11th Landwehr Division (German Empire)

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11th Landwehr Division

active February 5, 1915 to February 1919
Country German EmpireGerman Empire (Reichskriegsflagge) German Empire
Armed forces Prussian Army
Type Infantry division
structure See: Outline
First World War Eastern Front
Winter battle in Masuria

The 11th Landwehr Division was a major unit of the Prussian army in the First World War .

structure

Division of War of February 15, 1915

  • 33rd Landwehr Infantry Brigade
    • Landwehr Infantry Regiment No. 75
    • Landwehr Infantry Regiment No. 76
    • Landwehr MG Company No. 75
    • Field MG platoon no.25
    • Fortress machine gun platoon / XX. Army Corps
  • 70th Landwehr Infantry Brigade
    • Landwehr Infantry Regiment No. 5
    • Landwehr Infantry Regiment No. 18
    • Field MG platoon no.13
    • Field MG platoon No. 14
    • 3rd Landwehr Squadron / Guard Corps
    • 1st replacement squadron / XX. Army Corps
    • 1st Landwehr Squadron / IX. Army Corps
    • 1st and 2nd Landwehr Field Artillery Battery / IX. Army Corps
    • 1st and 2nd Landsturm Field Artillery Battery / XVII. Army Corps
    • Battery Putt Chamber / Reserve Field Artillery Regiment No. 4
    • 7th and 8th battery / foot artillery regiment "von Linger" (East Prussian) No. 1

Division of War of May 8, 1918

  • 33rd Landwehr Infantry Brigade
    • Landwehr Infantry Regiment No. 75
    • Landwehr Infantry Regiment No. 76
  • 70th Landwehr Infantry Brigade
  • Artillery Commander No. 131
    • Reserve Field Artillery Regiment No. 98
  • Division Message Commander # 511

Battle calendar

The division was formed on February 5, 1915 on the Eastern Front and was only used there. After the armistice, the association stayed here and then took part in the occupation of Ukraine.

1915

1916

  • Trench warfare on the Berezina, Olschanka and Krewlyanka

1917

  • until July 30th - trench warfare on the Berezina, Olschanka and Krewlyanka
    • March 21 - Attack battle near Saberesina
  • 0July 1 to September 17 - trench warfare on Servetsch, Nyemen, Berezina, Olshanka and Krewlyanka
    • 19-27 July - Smorgon- Krewo defensive battle
  • September 18 to December 5 - trench warfare between Nyemen, Beresina, Krewo-Smorgon, Lake Naroch, Tveretsch
  • 0December 6-17 - Truce
  • from December 17th - armistice

1918

  • until February 18 - armistice
  • February 18 to March 3 - Persecution through White Ruthenia
  • 0March 3-21 - occupation of Great Russian territory
  • March 22nd to June 21st - fighting in support of Ukraine
  • June 22nd to November 15th - Occupation of Ukraine
  • from November 16 - evacuation of Ukraine

1919

  • until March 16 - evacuation of Ukraine

Commanders

Rank Surname date
Dignity. General of the Infantry Rudolf von Freudenberg 0February 5, 1915 to November 19, 1916
Lieutenant General Eduard von Adriani November 20, 1916 to September 3, 1918
Major general Edwin von Treschow 0September 4, 1918 to February 13, 1919

literature

  • Hall of Fame of our Old Army. Published on the basis of official material from the Reichsarchiv , Militär-Verlag, Berlin 1927, pp. 64, 107.
  • 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. 204-205.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 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. 191.
  2. ^ 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. 191