

    - Travel within Ukraine - no passports necessary
    - travel to Crimea and Russia requires passport
    - travel to Europe requires written request to commanders ...

JULY, 1918

COMMANDER MAX BUNDE - CAPTAIN MAX BUNDE

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

  • [July, 1918]

Hauptmann Bunde, ”An die Bewohner der mennonitischen und andern deutschen Dörfer” [Captain Bunde, "To the inhabitants of the Mennonite and other German towns"]

  • - under Bolshevik rule many of the poor villagers were forced (often at gunpoint) to gather “contributions” from the wealthier villagers; these goods were then distributed among the poor
    - now the former owners [most often wealthier individuals] are making demands for return of their property, often with angry threats
    - Hetman Skoropadskii issued decree on ownership, allowing people to reclaim their rightful possessions - but only if such possessions still exist, e.g. property, fields, forests, gardens, cattle, furniture, machines, etc. - it is not right to demand articles that were taken under “force” - such as butter, eggs, flour, chickens, etc.
    - it is everyone’s responsibility to be fair, sensible and maintain order - the actions of the “wealthy class” versus the “poorer class” are unacceptable, and contribute only to feelings of revenge on part of poor
    - it is a mistake for the wealthy to assume that German troops have come to protect and to reclaim their property ...

Hauptmann Bunde, “Bekanntmachung” [Notice]
- regional command centres opened to handle questions and concerns
- all judges and village officials in place before Bolsheviks are hereby restored to their official positions
- all village leaders have responsibility to let all inhabitants know of these regulations ...

AUGUST, 1918

  • [August, 1918]

“Finderlohn.” - auction sale, with proceeds going to families of German soldiers killed in action in Einlage

- short summary of events of 12 April N.S. - German entry into Einlage [Chortitza] - Reds blew up Dnieper bridge
- bombardment of Einlage from opposite shore - 6 German soldiers killed during attack ...

AUGUST 22, 1918

FRIEDRICH WILHELM "WILLIE" KRAUSE

(January 18, 1897, Bischofswerda, Saxony, Germany - December 9, 1983, Leamington, Ontario, Canada)

 

AS OF AUGUST 30, 1918

212 INFANTRY DIVISION

KHERSON

  • ["Report No. 12 from the trip Moscow – Tula – Oryol – Kursk – Voronezh – Gryazi – Kozlov – Moscow from 18 – 30 August [1918]]

    • According to the report by this same individual, the following information concerning German and Austrian forces on the Russian front and in the Ukraine in general was gathered from the staff of one of the Soviet armies:

      “German landwehr infantry division No. 3 – in Gomyol, 4 in Bakhmach [Battle: March 8 to March 13, 1918], 7 in Taganrog [Occupied: May–August 1918], 11 in Rylsk, Korenev, and Sudzh, 15 in Melitopol [Fell April 16 or 17 - 212 Division there then or later], 16 in Khar'kov (Occupied April 8] , 17 in Polotsk, 18 in Shklov [Finland: May, 1918], Mogilyov and Rogachyov, 19 in Pernov and Valk, 20 in Zhitomir and Berdichev, 22 in Zhitomir, 23 in Polotsk, 24 in Ostrov and Krasniy, 29 in Revel, 35 reserve in Romodan, 45 landwehr in Khar'kov, 47 in Starodub and Klintsy, 85 in Polotsk, 91 in Khar'kov, 92 and 93 in Kiev [March 1, 1918], 94 in Yur'eve, 95 in Mikhailovskiy khutor (Bryansk front), 2nd Bavarian in Vandeka, 54 and 152 Austrian in Mogilyov, 5th, 11th, 31st and 59th Austrian in Yekaterinoslav, 3rd German landwehr in Rezhits, 212 in Kherson [March 21, 1918], 221 in Belgorod, 12th Bavarian in Rostov-na-Donu, 127 Austrian in Taganrog, 30, 34 and 151 Austrian in Odessa [March 13, 1918].

      Cavalry: 9th Austrian cavalry division in Khar'kov, 7 Austrian cavalry in Odessa, German guards cavalry regiment in Orsha, 2 German cav. div. in Lugansk, 8th Ger. cav. Finlandia, 9th Germ. cav. in Mogilyov, 2nd Bavarian cav. in Khar'kov, 16 Germ. cav. in Polotsk.
      VIII Army staff at Yur'ev, front from the sea (from the Baltic to Yur'ev), 11th Army front from Yur'ev to Orsha, Xth Army from Orsha to Novoselok.
       In Finland are the following armies: Western – staff at Tammersfors with a force of 8-10 thousand. Eastern at Vyborg with 20-25 thous, Cavalry detachment – staff at Serdobol', 10-12 thous. In Helsingfors is 3 division and infantry as well as one cavalry division. In total, there are 40-50 thous. infantry, 1500 machine guns, 3600 cavalry and 55 batteries in Finland.”

AUGUST 27, 1918

  • Friedrich Wilhelm Krause was awarded the German Iron Cross, in the field, August 27, 1918.

SEPTEMBER, 1918

  • [September 1918]

Mennozentrum: Mitteilung - Germany to provide travel support for young men wanting to study in German High Schools ...

Mitteilung: announcement that various German universities and high schools willing to accept German “Kolonisten” ...

OCTOBER, 1918

  • [October 1918]

- J. Willms and Abr. Friesen sent as delegates to Berlin to inquire into possibility of Mennonite emigration to Reich
 - no large land tracts available; no possibility of settling in German colonies in Africa
- other lands need to be explored ...

Gedicht: “Behüt Dich Gott!” - dedicated to German soldiers, who are now returning to Germany ...

- all rumours of troop withdrawal are groundless - enough troops will remain in Ukraine ...

- “Brief aus der Krim.” - reports on meeting of Germans regarding emigration ...

OCTOBER 20, 1918

FRIEDRICH WILHELM "WILLIE" KRAUSE
(January 18, 1897, Bischofswerda, Saxony, Germany - December 9, 1983, Leamington, Ontario, Canada)

  • On Cctober 20, 1918, F. W. Krause received a typhus vacination. Stamped: Bat.-Arzt. 11/182 [Medical Batallion II, Infantry Regiment 182]

NOVEMBER, 1918

  • [November, 1918]

- 23 October - Interior Minister denies rumours that German troops are to be withdrawn and that chaos will ensue ...

- “Das Konzert in Ohrloff.” - Zentralschule, 9 Nov - classical music performed by quartet of German soldiers playing violin, cello, flute and piano; songs sung by Fr. A. Dück and by student choir; piano pices played by Frl. L. Friesen. . . value of music! ...

- David Matthies - workers also stood up for him, calling him the best employer ...

NOVEMBER, 1918

CRIMEA

GENERALKOMMANDO 52 [52 Corps]

212 DIVISION

  • Das Generalkommando 52 (zeitweilig auch als Donau-Armee bezeichnet) war ein Großverband der Armee des Deutschen Kaiserreiches im Ersten Weltkrieg. ....  Nach Auflösung der Donau-Armee im März 1918 nahm das Generalkommando 52 an der Besetzung der südlichen Ukraine und der Kämpfe gegen die Rote Armee teil. Die unterstellte 212. Division und 15. Landwehr-Division sicherten dabei Anfang November 1918 die Halbinsel Krim ... - General Command 52 ( temporarily referred to as the Danube Army ) was a major unit of the army of the German Empire in the First World War . ....

    After the dissolution of the Danube Army in March 1918, the General Command 52 took 52 the occupation of the southern Ukraine and the battles against the Red Army in part. The assigned 212th Division and the 15th Landwehr Division secured here in early November 1918, the Crimean peninsula  ...

  • The 52nd Corps took part in the Romanian Campaign. From the time it was raised, up until January 1918, 52nd Corps was also known as the Army of the Danube (German: Donau-Amee) ... though it never reached the strength of an Army... The 52nd Corps was commanded throughout its existence by General der Infanterie Robert Kosch ...

ROBERT KOSCH

GENERALKOMMANDO 52 - The 52nd Corps

  • Nach Auflösung der Donau-Armee im März 1918 nahm Kosch als Führer des Generalkommandos 52 an der Besetzung der Ukraine und der Kämpfe gegen die Rote Armee teil. Am 1. Mai 1918 erfolgte die Ernennung zum Oberbefehlshaber aller Truppen in Taurien und der Krim. Nach Kriegsende übernahm er das Kommando über den Grenzschutz Ost, bevor er am 10. Januar 1919 aus der Armee ausschied ...

After dissolution of the Danube Army in March 1918 Kosh took part in the occupation of the Ukraine and the battles against the Red Army as a leader of the General Command 52nd. On 1 May 1918 the appointment as commander of all the troops in the Crimea and Taurien occurred . After the war, he took over command of the Border Guard East [i.e. Germany's Eastern Boundary] before he retired from the Army on January 10, 1919 ...

NOVEMBER 1, 1918

GENERAL COMMAND SPECIAL FORCES 52 ADMINISTRATIVE AREA [52 CORPS]

212 DIVISION - 212 ID

  

https://fedora.e-book.fwf.ac.at/fedora/get/o:850/bdef:Content/get - the emergence of ukraine self-determination, occupation, and war in ukraine, 1917–1922, p. 193

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212 DIVISION

SELBSTSCHUTZ:

DURING THE GERMAN OCCUPATION ENDING NOVEMBER, 1918

APRIL 23, 1918

CAPTAIN MÜLLER [MUELLER] - Assistant to Leroux, District VIII
[JOHANNES MÜLLER?]

  • [April 23, 1918] ... When the Molotschna volost zemstvo committee met on 23 April under the chairmanship of H.H.Schroeder, delegates agreed that a self-defense organization for the colony had become an absolute necessity. A proposal by the German Captain Mueller found unanimous support, and leadership of such a unit was placed in the hands of J.F.Sudermann and two assistants, M.J.Sekerinsky and A.K.Tichonov ....

  • In 1918 Mennonites supported the German army of occupation. They offered financial help to the Germans, and there was information that some colonists and Mennonites had taken part in the execution of peasants who had cooperated with the Bolsheviks ...  The Mennonite “Selbstschutz” had been prepared by Denikin (or White army) officers. Denikin’s army’s aim was to restore the monarchy. So, first of all, Mennonites were considered by Machno as military enemies. It should be noted, that it was Vladimir Lenin who had first invited the German troops to the former Russian territory, when he made a peace treaty with Germany in 1918 ...

  • Lenin agreed to the German occupation of the Baltic States, parts of Belorussia, and all of the Ukraine! In effect, the Germans arrived in the Ukraine area in mid-April 1918 to unofficially pacify the area for the Russians who were always fearful of losing this area to Ukrainian nationalism.

    And what did the German Mennonites do? They welcomed their German-speaking brethren! Obviously, the Mennonites in the Mother Colonies of the Ukraine now made themselves into a very vulnerable minority among the Russian citizenry! The German Mennonites hated the instability of their new government described above, but now they had to relate to the German occupation troops who spoke their language and presented themselves as" liberators"! For example, it was recorded that at the Lichtenau village railroad station in the Molotshna Colony which we visited in 2000, the German soldiers were treated by the Mennonites to German traditional foods-- zwieback and schinkenfleisch (smoked ham)!

    The German occupation troops even actively recruited among the Mennonite villages, urging the young men to join their practice drills, but did not require them to carry rifles. As agreed upon under the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, the Germans retreated in November 1918 and many of the troops deposited their weapons with villagers in the Mother Colonies for use in defending themselves against local bandits! However, the most significant observation made by their Russian neighbors was that the Mennonites had been seen as supporters of their German cultural brothers! It demonstrated to them that, although the Mennonites espoused loyalty to their country, their actions betrayed them just at the time when the new Soviet government was beginning to take hold in the land. One would like to know what Cornelius' folks and siblings lived through in the midst of all of this in the Molotschna Colony. We do know they survived! ...

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INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

ROYAL SAXON, 16TH INFANTRY REGIMENT 182, 12TH COMPANY

1915 - 1918

RUSSIA, BREST-LITOVSK

ASOWSCHES MEER [SEA OF AZOV]

Fritz Gebelein

  • Handwritten memories of his war experiences from 1915 until 1918, Fritz Gebelein describes in this diary his experiences as a soldier of the Royal Saxon 16th infantry regiment 182, 12th company, 123rd Infantry Division, 245th Infantry Brigade, stationed in France (Vernon [?]), Romania, Russia (Brest-Litovsk) and finally at the Assowschen sea. [Asowsches Meer = Sea of Azov] Title: "my memories and experiences from the war years 1915-1918' ... [Mentioned on page 1: August 1, 1914 [war declared], February 8, 1915; April 24, 1915; May 3, 1915]

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MAY 16, 1918

182 INFANTRY REGIMENT

  • Halbstadt, Gnadenfeld, Tiege and Tiegenhan. 38 At the May 16 meeting of the Wolost, Halbstadt decided to have 32 additional members as a regional defence unit. Pay was to be seven rubles a day as well as expenses, German soldiers receiving five rubles per man. 39 The 182nd Saxon Regiment, which was stationed in Halbstadt, helped direct the military drills.

    Reaction to the Mennonite constituency to the formation of the Selbstschutz units was by no means all favourable ...

    Eventually almost all of the villages in the Molotshna (with the exception of two) formed Selbstschutz units ...

    During the summer of 1918 the Hierschau Selbstschutz was trained by the German soldiers in the area, using the meadow north of the village on the Waldheim end of the street as a parade ground. As Autumn approached, the training was taken more seriously, since there appeared to be more activity of the Makhno anarchists in the area. To those who followed World news, it was also becoming increasingly apparent that the German occupation would not last much longer. Troops were being withdrawn because of the collapsing Western front ... On November 11, 1918, an armistance was signed at 11 A.M. ... The war to end all wars was over. The treaty of Brest Litovsk was annulled ...

     ...

  • Hierschau: an example of Russian Mennonite life By Helmut Huebert, pp. xxi, 238, 240-241, 250, 261

http://books.google.ca/books?id=vlCs3O2cTxkC&printsec=frontcover&dq
=Hierschau:+an+example+of+Russian+Mennonite+life+By+Helmut+Huebert&source
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JULY, 1918

- J. Fast, “Bericht von Sagradowka” - have formed a Selbstschutz for protection when German troops leave 60 men divided into companies of 10 - alternate in standing watch ...

  • The anarchy was followed by a more peaceful time of occupation by German troops. During this time a Mennonite Selbstschutz was organized, the first units being established in Halbstadt, Tiegenhagen, Tiege and Gnadenfeld. The Germans allowed the traditional form of volost [municipal] government to reappear, but in the process some blunders were committed which later bore serious consequences. Four members of the Halbstadt village soviet and three men from the Lichtenau soviet were shot. The surrounding population did not forget.

When the German troops were withdrawn in November ...

Molotschna Historical Atlas By Helmut Huebert, p. 95 - http://books.google.ca/books?id=l7ALpfZUYhkC&pg=PA95&lpg=PA95&dq=Gnadenfeld+Selbstschutz&source=bl&ots=
QPYkWGtCS1&sig=I9CifsEYKF0u_EIadHd8YgB977E&hl=
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JULY, 1918 - AUGUST, 1918

182 INFANTRY REGIMENT, STATIONED HALBSTADT

HERR FREIHERR (Baron) VON STAUFENBERG - District Commander, Halbstadt - District VIII

[Freiherr von Stauffenberg?]

LIEUTENANT LEROUX [Leutenant Maximilian Leroux, München ?] - Director of the Self-Defense forces, District VIII

CAPTAIN MÜLLER [MUELLER] - Assistant to Leroux, District VIII
[JOHANNES MÜLLER?]

By early summer regular defense units had been established in the Mennonite villages of Gnadenfeld, Tiegenhagen and others, as well as in the German Lutheran community of Prischib. Military exercises continued throughout July and August under the direction of Lieutenant Leroux of the 182nd Saxon Infantry Regiment headquartered at Halbstadt. Some of the Mennonite units performed gymnastic feats at the soldiers’ celebrations known as Ludendorffeste held in Halbstadt and other centres during the time of the German presence.16

Mennonite recruits saw little action while the Germans remained in the colonies during the summer and early fall of the year ...

[Notes]

  • 10 .... Fast identified the military leaders of the self-defense program as “the German District Commander of Halbstadt Herr Freiherr von Staufenberg [District VIII], and the directors of the self-defense forces, Lieutenant Leroux with his assistant, Sergeant Mueller, Training , district VIII, in “Erinnerungen,” 6. ... [Peter Fast, “Erinnerungen aus der Zeit des Russischen Biirgerkrieges 1918-1920] 16 See also H.H. Schroeder in "Unser Kampf gegen die Banden Makhnos 1918-1919,“ Deutsche Post aus dem Osten (Maerz, 1938), 6, and Dyck‘s diary entries for 3 July and 8 August 1918. On one occasion a mock battle was fought between Mennonite contingents from Muntau and Tiegenhagen, and the Swabian units of Prischib-Durlach. The Ludendorffeste seemed to draw the Mennonites to a stronger identification with their German cultural background, and also heightened enthusiasm for military drills. Dyck, with many other villages, viewed the total celebration as being mainly a drinking party which with the dancing involved, could only have a demoralizing effect on Mennonite youth. See his diary entry for 4 July 1918.. [L.Klippenstein, THE SELBSTSCHUTZ: A MENNONITE ARMY IN UKRAINE 1918-1919 - http://www.nbuv.gov.ua/portal/Soc_Gum/Pni/2007/07lktvao.pdf ]

NOTE: This Halbstadt District VIII system was part of a larger military system scheme for the occupied area:

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JULY, 1918 - AUGUST, 1918 - c. POST NOVEMBER 21, 1918

LIEUTENANT LEROUX [Leutenant Maximilian Leroux, München ?] - Director of the Self-Defense forces, District VIII

CAPTAIN MÜLLER [MUELLER] - Assistant to Leroux, District VIII
[JOHANNES MÜLLER?]

(LIEUTENANT) SERGEANT MAJOR RICHARD SONNTAG (led the I and II companies of the Halbstadt Stosstrupp) -
 COMMANDER RICHARD SONNTAG, CALVARY

LIEUTENANT BISCHLER
[HELMUT BERNHARD FRANZ BECHLER -
Company-Leader in the 182nd Infantry-Regiment (06 Aug 1918-14 Aug 1918);
Adjutant of the 1. Battalion of the 182nd Infantry-Regiment (04 Dec 1918-19 Feb 1919)]

GOEBBEL [GOEBBLE]
[MARTIN GÖBEL?]

A proposal by the German Captain Mueller received unanimous support ...

July and August under the direction of Lieutenant Leroux of the 182nd Saxon Infantry Regiment headquartered at Halbstadt .....

The German troops began to withdraw in late November and early December after the 11 November armistice agreement called for the withdrawal of all Central Powers from Eastern Europe ...

Makhno's initial attacks against the German units shifted to include local Mennonite farms and villages at least as early as October 1918 ....

[c. post November 21, 1918:] A 300-man cavalry force ... deployed its strength ... They supported about twenty companies of infantry. a total of 2700 men in all ... Leading officers included personnel left behind by the retreating Germans and Austrians, including Major Sonntag, Lieutenant Bischler, Goebble, Müller, and others ...

