Landwehr District

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The Landwehr district (also Landwehr battalion district) was a subdivision ( district ) of the state territory in Prussia and the German Reich, which was subordinate to a military authority, here the district command. The substitute system was based on the division of the empire into Landwehr districts (addition of officers and men to the army ).

tasks

As a military authority subordinate to the general command, the district command operated in conjunction with the civil authorities ( district administrator ) the military replacement affairs and exercised control over the "persons on leave of absence" (officers and men). It was responsible for the storage of clothing and equipment of the Landwehr and reserve battalions and for calling up and providing those on leave for exercises and mobilization .

The annual replacement business began with the preparatory business, followed by the sample business and the drawing of the likely order of recruitment for those fit for military service. In actual Aushebungsgeschäft final in which the upper Spare Commission decided military unit is the conscript set or whether the replacement reserve is to be paid.

organization

At the end of the 1880s the German Reich had 3 reserve armed forces regimental districts (Berlin with four, Breslau and Cologne with 2 battalion districts each), 13 independent reserve armed forces and 259 land armed forces battalion districts.

At the beginning of the 20th century, there were twenty-two army corps districts (mostly identical to provinces or kingdoms ), which formed a replacement district for the troops stationed in it. In each replacement district there were four infantry brigade districts, which in turn were divided into several Landwehr districts. The Landwehr districts for their part formed several evacuation districts and, if necessary, pattern districts.

The Landwehr districts were usually headed by inactive staff officers as commanders, and in exceptional cases also by a captain . The district commander was assigned an active lieutenant as district adjutant and several district and control officers.

literature

  • Bräuner: History of the Prussian Landwehr , Berlin 1863
  • von Boguslawski: The Landwehr from 1813-1893 , Berlin 1893
  • Official: Map of the Landwehr district division of the German Empire , Berlin 1896
  • Brandt: The German military substitute system , 3rd edition, Langensalza 1894
  • Freytag: Organization and operations of a district command , Berlin 1901
  • von Roques: Position and activity of the district officer , Leipzig 1902

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition, 10th volume, Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut Leipzig 1888, p. 473
  2. ↑ a b c d Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon, 6th edition, 12th volume, Bibliographisches Institut Leipzig and Vienna 1906, p. 130
  3. ↑ a b c Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon, 6. Edition, 2nd volume, Bibliographische Institut Leipzig and Vienna 1905, p. 807
  4. ↑ a b c Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon, 6th edition, 6th volume, Bibliographisches Institut Leipzig and Vienna 1905, p. 75
  5. ^ Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition, 2nd volume, Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut Leipzig 1885, p. 871