Not to be confused with 6th Reserve Division (German Empire).
Unit of the Royal Bavarian Army
6th Bavarian Reserve Division
6. Bayerische Reserve-Division
Active
1914–19
Country
German Empire
Allegiance
Kingdom of Bavaria
Branch
Bavarian Army
Type
Infantry
Size
Approx. 15,000
Engagements
World War I
Race to the Sea
First Battle of Ypres
Battle of Fromelles
Battle of the Somme
Battle of Arras (1917)
German spring offensive
Battle of the Aisne
Champagne-Marne
Military unit
The 6th Bavarian Reserve Division (6. Bayerische Reserve-Division) was a unit of the Royal Bavarian Army, part of the German Army, in World War I.[1] The division was formed on 10 September 1914 and organized over the next month.[2] The division was disbanded in 1919 during the demobilization of the German Army after World War I.
6th Bavarian Reserve Division was raised and recruited from Bavaria's Ist and IIIrd Army Corps Districts. As a reserve division, it consisted mainly of recalled reservists. A considerable number of war volunteers were taken in, also. Among the latter was the division's most famous soldier, Adolf Hitler, an Austrian-born Gefreiter in the Bavarian 16 Reserve.
^From the late 19th century, the Prussian Army was effectively the German Army, as during the period of German unification (1866–1871) the states of the German Empire entered into conventions with Prussia regarding their armies. Only the Bavarian Army remained fully autonomous and came under Prussian control only during wartime.
^Günter Wegner, Stellenbesetzung der deutschen Heere 1815–1939. (Biblio Verlag, Osnabrück, 1993), Bd. 1, p. 670.
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