  • History and Mission in Europe: Continuing the Conversation, pp. 53-54, 59, 65 - books.google.ca/books?isbn=3937896988

AUTUMN, 1918

  • The German soldiers were to organize these [Selbstschutz] and furnish both weapons and training ...

the self-defence movement never gained much strength in the Khortitsa Settlement [Chortitza Settlement],... In contrast, a strong self-defence movement arose in the more pro-German Molochna Settlement ...

As autumn approached, however, apprehensiveness about the future returned. The disciplined German troops, whom no one dared disobey, were replaced with squads of poorly disciplined Austro-Hungarians ...

A Mennonite family in Tsarist Russia and the Soviet Union, 1789-1923 By David G. Rempel, Cornelia Rempel Carlson. pp. 191-195, 199. http://books.google.ca/books?id=AYlBYi3Ndi8C&pg=PA193&lpg=PA193&dq=
Tavrida+ukraine++1918+mennonites&source=bl&ots=fDIoiowNUi&sig=
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sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CB8Q6AEwAg#v
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  • The Selbstschutz (self-defense) began as a spontaneous movement by the Mennonites in the Ukraine to protect lives and property during the period of violent anarchy following the Russian Revolution. During the German occupation (April-November, 1918) hitherto secret Selbstschutz, units were trained openly under German supervision mainly in [the settlements of] Molotschna, Chortitza, Nikolaipol [Province of Ekaterinoslav (now Dnipropetrovsk)], and Sagradovka [Zagradovka, Kherson Province]. If and when the German troops withdrew, these militia units were to become operative.

The Molotschna Selbstschutz proved to be the only one of any military significance. As the largest and wealthiest Mennonite colony, Molotschna had the most to lose from terrorist depredations. Fear of imminent disaster grew as local acts of looting and murder multiplied and refugees from nearby Schönfeld-Brazol reported harrowing experiences. The more militant Mennonites were further influenced by the glamorous presence of German troops and by the militancy of nearby non-Mennonite German colonists. They also welcomed the compromise resolution approved at the Lichtenau Allgemeine Mennonitische Bundeskonferenz (July 1918) which affirmed the ideal of nonresistance but refused to condemn Mennonites who took up arms. The centuries-old principle of nonresistance seemed suddenly irrelevant in a life-and-death crisis.

http://www.gameo.org/encyclopedia/contents/S444ME.html/

CAPTAIN MÜLLER [MUELLER] - Assistant to Leroux, District VIII
[JOHANNES MÜLLER?]

  • The jubilant welcome extended by the Mennonites to the occupying troops was, in retrospect, a mistake and was remembered by the local inhabitants when the power structure in the Ukraine changed. Another mistake made by some Mennonite individuals was also remembered and bitterly resented by their neighbours. During the German occupation, Hetman Skoropadsky ... launched a program of restoring confiscated property to its previous owners throughout the Ukraine. The German army was used as the instrument of this policy. There were instances where Mennonites accompanied German military units on house-to-house searches in order to identify culprits and retrieve the stolen goods. A Mennonite eyewitness gives his version of the attitude of the villagers regarding the return of their goods:

"Did you hear the cannons thunder this morning?" asked fine neighbor of another. "Yes, they say it is the German army which is coming closer to our vicinity. Our storekeeper came from the city last night, and he brought us the news that the Germans are only about twenty miles from here." "That is great. We will get all our property back from these thieves and let them feel how wrong it is to steal and plunder." "If only the German army would come a little bit faster," said the next neighbor. "Don't you think we should send a delegation secretly and tell them that we will help them if only they will help us to get back our property?" "I think it is very risky to do, since you cannot tell how things will. turn out. I prefer to wait." ...

But the attitude of the local peasants was quite different:

They wished they would have the chance to keep everything they had gotten from their wealthier neighbors. It was so nice to sleep on these cozy pillows, the like of which they had never had before. It was so bright by the light of these good kerosene lamps, the like of which they had never possessed previously. And these good horses ...It was such a pleasure to work the fields with them ....the most bitter anger he [the peasant] felt was when the former rich landowner came accompanied with foreign soldiers and demanded his property back ....Not only the livestock, but all other articles had to be returned. It seemed funny at times to see and hear how these rich women went to the houses of the poor and demanded back their pillows, lamps, chickens, pets and jars. Here is where the real hatred was engendered ....We, including myself, did not realize that by being tolerant and willing to part with some of our earthly possessions, would perhaps have saved many lives later on ...

Not all of the Mennonites pursued the return of their stolen property and for this reason, some sources argue, these people escaped the retribution which followed on the heels of the German withdrawal ... It is difficult to assess just how much collaboration there actually was between the Mennonites and the occupation armies, but it seems to have been considerable. There is even reference to Mennonites loaning funds to the German occupation government ... Certainly in the eyes of the Ukrainian peasant, Mennonite behavior during the German occupation proved that their loyalties lay with the Germans and that they were actually collaborating with them. It has been pointed out that for some time before the arrival of German troops, Mennonites had been organizing at the local level to deal with the pillaging and daylight robbery which had become so commonplace throughout the region. The German presence not only allowed the Mennonites to organize openly but encouraged them to do so by providing arms and leadership. According to one participant:

We had the attitude before, but then they [the Germans] trained us. We young boys had to go out to Halbstadt, which was about 6, 7 kilometers away. We had to get up at about 3 or 4 o'clock in the morning when it was dark yet in summer and were trained there three hours, come back and sleep in the afternoon and then take in for faspa [afternoon coffee], after lunchtime in the afternoon , after coffee, we had to go for another three hours. For six hours they would train us ...

Whether participation in the drilling exercises was voluntary is unclear. In the above quotation the phrase "we had to" is used repeatedly giving the impression that they had no choice. Other sources use similar expressions such as they were "required to" and they were "conscripted"... One historian, on the other hand, uses terms such as "urged to join" and "standard policy", implying that there was freedom of choice ... Two of the more objective primary sources suggest that, although the Mennonites were not conscripted, there was considerable pressure on them to organize. The Germans, for reasons of their own, encouraged them in every possible way, even resorting to threats. [...German officers, and to a lesser extent, Austrian officers, strongly encouraged the institution of such self-defense units in part because of the dangers of bandit attack on their own small garrisons and lines of communication ...]  Impetus seems also to have come from the Mennonites themselves:

The German occupation also gave a tremendous impetus to translate into reality plans which a number of young Mennonites, with the support from prosperous farmers, had recommended in various Mennonite colonies even prior to the arrival of foreign troops. Their contemplated plans, strongly resisted by the Mennonite clergy and many of the elder servicemen of World War I, urged the organization of a Selbstschutz ...

It would, of course, have been in their own best interests for the wealthier landowners to encourage formation of a self-defence organization. Schroeder expresses the view that the Mennonites had become far too materialistic and that protection of property was probably the chief motive behind the self-defence movement ... Dyck is of the same opinion and claims, moreover, that the participants in self-defence were paid:

As of today, the drill will take place in our meadow. A German lance-corporal has been assigned to them as drillmaster. In payment, the participants in the Selbstschutz have been promised Stiefelgeld  [boot or pocket money] ... by the village.

And in an entry eleven days later:

In the evening, there was a village meeting at our house, regarding the Stiefelgeld. Actually, the promise of 250 rubles Stiefelegeld was made too hastily. As a result, some of them joined the Selbstschutz merely For money. Such Stiefelgelden ..are unreliable and unwanted. It would have been best to draft men of a certain age for the guard. Then there would have been no accusations by the farmers and those that do not own land, and no Stiefelgeld would have been needed ...

And two months later:

At the village meeting today it was decided to cover the costs for the Stiefelgeld, as well as other costs, by collecting two-thirds as a property tax, and one-third as a head tax ...

It would seem then that-participation in the Selbstschutz was voluntary, but was encouraged by landowners who were willing to pay others (the less wealthy among them) for protection.

The idea of self-defence gained momentum and its proponents became increasingly bold. On April 23 at a district meeting at Halbstadt [District VIII] delegates agreed that a self-defense organization for the colony had become an absolute necessity. A proposal by the German Captain Mueller found unanimous support. The security force of the volost was set at 32 men and leadership of the unit was placed in the hands of J. F. Sudermann ... By May 18 Selbstschutz units had been formed in Halbstadt, Gnadenfeld, Tiege, and Tiegenhagen in the Molotschna Colony. Some Mennonite villages, however, decided against organizing. At Grigorievka [160 km. northeast of Chortitza] a majority of men, led by Jacob Krahn and the minister Jacob Berg, successfully withstood the efforts of the local German commander to create self-defense units ...

And so as the War neared its end in the autumn of 1918, the young Mennonites were happily participating in military "games", while their elders were meeting to organize self-defense units, all with the help and encouragement of the German officers. A question which comes to mind is, if the Selbstschutz was purely defensive in character, as many Mennonites claimed, why was it necessary to begin organizing and training it during the German Occupation? Given the welcome they extended to the Occupation troops, it would seem that many, if not most, of the Mennonites believed the Germans were in the Ukraine to stay. Why then the need for "self-defense"?

  • Josephine Chipman, The Mennonite Selbstschutz  in the Ukraine: 1918-1919. MA Thesis (University of Manitoba, March, 1988), pp. 99-104, 106.

1918 - 1919

182 INFANTRY REGIMENT

(LIEUTENANT) SERGEANT MAJOR RICHARD SONNTAG (led the I and II companies of the Halbstadt Stosstrupp) -
 COMMANDER RICHARD SONNTAG, CALVARY

  • Sergeant major Sonntag of the 182nd Saxon Infantry Regiment (Occupation Troops) was with the Selbstschutz from the very beginning and had led the I and II companies of the Halbstadt Stosstrupp (Shock Troops) ...

1918

(LIEUTENANT) SERGEANT MAJOR RICHARD SONNTAG (led the I and II companies of the Halbstadt Stosstrupp) -
 COMMANDER RICHARD SONNTAG, CALVARY

  • Following the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, March 3, 1918, signed by Germany and Soviet Russia, the German military occupied the Ukraine and remained there until October, [1918] ...

Because of the revolutionary unrest in Germany itself, the German military was recalled from Russia and we were now exposed to new terrors at the hands of the [Nestor] Makhno bandits. The time had come for the establishment and organization of the Selbstschutz ...

The German officers who had remained behind and a few Russian [officers] who had ample weapons (urged us to act) ...

Yet the officers [of the White Army] in Berdjansk, who were prepared to help us, waited anxiously for more definite answers from the conference and from the Mennonite community generally. The eight Lutheran villages (Prischieb) lying north of the Molochnaya, were wholly united and without any pangs of conscience were prepared to join our Selbstschutz, pressing and urging us to make up our minds ...

Then, at special meetings in the villages of Rueckenau, Gnadenfeld, Halbstadt, Alexanderthal and others, the Selbstschutz was organized, often with assistance from German officers ...

When I got home that day, I hitched two fresh horses to the wagon and drove to Gnadenfeld (about 18 versts away) to see [Sergeant] Sonntag, one of the men at the headquarters of the Selbstschutz, about the same matter. I told him also about my mental distress. But this German military man showed absolutely no understanding for my attitude toward nonresistance ...

Bernhard J. Dick, Something About the Selbstschutz of the Mennonites in South Russia (July, 1918-March, 1919), Written September, 1978  - http://jms.uwinnipeg.ca/index.php/jms/article/viewFile/238/238

1918

LIEUTENANT OF THE RESERVE HELLMUTH REINHARD,
COMPANY COMMANDER / DISTRICT COMMANDER (1918) - DISTRICT VIII

  • Grandpa Dick [David Jakob Dick] .... described the events that preceded his departure for Canada in the April 15, 1977 edition of the MB Herald, the bi-monthly magazine of the Canadian Mennonite Brethren Church. He was quite at ease in English, and the words are wholly his own. One missing piece of context that you ought to have: from 1919 to 1923, Canada forbade all immigration of Doukhbours, Hutterites and Mennonites from Russia. The Canadian Mennonites lobbied Parliament - the first time they had ever been so deeply involved in politics anywhere - and eventually had the order overturned ...

... family lived on the beautiful plains of the Ukraine on an estate called Apanlee [Taurida Uezd, Berdyansk district - near the Molotschna Colony] ...

In the spring of 1918 the German army occupied the Ukraine and restored law and order. However small bands of terrorists frequently attacked isolated places and murdered whole families. A German officer, Lieutenant Reinhard, the commander of our district [District VIII], visited  and offered us as many army rifles as we wanted for our protection. Father thanked him for the offer but refused it,...

That fall the Germans had to leave, and the civil war began with all its horror ...

[Source: http://fistfulofeuros.net/pedantry/archives/000190.html ]

LIEUTENANT REINHARD NOTE:

  • Andreas Reinhard ...  Jun 21, 2018, 6:04 AM
    To: krausehouse@krausehouse.ca

Guten Tag,

mit Interesse habe ich den im Internet veröffentlichten Beitrag zu der Genealogie Krause
gelesen. Dort wird u.a. das Sächs. Infanterie Regiment 182, dem auch Friedrich Wilhelm
Krause (18. Januar 1897 - 9. Dezember 1983) angehörte, erwähnt.
Hier möchte ich eine Korrektur anbringen:
Hans Wolfgang Reinhard war 1918 nicht in der Ukraine und gehörte zu diesem Zeitpunkt auch
nicht mehr dem Sächs. Infanterie Regiment 182 an. Hier handelt es
Sich um seinen Bruder Hellmuth Reinhard, Leutnant der Reserve, dessen Tagebuchnotizen
auch von seinen Besuchen des Gutes Dick im Juni und Juli 1918 berichten.
Ich war erstaunt, als ich in dem o.g. Beitrag die Bestätigung einer vor ca.100 Jahren
entstandenen Tagesbuchnotiz von Hellmuth Reinhard durch den Enkel des Gutsbesitzers Dick
fand.

Mit freundlichen Grüßen
A. Reinhard

  • Jacob Hoemsen (1879-1969) was born in the village of Hierschau, Molotschna to Heinrich Hoemsen and Agatha Friesen ...

During WWI he served as a medic (Sanitaeter) on board a medical train as the Russians fought the Germans. In 1915 he volunteered for a post at the front to be known as the "Flying Column". Now he wore a uniform and was the only non-Russian in the whole command working with the wounded. One night in May 1915 the unit came under heavy fire but he continued to work at serving the wounded. For this he and his unit received the St. George's medal 4th grade for bravery. In 1916 he was appointed "Officer in Time of War" with the rank of Lieutenant. He was responsible for record keeping and had others under his command.

Hoemsen was wounded in 1918 and returned to Halbstadt where he became an interpreter for the German occupying forces. With the rise of anarchy in the area while living in Waldheim he joined the Gnadenfeld Selbstschutz or self defense unit under the command of German officers. The German forces left in the fall of 1918 and the Machno forces and other bandits took over the area ...

Hoemsen, Jacob, 1879-1969 - http://www.mennonitechurch.ca/programs/
archives/holdings/papers/Hoemsen,%20Jacob%20fonds.htm

The Selbstchutz [Selbstschutz]

(1) The treaty of Brest-Litovsk in April 1918 led to the occupation of Southern Russia by German and Austrian troops ... Since the Russian revolution had already broken out in the previous year, anarchy and destruction by bandits and revolutionaries in South Russia was already in progress when the German troops arrived ... They [Mennonite estate owners] armed themselves under German army guidance and together with other estate owners organized posse-like groups, which attacked the estates seized by rebels and retook them. Interrogating those whom they captured, they searched out the rebel leaders, whom the occupation army then executed summarily ...

The presence of the Austro-German army, often quartered in Mennonite homes in the colonies ...some accounts speak of Mennonite youth voluntarily participating in German  army drilling ...

When the Austro-German army withdrew, the officers and  soldiers did not all leave. Some stayed behind, and with them remained vast quantities of arms and ammunition . These men were most eager to organize the settlers into a defense force and were able to provide both training and weapons ....

Thus, the Selbstchutz was organized ...

Anabaptist/Mennonite faith and economics By Calvin Wall Redekop, Victor A. Krahn, Samuel J. Steiner, Institute for Anabaptist and Mennonite Studies, pp. 61-63 - http://books.google.ca/books?id=-mArVVlO02MC&pg=
PA62&lpg=PA62&dq=%22south+
russia%22+%22Selbstschutz%22+1918&source=bl&ots=
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  • A brief respite came in 1918 when the German army occupied the Ukraine and owners reclaimed estates that had been in many cases despoiled through theft and vandalism or converted into primitive collective farms ...  Posses made up of vengeful estate owners and their sons, especially in the Schonfeld-Brazol area, tried to get their possessions back from the peasants, in some cases themselves committing acts of brutal violence in the process. These estate hotheads also fraternized freely with German officers and were among the first to help organize the Selbstschutz later on. But with the withdrawal of the German forces in November, the merciless destruction of the Gutsbesitzertum as inevitable. Scores of estate owners were butchered during this terrible time, including all the Bergmanns except Henry, the youngest son, some of the Heinrichs men, three male generations of Peters at Petersdorf, and in the Molochnaya the estate philanthropists Jacob Sudermann, and David Dick and his wife of Apanlee, among many others ...  Many, of course, survived and were able to emigrate to Canada, as did most of the wives and children of the murdered estate owners. Here they were forced to make new lives for themselves on a much more modest scale than they had enjoyed in Russia ...

  • Pleas for moderation and repentance were heard from Mennonite pulpits, the press, and even courageous villagers who dared speak up against the formation of the Selbstschutz. The warning was disregarded, for public opinion was too strong. A deep-seated unrest assumed such proportions it threatened to divide the colonists. To avert such a catastrophe the constituency leaders convoked an All-Mennonite Conference in Lichtenau, Molotschna, between June 30 and July 2, 1918. Debate on the military question was initiated when the German regional commander in Berdyansk requested the Mennonite settlers to clarify their position toward the formation of an integrated selbstschutz to include all the German colonists in South Russia ... An atmosphere of urgency characterized the second day of deliberations when it was learned that the German regional commander in Berdyansk demanded a list of all refusing military service by July 4 ...

Lost Fatherland, the story of the Mennonite emigration from Soviet Russia, By John B. Toews, p. 28 - http://books.google.ca/books?id=tnJhx2cnT70C&pg=PA31&lpg=
PA31&dq=Prischib+1918+Molotschna&source
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  • He asked them to address themselves specifically to a directive from the German military commander at Berdiansk requesting that a self-defense militia be formally established in all the German colonies of the Ukraine. He awaited a reply by July 4 [1918] ...

    Representatives were elected to go to the German headquarters at Berdjansk [approximate center of Ukraine], Melitapol [southeastern Ukraine] and Tokmak [southern part of central Ukraine] to make the necessary clarifications in person ("muendlich die noetigen Erlaeuterungen machen") ...

    By early summer regular defense units had been established in several villages in the Molotschna (Halbstadt, Gnadenfeld, Tïege, Tiegenhagen, Ladekopp, Muntau). According to one source, all men between the ages of 19 and 25 "should" report for drilling exercises and in some areas most men up to 40 volunteered ... Another account states that the participants were those between 18 and 20 and several older individuals who were more or less motivated by the love of adventure. The writer goes on to describe the drilling:

On the village green there were drills in German fashion: the various weapons which could be found were shouldered. German officers, non-commissioned officers, sergeants and other adventurers drilled our lads to their heart's content whereby the German anthem was sung with great enthusiasm ...

