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The 21st Infantry Division (Germany) was formed in 1934 in Elbing, East Prussia, by expanding the 3rd Prussian Infantry Regiment of the 1st Division of the old Reichswehr. As this was a direct breach of the terms of the Treaty of Versailles , its existence was initially concealed; it was formally designated as the 21st Infantry Division in ...
The 21st Division (21. Division) was a unit of the Prussian/German Army. [1] It was formed on October 11, 1866, and was headquartered in Frankfurt am Main. [2] The division was subordinated in peacetime initially to the XI Army Corps (XI. Armeekorps) and from 1899 to the XVIII Army Corps (XVIII. Armeekorps). [3]
This is a list of Imperial German infantry regiments [1] before and during World War I. In peacetime, the Imperial German Army included 217 regiments of infantry (plus the instruction unit, Lehr Infantry Battalion). Some of these regiments had a history stretching back to the 17th Century, while others were only formed as late as October 1912. [2]
21st Division (German Empire) 21st Reserve Division (German Empire) 21st Infantry Division (Wehrmacht), Germany; 21st Waffen Mountain Division of the SS Skanderbeg, Germany; 21st Infantry Division (India) 21st Infantry Division (Iran) 21st Infantry Division Granatieri di Sardegna, Kingdom of Italy; 21st Division (Imperial Japanese Army) 21st ...
A standard Imperial German division was organised into: Division HQ; Two infantry brigades organised into a brigade HQ and two regiments each (either of the line or light infantry), A cavalry brigade organised into a brigade HQ and two regiments; An artillery brigade organised into an HQ and two regiments
The 21st Infantry Regiment managed to occupy the village of Terron-sur-Aisne on 20 October and break through to the zone of German defense on the hills above the river. A further advance could mean disaster for the German army, so the Germans had to drive the allied forces back across the river at all costs. That's why they brought in ...
In the beginning of 1941, XXI Army Corps, already effectively an army-level unit since its designation as Gruppe XXI, was fully replaced and had its organizational structure transferred to the newly formed Armee Norwegen. With the ordinal number 21 freed up for German army corps, a new corps with that number, XXI Mountain Corps, was created in ...
The division was disbanded in 1919 during the demobilization of the German Army after World War I. The division was raised primarily in the Prussian Province of Hesse-Nassau, but one battalion of the 88th Reserve Infantry Regiment came from the Grand Duchy of Hesse, and some other troops of the division came from Westphalia and the Rhine Province.