46th Landwehr Division (2nd Royal Saxon)

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46th Landwehr Division (2nd 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
garrison Dresden
First World War Eastern Front
Commanders
Please refer: List of commanders

The 46th Landwehr Division (2nd Royal Saxon) was a major unit of the Saxon Army during the First World War .

structure

Division of War of February 15, 1917

Division of War of January 25, 1918

  • 46th Landwehr Infantry Brigade
    • Landwehr Infantry Regiment No. 101
    • Landwehr Infantry Regiment No. 103
    • Landwehr Infantry Regiment No. 105
    • 4th Squadron / Uhlan Regiment "Emperor Franz Josef of Austria, King of Hungary" (1st Royal Saxon) No. 17
  • Artillery Commander No. 140
    • Field Artillery Regiment No. 246
  • Engineer Battalion No. 446
  • Divisional News Commander # 546

Battle calendar

The division was in February 1917 in the area of ​​the XII. (I. Royal Saxon) Army Corps in Dresden composed of Landwehr and replacement units. It then came to the Eastern Front in mid-March 1917 , stayed there after the end of the war and acted as a police and occupying power in Lithuania.

1917

1918

  • until February 18th --- Armistice
  • February 18 to March 3 --- Persecution through White Ruthenia
  • March 3 to November 15 --- occupation of Great Russian territory
  • from November 16 --- Occupation and security service in Lithuania and Belarus

1919

  • until February 11th --- Occupation and security service in Lithuania
  • On February 22, 1919 Lieutenant General Walter von Eberhardt became the division's commanding officer. In April, volunteers from the division formed the Southern Lithuania Brigade , a free corps, which consisted of the Volunteer Regiments 18, 19 and 20, the Voluntary Fliegerstaffel 18 and the Voluntary Artillery Departments 18 and 19 and with Lithuanian troops against the invading forces of the Red Army fought. The last volunteers of the South Lithuania Brigade left Lithuania in July 1919.

Commanders

Rank Surname date
Lieutenant General Bernhard von Watzdorf February 13 to September 8, 1917
Major general Otto Freiherr von Ompteda September 8, 1917 to August 7, 1918
Major general Albrecht Count of Mandelsloh August 7, 1918 to February 21, 1919
Lieutenant General Walter von Eberhardt February 22, 1919 to April 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, 141
  • 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. 473
  • Artur Baumgarten-Crusius: The Saxons in the field 1914-1918 , Verlag der Literaturwerke "Minerva", R. Max Lippold, Leipzig 1923, pp. 515-516

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