38th Landwehr Division (German Empire)

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38th Landwehr Division

active April 15, 1917 to January 15, 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

The 38th Landwehr Division was a major unit of the Prussian army in the First World War .

structure

Division of War of October 19, 1918

  • 38th Landwehr Brigade
  • Artillery Commander No. 145
    • Landwehr Field Artillery Regiment No. 255
  • Engineer Battalion No. 438
  • Division News Commander # 538

Battle calendar

The division was formed on April 15, 1917 on the Western Front and deployed there until the end of the war. After the armistice , the division evacuated the area it occupied, marched back home, where it was demobilized and finally disbanded in January 1919.

1917

1918

  • until January 22nd --- Trench warfare in Flanders and Artois
  • 29 January to 27 September --- Trench warfare in Flanders
  • 28 September to 17 October --- 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
  • November 5th to 11th --- 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 Karl Wilhelm Freiherr von Willisen April 16, 1917 to January 15, 1919

literature

  • Hall of Fame of our Old Army , published on the basis of official material from the Reichsarchiv , Militär-Verlag, Berlin 1927, pp. 69, 136
  • 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. 433-435

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. 196