45th Landwehr Division (1st Royal Saxon)

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45th Landwehr Division (1st Royal Saxon)

active February 15, 1917 to March 1919
Country German EmpireThe German Imperium German Empire
Armed forces Saxon Army
Armed forces army
Type Infantry Division
structure See: Outline
First World War Eastern Front
Commanders
Please refer: List of commanders

The 45th Landwehr Division (1st Royal Saxon) was a major unit of the Saxon army in the First World War .

structure

Division of War of February 15, 1917

  • 45th Landwehr Infantry Brigade
    • Landwehr Infantry Regiment No. 107
    • Landwehr Infantry Regiment No. 133
    • Landwehr Infantry Regiment No. 350
    • 4th Squadron / Guard Rider Regiment (1st Heavy Regiment)
    • Field Artillery Regiment No. 408
    • 4th Reserve Company / Engineer Battalion No. 22
    • Headlight train No. 2
    • Mine thrower company No. 345

Division of War of January 27, 1918

  • 45th Landwehr Infantry Brigade
    • Landwehr Infantry Regiment No. 107
    • Landwehr Infantry Regiment No. 133
    • Landwehr Infantry Regiment No. 350
    • 4th Squadron / Guard Rider Regiment (1st Heavy Regiment)
  • Artillery Commander No. 152
    • Field Artillery Regiment No. 408
  • Divisional News Commander # 545

Battle calendar

The division was composed of Landwehr and replacement units on the Eastern Front in February 1917 . It stayed there after the end of the war and acted as a police and occupying power.

1917

1918

  • until February 18th --- Armistice
  • February 18 to June 21 --- Fighting in support of Ukraine
    • March 1-3 --- Capture of Kiev
    • March 2nd to 3rd --- Taking Zmerinka
    • March 5th --- Battle of Hobodka
    • March 7th to 8th --- Fights near Kharkov
    • March 12th --- Battle at Kononowska
    • March 14th --- Battle at Marianowka
    • March 21st --- Battle at Romodan
    • March 27-28 --- Battle near Potoki
    • April 4th to 6th --- Battle of Wodjanaja and Kowiagi
    • April 8th --- Capture of Kharkov
    • May 23rd - Walujki is taken
  • June 22nd to November 15th --- Occupation of Ukraine
  • from November 16 --- evacuation of Ukraine

1919

  • until March 16, 1919 --- evacuation of the Ukraine

Commanders

Rank Surname date
Major general Kurt von Reyher February 20, 1917 to March 30, 1918
Major general Matthias Hoch March 31 to September 1, 1918
Major general Otto from the ceiling September 2, 1918 to March 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, 140
  • 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, p. 468
  • Artur Baumgarten-Crusius: The Saxons in the field 1914-1918 , Verlag der Literaturwerke "Minerva", R. Max Lippold, Leipzig 1923, pp. 509-514

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. 197