4th Landwehr Division (German Empire)

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4th Landwehr Division

active August 2, 1914 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 Eastern Front

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

structure

Organization of war in mobilization

  • 22nd Landwehr Infantry Brigade
    • Landwehr Infantry Regiment No. 11
    • Landwehr Infantry Regiment No. 51
  • 23rd Landwehr Infantry Brigade
    • Landwehr Infantry Regiment No. 22
    • Landwehr Infantry Regiment No. 23
    • Replacement cavalry regiment
    • Landwehr Cavalry Regiment No. 2
    • 1. Landsturm battery / VI. Army Corps
    • 2. Landsturm battery / VI. Army Corps
    • Replacement company / engineer battalion No. 6

Division of War of February 5, 1918

  • 22nd Landwehr Infantry Brigade
  • Engineer Battalion No. 404
  • Division News Commander # 504

Battle calendar

The division was formed with the mobilization at the outbreak of the First World War and was then used on the Eastern Front . She stayed here after the ceasefire there and took part in the fighting in support of the Ukraine and the occupation of Greater Russia. After the end of the war, parts of the association were active as an occupation and security service in Lithuania and Belarus until February 1919.

1914

  • August 7th --- Street fight in Kalisch
  • August 7th to 12th --- Border protection against Russia
  • August 24th --- Battle at Nowe-Miasto
  • August 27th --- Attack south of Szydlowiec
  • August 29th --- Battle near Novo-Radomsk
  • September 1st --- Battle near Kazanov
  • September 4th --- Battle at Lipsko
  • September 5th to 7th --- Battle near Josefow and Pawloska-Wola
  • September 7th to 9th --- Battle of Tarnawka
  • October 4-5 --- Battles near Opatow and Radom
  • October 9-20 --- Battle of Ivangorod
  • October 22nd to 28th --- Fights on the Rawka
  • October 29th --- Battle near Tomaszow
  • November 5th to December 5th --- Fights near Czestochowa
  • December 17th --- Battle at Dankow-Ducy
  • from December 19th --- Fights on the Lososina and Czarna

1915

  • to May 12th --- Fights on the Lososina and Czarna
  • May 16 to July 16 --- Fights in the Kielcer Bergland
  • July 17th --- Breakthrough battle near Sienno
  • July 18th to 19th --- Fights on the Ilzanka
  • July 20th to 21st, the performance of Ivangorod east of Zwolen broke through
  • July 22nd to 28th --- Reconnaissance battles on the Vistula
  • July 29th --- Vistula crossing
  • July 30th to August 7th --- Fighting on the east bank of the Vistula around Maciejowice
  • August 8th to 18th --- Pursuit battles between the Vistula and the Bug
  • August 19 to 24 --- Battle of the Pulwa - Nurzec
  • August 25th to 31st --- Persecution battles on the Bialowieska-Puszcza
  • September 1st --- Zalesie-Borowiki
  • September 1 to 12 --- Fights on the Jasiolda and the Zelwianka
  • September 13th to 18th --- Battle of Slonim
  • September 19 to 24 --- Fighting on the upper Shchara -Servetsch
  • from September 25th --- position battles on the upper Shchara-Serwetsch

1916

  • Trench warfare on the upper Shchara-Servetsch
  • June 13th --- Defensive battles near Stolowitschi
  • July 3rd to 29th --- Battle of Baranovichi

1917

  • to September 11th --- Position battles on the upper Shchara-Servetsch
  • September 12th to December 14th --- Trench warfare on the upper Shchara-Serwetsch- Nyemen
  • December 15-17 --- Truce
  • from December 17th --- armistice

1918

  • until February 18th --- Armistice
  • February 18 to March 21 --- Fighting in support of Ukraine
  • March 22 to November 15 --- occupation of Great Russian territory
  • from November 16 --- Occupation and security service in Lithuania and Belarus (parts of the division)

1919

  • until February 11th --- Occupation and security service in Lithuania and Belarus (parts of the division)

Commanders

Rank Surname date
Lieutenant General Rudolf von Wegener August 2, 1914 to February 2, 1915
Major general Eberhard von Hofacker February 3 to December 13, 1915
Lieutenant General Arthur von Brietzke December 14, 1915 to April 22, 1917
Lieutenant General Johannes von Malachowki April 22, 1917 to September 16, 1918
Major general Otto Emil Berlet September 17, 1918 to January 19, 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, 93–94
  • 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. 99-100

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Dermot Bradley (Ed.), Günter Wegner: Occupation of the German Army 1815-1939 Volume 1: The Higher Command Centers 1815-1939 , Biblio Verlag, Osnabrück 1990, ISBN 3-7648-1780-1 , p. 188