10th Landwehr Division (German Empire)

10th Landwehr Division
Second position of the Landwehr Infantry Regiment No. 24 near Szelwow
active	February 3, 1915 to August 8, 1918
Country	German Empire
Armed forces	Prussian Army
Type	Infantry Division
structure	See: Outline
First World War	Eastern Front Winter battle in Masuria Western front

The 10th Landwehr Division was a major unit of the Prussian army in the First World War .

structure

Division of War of February 15, 1915

• 9th Landwehr Infantry Brigade
  • Landwehr Infantry Regiment No. 24
  • Landwehr Infantry Regiment No. 48
  • Field MG platoon no.8
  • Fortress MG Division No. 2
• Mobile Replacement Brigade Koenigsberg (later 180th Infantry Brigade)
  • Mobile replacement regiments I. and III. (later Infantry Regiment No. 377 and No. 378)
  • 2nd Landwehr Squadron / 1st Army Corps
  • 2nd Landsturm Squadron / I. Army Corps
  • 2nd Landwehr Squadron / XVII. Army Corps
  • 3rd Landsturm Squadron / XVII. Army Corps
  • Replacement Department / 1st East Prussian Field Artillery Regiment No. 16
  • Replacement Department / 2nd Litthau Field Artillery Regiment No. 37
  • Replacement Department / 2nd East Prussian Field Artillery Regiment No. 52
  • six batteries / Reserve Foot Artillery Regiment No. 1
  • four batteries / Guard Reserve Foot Artillery Regiment No. 1
  • 1st Battery / Guards Landwehr Foot Artillery Battalion
  • 2nd Battery / Reserve Foot Artillery Regiment No. 4
  • ½ 2nd Landwehr Pioneer Company / I. Army Corps
  • ⅔ 1st Landwehr Pioneer Company / II Army Corps
  • 2. Train / Telephone Department No. 1
  • light headlight train Königsberg

Division of War of January 27, 1918

• 180th Infantry Brigade
  • Infantry Regiment No. 372
  • Infantry Regiment No. 377
  • Infantry Regiment No. 378
  • 5th Squadron / Westphalian Dragoon Regiment No. 7
• Artillery Commander No. 130
  • Field Artillery Regiment No. 97
• Engineer Battalion No. 410
• Division News Commander No. 510

resolution

The 10th Landwehr Division was disbanded on August 8, 1918. Infantry Regiment No. 377 was distributed to the 201st Infantry Division on August 15, 1918 :

• the I. Battalion became III. Battalion of the 401 Infantry Regiment
• the II. Battalion became III. Battalion of Infantry Regiment No. 403
• the III. Battalion was III. Battalion of Infantry Regiment No. 402

Infantry Regiment No. 378 was distributed to the 36th Infantry Division on August 15, 1918 :

• the I. Battalion became III. Battalion / Grenadier Regiment "King Friedrich I." (4th East Prussian) No. 5
• the II. Battalion became III. Battalion / Danzig Infantry Regiment No. 128
• the III. Battalion was III. Battalion / 8th West Prussian Infantry Regiment No. 175

Infantry Regiment No. 372 was distributed to the 37th Infantry Division on August 15, 1918 :

• the I. Battalion became III. Battalion / 1st Warmian Infantry Regiment No. 150
• the II. Battalion became III. Battalion / 2nd Warmian Infantry Regiment No. 151
• the III. Battalion was III. Battalion / Infantry Regiment “Generalfeldmarschall von Hindenburg” (2nd Masurian) No. 147

Battle calendar

The division was formed on February 3, 1915 on the Eastern Front and was in action until the local armistice until mid-February 1918. Then it was transferred to the Western Front , where the division was disbanded on August 8, 1918 due to excessive losses.

