8th Landwehr Division (German Empire)
8th Landwehr Division |
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active | January 31, 1915 to January 1919 |
Country | German Empire |
Armed forces | Prussian Army |
Armed forces | army |
Type | Infantry Division |
structure | See: Outline |
First World War |
Western front
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Commanders | |
Please refer: | List of commanders |
The 8th Landwehr Division was a major unit of the Prussian army in the First World War .
structure
Division of War of March 12, 1915
- Landwehr Infantry Regiment No. 109
- Landwehr Infantry Regiment No. 110
- Landsturm Infantry Regiment No. 109
- Field MG platoon No. 27
- Field MG platoon No. 29
- Istein fortress machine-gun troop
- Fortress MG troop Hüningen
- 2nd Landwehr Squadron / XIV Army Corps
- 3rd Landwehr Squadron / XIV. Army Corps
- Replacement Department / 2nd Lower Alsatian Field Artillery Regiment No. 67
- Landwehr Foot Artillery Battalion No. 13
- Replacement Battalion / Lauenburg Foot Artillery Regiment No. 20
- 2nd Reserve Company / Engineer Battalion No. 14
- Traffic light department No. 2
- Fortress Airship Squad No. 13
- Telephone Squad No. 4
- Mine thrower squad No. 4
Division of War of January 4, 1918
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56th Landwehr Infantry Brigade
- Landwehr Infantry Regiment No. 109
- Landwehr Infantry Regiment No. 110
- Landwehr Infantry Regiment No. 111
- 1st Squadron / Jäger Regiment on Horseback No. 5
- Artillery Commander No. 147
- Landwehr Field Artillery Regiment No. 8
- Engineer Battalion No. 408
- Division News Commander # 508
Battle calendar
The division was formed on January 31, 1915 from the reinforced 56th Landwehr Brigade, which emerged from the Landwehr Brigade Bodungen . She was in action on the Western Front throughout the First World War . After the end of the war, the association marched back home, where in January 1919 the division was demobilized and finally dissolved.
1915
- from January 29th --- position battle in Upper Alsace
1916
- Position battle in Upper Alsace
1917
- until January 14th --- Position battle in Upper Alsace
- January 16 to February 23 --- Fights near Ronvoux-Saulx (trench warfare between Meuse and Moselle )
- from February 24th --- Position battles in front of Verdun
1918
- until June 18 --- position battles in front of Verdun
- June 19 to September 11 --- Trench warfare between Meuse and Moselle
- September 12th to 14th --- Evasion battles in the Mihielbogen
- September 15 to October 10 --- Trench warfare in the Woëvre plain and west of the Moselle
- October 11 to November 11 --- Trench warfare on the heights west of the Moselle
- from November 12th --- march back through Lorraine , the Rhine Province and the Palatinate
1919
- until 4 January --- march back through Lorraine, the Rhine Province and the Palatinate
Others
From November 1915 to September 1918 the division published the field newspaper "Meldereiter im Sundgau".
Commanders
Rank | Surname | date |
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Major general | Albert von Bodungen | January 25, 1915 to January 5, 1917 |
Major general | Otto Hans Eduard Schumann | January 6, 1917 to December 15, 1918 |
literature
- Hall of Fame of our Old Army , published on the basis of official material from the Reichsarchiv , Militär-Verlag, Berlin 1927, pp. 63, 102
- 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. 160-161
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Holdings of the Heidelberg University Library
- ↑ 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. 189