4th Army (German Empire)
As 4th Army / Army High Command 4 (AOK 4) was designated a major formation and the associated command authority of the German Army during the First World War ( 1914-1918). It included several Army or Reserve Corps and numerous special troops.
History
When, on 2 August 1914 in the German Empire, the mobilization eight armies were carried out from the eight existing Army inspections formed. From the VI. Army inspection was in Berlin, the Army High Command 4 The associations of the 4th Army gathered in the room Sankt Vith. The army comprised in August 1914, the following units:
- Colonel General Albrecht Duke of Württemberg ( from 2 August 1914)
- General of Infantry Friedrich Sixt von Armin (as of February 25, 1917 )
- Lieutenant General Walther von Lüttwitz ( from 2 August 1914)
- Major General Emil Ilse ( September 26 1914)
- Major Max Stapff ( from 25 May 1917)
- Colonel Fritz von Loßberg (from August 3, 1917 )
- Major Wilhelm Humser ( August 6 1918)
- VIII Corps
- XVIII. Army Corps
- VIII Reserve Corps
- XVIII. Reserve Corps
The 4th Army formed together with the 5th Army, the Central Group of the German West Army, which was provided in accordance with the Schlieffen Plan offensive against France. Both armies fought back end of August 1914 an advance of the French army on the Meuse and the Ardennes (→ Battle of Neufchâteau and Longwy ) and the opposing troops pushed then back up behind the Aisne. As in 1914 withdrew the German right wing armies (1st and 2nd Army ) as a result of defeat in the battle of the Marne in early September, had to be withdrawn and the 4th Army. They moved to new positions in the Champagne before the front froze in trench warfare. In the beginning of the ' race to the sea ", as both sides tried to circumvent their respective northern flank, led the OHL in the second half of October, some new Reserve Corps approach that should be eventually used at Ypres in Flanders. In order to command these troops, the Army High Command 4 was removed from the front and moved to the north. The previously assumed troops were distributed to the neighboring armies. As a result, it came into Flanders to the Flanders battles.
From October 20 1914 to October 21, 1918 was the headquarters of the 4th Army in Tielt, and it was only briefly relocated to Courtrai and Roubaix. The retreat ended it on 28 November 1918 in Münster.
References
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