15th Landwehr Division (German Empire)

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15th Landwehr Division

active July 13, 1915 to March 1919
Country German EmpireGerman Empire (Reichskriegsflagge) German Empire
Armed forces Prussian Army
Armed forces army
Type Infantry Division
structure See: Outline
First World War Western front

Eastern Front

Commanders
Please refer: List of commanders

The 15th Landwehr Division was a major unit of the Prussian army in the First World War .

structure

Organization of War of September 20, 1915

  • 10th Landwehr Infantry Brigade
    • Landwehr Infantry Regiment No. 12
    • Landwehr Infantry Regiment No. 52
  • 27th Landwehr Infantry Brigade
    • Landwehr Infantry Regiment No. 53
    • Landwehr Infantry Regiment No. 55
    • 2nd Landwehr Squadron / VII Army Corps
    • Landwehr Field Artillery Regiment No. 15
    • Foot artillery battery No. 108
    • Engineer Company No. 246
    • Engineer Company No. 247
    • Headlight train No. 247
    • Double telephone train No. 215

Division of War of March 5, 1918

Battle calendar

The association was originally put together as Division Borries on January 9, 1915 on the Western Front and budgeted as the 15th Landwehr Division on July 13, 1915. She fought in the west until mid-March 1917 and was then transferred to the eastern front. After the armistice there , the division was involved in the fighting in support of Ukraine and did not return home until mid-March 1919 after the war ended.

1915

  • January 9 to October 16 --- Trench warfare west of Roye - Noyon
  • from October 21st --- Trench warfare west of Roye-Noyon

1916

  • Trench warfare west of Roye-Noyon
    • January 28th to February 17th --- Fights of Frize

1917

  • until March 15th --- Trench warfare west of Roye-Noyon
  • March 16-19 --- Fighting in front of the Siegfried Front
  • March 20 to March 31 --- Transport to the East
  • April 1 to December 7 --- Trench warfare west of Brody
  • December 7th to 17th --- Truce
  • from December 17th --- armistice

1918

  • until February 18th --- Armistice
  • February 18 to June 21 --- Fighting in support of Ukraine
    • March 16-20 --- Skirmishes near Snawjonka
    • March 18 --- Battle at Novo-Ukrainka
    • March 31 to April 6 --- Skirmishes near Krivoy-Rog
    • April 24th to 25th --- Battle at Kolaj
    • April 30th to May 1st --- Capture of Sevastopol
  • June 22. until November 15th --- occupation of Ukraine
  • from November 16 --- evacuation of Ukraine

1919

  • until March 16 --- evacuation of Ukraine

Commanders

Rank Surname date
Lieutenant General Karl von Borries January 9 to July 12, 1915
Lieutenant General Ernst Louis Wilhelm Sack July 13, 1915 to March 1919

literature

  • Hall of Fame of our Old Army , published on the basis of official material from the Reichsarchiv , Militär-Verlag, Berlin 1927, pp. 65–66, 113
  • 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. 258-259

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b 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