And from P. J. Dyck's diary:

The Selbstschutz from Ladekopp, Halbstadt, Muntau and Tiegenhagen held war maneuvers [sic] in the meadows, roads and woods of Tiegenhagen. The Bayerische [Austrian] cavalry practiced on their big Oldenburgern [breed of horses] ...

 In Zagradovka colony, in the village of Tiege:

In the month of May, on the village meadow, the first big target practice by Mennonite youth took place. But there was no work for this Selbstschutz. Why, the Germans were there. Over the summer it stayed peaceful ...

Leadership seems to have come from German Army officers but there is evidence of considerable Mennonite participation at subordinate levels ... A cavalry unit of 10-12 men and a machine gun unit stood on guard in every village with the Germans supplying the guns and ammunition ... Some of the Mennonite units performed gymnastic feats at the Ludendorffeste in Halbstadt and other centres. These festivals, named in honour of the German Field Marshal Eric van Ludendorff, were patriotic celebrations organized by the German Army in various places populated by German settlers. Festivities included patriotic speeches and dancing to a military band. The social implications of participation in these events disturbed many Mennonites. J.P. Epp cites the "tactless familiarity with the occupation army through the Ludendorffeste and the moral surrender of our youth to the military by our fathers" as contributing factors to the emergence of the Selbstschutz ... Excerpts from diaries tend to support this view:

The civilians [Mennonites] took part in these festivities enthusiastically ....l am not aware that any cultural activities took piece. The most important thing was to drink beer, which our youth were thoroughly introduced to ....The whole affair demoralized our society. It got in touch with the outside world and W of our isolation, much to cur detriment ...

What must the Germans think of us? A number of important people have already criticized the conduct of our girls with the German officers. The noble and true womanly pride seems to have been lost in this generation of women ....That has been proven by the latest "ludendorf" (sic) festival (At present there are a great many of these so-called Ludendorf festivals in Russia, given by the German soldiers in order to raise spirits. Their success has been enormous. The major ingredients of these festivals are marching music, soccer, and dancing.) There are probably a lot of Mennonite women who don't take part, and perhaps the above mentioned are only the sad exceptions. Nevertheless, the disgrace seems to fall on all ...

On Tuesday when the assembly convened, the members found that a German-speaking officer, a non-Mennonite, had been invited to the meeting and had been made chairman. The officer shouted:

You farmers destroy the weeds among your grain, without pangs of conscience. Who is Makhno? A weed that is wars: than weeds, and he must be destroyed. Furthermore if a rabbit destroys a young tree in your garden, you shoot without further consideration. Who is Makhno? An animal, worse than an animal who must be shot dawn. If there is someone here who for conscience' sake does not wish to take a gun and shoot Makhno, please identify yourself ...

Meanwhile individual churches in villages like Alexandertal, Halbstadt, Rueckenau, Tiegenhagen, Sparrau, and Waldheim held special meetings to clarify their position on the subject of organizing a Selbstschutz. Most of the 57 ... villages of the Molotschna pledged to support organized self-defense, but a few resisted the pressure to conform. Petershagen, although it lay directly along the northern front later established by the Selbstschutz, remained non-resistant as did Fischau, Rudnerweide and Pastwa ...

According to J. F. Epp, an active participant in the Molotschna Selbstschutz:

A Selbstschutz committee was elected to organize the villages; establish telephones and transport; build fortifications and trenches (at Hamberg and Kiippenfeld); organize infantry, cavalry, mounted infantry and unified service branches; set up machine guns and one light field battery; supply materials to care for the families of impoverished Selbstschutz participants; establish a medical corps and a staff far discipline and court-martial ...

The picture that emerges as we read Epp's account is this: There were twenty companies of infantry (of which seven came from the German Lutheran villages to the north of the Molotschna) numbering about 2700 men in all, and a cavalry of 300 divided into five detachments ...

The self-defense units had little, if any, difficulty obtaining weapons. During the spring and summer, guns had been made available to the Mennonites by the occupation forces from the German Command in Melitopol ... In the fall of 1918 as the German army withdrew it "left plenty of weapons in the hands of the the colonists, including many Mennonites. By some the weapons were intended to be used solely for the purposes of self-defense, while others possibly hoped to use them to avenge themselves for the sufferings"...

An eye-witness states that "most Mennonites in his village returned their arms to the Germans except for Fourteen who were "more sensible" and hid their weapons ... Another eyewitness who was in his teens at the time recalls:

And yet, we played soldiers all the time. Guns were to be had anywhere, as much as you like, as many as you like. All we needed to do, go to the riverside and pick them up. The river was in many instances, the front. And we didn't have to look very far before we could pick up a rifle or two, or a bayonet ...

There has been some debate about whether or not students from the Kommerzschule in Halbstadt participated in the Selbstschutz. George Thielman contends that they did not. His source is an unpublished manuscript written by Benjamin H. Unruh, a clergyman and former teacher at the Kommerzschule in Halbstadt. According to Unruh, the students of the secondary schools in Halbstadt and elsewhere were forbidden by the Administrative Council of the Faculty to take any leading part in the movement ... Perhaps the key word here is "leading", meaning positions of command. Otherwise this statement makes absolutely no sense because all other sources give a different view. Peter Fast, a student at the Halbstadt Kommerzschule at that time, describes his participation in the Selbstschutz in an unusually well-written account ... He writes that drilling began in July, 1918, when the Germans made available instructors, weapons and ammunition. To enable the boys to help with the harvest, exercises were held between 5 and 8 in the morning. Young men between the ages of 19 and 25 were required to take part. (Fast uses the German verb sollen here which translates as "to be obliged or bound to; to have to; must".)

The boys were drilled on foot and on horseback, but the highlight was target practice. Thanks to "true German thoroughness" they spent a great deal of time in perfecting their skills. "We wore our epaulettes, embroidered with a Roman VIII [District VIII], with pride, The whole thing was a lot of fun and it would probably never come to serious fighting. The Bandits would never dare to attack organized and armed colonists"... The catch phrase seems to have been "If you want peace, then prepare yourself for war"...

  • Josephine Chipman, The Mennonite Selbstschutz  in the Ukraine: 1918-1919. MA Thesis (University of Manitoba, March, 1988), pp. 107, 109-111, 118-119, 123-126.

OCTOBER, 1918

(LIEUTENANT) SERGEANT MAJOR RICHARD SONNTAG (led the I and II companies of the Halbstadt Stosstrupp) -
 COMMANDER RICHARD SONNTAG, CALVARY

SERGEANT HENSCHEL
[FRANZ HORSCHEL?]

J. P. Dyck wrote in his diary:

[October, 1918]

During the night the alarm was sounded in Halbstadt. Shots rang out, so that they could be heard quite clearly in our village. A group of our Selbstschuetlzer [sic] , most of them students at the Kommerzschule (School of Gommerce), took the train as far as Waldheim. Another group went on horseback. Near Tschernigowka [sic] they collided with the Machnovtze. A German officer and a man by the name of Martens were killed in action, and several others wounded ...

Peter Fast, a student at the Kommerzschule, had the watch at the railway station in Halbstadt on the night of December 5/6. The phone rang at midnight. It was a call for help from Waldheim. "The Machnovschina is planning to attack Sparrau and Hamberg in the morning. Alarm your men." Sergeant Major Sonntag ordered an extra train from the depot in Tokmak and within the hour they were ready. Fast and a comrade were not allowed to go because they had to keep watch at the depot. "Nothing doing", they said to each other, "We are going along". They quickly hid in one of the wagons, but Sonntag discovered them. "Donnerwetter, what are you doing here. Don't you know that you must stay at your post?". Then he reassured them. "You will soon be allowed to go too." The boys waited impatiently for news of the action. The evening train brought the men back with this story. They had spent the night at Waldheim railway station ... The Selbstschutz lost two men, Johann Martens and NCO Henshel [German sergeant Henschel], both of whom were buried in Nalbstadt with full military honours several days later ...

  • Josephine Chipman, The Mennonite Selbstschutz  in the Ukraine: 1918-1919. MA Thesis (University of Manitoba, March, 1988), pp. 114, 133, 135-136.

OCTOBER 1918

SERGEANT HENSCHEL
 [FRANZ HORSCHEL?]

  • [October, 1918]

Einmal schon, im Oktober 1918, hatte der Selbstschutz zusammen mit den Weißen zugeschlagen, als bekannt wurde, dass Machno sich der Molotschnakolonie von Osten her näherte und im russischen Dorf Tschernigowka Stellung bezogen hatte. Einheiten des Selbstschutzes aus Gnadenfeld und Waldheim vereinigten sich zum Angriff. Es gab ein regelrechtes Gefecht, bei dem sich die Weißen allerdings in sicherer Entfernung zurückhielten. Es gelang dem Selbstschutz zwar nicht, Machno zu fangen, wie es ihre Absicht war, doch die ganze Bande flüchtete, und die Spannung hatte sich damit noch gesteigert. Johann Martens und der deutsche Unteroffizier Henschel fielen im Kampf, und einige Selbstschützler wurden verwundet. Martens und Henschel wurden in Halbstadt beigesetzt. Die Angreifer sahen ihr Vorgehen als Sieg an, und der Selbstschutz sah sich in seinem Vorhaben trotz der vielen Warnungen bestärkt. Diese Abwehr Machnos brachte dem Selbstschutz viel Zuspruch ein. Die Kolonie war vor dem Einfall der Banden geschützt worden, und viele dankten Gott für die Bewahrung ...

  • In 1918 after the retreat of the German troops, all government authority was gone. Police and communist military were not there. Gangs roved around killing and destroying at random. Frightful news came which created great fear and concern. In view of this terror, the young men of the Molotschna rose to the challenge and organized a strategy, including firearms, to protect their families and homes. In a short time the villages felt more at ease. The Mennonites joined the Lutherans and Catholics to protect themselves from the roving bandits. This joint endeavor was successful until March 10, 1919.

The arrival of the German troops in our village brought a great deal of relief from all our fears. The self-defense movement began during the occupation. Representatives of the various churches met at Rückenau church to discuss the matter of carrying arms. They saw no other alternative.

http://pennermi.cmanitoba.com/AbramPBergmann_Bio.pdf - According to Abram Peter Bergmann (1884-1971) who was a participant in the Selbstschutz.

  • White troops soon captured Melitopol. As the northward expansion continued White Officers took over the administration of the Halbstadt and Gnadenfeld volosts and made a determined effort to assimilate the Selbstschutz into the white army ...

    Several joint military exercises strengthened the bonds between the Selbstschutz and the White Army. Particularly significant was a direct encounter with the Makhno forces in the large Russian village of Tchernigovka to the east of the Moloschna settlement during October 1918 ... The Whites ordered the Gnadenfeld and Halbstadt Selbstschutz detachments to the scene. They were joined by the Waldheim unit ... Before long the White Officers exercised considerable influence upon the Selbstschutz executive committee. At least one unit allowed itself to become officially inducted into the White Army ...

    The regional White commander [was] Colonel Malakov ...

1918

  • In the Molotchna [Molotschna] colonies the Germans gave military training to these young men in the lazy summer days of 1918. When I came back to Halbstadt in September we in the upper classes were given military instruction by German officers in German and by a White Russian captain in Russian. This continued after the German Army left as quite a number of the German officers and solders remained in the colonies ...

My last school year started September 1. Everything went as usual, except we had one hour of military training after school. With the German Army gone, the Ukraine became more unsettled politically.

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THE EVACUATION OF TAURIDA

NOVEMBER 16, 1918 - MARCH 16, 1919

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  • UKRAINE

[November 16, 1918 - March 16, 1919]

212 INFANTRY DIVISION IN THE UKRAINE

212. Infanterie-Division (9. Kgl. Sächs.)

16.11.1918 - 16.03.1919: Räumung der Ukraine

[Evacuation of Ukraine - November 16, 1918 - March 16, 1919]

http://wiki-de.genealogy.net/212._Infanterie-Division_%28WK1%29

NOVEMBER 16, 1918 - MARCH 16, 1919

212 INFANTRY DIVISION

  • ab 16. November --- 1918 ... bis 16. März --- 1919 ...Räumung der Ukraine

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/212._Division_%289._K%C3%B6niglich
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  • The partial withdrawal of German troops began on 16 November ... German troops were to withdraw from Ukraine in six phases, first from the Crimea and then gradually from east to west. 208 The troops retreated from their outlying garrisons and concentrated themselves along the railway lines in order to secure them. Against all expectations, there was good cooperation between the soldiers’ councils and the officers. 209 Both explicitly pointed out the danger of being caught between the fronts in the civil war. The German troops were ordered to remain strictly neutral in the internal battles for control of Ukraine. Only in case of attack on their own troops were they authorized to defend themselves. ...On 18 January [1919], Army Group Kiew left the Ukrainian capital, and the last German soldiers came home in mid-February 1919 to a country shaken by revolution

    • https://fedora.e-book.fwf.ac.at/fedora/get/o:850/bdef:Content/get - the emergence of ukraine self-determination, occupation, and war in ukraine, 1917–1922, pp. 198-199.

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212 DIVISION

GENERAL

  • The defeat of Germany had also opened the Black Sea to the Allies, and in mid-December 1918 some mixed forces under French command were landed at Odessa and Sevastopol, and in the next months at Kherson and Nikolayev ...

DECEMBER, 1918

COMMANDER MAX BUNDE - CAPTAIN MAX BUNDE - - DISTRICT VIII

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

[December, 1918]

A. Kroeker, “Die Deutschen gehen weg, die Verbündeten kommen!”

- confirmed that Germans are leaving, but allied troops are coming from Sewastopol
- what will happen to Germans in Russia?
- very few Mennonites adopted German citizenship [eingebürgert] during the occupation ...

- “Aus Sergejewka, Fürstenland,” Hermann Neufeld - family is moving to Germany ! ...

Radikale Uebel erfordern eben radikale Kuren. >Bei Diebereien - schießen! Ohne weiteres!’ sagte der Halbstädter Distriktskommandant, Hauptmann Bunde einmal, und ich stimme ihm voll und ganz bei.” ... [Radical evil just require radical treatment. > When thefts - shoot! Without further ado, "said the Halbstadt District Commander, Captain Bunde [District VIII] once, and I agree with him wholeheartedly." ...]

- Siberia has been rid of Bolsheviks - about 1 million German and Austrian POWs will remain in Siberia ...

-- note by Mennozentrum criticizing views expressed by A. Kroeker in Nr. 75 and 76 regarding German occupation forces and their departure - they were “personal” views and do not express views of the majority of Mennonites, who are thankful for all these troops have done for them. . . 7. - “Vom Kankriner Land” [originally publ. in Odessa Zeitung on 21 Nov] - describes

10 December [1918]- German troops shoot their way out of Pawlograd and commandeer train to escape ...

  • The main rail line linking Ukraine with Germany ran from Kovel-Brest to Litovsk-Bialystok and on to Grajevo-Prostken (East Prussia). 27 Increasingly the retreating troop trains were being attacked by bandits and partisans seeking food and arms. The situation worsened with the withdrawal of the German 10th Army at the end of December 1918 ...

    The momentum of withdrawal developed and there was a great deal of cooperation between the Directory and the Army Group Kiev, plans were drawn up for ten trains per day to travel to Germany, until the remaining 300,000 German troops returned home. The transportation of German troops was now to be the responsibility of two distinct transport groups. The first, based in Kiev, would handle the troops in the northern Ukraine facing the Bolshevik troops and the second group would handle the troops in the southern Ukraine in Kharkov, Poltava, Odessa and Nikolaev29. The withdrawal from the northern Ukraine continued apace and the last troop transports left Kiev on 26th January 1919. The remaining German troops were now on the Black Sea coast and were to become active pawns in the battle of the Allies against the Bolsheviks...

    • http://theses.gla.ac.uk/2324/  - Joseph Healy, Central Europe in flux: Germany, Poland and Ukraine, 1918-1922. PhD thesis, University of Glasgow, 2003, pp. 52 - 53.

c. MARCH 2, 1919

(LIEUTENANT) SERGEANT MAJOR RICHARD SONNTAG (led the I and II companies of the Halbstadt Stosstrupp) -
 COMMANDER RICHARD SONNTAG, CALVARY 

LIEUTENANT HEINRICH VON HOMEYER [HANS VON HOMEYER, HEINZE VON HOMEYER] -
COMMANDER HEINRICH VON HOMEYER, CAVALRY
[WHITE ARMY OFFICER]

  • [c. March 2, 1919:] Northern villages of Molotschna settlement, such as Ladekopp had received additional supplies of weapons and ammunition. Some hoped that help might come from the departing German forces at Nikolaev where remaining detachments were waiting for transport to return to Germany ....

    About a week later ... all attempts to hold the Homeyer line at Tiefenbrunn crumbled quickly, and a last ditch effort at Durlach later failed as well. The German cavalry commanders, Heinrich von Homeyer and Sonntag, dissolved the front and urged all the men to pull back in order to save themselves as best they could. Many boarded a a waiting train at Waldorf and return to their homes at Prischib or in the Molotschna villages ...

    • History and Mission in Europe: Continuing the Conversation, pp. 70-71 - books.google.ca/books?isbn=3937896988
       

  • The German forces in 1919 occupied a triangle on the Black Sea formed by Odessa-Nikolaev-Kherson. This area was strategically vital; not only did it control the major Black Sea ports but also the land route to the Crimea ...

    • http://theses.gla.ac.uk/2324/  - Joseph Healy, Central Europe in flux: Germany, Poland and Ukraine, 1918-1922. PhD thesis, University of Glasgow, 2003, p. 54.

NOTE ON LIEUTENANT HEINRICH VON HOMEYER

  • The two figures mentioned were Ukrainians who wanted some form of support from Germany for an Allied backed Ukraine, but none was forthcoming. Some German attempts to win influence with the Whites and to increase German influence in Ukraine verged on the fantastic. Amongst these was the case of Hans von Homeyer, a German Ukrainian, who organised a German espionage network in the Crimea and Ukraine in the midst of Denikin's army. On 23 February 1920 von Homeyer sent a report to the AA detailing his efforts on behalf of the Reich in Ukraine. He began by outlining how he had set up a spy ring in the southern Ukraine and Crimea in late 1919:

The importance of this network grows in importance because of the fact that in the named area the rest of Russian intelligence sat, which proved to be the most difficult for a pro-German orientation. The whole apparatus is based on the greatest of trust for me and works without a pfennig of pay, apart from meaningless private donations. It consists of 164 people who are engaged solely in carrying out my directives and that does not include the many others who carry out my directives indirectly. With the retreat of the Volunteer Army to the Crimea we established a political centre in Simferopol, which today one and a half months later has regional sections in Sevastopol, Yalta, Feodosia, Kertsch, Karasubasar, Dzankaj, Eupatoria, and Novorossisk and countless political agents right up to Denikin's headquarters..

  • http://theses.gla.ac.uk/2324/  - Joseph Healy, Central Europe in flux: Germany, Poland and Ukraine, 1918-1922. PhD thesis, University of Glasgow, 2003, pp. 81 - 82.

