16th Landwehr Division (German Empire)

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16th Landwehr Division

active October 1, 1915 to January 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
Battle of Gumbinnen
Battle of the Masurian Lakes
Winter battle in Masuria

The 16th Landwehr Division was a major unit of the Prussian army in the First World War .

structure

Division of War of November 20, 1915

  • 2nd Landwehr Brigade
    • Infantry Regiment No. 374
    • Landwehr Infantry Regiment No. 3
    • Landwehr Infantry Regiment No. 379
    • Cycling company No. 157
    • Cavalry Regiment No. 94
    • Field Artillery Regiment No. 101
    • II. Battalion / 1. Guard Reserve Foot Artillery Regiment
    • Replacement Battalion / Pioneer Battalion No. 18
    • light fortress headlight train No. 2

Division of War of May 8, 1918

Battle calendar

When the First World War broke out, the association mobilized Königsberg as the main reserve , then was called the Landwehr Division Königsberg and became the 16th Landwehr Division when it was budgeted on October 1, 1915. During the entire war it was used exclusively on the Eastern Front .

1914

1915

  • until February 7th --- Position battles for the field position Lötzen-Angerapp
  • February 4th to 22nd --- Winter battle in Masuria
  • 25 February to 16 March --- Battles at the border position at Sereje- Simno-Luchvinow and Mariampol
  • March 25-30 --- Battles near Krasnopol and Krasne
  • March 31 to July 20 --- Position battles between Augustow, Mariampol and Pilwiszki
  • July 21st to August 7th --- Fights at Jesia and Wejwery
  • August 8th to 18th --- Siege of Kovno
  • 19th August to 8th September --- Battle of Nyemen
  • September 9th to October 2nd --- Battle of Vilna
  • from October 3rd --- positional battles between Krewo-Smorgon-Narotschsee-Tweretsch

1916

  • Position battles between Krewo-Smorgon-Narotschsee-Tweretsch

1917

  • until September 17th --- Position battles between Krewo-Smorgon-Narotschsee-Tweretsch
    • July 19-27 --- Smorgon-Krewo defensive battle
  • September 18 to December 5 --- Position battles between Njemen- Berezina- Krevo-Smorgon-Narochsee-Tveretsch
  • 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 30 --- Occupation of Great Russian territories
  • April 5th to June 21st --- fighting in support of Ukraine
    • April 30th to May 5th --- Battle of Lichaja
    • May 6-11 --- Battles near Szulin
  • June 22nd to September 23rd --- Occupation of Ukraine
  • September 23 to October 17 --- Transport from Ukraine to Romania
  • October 18 to November 11 --- Danube protection
  • from November 12th --- Army Group Mackensen's march back from the Balkans through Hungary

1919

  • by January 4th --- Army Group Mackensen's march back from the Balkans through Hungary

Commanders

Rank Surname date
Lieutenant General Georg Ludwig Franz Brodrück August 2, 1914 to October 14, 1915
Lieutenant General Gustav Heinrich Sommer October 15, 1915 to October 2, 1918
Major general Eduard Hermann Delius October 3, 1918 to January 10, 1919

literature

  • Hall of Fame of our Old Army , published on the basis of official material from the Reichsarchiv , Militär-Verlag, Berlin 1927, pp. 66, 114–115
  • 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. 271-272

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c 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. 193