1st Royal Bavarian Landwehr Division

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The 1st Bavarian Landwehr Division was a major unit of the Bavarian army in the First World War .

1st Royal Bavarian Landwehr Division

active August 21, 1914 to December 1918
Country Flag of Bavaria (striped) .svg Kingdom of Bavaria
Armed forces Bavarian Army
Armed forces army
Type Infantry Division
structure see: Outline

structure

Division of War of December 10, 1914

Division of War of February 8, 1918

history

The division was set up on August 21, 1914 as the "Reinforced Bavarian Landwehr Division" and was initially also known as Division Wening , named after its commander, Otto Wening . In September 1914 it was named “1. Bavarian Landwehr Division ”and consisted of various Landwehr units . Although referred to as Bavarian , the division initially also included some non-Bavarian units. The 14th Landwehr Infantry Brigade comprised both a Bavarian regiment and a regiment of the Württemberg Army . Their 60th Landwehr Infantry Brigade included a regiment from the Reichsland Alsace-Lorraine and a regiment of soldiers from Prussia and the Thuringian states ( Reuss younger line and Schwarzburg-Sondershausen ); the brigade was integrated into the 13th Landwehr Division . In January 1916 the division was reorganized and became a large Bavarian association.

The division was initially used on the Western Front in the border battles. From September 1914 to the end of May 1915 she fought south of Dieuze and then until November 1918 to secure Lorraine . Classified as fourth class by the Allied Enlightenment . After the armistice in Compiègne , the division began the march back home, where the large association was disbanded after demobilization at the end of December 1918.

Battle calendar

1914

1915

  • through May 31 - Battles south of Dieuze
    • February 27 to March 4 - Skirmishes at Parroy
  • from May 31st - trench warfare in Lorraine
    • June 11-12 - Battle of Réchicourt-La Petite
    • June 18-19 - Battle of Emberménil
    • June 21-29 - Battle of Leintrey
    • July 15 - Battle of Leintrey
    • September 24th and 25th - Battle at Bezange-la Grande
    • October 8th - Storming the heights south of Leintrey
    • October 15-17 - Battles for the heights south of Leintrey

1916

  • Trench warfare in Lorraine

1917

  • Trench warfare in Lorraine

1918

  • until January 9, 1918 - Trench warfare in Lorraine
  • 10 January to 4 February - Trench warfare in Lorraine and the Vosges
  • February 4th to November 11th - Trench warfare in Lorraine
  • November 12th to December 4th - evacuation of the occupied territory and march home

Commanders

Rank Surname date
Lieutenant General Otto Wening August 21 to September 6, 1914
Lieutenant General Robert von Fischer September 7, 1914 to December 22, 1915
Lieutenant General / General of the Infantry Felix von Eder December 22, 1915 until the end of the war

literature

  • Hall of Fame of our Old Army. Published on the basis of official material from the Reich Archives . Military Publishing House. Berlin 1927. p. 60. 85.
  • Histories of Two Hundred and Fifty-One Divisions of the German Army Which Participated in the War (1914-1918). United States War Office as War Department Document No. 905. Office of the Adjutant. 1920. pp. 45-46.