30th Bavarian Reserve Division

30th Bavarian Reserve Division (30. Bayerische Reserve-Division)
Active	1914-1918
Country	Bavaria/Germany
Branch	Army
Type	Infantry
Size	Approx. 12,500
Engagements	World War I

The 30th Royal Bavarian Reserve Division (30. Kgl. Bayerische Reserve-Division) was a reserve infantry division of the Imperial German Army in World War I. It was initially the Main Reserve, Fortress Strasbourg (Hauptreserve/Festung Straßburg) and was designated the 30th Reserve Division (30. Reserve-Division) from mobilization in August 1914. It was almost entirely made up of Bavarian units and thus, on December 26, 1916 it was renamed the 30th Royal Bavarian Reserve Division. It spent the war engaged in positional warfare in the Vosges mountains of France and the Alsace-Lorraine region.

On mobilization, the division comprised three brigades: the non-Bavarian 60. Reserve-Infanterie-Brigade (Reserve-Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 60, 99), 3. bayerische Reserve-Infanterie-Brigade (4. und 15. bayerisches Reserve-Infanterie-Regimenten) and 10. bayerische Reserve-Infanterie-Brigade, together with divisional cavalry, artillery and pioneer components. On August 17, 5. bayerische Ersatz-Brigade transferred into the division from the Bavarian Ersatz Division. By the end of August, 60. Reserve-Infanterie-Brigade had been broken up and its constituent regiments had left the division.

Order of Battle on August 18, 1914:

10. bayerische Reserve-Infanterie-Brigade
- Kgl. Bayerisches 11. Reserve-Infanterie-Regiment
- Kgl. Bayerisches 14. Reserve-Infanterie-Regiment
- Festungs-MG-Kompanie Nr. 2
- Reserve-MG-Abteilung Nr. 3
5. bayerische Ersatz-Brigade
- Bayerisches Brigade-Ersatz-Bataillon Nr. 5 (mob.Ers.Btl./Kgl. Bay. 23.Inf.Regt.)
- Bayerisches Brigade-Ersatz-Bataillon Nr. 6 (mob.Ers.Btl./Kgl. Bay. 18.Inf.Regt. Prinz Ludwig Ferdinand)
- Bayerisches Brigade-Ersatz-Bataillon Nr. 7 (mob.Ers.Btl./Kgl. Bay. 5.Inf.Regt. Großherzog Ernst Ludwig von Hessen)
- Bayerisches Brigade-Ersatz-Bataillon Nr. 8 (mob.Ers.Btl./Kgl. Bay. 8.Inf.Regt. Großherzog Friedrich II. von Baden)
Kavallerie-Ersatz-Abteilung Landau/II. Bayerisches Armeekorps (⅓ Eskadron)
Kgl. Bayerisches 2. Feldartillerie-Regiment
1. Ersatz-Batterie/Kgl. Bayerisches 12. Feldartillerie-Regiment
Ersatz-Abteilung/Feldartillerie-Regiment Nr. 80
1.Ersatz-Batterie/Feldartillerie-Regiment Nr. 84
3.Batterie/Reserve-Feldartillerie-Regiment Nr. 14

Order of Battle on January 1, 1918:

5. Kgl. Bayerische Ersatz-Brigade
- Kgl. Bayerisches 4. Ersatz-Regiment
- Kgl. Bayerisches 8. Landwehr-Infanterie-Regiment
- Kgl. Bayerisches 15. Landwehr-Infanterie-Regiment
2.Eskadron/Reserve-Husaren-Regiment Nr. 9
Kgl. Bayerischer Artillerie-Kommandeur 20:
- Reserve-Feldartillerie-Regiment Nr. 239
Stab Kgl. Bayerisches 22. Pionier-Bataillon:
- Kgl. Bayerische 13. Reserve-Pionier-Kompanie
- Kgl. Bayerische 5. Landwehr-Pionier-Kompanie
- Minenwerfer-Kompanie Nr. 230
Kgl. Bayerischer Divisions-Nachrichten-Kommandeur 430

References

30. Bayerische Reserve-Division - Der erste Weltkrieg
Hermann Cron et al., Ruhmeshalle unserer alten Armee (Berlin, 1935)
Hermann Cron, Geschichte des deutschen Heeres im Weltkriege 1914-1918 (Berlin, 1937)

Divisions of the Imperial German Army

Standing

Guards	1st 2nd Cavalry

Regular	1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th 10th 11th 12th 13th 14th 15th 16th 17th 18th 19th 20th 21st 22nd 23rd 24th 25th 26th 27th 28th 29th 30th 31st 32nd 33rd 34th 35th 36th 37th 38th 39th 40th 41st 42nd

Bavarian	1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th

Raised in
World War I

Guards	3rd 4th 5th 1st Guards Reserve 2nd Guards Reserve Guards Ersatz

Cavalry	1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th Bavarian

Infantry	50th 52nd 54th 56th 58th 83rd 84th 86th 87th 88th 89th 91st 92nd 93rd 94th 95th 96th 101st 103rd 105th 107th 108th 109th 111th 113th 115th 117th 119th 121st 123rd 183rd 185th 187th 192nd 195th 197th 199th 200th 201st 202nd 203rd 204th 205th 206th 207th 208th 211th 212th 213th 214th 215th 216th 217th 218th 219th 220th 221st 222nd 223rd 224th 225th 226th 227th 228th 231st 232nd 233rd 234th 235th 236th 237th 238th 239th 240th 241st 242nd 243rd 255th 301st 302nd 303rd

Reserve	1st 3rd 5th 6th 7th 9th 10th 11th 12th 13th 14th 15th 16th 17th 18th 19th 21st 22nd 23rd 24th 25th 26th 28th 30th 33rd 35th 36th 39th 43rd 44th 45th 46th 47th 48th 49th 50th 51st 52nd 53rd 54th 75th 76th 77th 78th 79th 80th 81st 82nd

Landwehr	1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 7th 8th 9th 10th 11th 12th 13th 14th 15th 16th 17th 18th 19th 20th 21st 22nd 23rd 25th 26th 38th 44th 45th 46th 47th 48th 85th

Ersatz	4th 5th 8th 10th 19th

Naval	Naval 1st 2nd 3rd

Bavarian infantry	10th 11th 12th 14th 15th 16th

Bavarian reserve	1st 5th 6th 8th 9th 30th 39th

Bavarian Landwehr and Ersatz	1st 2nd 6th Ersatz

Other	Alpenkorps Deutsche Jäger Ostsee (Baltic Sea)

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