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23-671: Willy Rohr attended a military school in Bensberg and Karlsruhe before he transferred to the Prussian Hauptkadettenanstalt (Central Officer's Training School) in Lichterfelde, Berlin . He joined the 3rd Magdeburg Infantry Regiment No. 66 as a second lieutenant in 1896. From 1899 to 1903, Rohr was assigned to NCO School in Potsdam and became a battalion adjutant and later a regimental adjutant. In 1906, he

46-680: A teaching force, the battalion was repeatedly sent to hotspots on the Western Front. Rohr made a report directly to the emperor on the storming of the Souville Gorge on 3 September 1916. The battalion was designated a favorite battalion of the emperor. At the request of the Crown Prince Army Group, on 7 February 1917, the battalion received the designation Sturm-Bataillon Nr. 5 (Rohr) from the War Ministry. At

69-614: Is Frank Stein of the Social Democratic Party (SPD). The most recent mayoral election was held on 13 September 2020, and the results were as follows: The Bergisch Gladbach city council governs the city alongside the Mayor. The most recent city council election was held on 13 September 2020, and the results were as follows: Bergisch Gladbach is twinned with: 18th Army (German Empire) The 18th Army ( German : 18. Armee / Armeeoberkommando 18 / A.O.K. 18 )

92-588: Is often pronounced as a 't'). The second part of the word, Bach , is the Standard German word for a small stream and refers to the Strunde . In 1975, the town incorporated the neighbouring Bensberg, and when it reached a population of 100,000 in 1977 it was given city status. Paper manufacturing, printing, glass wool manufacturing, chocolate and high-tech industries are a large part of Bergisch Gladbach's economy. The current mayor of Bergisch Gladbach

115-948: The Aisne , in Champagne and on the Hartmannsweiler Kopf . In 1915, Rohr was transferred to the Major Calsow detachment and formed the Loretto Front with two pioneer companies. These fought unsuccessfully, the battalions were renamed the Sturmabteilung Calsow, and their leadership found other employment in the Armeeabteilung Gaede. The decimated storm detachment was recalled to the Kaiserstuhl . By command of General von Falkenhayn

138-782: The Rheinisch-Bergischer Kreis (district). Bergisch Gladbach is east of the Rhine and about 10 km east of Cologne . The urban area of Bergisch Gladbach is not divided into city districts ( Stadtbezirke ) with their own district representation. For statistical purposes, there are six statistical districts ( statistische Bezirke ), which are numbered consecutively and are divided into several districts ( de: Stadtteile ) with their own names. These are mainly name of former smaller settlements from which today's urban area developed, or new development areas whose names have been memorized over time for better orientation. Bensberg

161-705: The Vosges . The Sturmabteilung Rohr was committed to the re-conquest of the Hartmannsweiler Kopf in December 1915. When its next deployment, the attack on the Hirzstein, failed, it withdrew to carry out more intensive preparations. After completion of the preparations, the place was captured with the help of two regiments inexperienced in battle, Nos. 188 and 189, in January 1916. By successfully employing

184-623: The 18th Army headquarters, in Leschelle to make preparations for a major attack, Operation Michael . His battalion arrived during the night of March 19. In April Rohr was promoted to major . Under secret marching orders the battalion was sent in mid-October 1918 to Spa . It was assigned to guard the Große Hauptquartier and Oberste Heeresleitung (Supreme Army Headquarters). When the emperor fled 48 hours later, Major Rohr obtained approval from OHL and left Spa with his battalion in

207-675: The Storm Detachment in various sectors of the front, Army Detachment Gaede trained itself and the stationary troops. In December 1915, the first training course in the technique was held in the general's presence on the Schlossberg at Achkarren As a result of its success the detachment was moved in February 1916 to the 5th Army ( Crown Prince Wilhelm ) to take part in the Verdun offensive. Because of its high losses resulting from

230-539: The captain, who had been brought in from the Guards Rifle Battalion, was temporarily entrusted with their command on 30 August 1915. The previously unused Kaiserstuhl became a training center. The effectiveness of the detachment was improved by reequipping it with machine guns and flamethrowers. Rohr introduced the steel helmet, already used by the enemy, to his Storm Battalion or Shock Troop. Rohr's newly developed tactics were based on his experience at

253-463: The county of Berg , and it was not added to distinguish it from Mönchengladbach , as is believed by many people, but from the counts who gave their name to the region. In the early 12th century, the counts of Berg settled in the area, which later became the Duchy of Berg (under Napoleon, it became a grand duchy). That is where the first part of the name ( Bergisch ) comes from, the town being located in

