3rd Landwehr Division (German Empire)

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

3rd Landwehr Division

active August 2, 1914 to January 12, 1919
Country German EmpireGerman Empire (Reichskriegsflagge) German Empire
Armed forces Prussian Army
Type Infantry division
structure See: Outline
First World War Eastern Front

Western front

The 3rd Landwehr Division was a major unit of the Prussian army in the First World War .

structure

Organization of war during mobilization in 1914

  • 17th Landwehr Infantry Brigade
    • Landwehr Infantry Regiment No. 6
    • Landwehr Infantry Regiment No. 7
  • 18th Landwehr Infantry Brigade
    • Landwehr Infantry Regiment No. 37
    • Landwehr Infantry Regiment No. 46
    • Landwehr Cavalry Regiment No. 1
    • 1st Landsturm Battery / 5th Army Corps
    • Replacement Company / Engineer Battalion No. 5

Division of War of October 18, 1918

  • 17th Landwehr Infantry Brigade
  • Artillery Commander No. 130
    • Landwehr Field Artillery Regiment No. 3
  • Engineer Battalion No. 418
  • Division News Commander No. 503

Battle calendar

The division was formed with the mobilization on August 2, 1914 on the Eastern Front and was used here until September 1918. Then it was moved to the Western Front in the last months of the war. After the armistice , the association returned home, where it was demobilized and finally dissolved in January 1919.

1914

  • August 24th - Battle at Nowe-Miasto
  • August 27th - Battle at Gielniow
  • August 29 - Battle of Novo-Radomsk
  • September 4th - Battle at Lipa-Niklas
  • September 5 - Battle at Ciszyca-Gorna
  • September 7th to 9th - Battle of Tarnawka
  • September 17-18 - Battle at Wola-Ranizowska
  • October 4-5 - Battles near Opatow and Radom
  • October 9-20 - Battle of Ivangorod
  • October 21 to 24 - Fights on the Pilica
  • October 22-28 - fighting on the Rawka
  • November 5th to December 15th - fighting near Czenstochau
  • December 18 - Battle of Krasocin
  • from December 19th - fighting on the Lososina and Czarna

1915

  • to May 12th - fighting on the Lososina and Czarna
  • May 13 - Battle of Tumlin and Kuzniaki
  • May 14th - Battle near Suchedniow
  • May 16 - Battle of Mirzec and Wierzbica
  • May 17 - Battle of Osiny
  • May 18 to July 16 - Trench warfare near Ilza
  • July 17th - breakthrough battle near Sienno
  • July 18-19 - fighting on the Ilzanka
  • July 20-21 - the breakthrough in the performance of Ivangorod east of Zwolen
  • July 22-28 - Reconnaissance battles on the Vistula
  • July 29th - Vistula crossing
  • July 30th to August 7th - Fighting on the east bank of the Vistula around Maziejowice
  • August 8th to 18th - chase battles between the Vistula and the Bug
  • August 19 to 24 - Battle of the Pulwa - Nurzec
  • August 25th to 31st - chase battles on the Bialowieska-Puszcza
  • September 1st to 12th - Fights on the Jasiolda and Zelwianka
  • September 13-18 - Battle of Slonim
  • September 19 to 24 - fighting on the upper Shchara-Servetsch
  • from September 25th - trench warfare on the upper Shchara-Serwetsch

1916

1917

  • until December 14th - trench warfare on the upper Shchara-Servetsch
  • December 15-17 - Truce
  • from December 17th - armistice

1918

  • until February 18 - armistice
  • February 18 to March 21 - fighting in support of Ukraine
  • March 22nd to September 21st - occupation of Great Russian territory
  • September 27-30 - fighting on the Siegfried Front
  • October 1st to 17th - defensive battle in Flanders
  • October 18 to 24 - rearguard battles between Yser and Lys
  • October 25th to November 1st - Battle of the Lys
  • November 2nd to 4th - rearguard fighting on both sides of the Scheldt
  • 5th to 11th November - fighting in retreat in front of the Antwerp - Meuse position
  • from November 12th - evacuation of the occupied territory and march home

Commanders

Rank Surname date
Lieutenant General Götz von König August 14 to December 16, 1914
Lieutenant General Hermann Rieß from Scheurnschloß December 17, 1914 to April 27, 1915
Lieutenant General Otto Chelius April 28 to May 11, 1915
Major general Gustav von Arnim May 12 to August 17, 1915
Major general Wilhelm von Woyna August 18, 1915 to June 18, 1916
Lieutenant General Franz Adams June 19, 1916 to May 17, 1917
Lieutenant General Alfred von Besser May 18, 1917 to September 22, 1918
Major general Franz Hermann Zierold September 23, 1918 to January 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. 61, 91.
  • 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. 78-79.

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. 187.