47th Landwehr Division (3rd Royal Saxon)

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47th Landwehr Division (3rd Royal Saxon)

active June 7, 1916 to March 1919
Country German EmpireThe German Imperium German Empire
Armed forces Saxon Army
Armed forces army
Type Infantry Division
structure See: Outline
Insinuation XII. (Royal Saxon) Reserve Corps
garrison Dresden
First World War Western front
Spring battle at Arras

Eastern Front

Commanders
Please refer: List of commanders

The 47th Landwehr Division (3rd Royal Saxon) was a major unit of the Saxon Army in the First World War .

structure

Division of War of June 15, 1917

  • 47th Landwehr Infantry Brigade
    • Landwehr Infantry Regiment No. 104
    • Landwehr Infantry Regiment No. 106
    • Landwehr Infantry Regiment No. 391
    • 2nd Squadron / 3rd Royal Saxon Hussar Regiment No. 20
    • Landwehr Field Artillery Regiment No. 19
    • Staff Engineer Battalion No. 447
      • 1st Reserve Company / Engineer Battalion No. 22
      • 6th Company / Engineer Battalion No. 22
    • Mine thrower company No. 347
    • Headlight train No. 382
    • Telephone Department No. 208
    • Field Signal Squad No. 320
    • Field Signal Squad No. 426

Division of War of March 5, 1918

  • 47th Landwehr Infantry Brigade
    • Landwehr Grenadier Regiment No. 100
    • Landwehr Infantry Regiment No. 104
    • Landwehr Infantry Regiment No. 106
    • 2nd squadron / 3rd squadron Royal Saxon Hussar Regiment No. 20
    • Landwehr Field Artillery Regiment No. 19
  • Divisional News Commander # 547

Battle calendar

The division was reinforced in the fall of 1916 from the 47th Landwehr Infantry Brigade in the area of ​​the XII. (Royal Saxon) Reserve Corps formed on the Western Front . At the end of May 1917 she was pulled from the front and relocated to the east. The association remained there after the end of the war as a police and occupying power. After returning home, demobilization took place in Leipzig from February 1919 and the division was then dissolved.

1916

  • from October 10th --- fighting on the Aisne

1917

  • until February 25th --- fighting on the Aisne
  • February 25 to March 15 --- Trench warfare at Roye- Noyon
  • March 16 to April 12 --- Fighting in front of the Siegfried Front
  • April 14th to May 20th --- Spring battle near Arras
  • May 21st to 31st --- 6th Army Reserve near Arras
  • May 31st to June 4th --- transport to the east
  • June 4th to 21st --- Trench warfare in East Galicia
  • June 26th to September 11th --- Trench warfare 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 June 21 --- Fighting in support of Ukraine
    • March 29th to May 8th --- gang fighting east of Gomel
  • June 22nd to November 15th --- Occupation of Ukraine
  • from November 16 --- evacuation of Ukraine

1919

  • until March 16 --- evacuation of Ukraine

Commanders

Rank Surname date
Lieutenant General z.D. Friedrich Müller June 7, 1916 to the end of May 1918
Major general Max Einert Late May 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, 141–142
  • 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. 477-478
  • Artur Baumgarten-Crusius: The Saxons in the field 1914-1918 , Verlag der Literaturwerke "Minerva", R. Max Lippold, Leipzig 1923, pp. 517-523

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b 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