The 39th Royal Bavarian Reserve Division (39. Kgl. Bayerische Reserve-Division) was a reserve infantry division of the Imperial German Army

German Army (German Empire)

The German Army was the name given the combined land forces of the German Empire, also known as the National Army , Imperial Army or Imperial German Army. The term "Deutsches Heer" is also used for the modern German Army, the land component of the German Bundeswehr...

 in World War I

World War I

World War I , which was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until 1939, and the First World War or World War I thereafter, was a major war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918...

. It was raised to division status on October 2, 1914 from an ad hoc unit, "Brigade von Rekowski", and named "Division von Rekowski" ("Rekowski's Division"). On December 8, 1914 it was renamed the 39th Reserve Division. It was heavily made up of Bavarian units and on December 26, 1916 it was again renamed the 39th Royal Bavarian Reserve Division. It spent the war in positional warfare in the Alsace-Lorraine

Alsace-Lorraine

The Imperial Territory of Alsace-Lorraine was a territory created by the German Empire in 1871 after it annexed most of Alsace and the Moselle region of Lorraine following its victory in the Franco-Prussian War. The Alsatian part lay in the Rhine Valley on the west bank of the Rhine River and east...

region. It was dissolved in 1919 during the demobilization of the German Army after the Armistice.

Order of Battle on November 20, 1914 (Division von Rekowski):

• 1. bayerische Ersatz-Brigade:
  • Kgl. Bayerisches Ersatz-Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 1
  • Kgl. Bayerisches Ersatz-Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 3
• 9. bayerische Ersatz-Infanterie-Brigade:
  • Landwehr-Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 80
  • Landwehr-Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 81
• 3.Eskadron/Reserve-Husaren-Regiment Nr. 9
• Kgl. Bayerische Feldartillerie-Ersatz-Abteilung Nr. 10
• 2.Batterie/Kgl. Bayerisches Feldartillerie-Ersatz-Abteilung Nr. 4
• 1.Batterie/Kgl. Bayerisches Feldartillerie-Ersatz-Abteilung Nr. 8
• 2.Ersatz-Kompanie/Kgl. Bayerisches 1. Pionier-Bataillon
• 1.Ersatz-Kompanie/Kgl. Bayerisches 3. Pionier-Bataillon

Order of Battle on February 20, 1918:

• Kgl. Bayerische 1. Ersatz-Brigade:
  • Kgl. Bayerisches 1. Ersatz-Regiment
  • Kgl. Bayerisches 2. Ersatz-Regiment
  • Kgl. Bayerisches 3. Ersatz-Regiment
• 1.Eskadron/Kgl. Bayerisches 2. Chevaulegers-Regiment
• Kgl. Bayerischer Artillerie-Kommandeur 21:
  • Kgl. Bayerisches 10. Reserve-Feldartillerie-Regiment
• Stab Kgl. Bayerisches Pionier-Bataillon Nr. 23:
  • Kgl. Bayerische 21. Reserve-Pionier-Kompanie
  • Kgl. Bayerische 239. Minenwerfer-Kompanie
  • Kgl. Bayerischer 439. Divisions-Nachrichten-Kommandeur