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212 DIVISION

SELBSTSCHUTZ:

NOVEMBER, 1918 TO MARCH 16, 1919

  • After the retreat of the German army in December 1918, the Molotschna villages were completely defenseless. However, there were many murderous bandits everywhere. The young men of our villages were united as one man to defend their loved ones. We thank the Lord that there were only a few casualties ...

http://pennermi.cmanitoba.com/AbramPBergmann_Bio.pdf - According to Abram Peter Bergmann (1884-1971) who was a participant in the Selbstschutz.

  • In accordance with the Armistice of November 11, 1918, the Central Powers began withdrawing their armies from the Ukraine ...

    After the occupation troops withdrew from the colonies sometime in November, there ensued a few weeks of calm during which the Mennonites, aware that the storm would break at any moment, made frantic preparations for defense. Hoping desperately for relief, not knowing which rumours to believe, they trained and waited and put on a show of strength:

However, it seems we will have no help in protecting ourselves against the looting, plundering bands of terrorists .... In the late afternoon thirty militiamen of our Selbstschutz unit rode to Tokmak [Zaporizhzhia Oblast]. It is wise to keep the Russian populace in the belief that we are all armed to the hilt, and a troop of well-armed men on horseback appearing on the streets of Tokmak is impressive.

At the Kommerzschule the students were being "well trained by our German officer in shooting, bayonetting, the throwing of hand grenades, the quick digging of trenches. All of this we were to make use of in no time at all." ...

  • Josephine Chipman, The Mennonite Selbstschutz  in the Ukraine: 1918-1919. MA Thesis (University of Manitoba, March, 1988), pp. 114, 133, 135-136.

POST NOVEMBER, 1918

CAPTAIN MÜLLER [MUELLER] - Assistant to Leroux, District VIII
[JOHANNES MÜLLER?]

(LIEUTENANT) SERGEANT MAJOR RICHARD SONNTAG (led the I and II companies of the Halbstadt Stosstrupp) -
 COMMANDER RICHARD SONNTAG, CALVARY

LIEUTENANT BISCHLER
[HELMUT BERNHARD FRANZ BECHLER -
Company-Leader in the 182nd Infantry-Regiment (06 Aug 1918-14 Aug 1918);
Adjutant of the 1. Battalion of the 182nd Infantry-Regiment (04 Dec 1918-19 Feb 1919)]

GOEBBEL [GOEBBLE]
[MARTIN GÖBEL?]

The departure of the German troops became reality in late November and early December after the signing of the WWI peace armistice on 11 November called for the withdrawal of German troops from all areas occupied in Eastern Europe ... Before either the Bolsheviks or the White Army could move into the vacated sections of Northern Tauride or Ekaterinoslav, they lay open to occupancy by the Ukrainian partisan forces of “Batjko” Nestor Makhno who had led a guerilla war against the Austro-Germans since his return to the region in early July, 1918 ...

A 300-man cavalry force, divided into five sections, carefully deployed its strength to protect the northern and western borders of the Molotschna-Prischib region. They supported about 20 companies of infantry, possibly 2700 men in all. Thirteen of the companies came from the Halbstadt and Gnadenfeld volosts, and the rest from Prischib. Leading officers included personnel which had remained behind when the German army, persons life [sic: like] Sergeant Major Sonntag, Lieutenant Bischler, Goebbel, Mueller and others 45 ...

[Notes]

45 Toews, Schoenfeld, 90-100. A photo, so far the only one known to have survived, of a Mennonite armed unit with its German officers was first published in Lawrence Klippenstein, “Remembering Alternative Service in Russia,” Mennonite Reporter, 16 February 1981, 6 ...

NOVEMBER, 1918

VOGT

  • When it became necessary for the German troops to withdraw from the Molotschna, sometime in November, the Hierschau Selbstschutz members lined up on their parade ground. A German officer named Vogt addressed the group. "I have chosen the best one among you, Heinrich Braun." Then turning to Heinrich he continued, "If anyone can do it, you can." ...

  • Hierschau: an example of Russian Mennonite life By Helmut Huebert, pp. xxi, 238, 240-241, 250, 261

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  • Aided and abetted by the White Army, the Molotschna Selbstschutz took the field with a successful attack against Makhnovite forces at Chernigovka (6 December 1918). During the winter of 1918-1919 the Selbstschutz, now an "army" of 2,700 infantry divided into 20 companies (of which 7 were non-Mennonite Germans from Prischib) and 300 cavalry, held a thinly-stretched "front" against Makhno's forces at Blumenthal, 20 mi. (33 Ion.) north of Molotschna. In early March 1919, Makhno combined with the advancing Red Army to force the Selbstschutz to retreat and disband in Halbstadt.

  • In September, I returned to school for my last year. On Armistice Day, November 11, 1918, news came that the Germans were pulling out ...

The Selbstschutz (Self-defence Group) consisted of ordinary young men, many still in school, and some older men. Most were single. In each village, two armed men kept guard for four hours during the night.

The Germans trained us after school ... The only rank among Mennonnites was leader in charge of a platoon; all officers were non-Mennonite. The Lutherans at Prischib were organized too. Most of them had served in the army, had their own officers and were more experienced than we.

We were all supposedly volunteers although great pressure was put on us to join the Selbstschutz.

"After all, bandits were terrorizing the north." We had heard the stories, many of them directly from friends and relatives, who had been forced to leave their homes in the north and flee to the villages in the Molotschna. Among these was Gerhard Toews from Schoenfeld, a graduate of the Commerce School [Kommerzschule ] of Halbstadt. He had been a lieutenant in the Tsarist army during the war. He later organized a German battalion and fought with the White Army. I did not meet him until after I had fled from Russia....

http://books.google.ca/books?id=WE58Gp-BJ1AC&pg=
PA259&lpg=PA259&dq=%22German+
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1&ved=0CBgQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=Molotschna&f=false - Constantinoplers: Escape from Bolshevism By Irmgard Epp. pp. 46-47.

  • Leadership at the highest levels was in the hands of German Army officers. "These [post November 11, 1918?] had left the German army because they had found somewhere a sweetheart by some large-scale farmers or landowners or because they feared a court-martial upon their return to Germany."... Some sources add that leadership also came from White Army officers, this as early as November of 1918 before the White Army occupied the Ukraine ... One participant states that German soldiers who had trained the colonists during the summer were left behind to give leadership and training after the occupation forces withdrew [post November 11, 1918] ... Whether they were left behind for that purpose, or whether they deserted, it is clear that some German officers did remain in the colonies and that they played an important part in organizing and training the Selbstschutz ...  Later the White Army played an important role in the Selbstschutz organization and command ...

    • Josephine Chipman, The Mennonite Selbstschutz  in the Ukraine: 1918-1919. MA Thesis (University of Manitoba, March, 1988), p. 124.

1918 - 1919

182 INFANTRY REGIMENT

HERR FREIHERR (Baron) VON STAUFENBERG - District Commander, Halbstadt - District VIII

LIEUTENANT LEROUX [Leutenant Maximilian Leroux, München ?] - Director of the Self-Defense forces, District VIII

CAPTAIN MÜLLER [MUELLER] - Assistant to Leroux, District VIII
[JOHANNES MÜLLER?]

(LIEUTENANT) SERGEANT MAJOR RICHARD SONNTAG (led the I and II companies of the Halbstadt Stosstrupp) -
 COMMANDER RICHARD SONNTAG, CALVARY

WAGENKNECHT

  • Long before February 1 [1919], when the last German units departed from the Ukraine, Makhno's bands had resumed their terrorist activities ... The Germans, in retaliation, executed individual bandits and occasionally levelled to the ground entire villages suspected of housing guerrillas  ... Lawlessness increased, especially on the outskirts of the Molotschna where the large Mennonite estates were located ....

On one occasion, when enroute home to Schoenfeld ... I stopped în Alexandrovsk [a town in Ekaterinoslav gubernia] to visit the headquarters of the German-Austrian command-to plead with one of the high-ranking officers to stop the reprisal tactics, pointing out to him that in the end this would only intensify the terrorist activities. I do not know how much good, if any, my counsel accomplished."...

"Without waiting for the outcome of the War, the Russian and Ukrainian peasants, in many cases, took possession of the land of the great Mennonite property owners. These fled to Halbstadt and other towns and developed there an active counterrevolutionary activity." ...

Walter Burow .... was an active participant in the Selbstschutz. Adolph Ehrt agrees that the Germans acted as instructors. He adds that, "Demobilized troops formed the core of the Selbstschutz organization. It originated with the withdrawal of the German occupation troops in November, 1918." Ehrt estimates that the strength of the Selbstschutz would have been about 2,000 men ...

Although it is impossible to piece together the actual hierarchy of command in the Selbstschutz organization, it is clear that there was German leadership at the highest levels. Non-Mennonite German names appear frequently in first-person accounts, names such as Freiherr (baron) von Staufenberg (who is mentioned by a Kommerzschule student as the "overall leader" and the German District Commander for Halbstadt) [District VIII], Herr Leutnant Leroux, Herr Sergeant Mueller, Sergant Wagenknecht, and Sergeant Sonntag (sometimes referred to as Sergeant Major). Sonntag's name is mentioned frequently by students as their "leader". He was in the 182nd Saxon Infantry Regiment of the German Army and instrumental in training the Kommerzschule students. After the German retreat he remained behind, it appears, as the leader of the "Shock Troops" ...

  • Josephine Chipman, The Mennonite Selbstschutz  in the Ukraine: 1918-1919. MA Thesis (University of Manitoba, March, 1988), pp. 115-116, 129-131.

POST NOVEMBER, 1918

LIEUTENANT LEROUX [Leutenant Maximilian Leroux, München ?] - Director of the Self-Defense forces, District VIII

CAPTAIN MÜLLER [MUELLER] - Assistant to Leroux, District VIII 
[JOHANNES MÜLLER?]

(LIEUTENANT) SERGEANT MAJOR RICHARD SONNTAG (led the I and II companies of the Halbstadt Stosstrupp) -
 COMMANDER RICHARD SONNTAG, CALVARY

  • The last German troops left the area in November [1918], including Sergeant Mueller under whom they had trained. "A few officers remained, however, and most of these played a leadership role in the the ensuing war."... Jacob Thiessen who was also in the Kommerzschule detachment states in his memoirs:

One of the German officers, by the name of Sonntag had stayed behind, and he trained the students of our college in warfare, and made out of the two hundred students quite a formidable military force ....

Thiessen is speaking of the special Kommerzschule infantry unit, the "Shocktroops". About their activities more will be said later.

That the Kommerzschule students participated in the Selbstschutz is also confirmed by Mr. Julius Neustaedter, who attended the school as a youth and is presently living in Saskatoon. In an interview, he described his involvement with the Kommerzschule detachment:

It was exciting ....The school had the biggest unit ....We volunteered of our own free will ....Not all the students joined, probably less [in number] than [those who] didn't [join] ....The teachers had nothing to do with it ....No cane forced us ...

According to Mr. Neustaedter, the boys were aged from sixteen years and wore their school uniforms. The Germans organized and drilled the unit on the Muntaur Wiese [Muntaur meadow]. They used real guns with wooden bullets so as not to waste ammunition. Their "leader" was Sonntag, a German, and there were no Mennonites involved in the drilling. When asked why he participated, Mr. Neustaedter replied that he had no regrets. "At that time it was the thing to do. I would do it again." When asked what his parents thought about his actions he chuckled and replied, "

They didn't know. At least I didn't tell them."

"Why, didn't you tell them?"

"They would have said you should be studying."

"What did the ministers at school think about all this?"

"They didn't talk about it."

Peter Rempel, also confirms Kommerzschule participation in the Selbstschutz:

The major centre of support and activity of the Selbstschutz was Halbstadt. The elder of the church at Halbstadt, Abraham Klassen, had led the struggle at the Lichteriau Conference and the faculty and students of the presitiguous [sic] School of Commerce supported the Selbstschutz ...

  • Josephine Chipman, The Mennonite Selbstschutz  in the Ukraine: 1918-1919. MA Thesis (University of Manitoba, March, 1988), pp. 126-127.

NOVEMBER, 1918

VOGT

The center of conflict was the Catholic colony of Blumental, where Catholic, Lutheran and Mennonite defense troops (all German speaking) fought the Makhno troops for three months. Outnumbered by reinforced bands of criminals the Sebstschutz began a two-day retreat from Blumental to Halbstadt (the center of the Molotschna colony) fighting all the way. Panic broke loose in the Molotschna villages, and hundreds of wagons of Mennonite, Catholic, and Lutheran refugees fled in the direction of the Crimea. Through the influence of three Lutheran medical doctors they were persuaded to return the following day. From their inception, the Selbstschutz had decided they would not fight the Bolsheviks and Trotsky's five million member Red Army. When they discovered that the Bolshevik and Makhnovskys had now joined forces, they laid down their arms on March 11, 1919. The Mennonite colonies were now completely at the mercy of massive bands of vicious armed criminals.

DECEMBER, 1918

  • Various ideas were drawn up on how to counter the Bolsheviks in the region; some were more practical than others. As already mentioned, many of the German settlements and villages were in this region and for the German forces this seemed to offer a golden opportunity. The German Military Fieldpost No 201 reported to the German Consulate in Odessa on 20th December 1918:

The idea was put forward of forming a volunteer army from the sons of colonists in the southern Ukraine with German officers and noncommissioned officers who voluntarily would remain in Ukraine. The plan failed however, partly due to the passivity of the colonists and partly due to the very small number of German troops willing to remain in Ukraine, so that the plan had to be dispensed with ...

It would appear that many of the German troops were singularly lacking in enthusiasm. In the Foreign Ministry, the manoeuvres of the German troops in the southern Ukraine were regarded with suspicion. In a Memorandum dated 20 January 1919, an official at the Foreign Ministry, commented on the Allies and their plans: "They are seeking to occupy and hold the most important points on the south coast - Odessa, Nikolaev, the Crimea and Mariupol - and to urge on the Don Cossacks and the Volunteer Army, whom they have supplied with munitions, weapons and money against the Ukrainians. For us it is my present conviction that in the present circumstances a cautious waiting policy is best ." ...

  • http://theses.gla.ac.uk/2324/  - Joseph Healy, Central Europe in flux: Germany, Poland and Ukraine, 1918-1922. PhD thesis, University of Glasgow, 2003, pp.

  •  54-55.

1919

  • Regimentsgeschichte; 16. Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 182 was demobilized in Freiberg in January, 1919

    • Fighting the Kaiser's War: The Saxons in Flanders 1914-1918, By Andrew Lucas, Jurgen Schmieschek, p. 89

  • while other units of 212.ID found themselves stuck in Ukraine in a political vacuum after the armistice. The last of them were shipped home from Odessa by the French and Greeks in March 1919 ...

 

JANUARY 20

I. ArmeeKorps

  • 80, 000 HUNS IN UKRAINE Several Reach Coblenz—Fight Way Through Bolshevik Bands. COBLENZ, Friday, Jan. 24.—After being three weeks on a train, fighting their way through bands of bolshevists in Russia, several German soldiers arrived here yesterday from Ukraine. A noncommissioned officer of the German first corps estimates that 80,000 German soldiers remain in the Ukraine.

1919

(LIEUTENANT) SERGEANT MAJOR RICHARD SONNTAG (led the I and II companies of the Halbstadt Stosstrupp) -
 COMMANDER RICHARD SONNTAG, CALVARY

LIEUTENANT HEINRICH VON HOMEYER [HANS VON HOMEYER, HEINZE VON HOMEYER] -
COMMANDER HEINRICH VON HOMEYER, CAVALRY

[WHITE ARMY OFFICER]

  • From late November, 1918, to the end of February of the following year [1919], the Selbstschutz managed to keep Makhno's forces at bay ... But in early February [1919] the situation changed dramatically. On January 26 [1919] Makhno agreed to unite forces with the Bolsheviks ... and a week later the Selbstschutz was defeated ...

    At the time of its collapse a large segment of the Halbstadt Selbstschutz, the cavalry and "mounted infantry" was in the vicinity of Blumental. Its commanders, Homeyer and Sonntag ... dissolved the front and granted the Selbstschutz participants their freedom, urging each man to save himself as best he could. Some sources claim that a large segment of this group which escaped into the Crimea organized there a fighting contingent known as the Jaegerbatallion ...Another segment of the Halbstadt Selbstschutz fled in the direction of Berdyansk, from where some fled into the Crimea while others returned home ...

    The Selbstschutz, in spite of its weaknesses, managed to prevent Makhno's bandits from gaining control of the colonies during the three months which followed the withdrawal of the German Occupation forces. That it was able to "prevent Makhno and his bandits from making the Molotschna their playground ... is surprising from a military point of view. Hans von Homeyer, an experienced White Army officer who was instrumental in helping the defeated Selbstschutz troops to escape, described the Mennonite soldiers as brave and courageous ...

    Although some Mennonites have taken offence at Homeyer's remarks ... claiming that he was criticizing the Selbstschutz, it would seem rather that he felt admiration for what they had been able to accomplish as nonprofessional soldiers ...

    It seems that a few days before the collapse of the Selbstschutz, the Mennonites invited Hans von Homeyer, a German officer, to Halbstadt to replace the White officers in command. Members of the Mennozentrum negotiated with White authorities in Halbstadt and Melitopol for the transfer of Selbstschutz leadership to Homeyer. A special delegation, including B. H. Unruh, was dispatched to the Crimea to inform him of his appointment as commander-in-chief.

    Homeyer's obituary, on file in the CMBC Archives, states that, "In February 1919 Homeyer returned from the Crimea [to the Ukraine] and took over the Mennonite Selbstschutz, out of which he [later] put together the 4,000-man Jaeqerbrigade. [My translation from the German] John Toews, however, states that the 4,000 German colonists in the Jaeqerbrigade (Sharpshooters' Brigade), "included" Mennonite Selbstschuetzler ...

    Lohrenz, in the above mentioned interview, states that Homeyer had criticized the Selbstschutz for poor organization ...

    • Josephine Chipman, The Mennonite Selbstschutz  in the Ukraine: 1918-1919. MA Thesis (University of Manitoba, March, 1988), pp. 143, 149-150, 152.

56 Thiessen, We are Pilgrims, 51. The final days [1919] of the collapse of the Selbstschutz recounted by Thiessen in his memoirs, were also depicted in Walter Burow, “Der Selbstschutz,” an unpublished essay in the author’s files, and in a historical novel by H. von Homeyer, Die brennende Halbinsel. Ein Ringen um Heimal und Ehre (Berlin-Schoenberg: Landmann Verlag, 1938), in which the author depicts his role in the final phase of the self-defense activities in the colonies. According to the story, he was invited to Halbstadt to replace the White officers. Members of the Mennozentrum, including apparently, B.H.Unruh, were in charge of negotiations. Toews, “Origins and Activities,” 25-26 ...

  • ... the last of the German units departed from the Ukraine on February 1, 1919. With them, disguised as a German lieutenant, went Hetman Skoropadskii ...

    • Josephine Chipman, The Mennonite Selbstschutz  in the Ukraine: 1918-1919. MA Thesis (University of Manitoba, March, 1988), p. 129.