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276-616: The direction of Germany. A large part of the battalion was demobilized in Schwelm . After the war Rohr was assigned in 1920 to Reichswehr Infantry Regiment 29 of the Provisional Reichswehr. With the formation to the 100,000-man army in 1921, he was dismissed and put at its disposition under the title of a lieutenant colonel . Since the major received no suitable command in the Reichswehr and had to take supply jobs on

299-546: The divisions of the army in "modern close combat". After an inspection by the Crown Prince and by order of the Minister of War, the Storm Detachment was expanded to a battalion and given the name "Storm Battalion". For teaching purposes, the battalion built a practice fort in the forest near the ruined village of Doncourt. Here until the war ended, thousands of German and Austrian officers were trained. Besides its use for

322-577: The former County of Berg. The town is the administrative headquarters ( Kreisstadt ) of the Rheinish-Bergisch district ( Kreis ). The second part of the name, Gladbach , originates from Low Rhenish ( Bergisches Platt ) and means canalised stream in reference to the small river (the Strunde ) that was artificially canalised in early medieval times. In Bergisch Platt , the regional dialect, gelaat (laid) eventually evolved to glad (the 'd'

345-488: The front and made a great contribution to the development of assault team tactics. Major Reddemann was the first to designate the existing flamethrower squads as shock troops . They are both regarded as originators of the concept of shock troops. Rohr neglected the tactical training of the army up to the Battle of Verdun . The successful testing of the new methods was carried out by Infantry Regiment No. 187 west of Colmar in

368-642: The lack of cooperation of the units, the detachment had to be withdrawn after a short time. Captain Rohr spoke at the command post of General-Commando 3 (GKo 3) in Nouillon-Pont on 13 March 1916, before General von Lochow , the Chief of Staff, Colonel Wetzell and Ia Major von Stülpnagel . When asked about the failure of the daily attacks, Rohr attributed it primarily to the infantry's inexperience with hand-to-hand fighting. Hand grenades had been left lying in

391-449: The same time Willy Rohr became chief training officer. Since it was the first and most successful storm battalion, its number of "5" instead of "1" came from the army it served in. In January 1918, Rohr was assigned command of the first deutsche Sturm-Panzer-Kraftwagen-Abteilung (German Armored Vehicle Detachment), a tank unit. Both the slowness and clumsiness of the vehicles were regarded as defects. Rohr went on 11 March 1918 to AOK 18 ,

414-622: The staff, he decided to officially resign his post. Thus the Reichswehr deprived itself of one of its most capable soldiers. Rohr found a new home in Lübeck , where he died while a director of the Lübecker Getreidebank . Bensberg Bergisch Gladbach ( German pronunciation: [ˌbɛʁɡɪʃ ˈɡlatbax] ) is a city in the Cologne/Bonn Region of North Rhine-Westphalia , Germany, and capital of

437-470: The woods; the infantry had not touched these because they had not been trained in their use. Also he considered the cooperation between the infantry and their accompanying weapons, such as machine guns and light mortars, to be insufficient. As a result, he was ordered to repeat his comments as soon as possible to the personnel of the Army High Command (AOK 5). He was then given the task of training

460-851: Was an army level command of the German Army in World War I . It was formed against France on 27 December 1917 from the former Heeresgruppe Woyrsch command. It served exclusively on the Western Front and was dissolved on 2 January 1919. 18th Army was one of three armies (along with 17th Army and 19th Army ) formed in late 1917 / early 1918 with forces withdrawn from the Eastern Front . They were in place to take part in Ludendorff's German spring offensive . The Germans had realised that their only remaining chance of victory

483-442: Was an independent town until 1975. Before 1975, Schildgen belonged to the municipality of Odenthal . Beginning in the north, the neighbouring municipalities and neighbouring towns are clockwise Odenthal , Kürten , Overath , Rösrath , Cologne and Leverkusen . Early settlements existed in the 13th century, but the town was officially founded only in 1856. The word Bergisch in the name does not originate from its location in

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506-600: Was promoted as a first lieutenant. After working as a teacher in the infantry shooting school in Wünsdorf from 1911-1912, Rohr was transferred to the 10th Rhineland Infantry Regiment No. 161 in Trier and was promoted as a captain. At his request, in 1913, he was transferred to the Guards Rifle Battalion in Gross-Lichterfelde and served as the commander of the 3rd Company. In World War I he fought in 3rd Company on

529-571: Was to defeat the Allies before the overwhelming human and matériel resources of the United States could be deployed. They also had the temporary advantage in numbers afforded by nearly 50 divisions freed by the Russian withdrawal from the war ( Treaty of Brest-Litovsk ). At the end of the war it was serving as part of Heeresgruppe Deutscher Kronprinz . By the end of the war, the 18th Army

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