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Divisional Commanders  1914-18



German Reserve Infantry Divisions  1 - 39

 

1 Reserve
Arthur Sigismund von Forster
Conrad Zietlow (September 1915)
Johannes von Malachowski (January 1917)
Gustav Graf von Waldersee (April 1917)

3 Reserve
Kurt von Morgen
Richard Kolewe (November 1914-July 1915)
Paul Weinschenck (February 1916)
Heinrich Vietinghoff-Scheel (February 1917)
Rudolf Rusche (April 1917)

5 Reserve
Richard Voigt
Maximilian von Diringshofen (December 1914)
Wilhelm Georg Hugo Theodor Knoch (May 1915)
Wilhelm von Woyna (June-December 1916)
Friedrich von Auwarter (April 1917)

6 Reserve
Emil von Schinkfuss und Neudorf
Hans von Below (May 1915)
Hinko Freiherr von L
üttwitz (October 1915)
Friedrich von Auwarter (October 1916)
Alfred Dieterich (April 1917)

7 Reserve
Bogislav Graf von Schwerin
Hugo Bacmeiser (May 1918)
Wilhelm Ribbentrop (June 1918)

9 Reserve
Hans von Goretzky-Cornitz
Julius August Hildemann (July 1917)
Wilhelm Ernst von Zglinicki (January 1918)

10 Reserve
Hermann von Wartenberg
Max von Bahrfeldt (June 1915)
Rudolf Reiser (April 1916)
Viktor Dallmer (later in 1916)
Paul Meister (after Dallmer, date unspecified)

11 Reserve
Karl Suren
Friedrich Rudiger Georg von Hertzenberg (November 1914)
Bernhard Boess (September 1917)
Heinrich Bustorff (July 1918)

12 Reserve
Hinko Freiherr von L
üttwitz
Hans von Carlowitz (November 1914)
Karl von Kehler (August 1915)
Konrad Dumrath (August 1916)
Otto von Arnim (March 1918)

13 Reserve
Alfred von K
ühne
Hans Hugo von Oertzen (April 1918)

14 Reserve
Wolfgang von Unger
Ernst Wagner (January 1915)
Robert Loeb (March 1915)
Thilo Freiherr von Hanstein (October 1918)

15 Reserve
Eberhard von Kurowski
Arthur von Eisenhart-Rothe (September 191)
Eduard von Liebert (January 1917)
Leo Limbourg (February 1917)
Paul Wilhelm Heinrich Hucke (January 1918)

16 Reserve
Wilhelm Mootz
Konstantin von Altrock (January 1915)
Ludwig Sieger (February 1915)
Kurt von Ditfurth (May 1915-June 1916)
Friedrich von Hertzberg (September 1917)

17 Reserve
Gustav Wagener
Richard von Kraewel (September 1914)
Max Schwarte (November 1914)
Ernst von Hoeppner (February 1915)
Ernst von Zieten (June 1915)
Hugo Freiherr von Freytag-Loringhoven (April-June 1916)
Ernst von Reuter (December 1916)
Albert von Mutius (April 1917)

18 Reserve
Karl Wilhelm von Gronen
Leo Sontag (October 1914)
Richard Wellmann (February 1915)
Theodor von Wundt (October 1916)
Paul Friedrich Richard Winiker (August 1917)
Ernst August von Wrisberg (December 1917)

19 Reserve
Max von Behrfeldt
Hermann von Wartenberg (June 1915)
Paul Meister (November 1917)

21 Reserve
Hermann von Rampacher
Ludwig von Schwerin (September 1914)
Carl Briese (June 1916)

22 Reserve
Otto Rieman
Karl Ritter von Riedl (July 1916)
Eberhard von Hofsacker (December 1916)
Hermann Schubert (January 1917)
Franz Sydow (October 1918)

23 Reserve
Alexander von Larisch
Bernhard von Watzdorf (January 1915)
Traugott Freiherr Leuckart von Weissdorf (February 1917)
Franz Franke (sometime in 1918)

24 Reserve
Oskar von Ehrenthal
Max Morgenstern-Doring (April 1916)
Martin Freiherr von Oldershausen (January 1918)

25 Reserve
Alexander Torgany
Wolf von Helldorff (October 1914)
Thaddaus von Jarotzky (November 1914)
Paul Gr
ünert (January 1916)
Alfred Gustav von Mohn (April 1916)
Willy Matthiass (June 1918)

26 Reserve
Franz Freiherr von Soden
Albert Hermann von Fritsch (December 1916)

28 Reserve
Kurt von Pavel
Ferdinand von Hahn (January 1916)
Alfred Ziethen (February 1917)
August Bernhard von Geyso (October 1917)
Siegfried von Held (December 1197)
Konstantin von Altrock (April 1918)

30 Reserve  (renamed 30 Bavarian Reserve-January 1917)
Karl Albert von Knoerzer
Robert Krause (September 1915-January 1917)

33 Reserve

Viktor Karl Wilhelm Bausch
Kuno von Barfus (June 1917-August 1918)

35 Reserve
Max Philipp von Schmettau
Ernst Heinrich von der Becke (June 1915)

36 Reserve
Curt Kruge
Arnd von Leipzig (December 1916)
Franz von Rantzau (January 1918)

39 Reserve  (renamed 39 Bavarian Reserve-February 1916)
Otto Fedor von Gynz-Rekowski (October 1914-January 1916)

special thanks to JH Verdun

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