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1919

(LIEUTENANT) SERGEANT MAJOR RICHARD SONNTAG (led the I and II companies of the Halbstadt Stosstrupp) -
 COMMANDER RICHARD SONNTAG, CALVARY 

LIEUTENANT HEINRICH VON HOMEYER [HANS VON HOMEYER, HEINZE VON HOMEYER] -
COMMANDER HEINRICH VON HOMEYER, CAVALRY
 [WHITE ARMY OFFICER]

GLOECKLER [Glöckler]

  • On 2 March 1919, further heavy fighting occurred at Gruenthal and the area of Andreasburg where about 100 of Makhno’s men lost their lives. Northern villages of the Molotschna colony, such as Ladekopp, had received fresh supplies of weapons and ammunition. Some hoped that the Germans might return from Nikolaev where the last remaining detachment was waiting to leave for home ....

The German cavalry commanders, Heinrich von Homeyer and Sonntag, dissolved the front and urged all their [Mennonite] men to pull back in order to save themselves as best they could ...

During these very days (c. October, 1919), not many miles away in the Molotschna colony, Blumenort and several nearby communities had to suffer a similar fate, their most violent experiences in the entire history of the settlement. A group of fleeing White soldiers, among them apparently several Mennonites and a German officer, Gloeckler, had taken shelter at Waldheim ...

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Late March 1919

 MARCH 8, 1919

LIEUTENANT HEINRICH VON HOMEYER [HANS VON HOMEYER, HEINZE VON HOMEYER] -
COMMANDER HEINRICH VON HOMEYER, CAVALRY
 [WHITE ARMY OFFICER]

  • ... March 8, 1919      Heinze von Homeyer, a German officer, appointed commander of the Selbstschutz two days before it collapsed ...

[By Helmut T Huebert, Events and people: events in Russian Mennonite history and the people that Made Them Happen - http://books.google.com/books?id=BNEh8xwSOEkC&pg=PA153&dq=%22von+Homeyer%22+german+army+1918# ]

 MARCH 22, 1919

  • On 10th March 1919 the evacuation by sea of the 7th Landwehr Division from Odessa and the 15th Landwehr Division from Nikolaev began.

In Nikolaev the bands of Grigoriev entered the burning suburbs while the Germans were still embarking ... The French commander in Odessa received the order from Paris to evacuate the city. This signified the end of Allied direct intervention in Ukraine. Although the British would continue their links with General Denikin's Volunteer Army, the evacuation of Odessa was the last involvement of the French in Ukraine. On 22 March the last German troops together with German consular staff left Odessa on board the hospital ship `Jerusalem' and sailed for Germany via Istanbul. The last German forces had finally left Ukraine ...

  • http://theses.gla.ac.uk/2324/  - Joseph Healy, Central Europe in flux: Germany, Poland and Ukraine, 1918-1922. PhD thesis, University of Glasgow, 2003, p. 61.

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HELPING THE SELBSTSCHUTZ

MARCH, 1919

LIEUTENANT HEINRICH VON HOMEYER [HANS VON HOMEYER, HEINZE VON HOMEYER] -
COMMANDER HEINRICH VON HOMEYER, CAVALRY

[WHITE ARMY OFFICER]

Cornelius Heinrich Epp

  • One of the officers, Lieutenant Hohmeyer [Homeyer], and his nephew stayed at my aunt Eva's, where I also boarded. More about this Hohmeyer later ...

The Bolshevik Army slowly moved into the Ukraine; it wasn't until the end of March 1919 that it reached the Mennonite colonies in the Molotschna. Meanwhile the Selbstschutz  protected the colonies from attacks by terrorist bands. Nightly guard duty was required of us. Two men patrolled the village streets, so each man's turn did not come very often. Also the Selbstschutz  was responsible for other colonies, where an attack was expected. A wagon, with two horses, or even more when the roads were muddy, were ready to transport men when the alarm was sounded. I participated on two occasions. Once in Lindenau, a colony south of Halbstadt. A small group of armed men from a Russian village was threatening were threatening the colony. We were there for a day but nothing happened.

The second time we had to take the train to Waldheim and then another 15 miles by wagon to Konteniusfeld. This happened in February when the Red Army was getting closer and the various bandits who worked with them were getting bolder ....

When the Selbstschutz  was organized, it was always understood they would lay down their arms when the Red Army arrived. The Red Army was moving along the Southern Railway, which ran from Alexandrovsk to Melitopol and then into the Crimea. But before they arrived, the Selbstschutz  fought one battle with Makhno's band near Blumental, a Lutheran colony about 20 miles north of Halbstadt.

Makhno had about 10,000 men under him and he was going to show the Red Army what he could do before they arrived

Confronting him were 600 colonists who were well entrenched and led by experienced German officers from the Western front. The battle lasted three days and resulted in some 3000 casualties on the Makhno side and one man killed on our side ..

JU: This was March 1919. The numbers are inflated, but this is common ....

and in a few days the Red Army occupied Halbstadt ...

By the time we got back to Halbstadt, my aunt and cousin and family had left for Sevastopol [port city in Crimea, located on the Black Sea]. I gathered a few clothes and, on horseback, joined Hohmeyer and the other Germans in their flight to Crimea. We passed Melitopol by evening ...

The Makhnovitzi were right on our heels. We expected to make a stand in Crimea, which was easier to defend.

Our group got on a freight train moving to Sevastopol, Crimea. I didn't stay long and went to Simferopol. Lt. Hohmeyer  organized what he called the Jäger Brigade (Rifle Brigade) embracing the men who had been in the Selbstschutz. Lutherans,   Catholic Germans as well as Mennonites and Crimean Germans joined this Brigade, about 3000 men. The White Army held the front against the Red Army.

Hohmeyer and an Austrian were in charge of the Brigade but the White Army helped organize it. I joined the Brigade ...

By the end of March the Red Army advanced to Simferopol after breaking through the front at Perekop.

The event convinced Hohmeyer that the White Army was about finished and he decided to go over to the Reds, which we did. What was left of the White Army retreated to Vladislavoroka, another narrow place in the Kerch Peninsula. The Red Army soon took Simferopol. The changeover was very orderly. There was no looting. Our Rifle Brigade occupied public buildings and patrolled the streets ...

Back to Simferopol. The Bolsheviks did not trust the Rifle Brigade and did not know what to do with it. They finally persuaded us to disband.

"Put your arms down and we will give you safe passage home." I should have gone, but because of the Cheka's terror in Melitopol, I feared going home. I stayed in Simferopol; it was relatively quiet: No executions ....

Not long after the Rifle Brigade disbanded Oberleutnant Hohmeyer, his nephew, four others and I were all arrested by the Cheka ...

http://books.google.ca/books?id=WE58Gp-BJ1AC&pg=PA259&lpg=PA259&dq=%22German
+Battalion%22+%22White+army%22&source=bl&ots=9W7HUWkgaC&sig=
92MjsKp8OP0ivm_DnxzAiBicZps&hl=en&ei=
K3gmTZiZJ8L-8AaNuNWFAg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=
result&resnum=1&ved=0CBgQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=Molotschna&f=false - Constantinoplers: Escape from Bolshevism By Irmgard Epp. pp. 40-44.

  • Halbstadt, 20 Jun 1919 - praise and thanks to leadership of “Freiwilligen Armee [White Army] for rescuing them. . .

  • On the condition that they could have absolute sway in the province of Taurida (where the Mennonite colonies were located) the Makhnovskys placed themselves under the command of the Bolsheviks. This period, which lasted from March to July of 1919, proved to be a time of ultimate horror, terror and brutality for the Molotschna colony. Many of the Selbstschutz young men were shot down in cold blood. Others were sent to prison in Berdjansk and Melitopol. The wealthier Mennonite land and factory owners were killed in gruesome fashion. The Revolutionary Tribunal (shades of the French Revolution, in which the Jews murdered the best of the French leadership by the thousands) sat in Melitopol. Every week during these months, hundreds of death sentences were passed, including a number of Mennonites. In many instances the Kommissars were the former laborers on the estates of Mennonite landowners, who now exercised their criminal powers to wreak vengeance on their former employers. Such is the nature of criminals when in power.

    From July to October of 1919, the White Armies of Deniken drove out the Makhnovskys and the Bolsheviks and maintained control in the south. Temporarily the Crimea, the Molotschna and the Old Colony (Chortitza) had a reprieve and a breathing spell. As Deniken moved farther north, the Makhno forces rallied and broke through the Deniken front again, overrunning the Old Colony and Molotschna from October, 1919, to January, 1920.

    In the Molotschna colony terrorism ran rampant. All suffered from beastly criminals gone berserk. The village of Blumenort was hardest hit and here is one incident of many that exemplifies the viciousness and criminality of the perpetrators let loose on the former peaceful and prosperous Mennonites. On November 10 (1919) fourteen men were sent into the basement of a house. After shooting into the group for a while, the Makhno bandits threw hand grenades at the wounded survivors, finally indulging themselves by slaughtering with swords any signs of life left among the mutilated bodies. Six other men were killed outside. The women and girls were raped, and even wives in stages of pregnancy were not spared. The whole village was then burned to the ground as an act of revenge for the death of four Makhnovskys at the hands of a partisan group (not Mennonite). A few days later these same murderers were slaughtered by fierce Cossack troops who were on the side of the White Army. At Christmas time the Makhnovskys returned to the Molotschna colony, but were driven out by the Bolshevik troops. In January of 1920. The Old Colony (Chortitza) had even a more difficult time than did the Molotschna colony. For four long months from October, 1919, to January, 1920, the robber bands held sway. In the village of Eichenfeld 81 men and four women were murdered in one night alone. The village was then burned to the ground. Six other villages suffered a similar fate, also being burned to the ground. The 15 villages that remained in the Chortitza-Nicolalpol district, were completely stripped and plundered. Farmers were fortunate if they were left with a horse and a manure wagon with which to take the bodies to the cemetery. Women and girls were violated and raped en masse with resulting plagues of venereal disease. The hospital at Chortitza at one time registered 100 VD cases. Murder casualties in the Chortitza district numbered 245 victims. The Zagradov district, although equipped with weapons, insisted on remaining non-resistant in compliance with their religious tenets. This did absolutely nothing to mitigate the ferocity of the criminal attackers, and the Makhno brigands here instituted a literal blood bath. Over 200 men, women and children were either shot down or cut to pieces by sword ...

  • [Post] March 1919 ... In Brazel [Brazol Colony, also known as Schoenfeld Colony, South Russia], I immediately reported to the Kommisar ...

Our area was now settled with some Austrians and Germans. Some German officers also came to Schöenbrunns wishing to bring some Russians to a hearing. The Russians had been mailed orders to report. In our neighbourhood,  I. Thiessen was the Kommisor and when he was in need, had to flee; came home and reported to the German officer in the school. One Philipp, because he had been on the run so much had taken what he needed as he went. So also by us; the horses and my fur. So  he came to me and begged me to say a good word for him. I felt sorry for him (and I hadn't told anybody yet) and promised to help. My father-in-law Koop, teacher at Schöenbrunn, was also very beloved by the Russians as was Korn. Enns who was involved in this case. I spoke for Philipp, asking they leave him alone, since he hadn't killed anybody. He had taken because he was in need. So they didn't do anything to him which resulted in my safety later on ...

In the autumn of 1919, after the harvest, most of the Schöenfelder fled, as did we, since Makhno's band were everywhere daily. We voted to go north d. h. Memrick. We drove on a heavy wagon with four horses. The driver, a German, was to return ...

  • Rememberances Out of Russia, Johann J. Mathies, Vineland, Ontario, 1965 (Brother of A. J. Mathies) - Interviewed by Annie Krause - 1919

GLOECKLER [Glöckler]

  • B. B. Janz gives a different version of the reasons for the [Blumenort] massacre. He writes that the tragedy was the result of a Mennonite "conspiracy". He claims that the members of the (by then) disbanded Selbstschutz, led by a German officer by the name of Gloeckler, had been invited to Blumenort to make the raid by Jacob Epp and someone from Ohrloff ...

    • Josephine Chipman, The Mennonite Selbstschutz  in the Ukraine: 1918-1919. MA Thesis (University of Manitoba, March, 1988), p. 160.
       

  • We must make a confession: we have sinned-and not only in this particular case. In this instance, however, all the murders of  those days, all the conflagrations, all the rapes resulted from Mennonite armed resistance. Former members of the Selbstschuz well as later members of the German battalion (21-22 persons?) were directly responsible. We've usually kept silent about this bitter fact ...

Some fleeing splinter groups from the White Army, including Molotschna warriors (Selbstsclzutz), had entered the village of Waldheim in the Gnadenfeld district. Here they formulated plans to attack the fiends in Ohrloff and destroy the robbers' den. ...

During the night a party of adventurers from the volunteer army  [White Army], including Molotschna warriors (Selbstsclzutz)] attacked the Red watch stationed in the village. Several were killed, possibly a Red commissar among others. The exact sequence of events associated with the raid cannot be ascertained since the participants withdrew the same night and left the innocent inhabitants of Blumenort to their terrible fate! ...

On Wednesday November 12, my wife and I and our parents drove to Tiegenhagen to bury father's brother-in-law, Jakob Welk, who was murdered in Tiegenhagen by this terror-inspiring band ...

"No Songs Were at the Gravesite" The Bltunenort (Russia) Massacre (November 80-12, 1919) Translated and Edited by John B. Toews, Regent College, pp. 62-63, 67 - jms.uwinnipeg.ca/index.php/jms/article/view/443/443

  • Some German officers remained in the Molotschna to lead the Selbstschutz which they had drilled and equipped. One of the significant battles between the Makhno group and the Selbstschutz took place twenty miles (35 km) north of Halbstadt near the Catholic village of Blumental early in March 1919 ...

The Selbstschutz (self-defense) began as a spontaneous movement by the Mennonites in the Ukraine to protect lives and property during the period of violent anarchy following the Russian Revolution. During the German occupation (April-November, 1918) hitherto secret Selbstschutz, units were trained openly under German supervision mainly in Molotschna, Chortitza, Nikolaipol, and Sagradovka. If and when the German troops withdrew, these militia units were to become operative ...

Aided and abetted by the White Army, the Molotschna Selbstschutz took the field with a successful attack against Makhnovite forces at Chernigovka (6 December 1918). During the winter of 1918-1919 the Selbstschutz, now an "army" of 2,700 infantry divided into 20 companies (of which 7 were non-Mennonite Germans from Prischib) and 300 cavalry, held a thinly-stretched "front" against Makhno's forces at Blumenthal, 20 mi. (33 Ion.) north of Molotschna. In early March 1919, Makhno combined with the advancing Red Army to force the Selbstschutz to retreat and disband in Halbstadt ...

http://www.gameo.org/encyclopedia/contents/S444ME.html

  • It is likely that the Molotschna Mennonites were the first to be attacked by the Makhno anarchist hordes. Some German officers remained in the Molotschna to lead the Selbstschutz which they had drilled and equipped. One of the significant battles between the Makhno group and the Selbstschutz took place twenty miles (35 km) north of Halbstadt near the Catholic village of Blumental early in March 1919. After a fierce five-day battle, the Selbstschutz unit was overwhelmed by the Makhno group which outnumbered them ten to one. Gradually they withdrew to Halbstadt. On March 9 and 10, hundreds of wagons of German refugees (Mennonite, Catholic, and Lutheran) moved toward the Crimea. The regular Red army regiments soon moved in and prevented the Makhno bandits from occupying the Mennonite villages, and the Makhno followers then subjected themselves to them from March to July 1919. During this time the Mennonites suffered very severely ...

http://forums.skadi.net/showthread.php?t=133205

  • Mennonite units Russian

Mennonite young men in Ukraine from Molotschna and to a lesser extent Chortitza formed Selbstschutz units through influence of the German occupation forces at the end of World War I. Before the end of the occupation, German soldiers supervised the creation of several Selbstschutz units, leaving guns, ammunition, and a few officers to command the groups. Together with a neighboring Lutheran colony, the young men from Molotschna formed twenty companies totaling 2700 infantry and 300 cavalry, which, during the Russian Civil War, held back the forces of anarchist Nestor Makhno until March 1919. When the Red Army combined with Makhno, the self-defense group was forced to retreat and disband ...

http://www.reference.com/browse/Selbstschutz

UHLANS REGIMENT

  • The last four years I boarded with Mother's sister, Eva Willms. She lived in Alt Halbstadt on the opposite end of the village from where I had been before... A day later I found out the Horse Clinic had left first. I again stayed with my aunt, Eva Willms; A Colonel of the Guard, Uhlans, and his adjutant also stayed with her. The Uhlans were the last Germans to leave Halbstadt. We watched them ride past the house two by two in a long line, a sad moment for us. We all realized we were facing a very dark future ..

Constantinoplers: Escape from Bolshevism By Irmgard Epp, pp. 36, 39,
http://books.google.ca/books?id=WE58Gp-BJ1AC&pg=PA39&lpg=
PA39&dq=%22the+uhlans%22+halbstadt&source=bl&ots=
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0CBUQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=%22the%20uhlans%22%20halbstadt&f=false

[NOTE: German Uhlans ... In 1914 the Imperial German Army included twenty-six Uhlan regiments, three of which were Guard regiments, twenty-one line (sixteen Prussian, two Württemberg and three Saxon) and two from the autonomous Royal Bavarian Army ... After seeing mounted action during the early weeks of World War I the Uhlan regiments were either dismounted to serve as "cavalry rifles" in the trenches of the Western Front, or transferred to the Eastern Front where more primitive conditions made it possible for horse cavalry to still play a useful role. All twenty-six German Uhlan regiments were disbanded in 1918 – 1919.  ...

Polish Uhlans: ... After Poland's independence in 1918, Uhlan formations were raised in all parts of the country [Poland}. They fought with distinction in the Greater Poland Uprising, the Polish-Ukrainian War and the Polish-Bolshevik War. Although equipped with modern horse-drawn artillery and trained in infantry tactics, the Uhlan formations kept their sabres, their lances and their ability to charge the enemy. Among other battles, the Uhlan units took part in the Battle of Komarów of 1920 against the invading Soviet Konarmia, the last pure cavalry battle in history - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uhlan ]

  • The German minority in Ukraine remained mostly aloof from the various governments.  Many had already been deported to the far east during World War I, and under the Bolsheviks they were held under suspicion as potential sympathizers with the German enemy.  Many German villages, and especially prosperous Mennonite estates, were burned by the Makhnovists, and their occupants killed or fled.

  • In July 1919 Janzen volunteered to serve as chaplain to the young Mennonite men who had been inducted into the so-called German Battalion of the White army [Note: A Selbstschutz unit had directly joined the White Army cause]. In the course of this service, he was promoted to the rank of Colonel and received an honourable discharge as such in July, 1920 ...

http://www.mhso.org/publications/Mennogesprach6-1.pdf - Jacob H. Janzen: "A Minister of Rare Magnitude" by Henrv Paetkau, March 1988

  • General Denikin's Army was the best known and the largest of them [White Army]. I joined the Officers' Regiment out of Simferopol. Only officers were in it and the German "Battalion", which was made up of Selbstschützen (Self-defenders) and also German youths Mennonites ...

http://books.google.ca/books?id=WE58Gp-BJ1AC&pg=PA259&lpg=PA259&dq
=22German+Battalion22+22White+army22&source=bl&ots=9W7HUWkgaC&sig=
92MjsKp8OP0ivm_DnxzAiBicZps&hl=en&ei=
K3gmTZiZJ8L-8AaNuNWFAg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=
result&resnum=1&ved=0CBgQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=
%22German%20Battalion%22%20%22White%20army%22&f=false - Constantinoplers: Escape from Bolshevism By Irmgard Epp, p. 259.

