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

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

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| start_date = {{Start date|1899|04|01|df=y}}

| end_date = {{End date|1919}}

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

| type = [[Corps]]

| size = Approximately 44,000 (on mobilisation in 1914)

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| battles = [[World War I]]

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The '''XIX (2nd Royal Saxon) Army Corps / XIX AK''' ({{lang-de|'''XIX. (II. 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]].

 

 

It was assigned to the [[German Army (German Empire)#Army 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=88–89}}</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=186–187}}</ref>

:[[I Corps (German Empire)|I]], [[VI Corps (German Empire)|VI]] and [[XVI Corps (German Empire)|XVI Corps]] had a 3rd cavalry brigade (so 6 cavalry regiments)

:the [[Guards Corps (German Empire)|Guards Corps]] had 11 infantry regiments (in 5 brigades) and 8 cavalry regiments (in 4 brigades).<ref>They formed the [[Guards Cavalry Division (German Empire)|Guards Cavalry Division]], the only peacetime cavalry division in the German Army.</ref>

:Foot Artillery Regiment

:[[Jäger (military)|Jäger]] Battalion

! Garrison

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| ROWSPAN=8 | [[24th Division (German Empire)|24th (2nd Royal Saxon) Division]]

| ROWSPAN=2 | 47th (3rd Royal Saxon) Infantry Brigade

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| ROWSPAN=3 | Corps Troops

| 8th (Royal Saxon) Machine Gun ''[[Abteilung]]''||[[Leipzig]]

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== World War I ==

=== Organisation on mobilisation ===

On mobilization on 2 August 1914 the Corps was restructured. 40th Cavalry Brigade was withdrawn to form part of the [[8th Cavalry Division (German Empire)|8th Cavalry Division]]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 24th 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.

! Units

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| ROWSPAN=12 | [[24th Division (German Empire)|24th (2nd Royal Saxon) Division]]

| ROWSPAN=3 | 47th Infantry Brigade

| 78th Field Artillery Regiment

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| 18th Uhlan Regiment

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| 68th Field Artillery Regiment

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| 19th Hussar Regiment

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| ROWSPAN=6 | Corps Troops

| II Battalion, 19th Foot Artillery Regiment<ref>4 heavy artillery batteries (16 heavy field howitzers)</ref>

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The XIX Corps had the following commanders during its existence:<ref>[http://www.verwaltungsgeschichte.de/militaer.html German Administrative History] Accessed: 10 May 2012</ref><ref>[http://www.deutsche-kriegsgeschichte.de/akrkgk.html German War History] Accessed: 10 May 2012</ref>

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

 

== See also ==

*[[German Army order of battle (1914)#Third Army|German Army order of battle (1914)]]

*[[German Army order of battle, Western Front (1918)]]

 

== References ==

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

* Günter Wegner, ''Stellenbesetzung der deutschen Heere 1815-1939.'' (Biblio Verlag, Osnabrück, 1993), Bd. 1

== Further reading ==

* {{cite book

| last = Cron | first = Hermann

| year = 2002

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* {{cite book

| last1 = Ellis | first1 = John

| last2 = Cox | first2 = Michael

}}

* {{cite book

| last = Haythornthwaite | first = Philip J.

| year = 1996

}}

 

 

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[[Category:Corps of Germany in World War I]]