44th Landwehr Division (German Empire)

44th Landwehr Division
active	April 15, 1917 to January 22, 1919
Country	German Empire
Armed forces	Prussian Army
Armed forces	army
Type	Infantry Division
structure	See: Outline
First World War	Western front

The 44th Landwehr Division was a major unit of the Prussian army in the First World War .

structure

Division of war 1917/1918

• 44th Landwehr Brigade
  • Landwehr Infantry Regiment No. 81
  • Landwehr Infantry Regiment No. 93
  • Landwehr Infantry Regiment No. 382
  • 3rd Squadron / Uhlan Regiment "von Katzler" (Silesian) No. 2
• Artillery Commander No. 154
  • Field Artillery Regiment No. 270
• Engineer Battalion No. 444
• Division Message Commander # 544

Battle calendar

The division was assembled on April 15, 1917 on the Western Front and was only used there. After the end of the war, she marched back home, where the association was initially demobilized and finally dissolved on January 22, 1919.

1917

• May 7th to October 16th --- Trench warfare in Lorraine
• from October 16 --- position battle in Upper Alsace

1918

• until November 11th --- Trench warfare in Upper Alsace
• from November 12th --- evacuation of the occupied territory and march home

Commanders

Rank	Surname	date
Lieutenant General	Robert Krause	April 18, 1917 to 1918
Lieutenant General	Hans von Heuduck	until May 19, 1918
Major general	Dietrich von Bodelschwingh	May 20, 1918 to January 22, 1919

literature

• Hall of Fame of our Old Army , published on the basis of official material from the Reichsarchiv , Militär-Verlag, Berlin 1927, pp. 70, 142
• 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. 462-463

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} 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