48th Landwehr Division (German Empire)

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48th Landwehr Division

active September 13, 1917 to January 3, 1919
Country German EmpireGerman Empire (Reichskriegsflagge) German Empire
Armed forces Prussian Army
Armed forces army
Type Infantry Division
structure See: Outline
First World War Western front

The 48th Landwehr Division was a major unit of the Prussian army in the First World War .

structure

Division of war 1917/1918

  • 1st Landsturm Brigade
    • Landsturm Infantry Regiment No. 38
    • Landsturm Infantry Regiment No. 39
    • Landsturm Infantry Regiment No. 47
    • 1st Squadron / Guard Reserve Uhlan Regiment
  • Artillery Commander No. 26
  • Division Message Commander # 548

Battle calendar

The division was formed on September 13, 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 3, 1919.

1917

1918

  • until January 9th --- Trench warfare in Lorraine
  • January 10th to February 4th --- Trench warfare in Lorraine and the Vosges
  • February 4th to November 11th --- Trench warfare in Lorraine
  • from November 12th --- evacuation of the occupied territory and march home

Commanders

Rank Surname date
Major general Hugo Karl August Bacmeister September 13, 1917 to May 13, 1918
Lieutenant General Thilo Freiherr von Hanstein May 14th to September 26th 1918
Major general Rudolf von Borries September 27, 1918 to January 3, 1919

literature

  • Hall of Fame of our Old Army , published on the basis of official material from the Reichsarchiv , Militär-Verlag, Berlin 1927, pp. 71, 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. 483-484

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. 198