18th Landwehr Division (German Empire)

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18th Landwehr Division

active July 23, 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 the Masurian Lakes
Battle of Warsaw

Western front

The 18th Landwehr Division was a major unit of the Prussian army in the First World War .

structure

Division of War of September 5, 1914

Division of War of February 5, 1918

Battle calendar

The association emerged after the establishment on July 23, 1915 from the Landwehr Division Bredow . This was originally set up on August 21, 1914 and named after its commander Major General Anatol Graf von Bredow . The division consisted of various land defense units and initially formed the main reserve of the Poznan fortress . It was used on the Eastern Front and then moved to the Western Front in October 1918 .

1914

  • September 5th to 15th --- Battle of the Masurian Lakes
  • September 23rd --- Battle near Sieradz
  • October 9th to 19th --- Battle of Warsaw
  • October 22-28. --- Fight on the Rawka
  • November 5th to December 15th --- Fights near Czenstochau
  • December 17th --- Battle of Koniecpol and Lelow
  • December 19 to May 12 --- Fights on the Lososina and Czarna

1915

  • May 12th --- Battle near Kielce
  • May 13th --- Battle at Kayetanov
  • May 16 to July 16 --- Fights in the Kielcer Bergland
  • July 17th --- Breakthrough battle near Sienno
  • July 18th to 19th --- Fights on the Ilzanka
  • July 20-21 --- Breakthrough of the pre-position of Ivangorod, east of Zwolen
  • July 22nd to 28th --- Reconnaissance battles on the Vistula
  • July 29th --- Vistula crossing
  • July 30th to August 7th --- Fighting on the east bank of the Vistula around Maciejowice
  • August 8th to 18th --- Chase battles between the Vistula and the Bug
  • August 19 to 24 --- Battle of the Pulwa-Nurzec
  • August 25th to 31st --- Persecution battles on the Bialowieska-Puszcza
  • September 1 to 12 --- Fights on the Jasiolda and the Zelwianka
  • September 13th to 18th --- Battle of Slonim
  • September 19 to 24 --- Fighting on the upper Shchara-Servetsch
  • September 25 to December 31 --- Trench warfare on the upper Shchara-Servetsch

1916

  • July 2nd to 9th --- Battle of Baranovichi
  • July 10th to August 9th --- Battle of Baranovichi-Gorodishche
  • November 9th to 10th --- Battle near Skrobowa

1917

  • January 1 to December 14 --- Trench warfare on the upper Shchara-Servetsch
  • December 15-17 --- Truce
  • December 18 to February 18 --- Armistice

1918

  • February 18 to March 3 --- Persecution through White Ruthenia
  • March 3 to October 16 --- occupation of Great Russian territory
  • October 16-23 --- Transport to the Western Front
  • October 23 to November 11 --- Trench warfare in the Woevre plain and on both sides of the Moselle
  • from November 12th to January 4th --- march back through Lorraine , the Rhine Province and the Palatinate

1919

  • by January 4th --- March back through Lorraine, the Rhine Province and the Palatinate

Commanders

Rank Surname date
Major General / Lieutenant General Anatol Graf von Bredow September 5, 1914 to September 4, 1917
Major general Arthur Freiherr von Lupine September 5 to December 11, 1917
Major general Alfred Freiherr von Buddenbrock December 12, 1917 to October 8, 1918
Major general Karl Friedrich Gustav Gädecke October 9 to October 1918
Colonel Hans Blecken from Schmeling October 1918 to January 1919

literature

  • Hall of Fame of our Old Army , published on the basis of official material from the Reichsarchiv , Militär-Verlag, Berlin 1927, p. 117
  • Max Romstedt: The Kgl. Saxon. Landwehr Infantry Regiment No. 133 memorial sheets of German regiments, issue 17. 1. Dresden 1924 (Baensch), 191 pages.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e 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