  • [September, 1919] A. K[roeker]. “Erfahrungen aus der letzten Bolschewistenzeit.” - German Occupation of Halbstadt - “Der nun angebrochene 26 (13.) Juni wird in der Geschichte unserer Kolonien und besonders Halbstadt’s immer als einen der hervorragendsten in geschichtlicher Erinnerung bleiben. . . - “Wir stehen jetzt unter der Herrschaft der freiwilligen Armee. Es bleibt, was rechtliche geordnete Verhältnisse betriftt, noch viel zu wünschen übrig.” ...

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SUMMER - 1919

1919 - Ludendorf Fest in Halbstadt

This photograph shows a crowd of people (Mennonites of Halbstadt, Molotschna) and a few German soldiers in the foreground.

[From August 1916 to October 1918, General Erich Ludendorf together with Paul von Hindenburg, were the chief engineers behind the management of Germany's effort in World War I, which included the period from April to November 1918, when German forces occupied Ukraine, bringing restoration of civil order to the Mennonite colonies]

http://archives.mhsc.ca/448

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SEPTEMBER 1919 WW 1 CASUALTY LISTING

SEPTEMBER 15, 1919

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF SEPTEMBER 15, 1919

Jäger-Regiment, Nr. 10

Jäger-Bataillon, Nr. 12

http://des.genealogy.net/search/show/4960912 - DEUTSCHE BESTENLISTE, September 15, 1919, Page 31031, S. 615, Edition 2516.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 1919

WW 1 CASUALTY LIST - Verlustlisten 1. Weltkrieg

REPORT OF SEPTEMBER 30. 1919

LIST 623: SEPTEMBER 30, 1919

GEFREITER WILHELM KRAUSE II

LANCE CORPORAL WILHELM KRAUSE II

MISSING IN ACTION

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INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

16. Infanterie-Regiment, Nr. 182. 9. Kompagnie.

16 Infantry Regiment, Nr. 182. 9 Company

Last name First name Ort [Location]  Ausgabe [Edition] Datum [Date] Page

  • Krause II Wilhelm Bischofswerda, Bautzen 2529 1919-09-30 31158

    • Krause II, Wilhelm, Gefr. - 18.1.97 Bischofswerda, Bautzen - vermisst.

  • Page Number 31158
    Ausgabe 2529
    Datum 1919-09-30
    Last name Krause II
    First name Wilhelm
    Ort Bischofswerda, Bautzen
    Liste Sachsen 623
    Reg. o.ä. Infanterie-Regiment 182
    Status
    GOV Id object_153477
    Dienstgrad
    Bemerk.
    Geburtsdatum

http://des.genealogy.net/search/index?Search=Search&sort=lastname&max=
50&value01=Bischofswerda&order=asc&listId=eingabe-verlustlisten&offset=200 -

NOTE: GEFREITER: This rank occurred only in the Artillery service during WWI.

http://www.worldwar1.com/sfgrank.htm

GEFREITER: A Non-Commissioned Officer (lance corporal) whose command unit is a "Gruppe" (squad).

http://www.worldwar1.com/sfgarmy.htm

LIST 623: SEPTEMBER 30, 1919

OTHERS SUFFERING A CASUALTY IN Nr. 182

[WWI ends: November 11th 1918]

  • 2 Company: One Death - + 3.11.18 infolge krankheit in einem vereinslaz [arett] (died November 3, 1918 due to an illness in a hospital club]

  • 3 Company: One Death in a hospital club - + 13.10.18

  • 5 Company: One Missing In Action - vermisst - Reinhold Weimert

  • 6 Company: "in Gcfgfch." [in Gefangenschaft - in captivity]

  • 8 Company: One Death in a hospital club - + 26.10.18

9TH COMPANY

MISSING IN ACTION

WILHELM KRAUSE
RICHARD SONNTAG
MARTIN GÖBEL
FRANZ HORSCHEL
GOTTHOLD LIEBOBOLD
JOHANNES MÜLLER

  • 9 Company:

    • Commander [Befehber. - Befehlshaber] Richard Sonntag (missing in action)

    • Sergeant [Sergt. - Sergeant] Martin Göbel (missing in action)

    • Corporal [Utif. - Unteroffizier] Franz Horschel (missing in action)

    • Lance Corporal [Gefr. - Gefreiter] Wilhelm Krause II - 18.1.97 Bischofswerda, Bautzen (missing in action)

    • Lance Corporal [Gefr. - Gefreiter], Gotthold Liebobold (missing in action)

    • Lance Corporal [Gefr. - Gefreiter] Johannes Müller (missing in action)
       

  • 10 Company: One Missing In Action - Max Tränkner

  • 11 Company: One Death in a hospital club - + 11.10.18

    SOME DETAILS FROM THE CORRECTIONS PORTION OF THE REPORT

  • 2 Company: One Death in a hospital club -  + 5.5.19

  • 5 Company: One Death in captivity - + 9.3.19

  • 7 Company: One Death in a hospital club  - + 27.2.19

  • 9 Company: One Death in captivity - + 5.3.19

1919: SEE ALSO FOR OTHERS MISSING  IN ACTION IN Nr. 182

JANUARY 21, 1919

JUNE 27, 1919
 

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GLOECKLER [Glöckler]

  • [c. October 27, 1919:]

    • Village of Blumenort ... A group of fleeing white soldiers, allegedly among them several Mennonites and a German officer, Glöckler, had taken shelter in Waldheim ...   On his way Glöckler recruited local Mennonite men who had been with the Selbstschutz earlier ... 

      • History and Mission in Europe: Continuing the Conversation, p, 76 - books.google.ca/books?isbn=3937896988
         

  • I learned that on 26 October 1919 Aunt Elisabeth died in a massacre as a volunteer with an evangelical tent mission. The event took place in the Mennonite village of Eichenfeld (Dubovka), located in thc Jasykovo Mennonite settlement, near Zaporozhye in the Ukraine ...

Later that month [September 1918], Jakob Dick toured the Molotschna again, reporting on the activities of the mission. 'He was alarmed by the growing involvement of historically pacifist Mennonites in an armed self-defense force (Selbstschutz), which was being organized under the supervision of German officers in anticipation of their withdrawal from the settlements. His outspoken opposition created such a furore [sic] that a Mennonite official incarcerated him for a time in the firehouse of an unnamed village in the centre of the Molotschna settlement. He was released following the intervention of more level-headed individual ...

Rumours of the deaths [October 26, 1919] of the Eichenfeld villagers and the loss of the tent missionaries soon reached the Molotschna. A full and comprehensive report was not possible until March, 1920, when Rev. Heinrich Braun gave the details to the Halbstadt congregation ...

In the fall of 1920, the tent mission obtained permission for its activities from the Commissariat of the Interior for the Ukraine ...

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NOVEMBER 2, 1919

GLOECKLER

FALL, 1919

(LIEUTENANT) SERGEANT MAJOR RICHARD SONNTAG (led the I and II companies of the Halbstadt Stosstrupp) -
 COMMANDER RICHARD SONNTAG, CALVARY

  • The German villages along the Molotschna and its tributary were protected by the Selbstschutz  [Molotschna warriors] for a considerable length of time. It was organized in 1918 by Lieutenant Sonntag of the German army. By the fall of 1919 the Selbstschutz  had vanished ...

[ '"No Songs Were at the Gravesite": The Bltunenort (Russia) Massacre (November 80-12, 1919), Translated and Edited by John B. Toews, Regent College at  http://jms.uwinnipeg.ca/index.php/jms/article/viewFile/443/443 ]

1919

LIEUTENANT HEINRICH VON HOMEYER [HANS VON HOMEYER, HEINZE VON HOMEYER] -
COMMANDER HEINRICH VON HOMEYER, CAVALRY
 [WHITE ARMY OFFICER]

  • Hohmeyer now abandoned hope that the White Army could save Russia and rather than retreat with them from Simferopol, he entered an agreement with the Reds that they take over his Rifle Brigade. By now this brigade contained Mennonites, Lutherans and Catholics from the Melitopol and Berdiansk areas ..

After we were freed from prison by the White Army .... He [Hohmeyer] never organized anything more after that but stayed in Simferopol ...

http://books.google.ca/books?id=WE58Gp-BJ1AC&pg=PA259&lpg=
PA259&dq=%22German+Battalion%22+
%22White+army%22&source=bl&ots=9W7HUWkgaC&sig=
92MjsKp8OP0ivm_DnxzAiBicZps&hl=
en&ei=
K3gm
TZiZJ8L-8AaNuNWFAg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=
result&resnum=1&ved=0CBgQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=
Molotschna&f=false - Constantinoplers: Escape from Bolshevism By Irmgard Epp. pp. 49-50.

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POST SELBSTSCHUTZ

 

  • [November 1919]
    Flags: Russian white-blue-red
    German: black-yellow-red
    Ukrainian: blue-yellow
    Kadets: white
    Bolsheviks red
    Anarchists: black ...

  • http://www.mbconf.ca/images/File/Friedensstimme_et_al_index_by_Peter_Letkemann_1917-1920(1).pdf - Annotated index by Peter Letkemann, Winnipeg, Feb 27, 2011: Friedensstimme / Molotschnaer Flugblatt / Volksfreund / Nachrichten des “Volksfreund” [Note: Although the ‘Old Style’ ended on  14 Feb 1918, Ukraine did not adopt the Gregorian calendar]

  • [December, 1919]
    Germany opposes economic blockade [sanctions] against Russia, this will hurt only the people ...
    Mennoniten in Deutschland: list of Mennonite who have fled to Germany ...

AFTER NOVEMBER  7, 1919

  • Halbstadt narrowly averted a fate similar to that of Blumenort. On November 1 Konovalov threatened to execute fifty men unless his demands for contributions were met. When his regiment returned from Blumenort on November 7, "A meeting was called in the Zerrtralschule. Armed guards would round up anyone who did not attend .... In a congenial fashion he announced that he had learned that weapons were hidden [in Halbstadt]. A cannon, two machine guns, twenty-five rifles and fifty pairs of boots as well as overcoats were to be surrendered by 2 p.m., or Halbstadt would be subjected to the same fate as Blumenort. The workers objected, arguing that if this were the case they would have learned about it. The workers demonstrated great loyalty. The soldiers engaged in many house searches and seized whatever they pleased. Many people were threatened with sabres and rifles. The regiment left for Gross-Tokmak before 2 p.m. Before he left, their leader demanded that all the goods be collected by Sunday. They returned Sunday but quickly dispersed since the Cossacks were approaching from Tokmak and Petershagen." "In Halbstadt," Friedenstimme, Vol. XVII (1919). no. 39, p. 7.

    • jms.uwinnipeg.ca/index.php/jms/article/view/443/443 - '"No Songs Were at the Gravesite" The Blumenort (Russia) Massacre (November 10-12, 1919) Translated and Edited by John B. Toews, Regent College

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TAURIDA 1920

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TAURIDA - 1920

http://www.conflicts.rem33.com/images/Ukraine/UKR%201920.jpg

Hierschau: an example of Russian Mennonite life By Helmut Huebert, p. 251.

Hierschau: an example of Russian Mennonite life By Helmut Huebert, p. 253.

http://books.google.ca/books?id=vlCs3O2cTxkC&printsec=frontcover&dq
=Hierschau:+an+example+of+Russian+Mennonite+life+By+Helmut+Huebert&source
=bl&ots=5xREDuIh3G&sig=UlCoutAhvd4jwShGrQXYuvUW6f4&hl=en&ei=
CKdITYjcEcG78gbY-pjjBg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=
1&ved=0CBUQ6AEwAA#v=
onepage&q&f=false

pjjBg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=
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JANUARY 20, 1920

TREATY OF VERSAILLES

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FEBRUARY 16, 1920

PRISONERS OF WAR

  • http://theses.gla.ac.uk/2324/  - Joseph Healy, Central Europe in flux: Germany, Poland and Ukraine, 1918-1922. PhD thesis, University of Glasgow, 2003, p. 83.

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APRIL 1, 1920

POLAND - [GERMANY]

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APRIL 19, 1920

EXCHANGE OF PRISONERS

PDF OF ENTIRE AGREEMENT

www.worldlii.org/int/other/LNTSer/1922/108.pdf‎

http://books.google.ca/books?id=RE2lAAAAIAAJ&dq=
May+6+++++++++A+German+-+Soviet+Peace+Treaty+is+signed+...1921&source=gbs_navlinks_s

www.worldlii.org/int/other/LNTSer/1922/108.pdf‎

APRIL 19, 1920

REPATRIATION OF GERMAN PRISONERS

  • For the Bolshevik, the large number of prisoners on Ukrainian territory presented an opportunity to press the Germans to enter into direct relations with Kharkiv [Kharkov]. The issue was raised during the Soviet Russian-German negotiations in the spring of 1920. German representatives at that session proposed a simple agreement with Russia covering only the return of POWs on Ukrainian soil. They did not accept the offer of direct contact with Soviet Ukrainian delegates. Thus the Ukrainian mission was refused permission to travel to German; even the Ukrainian Red Cross was denied this privilege. German prisoners were to be handed over to German authorities at the Russo-Ukrainian border. Such a stance was unacceptable to the Soviet side. Through Russian representatives, the Kharkiv government insisted that the Ukrainian department of the Soviet legation in Berlin be allowed independent representation and that Germany announce a formal break of diplomatic relations with the UNR [Ukrainian People's Republic - Kiev]. These were the preconditions for resolution of the POW issue ... Although the German government did not accede to most of these demands, by 23 April 1921 it did sign an agreement with Soviet Ukraine which extended the terms of the 19 April 1920 POW agreement with Russia to cover Ukraine as well. In addition, it provided for the establishment of special missions in Berlin and Kharkiv to oversee the implementation of this accord... De facto recognition of Kharkiv was secured ...

    • German-Ukrainian Relations in Historical Perspective edited by Hans-Joachim Torke, John-Paul Himka, p. 112.

    • books.google.ca/books?isbn=0920862918 - [Kharkiv: the capital of the Ukrainian Socialist Soviet Republic (from 1919 to 1934) in opposition to the Ukrainian People's Republic [Ukrainian National Republic] with its capital of Kiev]

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APRIL 21, 1920

PRISONERS OF WAR

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APRIL 23, 1920

PRISONERS OF WAR

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SPRING 1920

 

 

The German Mission, headed by a man named Hilger, was managed with true Teutonic efficiency. The Germans were the first in the field, and by the spring of 1920 they had succeeded in repatriating most of their nationals. On arriving in Moscow they regained possession of the former German consulate practically intact, also another building which was used as a home for destitute or invalid German soldiers. In order to secure places in repatriation echelons prisoners of war must have their papers viséd by the Soviet of the country to which they belong and this body invariably gives the preference to enlisted men, holding back officers as long as possible  ...

Every foreigner who has been resident in Russia, whether a civilian or prisoner of war, must receive his permit to leave the country through the Centro-Evak and this permit must have the visé of the Foreign Office and of the Checka ... 

MAY 15, 1920

INFANTRY REGIMENT 182

RICHARD HEINRICH

http://www.hrs.org.nz/3fjr/commander.htm

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• In the spring of 1920 the White Army, now under the command of General Wrangel, began a new offensive which began in the Crimea, and reached the Molotschna early in June. For weeks the battle lines seasawed back and forth in this area, villages repeatedly changing hands ...

  • In the spring of 1920 ... We went through Tsdchanigowka, Klippenfeld, and Hamburg to Henry Schroeders ...

    In Hamburg was the Red Front. In Waldein was the White Front ...

    We were then taken by a White guard, to the head of the Air Force, a German ...

    • Rememberances Out of Russia, Johann J. Mathies, Vineland, Ontario, 1965 (Brother of A. J. Mathies) - Interviewed by Annie Krause - 1920
       

  • ...[After]  27 September 1920 [from Constantinople they]  ... pressed on to the Molotschna settlement in the Ukraine, which was at that time under General Wrangel and the White (anti-communist) Army. ... Before the relief program could get started the Red Army overran the Ukraine, forcing Wrangel into precipitous retreat into the Crimea ...

http://www.gameo.org/encyclopedia/encyclopedia/contents/kratz_clayton_1896_1920

Unsere Geschichte ist eine wirkliche Tragödie
Yet tragedy did not strike all equally

Terek and Schoenfeld completely wiped out
Villages and estates abandoned

Chortitza Region Kronsweide, Insel Chortitza

Eichenfeld, Reinfeld, etc.

Molotschna Blumenort hard hit

- some villages hardly touched

- some people not robbed as badly as others - Krim hardly touched ...

Aufruf an die deutschen jungen Männer Südrußlands. 29 August 1920

- formation of German regiment in White Army
- signed by various officers including Mennonites - G. Braun, A. Klassen, P. Dyck, J. Wiebe,
- regimental doctor = Dr. P. Sawatzky ...

“Ein Zeugnis für die Deutschen”

- report from russian military commander praising efforts of German battalion from Taurien [Halbstadt, Gnadenfeld and Prischib regions] ...

- Molochna overrun by “a dirty wave of bandits” the like we had not experienced before ...

[October, 1920]

4. “Eine Abteilung roter Soldaten” - a band of Red Kuban cossacks, separated from their units, went through several Molochna villages - Steinbach, Rueckenau, Tokmak - looting and stealing horses - they were follwed by “our forces” and annihilated (“fast ganz aufgerieben”) ...

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MAY 16, 1920

FRIEDRICH WILHELM "WILLIE" KRAUSE
(January 18, 1897, Bischofswerda, Saxony, Germany - December 9, 1983, Leamington, Ontario, Canada)
Married
(May 16, 1920, Halbstadt, Molotschna)
MARIA (MARIECHEN) "MIETZ" KORNELSEN
(May 5, 1900, Tiegenhagen, Molotschna, South Russia - April 2, 1991, Leamington, Ontario, Canada)

NOTE: SEE LATER,  JUNE 25, 1921, FOR THE MARRIAGE DOCUMENT

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MAY 31, 1920

EXCHANGE OF PRISONERS

ACT RATIFIED AND ENTERED INTO FORCE

  • Agreement between the RSFSR and Germany concerning repatriation of prisoners of war and interned civilians. Signed Apr. 19, 1920, in Berlin. Confirmed by the RSFSR Apr. 25, 1921. Entered into force May 31, 1920, on exchange of acts of ratification. Supplemented by agreements of July 7, 1920, Jan. 22, 1921, and May 6, 1921 ...

    • A Calendar of Soviet Treaties, 1917-1957, Volume 1917 By Robert M. Slusser, p. 9

http://books.google.ca/books?id=RE2lAAAAIAAJ&dq=
May+6+++++++++A+German+-+Soviet+Peace+Treaty+is+signed+...1921&source=gbs_navlinks_s

JULY 7, 1920

EXCHANGE OF PRISONERS

  • Agreement between the RSFSR and Germany concerning repatriation of prisoners of war and interned civilians. Signed Apr. 19, 1920, in Berlin. Confirmed by the RSFSR Apr. 25, 1921. Entered into force May 31, 1920, on exchange of acts of ratification. Supplemented by agreements of July 7, 1920, Jan. 22, 1921, and May 6, 1921 ...

