12th Division (German Empire)

[3] The division was disbanded in 1919 during the demobilization of the German Army after World War I.

[4] In the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71, the division fought in several battles and engagements, including the Siege of Paris.

It spent most of this period in various parts of the trenches and suffered heavily in the 1916 Battle of the Somme.

After returning to the Western Front, the division saw action in the German spring offensive of 1918, including the Battle of the Lys, and the subsequent Allied counteroffensives, including the 1918 Battle of Cambrai.

Divisions received engineer companies and other support units from their higher headquarters.