German Wwi
How many men were in the German Army at the start of WWI?
The quote below is from the source listed.
"The incredible (for its time) military machine of 10,000,000 men of all classes, which was subject to the orders of the General Staff, was a minutely organized force. The whole country was divided into Korps Districts, 4 within which the Korps were stationed, raised and recruited. This district was further subdivided to allow the simultaneous existence of Regular, Reserve, Ersatz and Landwehr units. This system allowed men of the same village to serve in the same Regiments as their fathers and grandfathers."
The figure ten million includes all reserves who could be called up. The German military reserve was extremely well organized. For details on the German army in August 1914
I strongly recommend Barbara Tuchman's award winning book "The Guns of August" {I'm trying to find my copy now to add her data on German army manpower in 1914.}
Liddell Hart in his 1930 book "The real War 1914-1918" lists German reserves as 9,750,000 out of a population of ~ 65 million. Hart states that about 4 million men were mobilized initially in 1914 with 3,120,000 men going across the Rhine
in 11,000 trains around the date August 6th, 1914 to fight Belgium, France, and the British expeditionary force.
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