1st Landwehr Division (German Empire)

The 1st Landwehr Division was a major unit of the Prussian Army in the First World War.

• 2.1 1914
• 2.2 1915
• 2.3 1916
• 2.4 1917
• 2.5 1918
• 2.6 1919

Structure

The Division was formed from the mixed Landwehr brigades that were each equipped with infantry, cavalry and artillery. The 33rd and 34th Mixed Landwehr Brigade had the recruiting area in Schleswig -Holstein, in the province of Hanover and Mecklenburg -Schwerin and Mecklenburg -Strelitz, as well as in the Hanseatic cities of Hamburg, Bremen and Lübeck. The 37th and 38th Brigade recruited in Hannover, Oldenburg and Brunswick.

Of Battle at mobilization

• 33 Mixed Landwehr Brigade Landwehr Infantry Regiment No. 75
• Landwehr Infantry Regiment No. 76
• 2nd Guard Landwehr Eskadron
• 1 Landwehr-Eskadron/IX. Army Corps
• 1 Landwehr-Batterie/IX. Army Corps

• Landwehr Infantry Regiment No. 31
• Landwehr Infantry Regiment No. 84
• 3rd Guard Landwehr Eskadron
• 2 Landwehr-Eskadron/IX. Army Corps
• 2 Landwehr-Batterie/IX. Army Corps

• Landwehr Infantry Regiment No. 73
• Landwehr Infantry Regiment No. 74
• 2 Landwehr Eskadron / X. Army Corps
• II Landwehr Field Artillery Division / X. Army Corps

• Landwehr Infantry Regiment No. 77
• Landwehr Infantry Regiment No. 78
• 3 Landwehr Eskadron / X. Army Corps

Of Battle from January 27, 1918

• 34th Landwehr Brigade Landwehr Infantry Regiment No. 31
• Landwehr Infantry Regiment No. 33
• Landwehr Infantry Regiment No. 84
• 3rd Squadron / Jäger Regiment on horseback # 12

• Field Artillery Regiment No. 96

Battle calendar

The division came first at the northern Eastern Front used. By the end of 1917, she was part of the front fuse in the northern sector of the Eastern Front. Beginning of 1918 it was used on the Western Front in the field of Lorraine and Flanders.

1914

1915

• To 7 February --- position battles for the field position Lötzen - Angerapp
• February 7 to 22 --- Battle of Masuria, Battle of Elk
• 19 February to 10 August --- position battles before Lomsha - Osowiec
• July 13 to August 26 --- Narew Bóbr battle 2 to 9 August --- First Narewübergang at Nowogrod and Lomsha
• August 10 --- taking Lomsha
• August 10-12 --- taking Wizna
• August 12-15 --- fights at Silna section
• August 16-25 --- Second Narewübergang at Tykotsin, Zoltki and Kruschewo
• 24 to 26 August --- battles near Bialystok, Knyszyn and on Berezowia section

1916

• To 31 July --- Trench warfare against Riga
• July 31 to August 7 --- Trench warfare in the Pripyat Marshes
• August 11 to November 4 --- Battle of Kovel
• From November 5 --- Trench warfare on the upper Styx - Stochod

1917

• To December 1, 1917 --- Trench warfare on the upper Styx - Stochod
• December 2 to 17 --- ceasefire
• December 17 --- ceasefire

1918

• To 22 February --- ceasefire
• February 15-25 --- Transport to the West
• February 22 to March 10 --- reserve the OHL
• March 11 to April 9 --- trench warfare in Flanders
• April 10-15 --- trench warfare in Flanders
• April 16-29 --- fighting in Wytschaetebogen
• April 30 to August 1 --- trench warfare in Flanders
• August 2 to September 18 --- Trench warfare in Lorraine and in the Vosges
• September 18 to October 1 --- Trench warfare in Upper Alsace
• October 1 to 11 --- Trench warfare in Lorraine
• October 11 to November 11 --- defensive battles between the Meuse and Beaumont; Defensive battle in Champagne and on the Meuse
• From November 12 --- evacuation of the occupied territory and return march through Lorraine, the Rhine Province and the Palatinate

1919

• January 4 --- evacuation of the occupied territory and return march through Lorraine, the Rhine Province and the Palatinate

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