13th Landwehr Division (German Empire)

The 13th Landwehr Division was a major unit of the Prussian army in the First World War .

structure

Division of War of May 25, 1915

• 60th Landwehr Infantry Brigade
  • Landwehr Infantry Regiment No. 60
  • Landwehr Infantry Regiment No. 71
• 61st Reserve Infantry Brigade
  • Reserve Infantry Regiment No. 60
  • Landsturm Infantry Regiment No. 115
    • Fortress MG platoon no.8
• Cavalry Replacement Department / XIV Army Corps
• 1. Landsturm squadron / XIV. Army Corps
• Replacement Department / 1st Grand Ducal Hessian Field Artillery Regiment No. 25
• Replacement Abteilund / Strasbourg Field Artillery Regiment No. 84
• Staff 2nd Royal Saxon Foot Artillery Regiment No. 19
  • Landwehr Foot Artillery Battalion No. 18
  • 1st Battery / Reserve Foot Artillery Regiment No. 10
• 1st Landwehr Pioneer Company / X Army Corps
• 1st Landwehr Pioneer Company / XV. Army Corps

Division of War of March 29, 1918

• 60th Landwehr Infantry Brigade
  • Landwehr Infantry Regiment No. 15
  • Landwehr Infantry Regiment No. 60
  • Landwehr Infantry Regiment No. 82
  • 5th Squadron / Magdeburg Dragoon Regiment No. 6
• Artillery Commander No. 245
  • Landwehr Field Artillery Regiment No. 13
• Engineer Battalion No. 413
• Division News Commander No. 513

history

The division was formed on May 17, 1915 on the Western Front and was only used there. After the end of the war, the association marched back home, where the division was first demobilized and then dissolved in January 1919.

Battle calendar

1915

• from May 31st --- Trench warfare in Lorraine

1916

• Trench warfare in Lorraine

1917

• until February 10th --- Trench warfare in Lorraine
• February 11th to April 5th --- Trench warfare on the Aisne
• April 6th to May 12th --- Position battles in front of Verdun
• May 12th to June 20th --- Fighting in front of the Siegfried Front
• June 21st to December 31st --- Fights in the Siegfriedstellung

1918

• January 1st to March 20th --- Trench warfare near St. Quentin and the Oise
• March 21st to 25th --- Great battle in France
• March 25th to May 26th --- Trench warfare north of the Ailette
• May 27th --- Storming the heights of the Chemin des Dames
• May 27th to June 13th --- Battle of Soissons and Reims
• June 19 to September 11 --- Trench warfare between Meuse and Moselle
• September 12th to 14th --- Evasion fights in the Mihiel Arch
• September 15 to October 10 --- Trench warfare in the Woëvre plain and west of the Moselle
• October 10 to November 11 --- Trench warfare in the Woëvre plain
• from November 12th --- march back through Lorraine, the Rhine provinces and the Palatinate

1919

• until January 4th --- March back through Lorraine, the Rhine provinces and the Palatinate

Commanders

Rank	Surname	date
Lieutenant General	Hermann Heidborn	May 9 to August 18, 1915
Major general	William Balck	August 19, 1915 to September 4, 1916
Lieutenant General	Hermann Heidborn	September 5, 1916 to May 17, 1917
Lieutenant General	Paul Liebeskind	May 18-23, 1917
Lieutenant General	Hermann Rumschöttel	May 23 to August 20, 1917
General of the Infantry	George of Gayl	August 20, 1917 to December 2, 1918
Major general	Kurt Wilcke	December 3, 1918 to January 16, 1919

literature

• Hall of Fame of our Old Army. Published on the basis of official material from the Reichsarchiv , Militär-Verlag, Berlin 1927, pp. 65, 110.
• 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. 233-235.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dermot Bradley (ed.), Günter Wegner: Occupation of the German Army 1815-1939. Volume 1: The higher command posts 1815–1939. Biblio Publishing House. Osnabrück 1990. ISBN 3-7648-1780-1 . Pp. 191-192.