The 6th Division (6. Division) was a unit of the Prussian/German Army. It was formed in Düsseldorf in 1816 as a brigade and became the 6th Division on September 5 1818. The headquarters moved to Torgau in 1820 and then to Brandenburg in 1850. The division was subordinated in peacetime to the III Army Corps (III. Armeekorps). The division was disbanded in 1919 during the demobilization of the German Army after World War I. The division was recruited in the Province of Brandenburg.

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  • 1818-01-01 00:00:00 (xsd:date)
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  • Approx. 15,000
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  • 1818-01-01 00:00:00 (xsd:date)
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  • 1818-01-01 00:00:00 (xsd:date)
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  • The 6th Division (6. Division) was a unit of the Prussian/German Army. It was formed in Düsseldorf in 1816 as a brigade and became the 6th Division on September 5 1818. The headquarters moved to Torgau in 1820 and then to Brandenburg in 1850. The division was subordinated in peacetime to the III Army Corps (III. Armeekorps). The division was disbanded in 1919 during the demobilization of the German Army after World War I. The division was recruited in the Province of Brandenburg. The 6th Division fought in the Second Schleswig War of 1864, including the key Battle of Dybbøl, or Düppeler Heights. The division then fought in the Austro-Prussian War in 1866, including the Battle of Königgrätz. In the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71, the division saw action in the battles of Mars-la-Tour, Gravelotte, Orléans, and Le Mans, and in the Siege of Metz. The division was mobilized as the 6th Infantry Division in August 1914 and sent to the west for the opening campaigns of the war. In 1914 it fought in the Battle of the Marne and the Race to the Sea. It then settled into positional warfare in the trenches along the Somme. The division was sent east in late 1915 to participate in the Serbian Campaign. It fought in the early phases of the Battle of Verdun and in the Battle of the Somme in 1916. In mid-1917, it was sent to the Eastern Front in response to the Russian Kerensky Offensive. It returned to the Western Front in September 1917, and remained there until war's end, participating in the Second Battle of the Aisne in 1917 and in the German Spring Offensive of 1918 and the Allied offensives that followed. The division was rated among the best in the German Army by Allied intelligence.
  • Die 6. Division war ein Großverband der preußischen Armee des Deutschen Kaiserreiches. Das Kommando stand in Brandenburg an der Havel. Die Division war Teil des III. Armee-Korps. Ihr unterstanden: 11. Infanterie-Brigade in Brandenburg Infanterie-Regiment „Graf Tauentzien von Wittenberg“ (3. Brandenburgisches) Nr. 20 in Wittenberg Füsilier-Regiment „Prinz Heinrich von Preußen“ (Brandenburgisches) Nr. 35 in Brandenburg an der Havel 12. Infanterie-Brigade in Brandenburg Infanterie-Regiment „Großherzog Friedrich Franz II. von Mecklenburg-Schwerin“ (4. Brandenburgisches) Nr. 24 in Neuruppin Infanterie-Regiment „General-Feldmarschall Prinz Friedrich Karl von Preußen“ (8. Brandenburgisches) Nr. 64 in Prenzlau und Angermünde 6. Kavallerie-Brigade in Brandenburg Kürassier-Regiment „Kaiser Nikolaus I. von Russland“ (Brandenburgisches) Nr. 6 in Brandenburg an der Havel Husaren-Regiment „von Zieten“ (Brandenburgisches) Nr. 3 in Rathenow 6. Feldartillerie-Brigade in Brandenburg Feldartillerie-Regiment „General-Feldzeugmeister“ (1. Brandenburgisches) Nr. 3 in Brandenburg an der Havel Kurmärkisches Feldartillerie-Regiment Nr. 39 in Perleberg Landwehr-Inspektion Berlin
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  • Army
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  • III. Army Corps (III. Armeekorps)
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  • 1818-1919
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  • Approx. 15,000
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  • Infantry (in peacetime included cavalry)
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  • 6th Division
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  • The 6th Division (6. Division) was a unit of the Prussian/German Army. It was formed in Düsseldorf in 1816 as a brigade and became the 6th Division on September 5 1818. The headquarters moved to Torgau in 1820 and then to Brandenburg in 1850. The division was subordinated in peacetime to the III Army Corps (III. Armeekorps). The division was disbanded in 1919 during the demobilization of the German Army after World War I. The division was recruited in the Province of Brandenburg.
  • Die 6. Division war ein Großverband der preußischen Armee des Deutschen Kaiserreiches. Das Kommando stand in Brandenburg an der Havel. Die Division war Teil des III. Armee-Korps. Ihr unterstanden: 11. Infanterie-Brigade in Brandenburg Infanterie-Regiment „Graf Tauentzien von Wittenberg“ (3. Brandenburgisches) Nr. 20 in Wittenberg Füsilier-Regiment „Prinz Heinrich von Preußen“ (Brandenburgisches) Nr. 35 in Brandenburg an der Havel 12.
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  • 6th Division (German Empire)
  • 6. Division (Deutsches Kaiserreich)
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  • 6th Division (6. Division); in 1870-71 and from August 2 1914, 6th Infantry Division (6. Infanterie-Division)
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