23rd Landwehr Division (German Empire)

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23rd Landwehr Division

active April 25, 1917 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

Eastern Front

The 23 Landwehr Division was a major unit of the Prussian army in the First World War .

structure

Division of War of April 25, 1917

  • 13th Landwehr Infantry Brigade
    • Landwehr Infantry Regiment No. 26
    • Landwehr Infantry Regiment No. 27
    • Landwehr Infantry Regiment No. 66
    • 6th Squadron / Magdeburg Hussar Regiment No. 10
    • Field Artillery Regiment No. 103
    • Engineer Battalion No. 423

Division of War of March 24, 1918

  • 13th Landwehr Infantry Brigade
    • Landwehr Infantry Regiment No. 26
    • Landwehr Infantry Regiment No. 27
    • Landwehr Infantry Regiment No. 66
    • 6th Squadron / Magdeburg Hussar Regiment No. 10
    • Field Artillery Regiment No. 103
    • Engineer Battalion No. 423
  • Division News Commander No. 523

Battle calendar

The division was formed on April 25, 1917 on the western front and, after brief fighting there, withdrew in mid-May and relocated to the eastern front. She stayed here after the end of the war and did not return home until February 1919.

1917

1918

  • until February 18th --- Armistice
  • February 18 to March 3 --- Offensive against Lake Peipus and the upper Daugava
  • March 3rd to 22nd --- Occupation of Russian territory between the Upper Daugava and Lake Peipus
  • March 22nd to September 21st --- occupation of Great Russian territory
  • September 21 to November 18 --- Occupation of Livonia and Estonia as a German police force
  • from November 19th --- evacuation of Livonia and Estonia

1919

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

Commanders

Rank Surname date
Lieutenant General Eduard von Hoffmeister April 25, 1917 to December 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, 123
  • 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. 341-342

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 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