    • A Calendar of Soviet Treaties, 1917-1957, Volume 1917 By Robert M. Slusser, p. 9

http://books.google.ca/books?id=RE2lAAAAIAAJ&dq=
May+6+++++++++A+German+-+Soviet+Peace+Treaty+is+signed+...1921&source=gbs_navlinks_s ‎

1920 - 1921 - 1922

POWs - EXCHANGE OF PRISONERS

SOUTH RUSSIA

  • Around 300,000 Russian POWs still remained in Germany in 1920, most of them in camps, their numbers swollen by some prisoners who entered Germany during the Soviet-Polish War (again, conservatives feared the ‘Red threat’). They were eventually repatriated after Germany and Soviet Russia signed a prisoner exchange treaty (Sammartino, 2010: 141-5; Oltmer ed., 2006: 286-7). Some 20,000 Russian POWs sought asylum in Germany rather than be returned to the Soviet Union. Between May 1920 and July 1922 the League of Nations appointed Fridtj of Nansen to arrange for the repatriation of a further 425,000 German, Austrian and Russian POWs. This was a complex operation involving long journeys along the Trans-Siberian Railway and an exit via the Estonian port at Narva (Housden, 2007). Nansen succeeded in raising some funds, organising shipping, co-ordinating the work of several NGOs and getting the Soviet authorities to assist. He prided himself on an efficient operation that kept the cost of the scheme down to around £1 per head (Skran, 1995: 90).

    In Russia itself the process of managing the return of POWs and refugees was managed by the Central Committee for POWs and Refugees (Tsentroplenbezh), which had a central office and regional offices. In 1920 it was renamed Tsentrevak ...

  • Consequently, in May 1920 , in a telegram addressed to the Minister of War, the International Red Cross announced that it had agreed to provide repatriation from Russia via Estonia and Finland, of all prisoners of war, irrespective of nationality. Moreover, the German Government had consented to take the necessary steps to organize concentration and transport points from the Russian border to the Austrian border. In contrast, the Red Cross promised the German government to refund all amounts spent for the prisoners’ support in the country ... between 10 May and 15 June 1920, the International Red Cross Committee delegates in Narva recorded the arrival of a number of 15,746 prisoners – i.e. 7 , 853 Russian s , 2 , 731 Germans , 43 Estonian s , 3 , 730 Austrians , 1 , 608 Hungarian s , 17 Italians, 124 Romanian s , 27 Croats, 12 Bosnians , 289 Czech s , 5 Serbs, 85 Poles, 52 Ukrainians, 562 Swiss , and 998 of various other nationalities ...

    The repatriation of prisoners from the Russian territory was carried out via three routes: the Baltic Sea, the Black Sea , and from Vladivostok ...

    The representatives of the Nansen Commission were satisfied with the result , should the transport difficulties due to the winter be taken into account . Moreover , the Narva and Bjorko harbours being blocked by ice, rail transport was mostly resorted to. In addition, in order to facilitate the repatriation proceedings, a point of concentration was set up at Baltischport since November, which, together with Riga, operated regularly and satisfactorily until the end of the project ...  Considering the achievements, Nansen appreciated the usefulness of railroad to the repatriation of prisoners, although this solution had a series of drawbacks such as the disruption within a number of regions in the Baltic or the difficulty of obtaining permits for trains to cross through the Polish Corridor. Therefore, on 17 January 1921, representatives of the German, Soviet, Polish, Latvian and Lithuanian government held a meeting in Riga, which ended with signing an agreement. [Freedom of Transit?]Railway transportation from Russia to other countries was expected to be conducted more easily. Moreover, the Latvian, Lithuanian , and Polish governments had already approved of the trains carrying prisoners to transit these countries ... [NOTE: THE KRAUSE JOURNEY BACK TO GERMANY ONLY REFERENCE RAILWAY, NEVER SHIP TRANSPORT]

    The joint action of the League of Nations High Commission and of the International Red Cross to repatriate war prisoners’ from Russia officially went into liquidation on 31 December 1921. Consequently , these bodies were to see to the repatriation of prisoners until 15 March 1922 at the latest. After this deadline, the interested countries were to see themselves to the fate of the prisoners who remained on Russian territory ...

    A. Prisoners repatriated via the Baltic Sea and by rail way : Austrians – 16 , 961, Americans – 7, Armenian s – 2 , Belgians – 1 , British – 20 , Bulgarians – 50 , Czechoslovaks – 27,961 , Danish – 14 , Estonians – 11 , Germans – 33 , 903, Greek – 4 , Hungarians – 36,097 , Japanese – 1, Italians – 1,417 , Latvians – 11 , Lithuanians – 11 , Polish – 7,961 , Romani ans – 18 , 140 , Swedish – 18 , Swiss – 1 , 162, Turks - 113 , Ukrainians – 134 , Yugoslavs – 11 ,159; a total of 154,388.
     

    • Revista Română de Studii Baltice şi Nordice , Vol. 3, Issue 1 (2011): pp. 145-159 . THE NANSEN COMMISSION AND THE ROMANIAN PRISONERS OF WAR’S REPATRIATION FROM THE RUSSIAN TERRITORIES,  PP. 148-149, 152, 155-156 - http://www.arsbn.ro/user/image/10.-cazacu.pdf
       

  • Two hundred and eighty thousand prisoners of all nationalities had been repatriated by the Baltic routes, through the ports of Narva, Bjorko, Baltischport and Riga, and by train through Poland ...
     

  • March 1920, the International League of the Red Cross assembled in Geneva. The president of the Austrian Prisoners- Commission was admitted there and succeeded to move an urgent proposal about the question of the release of the prisoners of war.

War- prisoners in Russia. 5]

The motion was carried and the Assembly voted the resolution that "the rescue of the prisoners of war be declared the first duty of mankind, incumbent now to the Leage of Nations", and all the Societies of the Red Cross, represented at the Assembly, numbering twenty-seven, pledged themselves to use their authority on their Governments to promote these views.

After this Assembly, the Conference of the Ambassadors in Paris notified to the Austrian Government that no obstacles would be put in the way of the rescue of the Austrian prisoners of war, in the assumption that the necessary expenditure would be defrayed exclusively by Austria. The Leage of Nations com- missioned Mr. Fridthiof Nansen with the mandate of preparing a general scheme for the delivery of the prisoners of war.

In the mean-time, deliberations had begun in Berlin between Germany and Russia about the exchange of the prisoners of war. The Vice-President of the Austrian Commission went to Berlin to treat with Mr. Kopp, delegate of the Russian Soviets. March 15, the Chancellor of the State, Dr. Renner, informed the representatives of the Entente in Vienna about these negociations, interrupted only temporarily by the riot of Mr. Kapp in Berlin, resumed in May and terminated by the Convention of Copenhague, the context of which hereafter:

 CONVENTION CONCERNING THE EXCHANGE OF THE PRISONERS OF WAR,

 ratified by the Soviet Government July 9 and by the Austrian Government July 14, 1920.

The Government of the Socialist Soviet -Republic of Russia and Ukraine, represented by Mr. Maxime Litwinow, delegate of the Council of Commissaries of the people on the one hand, and the Government of the Austrian Republic, represented by Mr. Paul Richter, deputy and Vice-President of the Commission for the rescue of prisoners of war on the other hand, endeavouring to promote by all possible means the exchange of the said prisoners, have concluded to-day the following Convention:

§l. The contracting parties pledge themselves to send home, by using all means of communication at their com-

4*

52 Convention of Copenhague.

mand, all the prisoners of war and interned civil persons, without distinction of grade, station or rank (soldiers, non- commissioned, warrant and commissioned officers, medical officers and sanitary employees, military and civil officials &c.). This mutual obligation shall be considered as accomplished in the moment of transmitting the said prisoners to the representatives of their respective authorities at the actual frontier- station of Narva (Esthonia). The two Governments reserve themselves the right of proposing, if necessary, other places of exchange. The two contracting parties agree in maintaining the principle that no prisoner of war or interned civil person can be exchanged by force after having declared that he will continue his sojourn in the country where he has been since detained ...

§ 6. The Convention takes effect on the day of the signature.

Copenhague, July 5, 1920. For the Government of Russia

For the Austrian Government : and Ukraine: Paul Richter.

  • Brändström's journey ended by and large with success, especially after the conclusion of an agreement between Weimar Germany and the Soviet Union on 19 April 1920 for the reciprocal exchange of all their prisoners ... In fact, though, it was to take until 1921/22 before the last group of German and Austrian POWs were released from Ukraine, southern Russia and Siberia ...

  • The story of prisoners of war (POWs) in Russia during and after the First World War is complex. It spans close to eight years, from mid-1914 until 1922, when the last POWs were repatriated ...
     

Between 1921 and 1922, 13,000 Austro-Hungarians [POWs] returned home from southern Russia and Ukraine ...

  • TAKING SOLDIERS HOME, 1920-22 ... Although the Soviet government declared all POWs free in 1919, the statement had little meaning for people like these. They were stranded in remote regions, lacked access to good transport facilities and given the disruption in Russia at the time, had very little chance of making their own way home. In effect, they were rendered refugees ... On 7 February 1920, the Supreme Economic Council  managing the peace asked that the League of Nations take steps to repatriate POWs from Soviet territory ...

     

  • German authorities anxious to return their fellow countrymen home and to remove troublesome Russians, were in the final stages of establishing a repatriation route across the Baltic Sea. Four German ships, each with a capacity of 650 men, were identified to run between Narva (Estonia) and Stettin (then Germany, but Szezecin, Poland) .....

    In due course, further shipping connections were established across the Baltic. Stettin was connected to Koivusaari (Finland), Ino (Finland)and Riga (Latvia) - but the most important crossing remained Narva. With POWs finally being brought out of the Russian interior by train and allowed to cross the border into neighbouring Estonia, the first among them embarked on a repatriation ship at Narva on 14 May 1920 ...


 

  • The first few hundred embarked on a repatriation ship on 14 May 1920 ... As a result, by September 1920, 100,000 POWs had already been returned home, with 10,000 per week crossing the Baltic ...

  • [Before July 20, 1920] ... "What is the attitude of the Soviet Government in the matter?" Dr. Nansen was asked.

"They are really behaving extremely well," he an- swered. "They are extremely anxious to send home the prisoners they still hold, and despite their difficul- ties of transport they are sending trains of prisoners regularly from Moscow through Petrograd to Narva on the Esthonian frontier . . . There is an old fort- ress there used as a depot and disinfecting station, but it is found that at present a trainload a day means more than the shipping available can clear, so one train every two days is the rule at present. The Bolsheviki are prepared to double this service when required."

  • [1920] ...International Committee of the Red cross (ICRC) helped care for German prisoners of war in a tent in Narva, Estonia ...

  • Donald A. Lowrie, the American War Prisoners' Aid Secretary sent to Narva, Estonia to set up a repatriation program for Central Power and Russian prisoners of war in July 1920, wrote a number of reports and letters describing his experiences. WPA secretaries worked at the ports (Stettin, Germany; Narva, Estonia; Riga, Latvia; and Helsingfors, Finland) and on board ships traveling between these cities to provide relief to prisoners of war and their families. In his first report, How Repatriation of Prisoners Is Aided by the YMCA, Lowrie describes the arrival of German and Austro-Hungarian prisoners of war from Russia. Many arrived with families in tow which they had acquired during their captivity in Siberia. German girls greeted the prisoners with flowers and the mayor of Stettin gave an address outlining the changes the ex-POW's would experience after the war. He described the family reunions and the search for lost loved ones among the arrivals. Lowrie also provides some insights into life in Siberia as described by the prisoners. Lowrie wrote this report on board the S.S. Lisboa enroute to Narva where he would help establish a YMCA repatriation station. Note that the report was classified not for publication by the International Committee. ...

  • Of the eight ships that the German government could charter to ply the Baltic waters during the summer months of 1920, only one ship was German-owned ...

    For example, the 1,500-ton transport, S.S. Regina, carried bunks for 550 men, but the average load was almost eight hundred ...

    The Central Power prisoners also varied considerably in nationality. They began the war as German or Austro-Hungarian troops, but they arrived at Stettin as Germans, Austrians, Poles, Czechs, Hungarians, Romanians, Yugoslavians, or Italians. In comparison to the Russian prisoners, these men were more alert, better educated, and even more destitute. Since many of these men had lived in Russia for six years, some of them had met Russian women and married. They returned with complete families, and Lowrie reported that one transport he traveled on carried eighty children, including an eight-day old baby. Many of these men were sick, the children were malformed and undernourished, and all bore traces of mental suffering; Davies described one ship that landed 125 insane prisoners in Stettin ...

    When these ships docked, the former prisoners were met by German girls carrying flowers and bands playing national songs. The prisoners cheered for the first time in many years. They stumbled down the gangplanks carrying assorted packs filled with their ragged collections of worldly goods. The POWs wore a variety of articles, ranging from German and Austrian uniforms to Russian peasant clothing, all patched. Some wore shoes or homemade sandals, but most were ragged. Nevertheless, they wept at the welcome. Families reunited on the docks: parents and sons, wives and husbands, and even new children or grandchildren. Some parents and wives met every transport, hoping to hear some news about a lost loved one from disembarking prisoners ...

     

  • In autumn 1920 a massive operation began to return German and Austro-Hungarian PoWs to their homelands and Tito and his new bride decided to take advantage of this new opportunity. Like thousands of others, they travelled to Narva in newly-independent Estonia, and then by boat to Stettin. From there Tito and Pelagiya took a train to Vienna, where they arrived on 20 September 1920 ...

  • In 1921/22 another 13,000, mostly Austrians, returned from Ukraine and Southern Russia ...

  • Between May 1920 and July 1922 the League of Nations appointed Fridtj of Nansen to arrange for the repatriation of a further 425,000 German, Austrian and Russian POWs. This was a complex operation involving long journeys along the Trans-Siberian Railway and an exit via the Estonian port at Narva (Housden, 2007)...

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1921

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MAIN RAILWAYS LEAVING SOUTH RUSSIA

http://www.volgagermans.net/norka/images/1921-Famine-map-large.jpg
From: ''Russian Information and Review'' magazine,
October 1921, v. 1, no. 1, pg. 3. Published prior to 1923, public domain.

 

http://files.libertyfund.org/img/1065/lf1429_figure_023.gif

Source: Ukraine, Mennonite Encyclopedia, volume. 4, p. 764

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JANUARY 22, 1921
(Signed in Riga, entered into force on Signature)
Modified by agreement of May 6, 1921

EXCHANGE OF PRISONERS

  • Agreement between the RSFSR and Germany concerning repatriation of prisoners of war and interned civilians, supplementing the agreement of April 19, 1920, with declaration by the Central Administration for Affairs of Military and Civilian Prisoners, in Berlin.

    • A Calendar of Soviet Treaties, 1917-1957, Volume 1917 By Robert M. Slusser, p. 17.

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JANUARY 22, 1921

EXCHANGE OF PRISONERS

  • Agreement between the RSFSR and Germany concerning repatriation of prisoners of war and interned civilians. Signed Apr. 19, 1920, in Berlin. Confirmed by the RSFSR Apr. 25, 1921. Entered into force May 31, 1920, on exchange of acts of ratification. Supplemented by agreements of July 7, 1920, Jan. 22, 1921, and May 6, 1921 ...

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FEBRUARY, 1921

GERMANY -RUSSIA

  • Germany sought better relations with Russia, in order to further the repatriation of prisoners of war, as well as to establish a counterweight to the Entente. The repatriation of prisoners of war was the means by which Germany and Russia resumed official diplomatic relations.85 Simons, the German Foreign Minister, thought better economic and political relations with Russia would be to Germany’s advantage. Baron Ago von Maltzan, director of the Russian desk at the German Foreign Office, and Schlesinger were the “chief protagonists” in the German Foreign Office of a rapprochement with Russia.86 After the Riga Conference Schlesinger concluded an agreement in February 1921, which converted prisoner-of-war organizations into consular and diplomatic missions. (Germany had broken off diplomatic relations with Moscow three years earlier). 87 White and Rajchman sought to utilize German-Soviet relations in order to for the League of Nations Health Committee to gain access to Soviet Russia ...

FEBRUARY, 1921

GERMANY -RUSSIA

FEBRUARY 12, 1921

GERMAN - POLAND TREATY

[EXCHANGE OF PRISONERS]

  • ... GERMANY-POLAND. Treaty signed at Berlin, Feb. 12, 1921, supplementing treaty of Oct. 1, 1919, concerning interned persons came into force ...

  • According to the agreement, signed on 24 February 1921, repatriation was supposed to begin within ten days. In practice, the first transports of prisoners of war were exchanged in mid-March. The agreement stipulated that POWs be repatriated first, followed by hostages, internees, and civil prisoners, while optants were to repatriated last. All these people were to be transported by train along two major railroad lines. The Baranowicze--Minsk line handled most of the traffic, as this facilitated repatriation repatriation between both Soviet Russia and Soviet Belarus, and Poland. The Równe--Shepetovka line was a secondary route, used for repatriation between Soviet Ukraine and Poland. Each side, the Polish and the Soviet, was obliged to repatriate weekly no fewer than four thousand people, including at least fifteen hundred POWs ...

    Two mixed repatriation commissions were created in late April 1921 ...

    Repatriation of civilians from both countries began in June 1921 ...

    By contrast, the number of civilians repatriated from Russia was staggering. The devastating famine of 1921, which peaked in the summer, prompted the Soviets to evacuate as many people as possible from the affected areas, especially the Volga region ... they had not been properly registered, had not made optation ... 

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  • The Mennonite colonies that formerly had been prosperous agrarian settlements were completely exhausted by the spring of 1921. It was at this time that the Bolsheviks, reconsidering communist methods, declared the transition to a New Economic Policy (NEP) ...

  • In 1921 in Molochna the village soviets were elected but there was often continuity between those who held positions in pre-revolutionary local government and the new organizations ...

Mennonites, politics, and peoplehood: Europe-Russia-Canada, 1525-1980 By James Urry, p. 153 - http://books.google.ca/books?id=UyiwptwstCsC&pg=PA138&lpg=
PA138&dq=%22mennonites%22+%22White+Army%22&source=
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  • Between 1921 and 1922, 13,000 Austro-Hungarians returned home from southern Russia and Ukraine. An unknown number of POWs decided to stay in Russia ... Apart from political reasons, many had families with Russian women and held jobs, while the future in their home countries was uncertain ...

  • In addition to its representations to the Allies, the ICRC began negotiations with the German and Soviet governments. A German-Soviet agreement was signed at the conclusion of these talks regulating the repatriation of Russian prisoners from Germany and prisoners from the former Central Powers being held in the former Russian Empire. To this end, the ICRC was given full authority by both States (which were soon joined by Austria, Hungary and the Ottoman Empire) to negotiate and organize the practicalities in agreement with the transit States (such as Japan and Finland). Land- and sea-repatriation routes were organized across the Black Sea (Odessa and Novorossiysk) and then the Mediterranean to Trieste and Hamburg in the case of prisoners coming from southern Russia, the Caucasus or Turkestan; across the Baltic via Finland and the Baltic States in the case of two-way exchanges, combined with an overland route between Germany and the Baltic countries, and by sea from Vladivostok to Trieste or from Hamburg to Vladivostok. These various routes, along which the ICRC set up transit camps – in Narva and Stettin, for example – were operational as of spring 1920 and continued to function until 30 June 1922, which was the date marking the official end of the ICRC's repatriation operations. It is estimated that the ICRC enabled almost 500,000 former prisoners of war to return to their native (and, in some cases, completely new) countries ...

