XIX (2nd Royal Saxon) Corps: Difference between revisions

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| unit_name = XIX (2nd Royal Saxon) Army Corps<br>''XIX. (2II. Königlich Sächsisches) Armee-Korps''

| country={{flag|Kingdom of Saxony|1914|23px}} / {{flag|German Empire|1914|23px}}

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| garrison=[[Leipzig]]/Thomasring 2

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| patron = [[List of rulers of Saxony|King of Saxony]]

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| colors = Red

| colors_label = Shoulder strap piping

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| identification_symbol=XIX AK

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The '''XIX (2nd Royal Saxon) Army Corps / XIX AK''' ({{lang-de|'''XIX. (2II. Königlich Sächsisches) Armee-Korps'''}}) was a [[Kingdom of Saxony|Saxon]] [[corps]] level command of the [[German Empire|German]] [[German Army (German Empire)|Army]], before and during [[World War I]].

As the German Army expanded in the latter part of the 19th Centurycentury and early part of the 20th Centurycentury, the XIX Army Corps was set up on 1 April 1899 in [[Leipzig]], [[Saxony]] as the ''Generalkommando'' ([[headquarters]]) for the western part of the [[Kingdom of Saxony]] (districts of Leipzig, [[Chemnitz]] and [[Zwickau]]).<ref>[http://www.verwaltungsgeschichte.de/militaer.html German Administrative History] Accessed: 10 May 2012</ref> It took over command of [[24th Division (German Empire)|24th (2nd Royal Saxon) Division]] from [[XII (1st Royal Saxon) Corps]] and the newly formed [[40th Division (German Empire)|40th (4th Royal Saxon) Division]].

It was assigned to the [[German_Army_German Army (German_EmpireGerman Empire)#Army_inspectorateArmy inspectorate|II Army Inspectorate]]<ref>{{harvnb|Cron|2002|p=395}}</ref> which formed the predominantly Saxon [[3rd Army (German Empire)|3rd Army]] at the start of the [[First World War]]. It was still in existence at the end of the war<ref>{{harvnb|Cron|2002|pp=88-8988–89}}</ref> in the [[19th Army (German Empire)|19th Army]], ''[[Heeresgruppe Herzog Albrecht von Württemberg]]'' on the [[Western Front (World War I)|Western Front]].<ref>{{harvnb|Ellis|Cox|1993|pp=186-187186–187}}</ref>

== Peacetime Organisationorganisation ==

The 25 peacetime [[Corps]] of the German Army (Guards, I - XXI, I - III Bavarian) had a reasonably standardised organisation. Each consisted of two [[Division (military)|divisions]] with usually two infantry brigades, one field artillery brigade and a cavalry brigade each.<ref>{{harvnb|Haythornthwaite|1996|ppp=193&ndash;194193–194}}</ref> Each brigade normally consisted of two regiments of the appropriate type, so each Corps normally commanded 8 infantry, 4 field artillery and 4 cavalry regiments. There were exceptions to this rule:

:[[II Corps (German Empire)|II]], [[VIII CorpsXIII (GermanRoyal EmpireWürttemberg) Corps|VIIIXIII]], [[XIIIXVIII Corps (RoyalGerman WürttembergEmpire) Corps|XIIIXVIII]] and [[XXI Corps (German Empire)|XXI Corps]] had a 9th infantry regiment

Each Corps also directly controlled a number of other units. This could include one or more

| ROWSPAN=20 | '''XIX (2nd Royal Saxon) Corps'''

| [[106th (7th Royal Saxon) King’s-Infantry "King George"]]||[[Leipzig]]

| [[107th (Prince John George) (8th Royal Saxon) Infantry "Prince John George"]]||[[Leipzig]]

| [[104th (Crown Prince) (5th Royal Saxon) Infantry "Crown Prince"]]||[[Chemnitz]]

| [[Carabiniers (2nd Royal Saxon Heavy Cavalry)]]||[[Borna, Germany|Borna]]

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| LeipzigChemnitz Defence Command<br>(''Landwehr-Inspektion'')||||||[[LeipzigChemnitz]]

== OrganisationWorld onWar MobilisationI ==

On mobilization on 2 August 1914 the Corps was restructured. 40th Cavalry Brigade was withdrawn to form part of the [[8th Cavalry Division (German Empire)|8th Cavalry Division]]<ref>{{harvnb|Cron|2002|p=300}}</ref> and the 32nd24th Cavalry Brigade was broken up and its regiments assigned to the divisions as reconnaissance units. Divisions received engineer companies and other support units from the Corps headquarters. In summary, XIX Corps mobilised with 25 infantry battalions, 9 machine gun companies (54 machine guns), 8 cavalry squadrons, 24 field artillery batteries (144 guns), 4 heavy artillery batteries (16 guns), 3 pioneer companies and an aviation detachment.

| ROWSPAN=29 | '''XIX (2nd Royal Saxon) Corps'''

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| Munition Trains and Columns corresponding to [[II Corps (German Empire)#MCT|II Corps]]

=== WorldCombat War Ichronicle ===

On mobilisation, XIX Corps was assigned to the predominatelypredominantly Saxon [[3rd Army (German Empire)|3rd Army]] forming part of the right wing of the forces for the [[Schlieffen Plan]] offensive in August 1914 on the [[Western Front (World War I)|Western Front]]. It spent the entire war on the Western Front. It was still in existence at the end of the war<ref>{{harvnb|Cron|2002|pp=88-8988–89}}</ref> in the [[19th Army (German Empire)|19th Army]], ''[[Heeresgruppe Herzog Albrecht von Württemberg]]'' on the [[Western Front (World War I)|Western Front]].<ref>{{harvnb|Ellis|Cox|1993|pp=186-187186–187}}</ref>

! Dates !! Rank !! Name

|25 March 1899 to 21 April 1904 || [[General of the Infantry (Germany)|General der Infanterie]] || [[Heinrich Leo von Treitschke]]

|22 April 1904 to 26 November 1907 || [[General of the Infantry (Germany)|General der Infanterie]] || [[Alexander Graf Vitzthum von Eckstädt]]

|27 November 1907 to 27 November 1913 || [[General of the Artillery (Germany)|General der Artillerie]] || [[Hans von Kirchbach]]

|30 November 1913 to 20 July 1917 || [[General of the Cavalry (Germany)|General der Kavallerie]] || [[Maximilian von Laffert]]

|8 August 1917 to 8 August 1918 || [[General of the Infantry (Germany)|General der Infanterie]] || [[Adolph von Carlowitz]]

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== ReferencesNotes ==

* [https://web.archive.org/web/20070930180348/http://www.1914-18.info/erster-weltkrieg.php?u=567 XIX. Armeekorps (Chronik 1914/1918)]

* Claus von Bredow, bearb., ''Historische Rang- und Stammliste des deuschendeutschen Heeres'' (1905)

== BibliographyFurther reading ==

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