1st Landwehr Division (German Empire)
1st Landwehr Division |
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active | August 1914 to 1919 |
Country | German Empire |
Armed forces | Prussian Army |
Type | Infantry division |
structure | Part of the Higher Landwehr Commanders 1 |
Strength | approx. 15,000 |
First World War | Eastern Front |
Commanders | |
Commanders | General of the Infantry Albano von Jacobi (December 17, 1914 to January 2, 1919) |
The 1st Landwehr Division was a major unit of the Prussian army in the First World War .
structure
The division was formed from the mixed Landwehr brigades, each equipped with infantry, cavalry and artillery. The 33rd and 34th mixed Landwehr Brigade had the recruiting area in Schleswig-Holstein , in the province of Hanover and Mecklenburg-Schwerin or Mecklenburg-Strelitz , as well as in the Hanseatic cities of Hamburg , Bremen and Lübeck . The 37th and 38th Brigade recruited in Hanover , Oldenburg and Braunschweig .
Organization of war in mobilization
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33rd Mixed Landwehr Brigade
- Landwehr Infantry Regiment No. 75
- Landwehr Infantry Regiment No. 76
- 2nd Guard Landwehr Squadron
- 1st Landwehr Squadron / IX. Army Corps
- 1. Landwehr Battery / IX. Army Corps
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34th Mixed Landwehr Brigade
- Landwehr Infantry Regiment No. 31
- Landwehr Infantry Regiment No. 84
- 3rd Guard Landwehr Squadron
- 2nd Landwehr Squadron / IX. Army Corps
- 2. Landwehr Battery / IX. Army Corps
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37th Mixed Landwehr Brigade
- Landwehr Infantry Regiment No. 73
- Landwehr Infantry Regiment No. 74
- 2nd Landwehr Squadron / X Army Corps
- II. Landwehr Field Artillery Department / X. Army Corps
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38th Mixed Landwehr Brigade
- Landwehr Infantry Regiment No. 77
- Landwehr Infantry Regiment No. 78
- 3rd Landwehr Squadron / X. Army Corps
Division of War of January 27, 1918
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34th Landwehr Brigade
- Landwehr Infantry Regiment No. 31
- Landwehr Infantry Regiment No. 33
- Landwehr Infantry Regiment No. 84
- 3rd Squadron / Jäger Regiment on Horseback No. 12
- Artillery Commander No. 128
- Field Artillery Regiment No. 96
- Engineer Battalion No. 401
- Division News Commander No. 501
Battle calendar
The division was initially used on the northern eastern front . Until the end of 1917 it was part of the front security in the northern area of the Eastern Front. In early 1918 she was used on the Western Front in the Lorraine and Flanders area.
1914
- August 19-20 - Battle of Gawaiten - Gumbinnen
- 23rd to 31st August - Battle of Tannenberg
- from November 15 - trench warfare for field positions near Lötzen and on the Angerapp
1915
- until February 7th - position battles for the field position Lötzen-Angerapp
- 7-22 - Winter battle in Masuria , Battle of Lyck February
- February 19 to August 10 - Trench warfare in front of Lomsha-Osowiec
- July 13th to August 26th - Battle of Narew-Bobr
- August 2nd to 9th - First Narew crossing near Nowogrod and Lomsha
- August 10th - capture of Lomsha
- August 10th to 12th - capture of Wizna
- August 12th to 15th - fighting on the Silna section
- August 16-25 - Second Narew crossing at Tykozin, Zoltki and Kruschewo
- August 24-26 - Fights near Bialystok, Knyszyn and the Berezowia section
- August 27th to September 2nd - conquest of Grodno
- September 1st - Storming of Fort IV
- Nyemen to Berezina September 1st to 30th - Persecution from
- September 28th to October 10th - trench warfare on the Berezina, Olshanka and Krewlyanka rivers
- from October 21st - trench warfare in front of Riga
1916
- until July 31 - trench warfare in front of Riga
- July 31st to August 7th - trench warfare in the Pripet Marshes
- August 11th to November 4th - Battle of Kovel
- from November 5th - trench warfare on the upper Styr - Stochod
1917
- until December 1, 1917 - trench warfare on the upper Styr-Stochod
- ceasefire December 2nd to 17th -
- from December 17th - armistice
1918
- until February 22nd - armistice
- February 15-25 - transport to the west
- February 22nd to March 10th - Reserve of the OHL
- March 11th to April 9th - Trench warfare in Flanders
- April 10-15 - Trench warfare in Flanders
- April 16-29 - Fights in the Wytschaete Arch
- April 30 to August 1 - Trench warfare in Flanders
- August 2nd to September 18th - Trench warfare in Lorraine and the Vosges
- September 18 to October 1 - trench warfare in Upper Alsace
- October 1st to 11th - Trench warfare in Lorraine
- October 11th to November 11th - defensive battles between Maas and Beaumont; Defensive battle in Champagne and on the Meuse
- from November 12th - evacuation of the occupied territory and march back through Lorraine, the Rhine Province and the Palatinate
1919
- by January 4th - evacuation of the occupied territory and march back through Lorraine, the Rhine Province and the Palatinate
Commanders
Rank | Surname | date |
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Lieutenant General | Georg von der Goltz | August 2 to October 3, 1914 |
Lieutenant General | Serious of one | October 3 to December 17, 1914 |
General of the Infantry | Albano by Jacobi | December 17, 1914 to January 2, 1919 |
literature
- Hall of Fame of our Old Army. Published on the basis of official material from the Reichsarchiv , Militär-Verlag, Berlin 1927, pp. 59–60; Pp. 84-85.
- Hermann Cron: History of the German Army in the World War 1914–1918. Berlin 1937.
- Günter Wegner: Occupation of the German armies 1815-1939. Volume 1, Biblio Verlag, Osnabrück 1993.
Individual evidence
- ^ Hermann Cron et al .: Hall of Fame of our old army. Berlin 1935.
- ↑ Histories of Two Hundred and Fifty-One Divisions of the German Army Which Participated in the War (1914-1918), 1920, p. 181