30th Division (German Empire)

30th Division (30. Division); from August 2, 1914, 30th Infantry Division (30. Infanterie-Division)
Active1887-1919
CountryPrussia/Germany
BranchArmy
TypeInfantry (in peacetime included cavalry)
SizeApprox. 15,000
Part ofXV. Army Corps (XV. Armeekorps)
Garrison/HQStrasbourg
EngagementsWorld War I: Battle of the Frontiers, Race to the Sea, Verdun, Somme, 2nd Aisne, Cambrai (1917), Champagne-Marne, Cambrai (1918)

The 30th Division (30. Division) was a unit of the Prussian/German Army.[1] It was formed on April 1, 1887, as the 33rd Division and became the 30th Division on April 1, 1890, and was headquartered in Straßburg (now Strasbourg, France).[2] The division was subordinated in peacetime to the XV Army Corps (XV. Armeekorps).[3] The division was disbanded in 1919 during the demobilization of the German Army after World War I. The division was recruited primarily in the Rhineland and Westphalia, with the 105th Infantry Regiment recruited in the Kingdom of Saxony.

  1. ^ From the late 1800s, 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 and only the Bavarian Army remained fully autonomous.
  2. ^ Günter Wegner, Stellenbesetzung der deutschen Heere 1815-1939. (Biblio Verlag, Osnabrück, 1993), Bd. 1, p.126; Claus von Bredow, bearb., Historische Rang- und Stammliste des deuschen Heeres (1905), p.662.
  3. ^ Bredow, p. 661.