17th Landwehr Division (German Empire)

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17th Landwehr Division

active October 23, 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 17th Landwehr Division was a major unit of the Prussian army in the First World War .

structure

Division of War of November 20, 1915

  • 182nd Landwehr Infantry Brigade
  • 3rd Replacement Company / Engineer Battalion No. 23

2. Landwehr Pioneer Company / XVII. Army Corps

Division of War of March 24, 1918

  • 182nd Landwehr Infantry Brigade
    • Landsturm Infantry Regiment No. 23
    • Infantry Regiment No. 380
    • Infantry Regiment No. 381
    • 2nd Cycling Company / Jäger Battalion No. 1
    • Field Artillery Regiment No. 235
  • Division News Commander No. 517

Battle calendar

The division was formed on October 23, 1915 on the Eastern Front and was only used there. After the end of the war, the association remained as a German police power in Livonia and Estonia .

1915

1916

  • January 1st to December 31st --- Position battles between Krewo-Smorgon-Narotschsee and Tveretsch

1917

  • until September 17th --- position battles between Krewo-Smorgon-Narotschsee and Tveretsch
  • September 18 to December 5 --- 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 3rd to October 2nd --- occupation of Great Russian territory
  • October 3 to November 18 --- Occupation of Livonia and Estonia as a German police force
  • from November 18th --- evacuation of Livonia and Estonia

1919

  • until February 11th --- Evacuation of Livonia and Estonia

Commanders

Rank Surname date
Major general Burghard von Esebeck November 4, 1915 to August 28, 1918
Major general Ludwig von Friedeburg August 28 to September 22, 1918
Major general Reinhard von Dalwigk zu Lichtenfels September 23, 1918 to January 25, 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, 116
  • 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. 283-284

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. 193
  2. ^ Kurt von Priesdorff : Soldatisches Führertum . Volume 10, Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt Hamburg, undated [Hamburg], undated [1942], DNB 986919810 , p. 109, no. 3107.