46th Landwehr Division (2nd Royal Saxon)
46th Landwehr Division (2nd Royal Saxon) |
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active | February 15, 1917 to March 1919 |
Country | German Empire |
Armed forces | Saxon Army |
Armed forces | army |
Type | Infantry Division |
structure | See: Outline |
garrison | Dresden |
First World War |
Eastern Front
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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
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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
- Field Artillery Regiment No. 246
- Landwehr Pioneer Company / XII. (I. Royal Saxon) Army Corps
- Headlight train No. 404
- Mine thrower company No. 346
- Divisional Telephone Department No. 546
Division of War of January 25, 1918
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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
- March 13 to December 5 --- Trench warfare between Niemen - Berezina -Krewo- Smorgon - Naroch -Tweretsch
- July 19-27 --- Smorgon-Krewo defensive battle
- December 6th to 17th --- Truce
- from December 17th --- armistice
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 |
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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
- ↑ 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