8th Landwehr Division (German Empire)

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8th Landwehr Division

active January 31, 1915 to January 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
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

  • 56th Landwehr Infantry Brigade
  • 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

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
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

  1. ^ Holdings of the Heidelberg University Library
  2. ↑ 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