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{{Infobox military unit
|unit_name=30th Bavarian Reserve Division (''30. Bayerische Reserve-Division'')
|dates=1914-1918
|country=[[Bavaria]]/[[German Empire|Germany]]
|branch=Army
|type=Infantry
|size=Approx. 12,500
|battles=[[World War I]]
}}

The '''30th Royal Bavarian Reserve Division (''30. Kgl. Bayerische Reserve-Division'')''' was a reserve infantry division of the [[Imperial German Army]] in World War I. It was initially the Main Reserve, Fortress [[Strasbourg]] (''Hauptreserve/Festung Straßburg'') and was designated the 30th Reserve Division (''30. Reserve-Division'') from mobilization in August 1914. It was almost entirely made up of Bavarian units and thus, on December 26, 1916, it was renamed the 30th Royal Bavarian Reserve Division. It spent the war engaged in positional warfare in the [[Vosges]] mountains of France and the [[Alsace-Lorraine]] region.

On mobilization, the division comprised three brigades: the non-Bavarian ''60. Reserve-Infanterie-Brigade'' (''Reserve-Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 60, 99''), ''3. bayerische Reserve-Infanterie-Brigade (4. und 15. bayerisches Reserve-Infanterie-Regimenten'') and ''10. bayerische Reserve-Infanterie-Brigade'', together with divisional cavalry, artillery and pioneer components. On August 17, ''5. bayerische Ersatz-Brigade'' transferred into the division from the Bavarian Ersatz Division. By the end of August, ''60. Reserve-Infanterie-Brigade'' had been broken up and its constituent regiments had left the division.

'''Order of Battle on August 18, 1914:'''

*10. bayerische Reserve-Infanterie-Brigade
**Kgl. Bayerisches 11. Reserve-Infanterie-Regiment
**Kgl. Bayerisches 14. Reserve-Infanterie-Regiment<!--'14.Radfahrer-Abteilung'! 14th Res Rgt as per Cron's ''Geschichte des deutschen Heeres im Weltkriege 1914-1918''; this is supported by the German wiki articles on both the division and the bavarian 10th reserve brigade as well as "Histories of 251 Divisions ..." and the Robinson's "Handbook of Imperial Germany"-->
**Festungs-MG-Kompanie Nr. 2
**Reserve-MG-Abteilung Nr. 3
*5. bayerische Ersatz-Brigade
**Bayerisches Brigade-Ersatz-Bataillon Nr. 5 (mob.Ers.Btl./Kgl. Bay. 23.Inf.Regt.)
**Bayerisches Brigade-Ersatz-Bataillon Nr. 6 (mob.Ers.Btl./Kgl. Bay. 18.Inf.Regt. Prinz Ludwig Ferdinand)
**Bayerisches Brigade-Ersatz-Bataillon Nr. 7 (mob.Ers.Btl./Kgl. Bay. 5.Inf.Regt. Großherzog Ernst Ludwig von Hessen)
**Bayerisches Brigade-Ersatz-Bataillon Nr. 8 (mob.Ers.Btl./Kgl. Bay. 8.Inf.Regt. Großherzog Friedrich II. von Baden)
*Kavallerie-Ersatz-Abteilung Landau/II. Bayerisches Armeekorps ({{frac|1|3}} Eskadron)
*Kgl. Bayerisches 2. Feldartillerie-Regiment
*1. Ersatz-Batterie/Kgl. Bayerisches 12. Feldartillerie-Regiment
*Ersatz-Abteilung/Feldartillerie-Regiment Nr. 80
*1.Ersatz-Batterie/Feldartillerie-Regiment Nr. 84
*3.Batterie/Reserve-Feldartillerie-Regiment Nr. 14

'''Order of Battle on January 1, 1918:'''

*5. Kgl. Bayerische Ersatz-Brigade
**Kgl. Bayerisches 4. Ersatz-Regiment
**Kgl. Bayerisches 8. Landwehr-Infanterie-Regiment
**Kgl. Bayerisches 15. Landwehr-Infanterie-Regiment
*2.Eskadron/Reserve-Husaren-Regiment Nr. 9
*Kgl. Bayerischer Artillerie-Kommandeur 20:
**Reserve-Feldartillerie-Regiment Nr. 239
*Stab Kgl. Bayerisches 22. Pionier-Bataillon:
**Kgl. Bayerische 13. Reserve-Pionier-Kompanie
**Kgl. Bayerische 5. Landwehr-Pionier-Kompanie
**Minenwerfer-Kompanie Nr. 230
*Kgl. Bayerischer Divisions-Nachrichten-Kommandeur 430

==References==
{{no footnotes|date=January 2016}}
* [http://www.1914-18.info/erster-weltkrieg.php?u=296&info=39.Bayerische-Reserve-Division 30. Bayerische Reserve-Division - Der erste Weltkrieg]
* Hermann Cron et al., ''Ruhmeshalle unserer alten Armee'' (Berlin, 1935)
* Hermann Cron, ''Geschichte des deutschen Heeres im Weltkriege 1914-1918'' (Berlin, 1937)

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