5th Landwehr Division (German Empire)

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5th Landwehr Division

active October 25, 1914 to January 1919
Country German EmpireGerman Empire (Reichskriegsflagge) German Empire
Armed forces Prussian Army
Type Infantry division
structure See: Outline
First World War Western front
Battle for Verdun
Commanders
Please refer: List of commanders

The 5th Landwehr Division was a major unit of the Prussian army in the First World War .

structure

Organization of war in mobilization

  • 14th Landwehr Infantry Brigade
    • Landwehr Infantry Regiment No. 17
    • Landwehr Infantry Regiment No. 36
    • Landwehr Infantry Regiment No. 66
    • Reserve Fortress MG Division No. 1
    • Reserve Fortress MG Division No. 3
    • Fortress MG Division No. 14
  • 30th Landwehr Infantry Brigade
    • Landwehr Infantry Regiment No. 25
    • Landwehr Infantry Regiment No. 65
    • Reserve Fortress MG Division No. 6
    • Fortress MG Squad No. 10
    • Fortress MG Squad No. 17
    • ½ 2nd Squadron / Reserve Hussar Regiment No. 2
    • Landwehr Foot Artillery Battalion No. 8
    • Replacement Battalion / 2nd Bavarian Foot Artillery Regiment
    • Mobile Landwehr Pioneer Company / XVI. Army Corps
    • Mobile Landwehr Pioneer Company / XI. Army Corps
    • Light headlight train No. 11

Division of War of January 4, 1918

Battle calendar

The large association was formed on the Western Front in October 1914, initially as the Waldow Division , and was used here throughout the First World War . After the armistice , the division evacuated the occupied territories and marched back home, where it was first demobilized and finally dissolved in January 1919.

1914

  • from October 22nd - fighting between Meuse and Moselle
    • November 12th - Battle of Pintheville and Riaville

1915

  • Fight between Meuse and Moselle
    • March 18 - Battle of Marchéville
    • March 27 - Battle of Marchéville
    • April 5th to 16th - fights near Marchéville

1916

  • until August 25th - fighting between Meuse and Moselle
  • from August 3rd - fights on the Meuse heights in Bois-Brûlé and Apremont

1917

  • February 23rd - Fights on the Meuse heights in Bois-brûlé and Apremont
  • from February 24th - trench warfare in front of Verdun

1918

  • until June 18 - trench warfare in front of Verdun
    • April 12-14 - Storming the enemy positions in the Bois-Brûlé
  • June 19 to September 11 - trench warfare between the Meuse and the Moselle, in front of Verdun in the woods of Ailly and Apremont
  • September 12-14 - evasive battles in the Mihiel Arch
  • September 15 to October 10 - Trench warfare in the Woëvre plain and west of the Moselle
  • October 11th to November 11th - Trench warfare in the Woëvre plain
  • from November 12th - march back through Lorraine , the Rhine Province and the Palatinate during the armistice

1919

  • until January 4th - march back through Lorraine, the Rhine Province and the Palatinate during the armistice

Commanders

Rank Surname date
Lieutenant General z. D. Adolf von Waldow October 25, 1914 to January 15, 1915
Lieutenant General z. D. Carl Auler January 16, 1915 to March 14, 1916
Major general Fritz von Unger March 15 to April 17, 1916 (deputy)
Lieutenant General / General of the Infantry z. D. Carl Auler April 18, 1916 to August 14, 1918
Lieutenant General Karl von Lewinski August 15 to October 17, 1918
Major general Friedrich Spennemann October 18, 1918 to January 1919

literature

  • Hall of Fame of our Old Army. Published on the basis of official material from the Reichsarchiv , Militär-Verlag, Berlin 1927, pp. 62, 97.
  • 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. 117-119.
  • Carl Auler: The 5th Prussian Landwehr Division in the World War 1914-1918. Chr.Belser AG, Stuttgart 1923.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 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. 188.