22nd Landwehr Division (German Empire)

22nd Landwehr Division
active	March 26, 1917 to March 16, 1919
Country	German Empire
Armed forces	Prussian Army
Armed forces	army
Type	Infantry Division
structure	See: Outline
First World War	Eastern Front

The 22 Landwehr Division was a major unit of the Prussian army in the First World War .

structure

Division of War of April 1, 1917

• 6th Landwehr Infantry Brigade
  • Landsturm Infantry Regiment No. 10
  • Landwehr Infantry Regiment No. 34
  • Landwehr Infantry Regiment No. 49
  • 1. Squadron / Uhlan Regiment "Graf zu Dohna" (East Prussian) No. 8
  • Field Artillery Regiment No. 219
  • Engineer Battalion No. 422

Division of War of January 27, 1918

• 6th Landwehr Infantry Brigade
  • Landsturm Infantry Regiment No. 10
  • Landwehr Infantry Regiment No. 34
  • Landwehr Infantry Regiment No. 49
  • 1. Squadron / Uhlan Regiment "Graf zu Dohna" (East Prussian) No. 8
  • Field Artillery Regiment No. 219
  • Engineer Battalion No. 422
• Division News Commander No. 522

Battle calendar

The division was formed on March 26, 1917 on the Eastern Front and was used here until the end of the First World War .

1917

• April 20 to August 31 --- Trench warfare in front of Riga
• September 1st to 5th --- Battle of Riga
  • September 3rd --- Capture of the part of Riga west of the Daugava
• August 6th to 24th --- Position battle north of the Daugava
• October 1st to December 1st --- fighting on the upper Styr - Stochod
• December 2nd to 17th --- Truce
• from December 17th --- armistice

1918

• until February 18th --- Armistice
• February 18 to June 21 --- Fighting in support of Ukraine
• 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	Oskar Johann Karl Zanke	March 26, 1917 to January 14, 1918
Major general	Hermann Clemens Alexander Doerr	January 15, 1918 to March 12, 1919

literature

• Hall of Fame of our Old Army , published on the basis of official material from the Reichsarchiv , Militär-Verlag, Berlin 1927, pp. 67, 122
• 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, p. 332

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. 195