12th Landwehr Division (German Empire)

12th Landwehr Division
active	April 13, 1915 to March 19, 1918
Country	German Empire
Armed forces	Prussian Army
Armed forces	army
Type	Infantry Division
structure	See: Outline
First World War	Western front Eastern Front

The 12th Landwehr Division was a major unit of the Prussian army in the First World War .

structure

Division of War of April 14, 1915

• 55th Landwehr Infantry Brigade
  • Landwehr Infantry Regiment No. 56
  • Reserve Hunter Battalion No. 8
  • 2nd Landsturm Battalion Heidelberg
  • 1st platoon / cycling company No. 4
• 82nd Landwehr Infantry Brigade
  • Landwehr Infantry Regiment No. 40
  • Field MG platoon No. 20
  • Field MG platoon No. 21
  • Fortress MG Squad B from Neubreisach
  • ¼ Replacement squadron / hunter regiment on horseback no
  • Replacement division / field artillery regiment "Grand Duke" (1st Baden) No. 14
    • Landwehr Field Artillery Battery No. 76
  • 1st Division / Reserve Field Artillery Regiment No. 30
  • 2nd Battalion / Hohenzollern Foot Artillery Regiment No. 13
  • 1st Landwehr Pioneer Company / X Army Corps
  • 1st Landwehr Pioneer Company / XIV Army Corps
  • Landsturm pioneer train from Neubreisach
  • Medium mini thrower division No. 151
  • Traffic light department from Neubreisach

Battle calendar

The division was formed on April 13, 1915 on the Western Front and was used here until mid-May 1917. Then it was transferred to the Eastern Front , where the association was reorganized into the Baltic Sea Division after the armistice there on March 20, 1918 .

1915

• April 16 to 26 --- Fights at Hartmannsweilerkopf
• from April 16 --- position battle in Upper Alsace
  • June 14th to 21st --- Battle at Hilsenfirst

1916

• Position battle in Upper Alsace

1917

• until May 15th --- Position battle in Upper Alsace
• May 15th to 20th --- Transport to the East
• May 20 to December 7 --- Trench warfare south of Brody
  • July 19 --- Breakthrough battle in eastern Galicia
• December 7th to 17th --- Truce
• from December 17th --- armistice

1918

• until February 18th --- Armistice

Commanders

Rank	Surname	date
Lieutenant General	Kurt von Kehler	April 7-18, 1915
Lieutenant General	Theodor Mengelbier	April 19, 1915 to April 23, 1916
Major general	Paul von Drabich-Waechter	April 24, 1916 to November 24, 1917
Major general	Otto Martin von Weise	November 25, 1917 to February 24, 1918
Major general	Rüdiger von der Goltz	February 25 to March 19, 1918

literature

• Hall of Fame of our Old Army , published on the basis of official material from the Reichsarchiv , Militär-Verlag, Berlin 1927, pp. 65, 109
• 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. 219-221

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e} 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