333:, most divisional cavalry, including brigade headquarters, was withdrawn to form cavalry divisions or split up among divisions as reconnaissance units (the 29th Cavalry Brigade headquarters was dissolved and its two regiments divided among divisions). Divisions received engineer companies and other support units from their higher headquarters. The 29th Division was renamed the 29th Infantry Division. It kept all three infantry brigades and was thus much larger than most infantry divisions. Its initial wartime organization was as follows:
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Histories of Two
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Division was stationed in southern Baden (the 28th covered northern Baden), with garrisons in southern Baden and across the Rhine in Alsace.
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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
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Before World War I, the division was larger than most, having three rather than two infantry brigades. The structure in 1914 was as follows:
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Imperial German Army, 1914-18: Organisation, Structure, Orders of Battle
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Infanterie-Regiment Kaiser Friedrich III Nr. 114
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Infanterie-Regiment Kaiser Friedrich III Nr. 114
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Geschichte des deutschen Heeres im
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4. Badisches Infanterie-Regiment Prinz Wilhelm Nr. 112
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Military units and formations disestablished in 1919
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553:(Biblio Verlag, Osnabrück, 1993), Bd. 1, p. 125.
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302:3. Badisches Dragoner-Regiment Prinz Karl Nr. 22
551:Stellenbesetzung der deutschen Heere 1815-1939.
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23:); from 2 August 1914, 29th Infantry Division (
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196:The Grand Ducal Baden Division served in the
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446:2. Badisches Feldartillerie-Regiment Nr. 30
387:5. Badisches Feldartillerie-Regiment Nr. 76
384:2. Badisches Feldartillerie-Regiment Nr. 30
318:5. Badisches Feldartillerie-Regiment Nr. 76
315:2. Badisches Feldartillerie-Regiment Nr. 30
218:In World War I, the division served on the
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438:4. Eskadron/Jäger-Regiment zu Pferde Nr. 5
616:Rangliste der Königlich Preußischen Armee
433:7. Badisches Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 142
430:5. Badisches Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 113
371:9. Badisches Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 170
368:8. Badisches Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 169
358:7. Badisches Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 142
342:5. Badisches Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 113
292:9. Badisches Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 170
289:8. Badisches Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 169
279:7. Badisches Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 142
263:5. Badisches Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 113
65:Infantry (in peacetime included cavalry)
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462:5./Badisches Pionier-Bataillon Nr. 14
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392:1./Badisches Pionier-Bataillon Nr. 14
468:Divisions-Nachrichten-Kommandeur 29
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187:Großherzoglich Badische Division
1036:High Command of Coastal Defence
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415:212th Infantry Division
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224:Battle of the Frontiers
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25:29. Infanterie-Division
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789:I Royal Bavarian Corps
411:52nd Infantry Division
244:Hundred Days Offensive
125:Hundred Days Offensive
894:82nd Reserve Division
879:81st Reserve Division
840:75th Reserve Division
807:15th Reserve Division
797:19th Reserve Division
571:Hermann Cron et al.,
483:Hermann Cron et al.,
210:Battle of the Lisaine
1118:47.99778°N 7.85306°E
1067:Army Group Mackensen
899:5th Reserve Division
889:1st Reserve Division
675:Imperial German Army
602:(1920), p. 382-385 (
156:Grand Duchy of Baden
143:) was a unit of the
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232:Battle of the Somme
206:Siege of Strasbourg
198:Franco-Prussian War
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