26th (Württemberg) Landwehr Division

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26th (Württemberg) Landwehr Division

active January 5, 1917 to December 7, 1918
Country Kingdom of Württemberg Kingdom of Württemberg
Armed forces Württemberg Army
Armed forces army
Branch of service infantry
Type Infantry Division
structure See outline
Location See garrisons
management
Commanders See list of commanders

The 26th (Württemberg) Landwehr Division was a major unit of the Württemberg Army from 1917 to 1918 during the First World War .

history

The division was set up from January 5, 1917 in Mulhouse in Upper Alsace . The deputy general command in Stuttgart provided the divisional headquarters and the divisional staff guard using the staff of the disbanded 108th (Württ.) Reserve Infantry Brigade . This also formed the field directorate, the divisional provisions office, the staff of the division doctor, the field justice officer, the division chaplains and the field post expedition. And took care of the horses, the equipment, the pressure regulations and war maps. The telephone department, the mine thrower company, the division motor vehicle column and the field recruit depot were reorganized by the same general command. The 51st (Württ.) Landwehr Infantry Brigade with the Württ. Landwehr Infantry Regiments No. 119 and No. 123 transferred from the 7th (Württ.) Landwehr Division , the Württ. Landwehr Infantry Regiment No. 124 of the 2nd (Württ.) Landwehr Division . The 3rd squadron of the Uhlan regiment King Wilhelm I. (2nd Württ.) No. 20 was previously deployed in the border guard at the Swiss border, the Württ. Field Artillery Regiment 116 previously belonged to the army artillery The 4th and 6th Landwehr- Pioneer Company and the Württ. Landwehr Medical Company No. 526 came from the 7th (Württ.) Landwehr Division. The Württ. Mine thrower company No. 326, the Württ. Telephony Department No. 526 and the Württ. Divisions Motor Vehicle Column No. 795 were newly set up and the field hospital was handed over to the 19th Landwehr Division. The field recruit depot was compiled from parts of other depots and supplemented from Württemberg.

Garrisons

Set up as a war formation, the division had no peace garrison.

Battle calendar

Position of the division from January 1917 to November 1918 in Upper Alsace

The division was deployed from January 1917 to November 1918 continuously on the Vosges front in the section between Jungholz and Oberaspach. The divisional headquarters were in Ensisheim , the headquarters of the 51st (Württ.) Landwehr Infantry Brigade in Wittenheim . The Württ. Landwehr Infantry Regiment No. 124 stood in the right, mountainous front section Jägertanne, Hartmannsweilerkopf , Hirzstein. The Württ. Landwehr Infantry Regiment No. 119 on the lower part of the eastern slope of the Vosges in the Wattweiler and Uffholz section. The Württ. Landwehr Infantry Regiment No. 123 closed to the left from the height 425 west of Sennheim to Oberaspach southwest of Thann . After the armistice on November 11, 1918, the division marched via Freiburg im Breisgau , through the southern Black Forest , via Neustadt and Donaueschingen and by train or on foot to the demobilization sites. The division headquarters dissolved on December 7, 1918 in Ulm .

organization

Association membership

When it was set up, the division was subordinate to General Command X and thus part of the German Crown Prince Army Group . In May 1917 there was a change of subordination to Army Division B and thus to Army Group Duke Albrecht .

structure

Division of War of January 10, 1917

Division of War of March 10, 1918

  • Division staff
  • 51st Landwehr Infantry Brigade (Württembergische)
  • 3rd Squadron / Uhlan Regiment "King Wilhelm I." (2nd Württembergisches) No. 20
  • Württemberg artillery commander No. 141
    • Württemberg Field Artillery Regiment No. 116
  • Württemberg Pioneer Battalion No. 426
  • Württemberg News Commander No. 526
    • Württemberg division telephone department No. 526
  • Württemberg Medical Company No. 569
  • Württemberg Field Hospital No. 256
  • Württemberg Horse Hospital No. 78
  • Württemberg division motor vehicle column No. 795
  • Württemberg field recruit depot
  • Württemberg Economic Company No. 209

Commanders

Rank Surname date
Lieutenant General Karl von Teichmann January 5, 1917 to July 17, 1918
Lieutenant General Rudolf von Berger July 18 to December 7, 1918

Combat value

The Allies did not value the division's combat strength very highly. In 1917 it was described as a purely positional division, the regiments of which each had only one raiding party consisting of younger men. In 1918 it was rated as one of the least valuable divisions ("... it would seem that the 26th Landwehr was one of the poorest divisions in the German Army ...") of the German Army.

See also

swell

Main State Archives Stuttgart, holdings M 47, M 410, M 433/2, M 457

literature

  • Otto von Moser : The Wuerttembergians in World War I , Stuttgart, 1927
  • Karl von Teichmann: The 26th (Württemberg) Landwehr Division in World War 1914-18 (Württemberg's Army in World War I, issue 13) , Stuttgart 1922
  • United States Army, American Expeditionary Forces General Staff, G-2: Histories of two hundred and fifty-one divisions of the German Army witch participated in the war (1914–1918) , Chaumont, France, 1919 (1920)

Web links

Allied assessment of the 26th Landwehr Division