21st Landwehr Division (German Empire)

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21st Landwehr Division

active February 15, 1917 to January 27, 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 Arras

Eastern Front

The 21 Landwehr Division was a major unit of the Prussian army in the First World War .

structure

Division of war 1917/18

Battle calendar

The division was assembled on the Western Front on February 15, 1917 and moved to the Eastern Front in June . Here she fought beyond the local armistice and then took part in the occupation of Great Russian territory. At the end of March they were transported back to the Western Front, where the division was deployed until the end of the war.

1917

  • February 16 to April 5 --- Trench warfare on the Yser
  • May 15th to 20th --- Battle of Arras
  • May 25th to June 9th --- Fighting in front of the Siegfried Front
  • June 9th to 13th --- Transport to the East
  • June 13th to 25th --- fighting on the upper Styr - Stochod
  • June 25th to 30th --- Position battles on the Beresina , Olschanke and Krewlyanka
  • July 1 to September 17 --- Trench warfare on the Serwetsch, Nyemen , the Berezina, Olschanke and Krewlyanka
    • July 19-27 --- Smorgon- Krewo defensive battle
  • September 18 to 5 December --- Trench warfare between Niemen Berezina Krewo-Smorgon- Naroch -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 23rd --- occupation of Great Russian territory
  • March 24th to April 2nd --- transport to the west
  • April 3rd to May 1st --- Trench warfare in Upper Alsace
  • May 1st to November 11th --- Trench warfare in Lorraine and the Vosges
  • from November 12th --- evacuation of the occupied territory and march home

Commanders

Rank Surname date
Lieutenant General Hans Feodor Lepper February 21, 1917 to January 4, 1918
Major general Friedrich Spennemann January 5 to August 20, 1918
Major general Ludwig Graf von Rittberg August 21, 1918 to January 27, 1919

literature

  • Hall of Fame of our Old Army , published on the basis of official material from the Reichsarchiv , Militär-Verlag, Berlin 1927, p. 67, 120–121
  • 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. 322-323

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. 195