20th Landwehr Division (German Empire)

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20th Landwehr Division

active September 18, 1916 to March 1919
Country German EmpireGerman Empire (Reichskriegsflagge) German Empire
Armed forces Prussian Army
Type Infantry division
structure See: Outline
First World War Western front
Battle of Flanders

Eastern Front

The 20th Landwehr Division was a major unit of the Prussian army in the First World War .

structure

Division of War of September 20, 1916

  • 9th Replacement Infantry Brigade
    • Landwehr Infantry Regiment No. 384
    • Landwehr Infantry Regiment No. 386
    • Landwehr Infantry Regiment No. 387
    • 3rd Squadron / Reserve Hussar Regiment No. 4
    • Field Artillery Regiment No. 282
    • 1. Landwehr Pioneer Company / IX. Army Corps

Division of War of March 5, 1918

  • 9th Replacement Infantry Brigade
    • Landwehr Infantry Regiment No. 384
    • Landwehr Infantry Regiment No. 386
    • Landwehr Infantry Regiment No. 387
    • 3rd Squadron / Reserve Hussar Regiment No. 4
    • Field Artillery Regiment No. 282
  • Division News Commander # 520

Battle calendar

The division was formed on September 18, 1916 on the Western Front and moved to the Eastern Front after the tank battle at Cambrai in November 1917 . Here she fought beyond the local armistice and took part in the occupation of Ukraine . After the war ended, the division returned home by mid-March 1919.

1916

1917

  • until May 26th --- Trench warfare on the Yser
  • May 27th to November 3rd --- Battle of Flanders
  • November 6th to 21st --- Fights in the Siegfried Line
    • November 20-21 --- Tank battle at Cambrai
  • November 22nd to 26th --- Transport to the East
  • November 27 to December 1 --- Trench warfare in the Pripet Marshes
  • December 2nd to 17th --- Truce
  • from December 17th --- armistice

1918

  • until February 18th --- Armistice
  • February 18 to June 21 --- Fighting in support of Ukraine
    • April 2nd to 3rd --- capture of Yekaterinoslav
    • April 7-13 --- Battle near Sinjelniekowo
    • April 28 to May 1 --- Skirmishes near Rashenoye, Prokovskoye, capture of Taganrog
    • May 7th to 8th --- Battle of Rostov , capture of Rostov
  • June 22nd to November 15th --- Occupation of Ukraine
  • from November 16 --- evacuation of Ukraine

1919

  • until March 16 --- evacuation of Ukraine

Commanders

Rank Surname date
Major general Walter von Eberhardt September 18, 1916 to March 30, 1917
Major general Karl Berger March 31 to November 13, 1917
Lieutenant General Thilo Freiherr von Hanstein November 14, 1917 to January 3, 1918
Major general Gustav Paul von Arnim January 4 to June 27, 1918
Major general Karl Ridel June 28 to July 31, 1918 (entrusted with the tour)
Major general Gustav Paul von Arnim August 1, 1918 to February 17, 1919
Major general Walter Treusch von Buttlar-Brandenfels February 17 to March 1919

literature

  • Hall of Fame of our Old Army. Published on the basis of official material from the Reich Archives . Military Publishing House. Berlin 1927. pp. 67, 119.
  • 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. 312-313.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dermot Bradley (ed.), Günter Wegner: Occupation of the German Army 1815-1939. Volume 1: The higher command posts 1815–1939. Biblio Publishing House. Osnabrück 1990. ISBN 3-7648-1780-1 . P. 194.