85th Landwehr Division (German Empire)

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85th Landwehr Division

active September 25, 1915 to February 1919
Country German EmpireGerman Empire (Reichskriegsflagge) German Empire
Armed forces Prussian Army
Armed forces army
Type Infantry Division
structure See: Outline
First World War Eastern Front

Western front

The 85th Landwehr Division was a major unit of the Prussian army in the First World War .

structure

Division of War of September 13, 1915

  • 170th Landwehr Brigade
    • Landwehr Infantry Regiment No. 17
    • Landwehr Infantry Regiment No. 21
  • 169th Landwehr Brigade

Division of War of March 24, 1918

Battle calendar

The division was formed on September 25, 1915 from the Breugel division on the Eastern Front , where the association was in service until the end of October 1918. Subsequently, parts were moved to the western front to protect the Belgian-Dutch border . After the end of the war, the part of the division stationed in the west marched back home, while the part in the east was active as an occupation and security service in Lithuania and Belarus until mid-February 1919 .

1914

1915

  • until July 12th --- trench warfare near Mlawa
  • July 13th to 17th --- Breakthrough battle near Przasnysz
  • July 18-22 --- Pursuit battles to the Lower Narew
  • July 23rd to August 3rd --- Battle of the Narew
  • 4th to 7th August --- Battle of the Orz Bach
  • August 7th --- Capture of Dembe, Zegrze Fortress , Serock
  • August 8th to 10th --- Battle of Ostrow
  • August 11th to 12th --- Battle of Chishev Sambrov
  • August 13th to 18th --- Pursuit battles on the upper Narew and Nurzec
  • August 19-25 --- Battle of Bielsk
  • August 26th to September 5th --- Chase battles on Swislocz and Naumka-Werecia
  • September 8 to 12 --- Battle of the Zelwianka and the Niemen
  • September 12th to 17th --- Battle of Szczara and Jelnia
  • September 17-27 --- Pursuit battles in the Lithuanian swamps
  • from September 28th --- trench warfare on the Beresina , Olschanka and Krewlyanka

1916

    • March 18 to April 30 --- Battle of Lake Naroch (parts of the division)

1917

  • until June 30th --- Trench warfare on the Berezina, Olschanka and Krewlyanka
  • July 1 to September 17 --- Trench warfare on the Servetsch, Nyemen, the Berezina, Olschanka and Krewlyanka
    • July 19-27 --- Smorgon-Krewo defensive battle
  • September 18 to November 4 --- Position battles between Nyemen-Berezina-Krewo-Smorgon-Naroch-See and Tveretsch
  • November 9th to December 7th --- Position battles between the Naroch and Drysvyaty lakes
  • December 7th to 17th --- Truce
  • from December 17th --- armistice

1918

  • until February 18th --- Armistice
  • February 18 to March 3 --- Offensive against Lake Peipus and the upper Daugava
  • March 3rd to 8th --- Occupation of Russian territory between the Upper Daugava and Lake Peipus
  • March 9 to November 15 --- occupation of Great Russian territory
  • October 25th to November 8th --- Transport of parts of the division to the west
  • October 27 to November 11 --- Border guards on the Belgian-Dutch border (parts of the division)
  • from November 12th --- evacuation of the occupied area and march home (parts of the division)
  • from November 16 --- Occupation and security service in Lithuania and Belarus (parts of the division)

1919

  • until February 11th --- Occupation and security service in Lithuania and Belarus (parts of the division)

Commanders

Rank Surname date
Major general William Hendrik Clifforf Cocq from Breugel September 25, 1915 to August 16, 1918
Major general Jobst Hermann Prinz zur Lippe-Biesterfeld August 17, 1918 to January 29, 1919

literature

  • Hall of Fame of our Old Army , published on the basis of official material from the Reichsarchiv , Militär-Verlag, Berlin 1927, pp. 72, 152–153
  • 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. 558-559

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. 198