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MARCH 15

HEINRICH WILHELM "BILL" KRAUSE
(March 15, 1921, Tiegenhagen, Molotschna, Russia -
January 15, 1980, Tampa Florida, USA - Interred Leamington, Ontario, Canada)

  • Heinrich Wilhelm Krause born March 15, 1921, Tiegenhagen, Molotschna, Russia

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APRIL 21, 1921

DANZIG - GERMANY - POLAND CONVENTION

TRANSIT

  • ... DANZIG - GERMANY - POLAND. Convention signed at Paris. April 21, 1921, for freedom of transit through East Prussia, promulgated in Germany ...

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APRIL 21, 1921

POLAND - GERMANY

  • This paved the way for the ultimate Transit Convention between Poland and Germany which was signed in Paris on 21 April 1921 (LNTS, 1923, Vol 12) .....

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APRIL 23, 1921

UKRAINE

[REPATRIATION OF GERMAN PRISONERS]

  • Treaty between the Ukrainian SSR and Germany concerning repatriation  ... Signed Apr. 23, 1921, in Berlin. Entered into force on signature.

    • A Calendar of Soviet Treaties, 1917-1957, Volume 1917 By Robert M. Slusser, p. 21

http://books.google.ca/books?id=RE2lAAAAIAAJ&dq=
May+6+++++++++A+German+-+Soviet+Peace+Treaty+is+signed+...1921&source=gbs_navlinks_s

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APRIL 23, 1921

REPATRIATION OF GERMAN PRISONERS

  • These were the preconditions for resolution of the POW issue ... Although the German government did not accede to most of these demands, by 23 April 1921 it did sign an agreement with Soviet Ukraine which extended the terms of the 19 April 1920 POW agreement with Russia to cover Ukraine as well. In addition, it provided for the establishment of special missions in Berlin and Kharkiv to oversee the implementation of this accord... De facto recognition of Kharkiv was secured ...

    • German-Ukrainian Relations in Historical Perspective edited by Hans-Joachim Torke, John-Paul Himka, p. 112.

    • books.google.ca/books?isbn=0920862918 - [Kharkiv: the capital of the Ukrainian Socialist Soviet Republic (from 1919 to 1934) in opposition to the Ukrainian People's Republic [Ukrainian National Republic] with its capital of Kiev]

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APRIL 25, 1921

EXCHANGE OF PRISONERS

  • Agreement between the RSFSR and Germany concerning repatriation of prisoners of war and interned civilians. Signed Apr. 19, 1920, in Berlin. Confirmed by the RSFSR Apr. 25, 1921. Entered into force May 31, 1920, on exchange of acts of ratification. Supplemented by agreements of July 7, 1920, Jan. 22, 1921, and May 6, 1921 ...

    • A Calendar of Soviet Treaties, 1917-1957, Volume 1917 By Robert M. Slusser, p. 9

http://books.google.ca/books?id=RE2lAAAAIAAJ&dq=
May+6+++++++++A+German+-+Soviet+Peace+Treaty+is+signed+...1921&source=gbs_navlinks_s

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  • Leaders of the MFF met with representatives of the Prussian and Bavarian governments in 1920 to negotiate a lease for the abandoned military Camp Lechfeld, located in Bavaria, about 20 km south of Augsburg. The deal was finalized in April 1921, and the first Mennonite refugees began arriving in May-June 1921 ...

MAY 6, 1921

GERMAN-SOVIET PEACE TREATY

[EXCHANGE OF PRISONERS]

  • May 6         A German - Soviet Peace Treaty is signed ...

MAY 6, 1921

EXCHANGE OF PRISONERS

  • Agreement between the RSFSR and Germany concerning repatriation of prisoners of war and interned civilians. Signed Apr. 19, 1920, in Berlin. Confirmed by the RSFSR Apr. 25, 1921. Entered into force May 31, 1920, on exchange of acts of ratification. Supplemented by agreements of July 7, 1920, Jan. 22, 1921, and May 6, 1921 ...

    • A Calendar of Soviet Treaties, 1917-1957, Volume 1917 By Robert M. Slusser, p. 9

http://books.google.ca/books?id=RE2lAAAAIAAJ&dq=
May+6+++++++++A+German+-+Soviet+Peace+Treaty+is+signed+...1921&source=gbs_navlinks_s

MAY 6, 1921

EXCHANGE OF PRISONERS

  • Agreement between the RSFSR and Germany concerning repatriation of prisoners of war and interned civilians, with protocol. Ratified by the RSFSR July 30, 1921. Entered into force on signature, except for Arts. 2, 4, and 9, which entered into force on exchange of acts of ratification, Aug. 30, 1921, in Berlin. Modifies the agreement of Jan. 22, 1921.

    • A Calendar of Soviet Treaties, 1917-1957, Volume 1917 By Robert M. Slusser, p. 21.

http://books.google.ca/books?id=RE2lAAAAIAAJ&dq=
May+6+++++++++A+German+-+Soviet+Peace+Treaty+is+signed+...1921&source=gbs_navlinks_s

MAY 6, 1921

EXCHANGE OF PRISONERS

The Russian Government shall grant permission to persons, who were formerly German nationals, but who have lost their German nationality, to leave the country together with their wives and children provided that they furnish proof that they are leaving to take up their residence in Germany.

www.worldlii.org/int/other/LNTSer/1921/80.pdf‎

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MAY - JUNE, 1921

  • In November 1920 German Mennonite leaders met in the city of Ludwigshafen on the Rhine to establish the Mennonitische FlüchtlingsFürsorge [MFF] – Mennonite Refugee Aid organisation (renamed Deutsche Mennoniten-Hilfe [DMH] in May 1922) ... [In November 1920 German Mennonite leaders met in the city of Ludwigshafen on the Rhine to establish the Mennonitische Flüchtlings-Fürsorge [MFF] – Mennonite Refugee Aid organisation (renamed Deutsche Mennoniten-Hilfe [DMH] in May 1922) ...]...

The movement of Russian Mennonites to Germany began during the time of the German occupation of Ukraine from February to November 1918 ...

Once in Germany, some were able to find refuge with family or friends, but most ended up in displaced persons camps scattered throughout the country ...

Leaders of the MFF met with representatives of the Prussian and Bavarian governments in 1920 to negotiate a lease for the abandoned military Camp Lechfeld, located in Bavaria, about 20 km south of Augsburg. The deal was finalized in April 1921, and the first Mennonite refugees began arriving in May-June 1921 ...

  • 1921 ...Meanwhile a trickle of refugees provided an immediate task for the MFF. Preparations had to be made to receive Russian refugees from Constantinople and other areas ... Through the generosity of the German and Bavarian government twenty-two barracks at the former military camp Lechfeld were placed at the disposal of the MFF ...

    In the summer of 1921 Unruh [B. H. Unruh in Germany] received isolated letters from some of the refugees in the Molotschna ...

    • Lost Fatherland By John B. Toews, p. 122.

    • books.google.ca/books?isbn=1573830410

JUNE 12, 1921

  • Provisional agreement between the RSFSR and Latvia concerning transportation of passengers, baggage and freight between the railroads of Latvia and the rail network Orël-Vitebsk. Signed June 12, 1921.

    • A Calendar of Soviet Treaties, 1917-1957, Volume 1917 By Robert M. Slusser, p. 21.

http://books.google.ca/books?id=RE2lAAAAIAAJ&dq=
May+6+++++++++A+German+-+Soviet+Peace+Treaty+is+signed+...1921&source=gbs_navlinks_s

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JUNE 25, 1921

TRAVEL PREPARATION DOCUMENTS

Geburts und Taufschein - Birth and Baptismal Certificate

No 24

Geburts = ünd .... Taufschein

  • Im Jahre eintausend neunhundert ./.1900./. der 5. Mai u. St. in würde aus der gesetzlichen ehe des bürgers des dorfes Tiegenhagen, Goüvernement Taürien, Kreis Berdjansk, Halbstädter Wollost, Heinrich Jakob Kornelsen ünd seiner Ehefrau Maria Kornelsen, gnb. Voth in dem dorfe Tiegenhagen eine tochter Maria geboren diese tochter Maria Kornelsen würde im Jahre eintausend neunhundert und neunzehn ./.1919./.  der 8. Jüni n. St. in dem Halbstadt der Halbstädter Mennonitengemeinde zu Halbstadt, ebenfalls Halbstädter Wollost getaüft.

    dasz diese Angaben gleichlautend sind mit den daten des Kirchensiegels des Halbstadter Mennonitengemeinde, band II. Seite 178, bestatigt mit Unterschrift ünd beidrückung des Kirchensiegels der gemeinde der Prediger ünd kirchenbüch führen der Halbstadter Mennonitengemeinde: Harder.
    dorf Halbstadt, der 25. Jüni n. St. 1921

No 24

Birth and Baptismal Certificate

  • In the year one thousand nine hundred ./.1900. /. the 5th May new Style would consist in the legal citizens of Tiegenhagen village, Gouvernment Taurien, Region Berdyansk, Halbstadt District,  Heinrich Jakob Kornelsen and his wife Maria Kornelsen, born Voth  in the village Tiegenhagen a daughter Maria was born This daughter Maria Kornelsen was in the year one thousand nine hundred and nineteen ./.1919. /. 8th June new Style in the Halbstadt the Halbstadt Mennonite Church to Halbstadt, also baptized Halbstadt District.

That this information is identical with the data of the Seal of the Church Halbstadt Mennonite Church, Volume II. Page 178, confirmed with Signature and Seal of the birth register of the Church community of preachers and  lead church book Halbstadt Mennonite Church: Harder
village Halbstadt, the 25th June new Style 1921

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Traüschein - Marriage Certificate

No 25

Traüschein - Marriage Certificate

  • Im Jahre eintausend neunhundert und zwanzig ./.1920./. der 16. Mai n. St. in würde in dem dorfes Tiegenhagen, Goüvernement Taürien, Kreis Berdjansk, Halbstädter Wollost, dürch den kirchenältesten der Halbstädter Mennonitengemeinde, Abraham Aaron Klassen den ledige deütsche Untertan aüs dem Freistaat Sachsen, bürger der Stadt Bischofswerder, Friedrich Wilhelm Krause, mit der Mennonitin, Fräülein Maria Kornelsen, tochter des bürger Heinrich Jacob Kornelsen aus dem dorfes Tiegenhagen [einschluss?] getraüt, [?] [nannte brautleüte vorher?] aüf dem Standesamte bürgerlich getraüt waren, Halbstadt, der 25. Jüni n. St. 1921.

des Richtigkeit der ein Angaben  bestatigt mit Unterschrift ünd beidrückung des Kirchensiegels der Prediger ünd kirchenbüch führen der Halbstädter Mennonitengemeinde: Harder

No 25

  • In the year one thousand nine hundred and twenty ./.1920./. the 16th May new Style would consist in the legal citizens in the village of Tiegenhagen, Gouvernment Taurien, Region Berdyansk, Halbstadt District, by force of the oldest church of the Halbstadt Mennonite Church, Abraham Aaron Klassen of the unmarried German Subject from the Free State of Saxony, citizen of the Town Bischofswerder, Friedrich Wilhelm Krause, married to the Mennonite Fraulein Maria Kornelsen, daughter of the citizen Heinrich Jacob Kornelsen from the village of Tiegenhagen [inclusion?] married, [named engaged couple?] [?] were [previously?] married at the civil registry office, Halbstadt, the 25th June new Style 1921.

the accuracy of the information confirmed with Signature and Seal of the birth register of the Church, the preacher and lead church book Halbstadt Mennonite Church: Harder

On The Back Of The Combined Document

[BIRTH]

Heinrich Wilhelm

15.3.21 Tiegenhagen

  • NOTE: In 1918 Abraham Klassen [Abraham A. Klassen, 1872-1930, m. Justina Wiebe, 1881-1969) ], who had hitherto been a minister of the Gnadenfeld congregation and a teacher in the Halbstadt schools, was chosen elder and served the congregation until 1930. He died in exile.

    • Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online

  • Marie Kornelsen was baptized on June 8, 1919, age 19.

  • Harder = Gerhard Harder, and  probably:  (1857-1931), evangelist and minister of the Halbstadt congregation, Molotschna, Taurida, Russia

    • Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online

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Post June 25, 1921

  • I was five years old in 1921, when the last German soldiers withdrew from Russia . My sister Mariechen who was married to a Willie Krause, went with them. At the time, they already had a little son, just a baby, in the travel cradle. I remembered that time, as from then on we suffered of terrible hunger. Besides me, Liesa, and my parents, there were also my siblings Lena, Jasch, Heins, Nut, Sascha, Sara, Katja. Except for Mariechen, we were still all together ...

Children in Photo: Henry and Mary (nee Enns) Kornelsen, Liesa (nee Kornelsen) Reger, Irene (nee Willms)

1925? [Post 1906]

[Grandfather or Father Kornelsen's] Tiegenhagen home of Elisabeth Reger (nee Kornelsen) (b. May 31, 1916)
(centre of the picture to the right of the dog), and 1/2 sister of Maria Mietz Kornelsen (May 5, 1900 - April 2, 1991)
married to Friedrich Wilhelm Krause (January 18, 1897 - December 9, 1983)
.Note: "When the grandparents were about to leave [for Canada on November 5, 1925], they transferred their big house to our father, and ours was sold instead"

Source:
Elisabeth Reger (nee Kornelsen), Liesa’s Journey (Written in 1983 in Paderborn, Germany) -
Translated from Liesa Reger’s German account into English by Ella Pankatz Brantford, Ontario 12/2010]

JULY 1921

PRISONERS OF WAR

  • The negotiations that were opened in 1919 between Moritz Schlesinger and the Soviet representative of the repatriation committee, Viktor Kopp, which aimed at opening the way home for German POWs in Russia, and which presupposed a de facto diplomatic recognition of Soviet Russia, were completed in July 1921 ...

    Aside from the Russian prisoners of war, Germany harboured refugees who had who had finished up in the territory of the German Occupation Army in the east, and who streamed into Germany proper after the collapse of the eastern front. Another wave of asylum seekers reached Germany after the defeat of Vrangel's army in November 1920, and then in Spring 1921, with another wave arriving via France throughout 1922. The refugees in Germany were citizens of the former Russian Empire that had now broken up into many different sovereign states, such as Finland, the Ukraine, Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania and the Caucasian republics. Inasmuch as these people had not become citizens of the newly-formed countries, they possessed only the citizenship of a non-existant state. The overwhelming majority of the emigrants thought themselves as only temporary refugees - until "the downfall of the Bolsheviks" - from Russia ...

    • Germany and Eastern Europe: Cultural Identities and Cultural Differences edited by Keith Bullivant, Geoffrey Giles, Walter Pape, pp. 238-239.

    • books.google.ca/books?isbn=9042006781

JULY 26, 1921

SUMMER 1921

  • As the last remaining POWs were leaving Vladivostok for Europe in the summer of 1921 ....

    • POWs and the Great War: Captivity on the Eastern Front By Alon Rachamimov, p. 34.

    • books.google.ca/books?isbn=1859735789

1921 - 1922

This photo shows a more fortunate group [of mennonites of South Russia] leaving for the west in 1921/22.
Photo courtesy Horst Gerlad, Zur Geschichte der Mennoniten (Oldenstadt, 1980), page 85. [On the History of the Mennonites]

http://www.plettfoundation.org/wp/wp-content/magazines/Preservings13December1998.pdf

AUGUST 1921

  • In August 1921, von Seeckt ordered that certain companies of the Reichsheer regiments [Reichswehr regiments- National army regiments] would maintain the lineage and honors of regiments in the old armies. Some companies and mounted squadrons were also granted the privilege of wearing accoutrements of the old regiments they represented. Seeckt also encouraged each company to collect memorabilia of their parent unit that would be displayed in regimental traditions rooms. The traditions companies would frequently invite veterans groups to regimental and company events, thus strengthening the bond between past and present ...

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AUGUST 30, 1921

GERMAN - SOVIET RUSSIA TREATY

PRISONERS

  • ... 30   GERMANY---SOVIET RUSSIA. Ratifications exchanged at Berlin of the supplementary agreement of May 6, 1921, for the exchange of prisoners of war and interned persons ...

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AUGUST 30, 1921

EXCHANGE OF PRISONERS

FINAL RATIFICATION

  • Agreement between the RSFSR and Germany concerning repatriation of prisoners of war and interned civilians, with protocol. Ratified by the RSFSR July 30, 1921. Entered into force on signature, except for Arts. 2, 4, and 9, which entered into force on exchange of acts of ratification, Aug. 30, 1921, in Berlin. Modifies the agreement of Jan. 22, 1921.

    • A Calendar of Soviet Treaties, 1917-1957, Volume 1917 By Robert M. Slusser, p. 21.

http://books.google.ca/books?id=RE2lAAAAIAAJ&dq=
May+6+++++++++A+German+-+Soviet+Peace+Treaty+is+signed+...1921&source=gbs_navlinks_s

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1921

  • In 1921 and 192 departures [from Soviet Russia], were more numerous [than immigration into Soviet Russia], former Austrian and German war prisoners doubtless participating to a great extent ... p. 572

  • In 1921-2 the outflow of foreigners exceeded the inflow because war prisoners and optants were departing, there was a famine in the Volga region and the outlook was gloomy ... p. 580

http://www.nber.org/chapters/c5118.pdf - International Migrations, Volume II: Interpretations, Walter F. Willcox, 1931: CHAPTER XVI, EMIGRATION FROM AND IMMIGRATION INTO RUSIA, 
By V. V. OBOLENSKY-OSINSKY,  Recently President, Central Statistical Board of U. S. S. R.

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NOVEMBER, 1921

[SIBERIAN PRISONERS OF WAR]

  • In Ghost-like lines there stood out, opposite, the whitely-painted cars of the German disinfecting train which had just reached Kazan [Republic of Tatarstan, Russia, European Russia] ...

    • Black Lebeda: The Russian Famine Diary of ARA Kazan District Supervisor J ... By James Rives Childs, p. 72.

    • books.google.com/books?isbn=088146015X

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1921 - IN GERMANY

END OF JANUARY - 1921

GERMAN BOUNDARIES

Karte / Map 038
Titel/ Title:
Deutschland nach dem Ersten Weltkrieg Ende 1921

Bearbeiter/ Compiler:
· Andreas Kunz
Kartographie/ Cartography:
· Joachim Robert Moeschl
Herausgeber/ Editor:
· Andreas Kunz

http://www.ieg-maps.uni-mainz.de/mapsp/mapd921.htm

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TAURIDA 1922

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  • Terror in the Molotschna (December 1921 - January 1922)

... Meanwhile in the village of Rückenau, Molotschna, an informal meeting of fifteen or twenty men was held which had direct implications for Janz's work in Kharkov. They discussed the possibility of repatriation to Germany, a procedure allowable under the terms of Brest Litovsk. As a result of the meeting, 137 private petitions for emigration were addressed to the German government. H. Kornelsen of Alexanderkrone was selected to take them to Kharkov and to facilitate their processing with Janz's help ...

Lost Fatherland By John B. Toews, p. 68 -

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