1915

• 0February 7-22 --- Winter battle in Masuria
• 0March 1 to July 12 --- Trench warfare at Lomsha-Osowiec
• July 13 to August 26 --- Narew - Bobr -Schlacht
• August 30-September 8 --- Niemen -Schlacht
• 0September 9th to October 2nd --- Battle of Vilna
• from October 3rd --- position battles between Krewo, Smorgon , Narotsch Lake , Tveretsch

1916

• Battle of Lake Narach
• until July 29th --- Position battles between Krewo, Smorgon, Narotsch-See, Tveretsch
• July 30th to November 4th --- Battle of Kovel
• from November 5th --- Position battles on the upper Styr - Stochod
  • in the Vladimir-Wolynsk area as part of the X. Austrian Corps with the Lokatschi front section in the direction of Szelwow

1917

• until December 1st --- Position battles on the upper Styr-Stochod, in the sector between Synyavka and Kyssylyn
• 0December 2nd to 17th --- Truce
• from December 17th --- armistice

1918

• until February 18th --- Armistice
• March 18 to June 3 --- Position battles off Verdun : near Manheulles and Saulx-lès-Champlon, on the Meuse heights near Combres-sous-les-Côtes and Les Eparges
• On June 4th, the division from Conflans-en-Jarnisy was loaded by train via Sedan and Mézières , Laon and La Malmaison , and then in four days' marches via the Chemin des Dames to Fismes , Fresnes-en-Tardenois to the ferme de Favière pull.
• 0June 8th to 13th --- Battle of Soissons and Reims
• June 14th to July 4th --- Position battles between Oise , Aisne and Marne near Fère-en-Tardenois
• 0July 5th to 14th --- Trench warfare between Aisne and Marne
• July 15 to 17 --- As a reserve for the Battle of the Marne at Mont-Saint-Père
• July 18th to 25th --- Defensive battle between Soissons and Reims
• July 26th to 29th --- Moving defensive battle between Marne and Vesle
• 0August 8th --- Dissolution of the division in Charleville

Commanders

Rank	Surname	date
Lieutenant General	Hermann Clausius	0February 3, 1915 to March 2, 1916
Major General / Lieutenant General	Leo von Stocken	0March 3, 1916 to November 22, 1917
Lieutenant General	Albert von Werder	November 23, 1917 to August 8, 1918

literature

• Hall of Fame of our Old Army. Published on the basis of official material from the Reichsarchiv , Militär-Verlag, Berlin 1927, pp. 64, 105.
• 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. 191-193.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Jürgen Kraus: Handbook of the associations and troops of the German army 1914-1918. Part VI: Infantry. Volume 1: Infantry Regiments. Verlag Militaria, Vienna 2007, ISBN 978-3-902526-14-4 , p. 334.
2. ^ Jürgen Kraus: Handbook of the associations and troops of the German army 1914-1918. Part VI: Infantry. Volume 1: Infantry Regiments. Verlag Militaria, Vienna 2007, ISBN 978-3-902526-14-4 , p. 335.
3. ^ Jürgen Kraus: Handbook of the associations and troops of the German army 1914-1918. Part VI: Infantry. Volume 1: Infantry Regiments. Verlag Militaria, Vienna 2007, ISBN 978-3-902526-14-4 , p. 329
4. ↑ literally: “On 10.8. the division was loaded into the area of ​​Vladimir Volynsk to the 4th Austrian Army, in whose area the Infantry Regiment No. 378 fought for some time and was placed with the X Austrian Corps in the Scelwow section. ”In: D. Benary: Geschichte des Dragoon -Regiment General Field Marshal Prince Leopold of Bavaria (Westphalian) No. 7 from 1860-1919. P. 230.
5. ↑ Histories of two hundred and fifty-one divisions of the German army which participated in the war (1914-1918), p. 192.
6. ↑ Benrath: History of the Dragoon Regiment Field Marshal General Prince Leopold of Bavaria (Westphalian) No. 7. Berlin 1927, p. 273.
7. ↑ Dermot Bradley (ed.), Günter Wegner: Occupation of the German Army 1815-1939. Volume 1: The higher command posts 1815–1939. Biblio Verlag, Osnabrück 1990, ISBN 3-7648-1780-1 , p. 190.