9th Landwehr Division (German Empire)

9th Landwehr Division
active	February 14, 1915 to December 1918
Country	German Empire
Armed forces	Prussian Army
Armed forces	army
Type	Infantry Division
structure	See: Outline
First World War	Western front Autumn battle in Champagne Battle for Verdun

The 9th Landwehr Division was a major unit of the Prussian army in the First World War .

structure

Division of War of February 15, 1915

• 49th Mixed Landwehr Brigade
  • Landwehr Infantry Regiment No. 56
  • Landwehr Infantry Regiment No. 118
  • Field machine-gun platoon No. 77
  • Field machine-gun platoon No. 97
• 43rd Mixed Landwehr Brigade (March 4, 1915: renumbered 76th Landwehr Brigade)
  • Reserve Infantry Regiment No. 79
  • Landwehr Infantry Regiment No. 83
  • Field MG platoon No. 62
  • Field MG platoon no.81
  • Landwehr Cavalry Regiment No. 9
  • 4th Lorraine Field Artillery Regiment No. 70
  • II. Division / Field Artillery Regiment "von Peucker" (1st Silesian) No. 6
  • 8th battery / foot artillery regiment "von Dieskau" (Silesian) No. 6
  • 1st Company / Engineer Battalion No. 6

Division of War of August 10, 1918

• 76th Landwehr Brigade
  • Landwehr Infantry Regiment No. 83
  • Landwehr Infantry Regiment No. 116
  • Landwehr Infantry Regiment No. 118
  • 1st Squadron / Reserve Dragoon Regiment No. 4
• Artillery Commander No. 150
  • Landwehr Field Artillery Regiment No. 9
• Engineer Battalion No. 409
• Division News Commander No. 509

Battle calendar

The association was formed on February 14, 1915 on the western front from the Mühlenfels division and was used here throughout the course of the war. After the armistice , the division marched back home, where it was first demobilized and finally disbanded in December 1918 .

1915

• January 31 to September 22 --- Trench warfare in Champagne and west of the Argonne
• September 23 to November 3 --- Autumn battle in Champagne
• from November 4th --- Trench warfare in Champagne and west of the Argonne

1916

• until July 14th --- Trench warfare in Champagne and west of the Argonne
• July 15th to September 3rd --- Battle of Verdun
• September 3rd to November 28th --- Battle in the Argonne Forest
• from November 28th --- Trench warfare in the Argonne

1917

• Trench warfare in the Argonne

1918

• until July 14th --- Trench warfare in the Argonne
• July 15-17 --- Attack battle on the Marne and Champagne
• July 18 to 31 --- Trench warfare in the Argonne
• August 1st to September 25th --- Position battles in Champagne (parts of the division)
• September 26th to October 9th --- Defensive battle in Champagne and on the Meuse
• October 10th to 12th --- Fighting on the Hunding and Brunhild fronts
• October 13th to 17th --- Fights on the Aisne and Aire
• October 18-23 --- Fights near Attigny and Rilly-aux-Oies
• October 24th to 31st --- Fights on the Aisne and Aire
• November 1st to 4th --- Fights between Aisne and Maas
• November 5th to 11th --- fighting in retreat in front of the Antwerp- Maas position
• from November 12th --- evacuation of the occupied territory and march home

Commanders

Rank	Surname	date
Lieutenant General	Karl Ludwig von Mühlenfels	February 14, 1915 to May 21, 1917
Lieutenant General	Hermann von Oppeln-Bronikowski	May 22, 1917 to December 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, 103
• 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. 174-175

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. 190