14th Landwehr Division (German Empire)

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14th Landwehr Division

active July 1, 1915 to February 1919
Country German EmpireGerman Empire (Reichskriegsflagge) German Empire
Armed forces Prussian Army
Armed forces army
Type Infantry Division
structure See: Outline
First World War Eastern Front

The 14th Landwehr Division was a major unit of the Prussian army in the First World War .

structure

Division of War of July 28, 1915

  • 21st Landwehr Infantry Brigade
    • Landwehr Infantry Regiment No. 10
    • Landwehr Infantry Regiment No. 38
    • Landsturm Infantry Regiment No. 10
      • Fortress MG platoon No. 248
      • Fortress MG platoon No. 260
      • Fortress MG platoon No. 261
    • 4th Landsturm Squadron / XVII. Army Corps
    • Field Artillery Regiment No. 217
    • 2nd Landwehr Pioneer Company / III. Army Corps
    • Double telephone train

Division of War of February 25, 1918

  • 21st Landwehr Infantry Brigade
  • Artillery Commander No. 60
    • Field Artillery Regiment No. 217
    • 1st battalion / 3. Guards foot artillery regiment
  • Engineer Battalion No. 414
  • Division News Commander No. 514

Battle calendar

The division was formed on July 1, 1915 on the Eastern Front and was used exclusively there. After the end of the war, the association remained as an occupation and security service in Lithuania and Belarus.

1915

  • July 1st to 12th --- Position battles at Racion
  • July 13-14 --- Breakthrough at Przasnysz
  • July 13th to 17th --- Breakthrough battle near Przasnysz
  • July 21st to August 12th --- Modlin Containment Battles
  • August 13th to 20th --- Siege of Modlin
  • August 25-September 8 --- Niemen -Schlacht
  • September 9th to October 2nd --- Battle of Vilna
  • from October 3rd --- position battles between Krewo- Smorgon - Narotschsee and Tveretsch

1916

  • Position battles between Krewo-Smorgon-Narotschsee and Tweretsch

1917

  • until September 17th --- position battles between Krewo-Smorgon-Narotschsee and Tveretsch
  • September 18 to December 6 --- Trench warfare between Niemen - Berezina -Krewo-Smorgon-Narotschsee and Tweretsch
  • December 6th to 17th --- Truce
  • from December 17th --- armistice

1918

  • until February 18th --- Armistice
  • February 18 to March 3 --- Persecution through White Ruthenia
  • March 3 to November 15 --- occupation of Great Russian territory
  • November 16 to December 27 --- Occupation and security service in Lithuania and Belarus

Commanders

Rank Surname date
Lieutenant General Paul Schalscha von Ehrenfeld June 30, 1915 to February 4, 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, 111–112
  • 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. 244-245

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. 192