19th Landwehr Division (German Empire)

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19th Landwehr Division

active September 12, 1916 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 Western front
Battle of Flanders

Eastern Front

The 19th Landwehr Division was a major unit of the Prussian army in the First World War .

structure

Division of War of September 22, 1916

  • 91st Reserve Infantry Brigade
    • Landwehr Infantry Regiment No. 383
    • Landwehr Infantry Regiment No. 385
    • Landwehr Infantry Regiment No. 388
    • 3rd Squadron / Reserve Hussar Regiment No. 6
    • Field Artillery Regiment No. 281
    • Engineer Company No. 303

Division of War of March 4, 1918

  • 91st Reserve Infantry Brigade
    • Landwehr Infantry Regiment No. 383
    • Landwehr Infantry Regiment No. 385
    • Landwehr Infantry Regiment No. 388
    • 3rd Squadron / Reserve Hussar Regiment No. 6
    • Field Artillery Regiment No. 91
  • Engineer Battalion No. 419
  • Division News Commander No. 519

Battle calendar

The division was formed on September 12, 1916 on the Western Front and moved to the Eastern Front after the Battle of Flanders in November 1917 . Here she fought beyond the local armistice and participated in the occupation of Livonia and Estonia as a German police power. After the war ended, the division returned home by mid-February 1919.

1916

1917

  • until May 26th --- Trench warfare on the Yser
  • May 27th to November 12th --- Battle of Flanders
  • November 13-21 --- transport to the east
  • November 22nd to December 5th --- Trench warfare north of the Daugava
  • December 6th to 17th --- Truce
  • from December 17th --- armistice

1918

  • until February 18th --- Armistice
  • February 18 to March 4 --- Fighting for the liberation of Livonia and Estonia
    • February 24th to 25th --- Occupation of Pernau
  • March 5 to November 18 --- Occupation of Livonia and Estonia as German police power
  • from November 19th --- evacuation of Livonia and Estonia

1919

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

Commanders

Rank Surname date
Lieutenant General Karl von Jacobi September 12, 1916 to January 1, 1917
Major general Prince Heinrich XXX. Reuss January 2, 1917 to June 30, 1918
Major general Arthur Freiherr von Ledebur July 1 to December 14, 1918

literature

  • Hall of Fame of our Old Army , published on the basis of official material from the Reichsarchiv , Militär-Verlag, Berlin 1927, pp. 67, 118
  • 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. 306-307

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. 194