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The 7th Landwehr Division (''7. Landwehr-Division'') was a unit of the Prussian/German Army.〔From the late 1800s, the Prussian Army was effectively the German Army, as, during the period of German unification (1866-1871), the states of the German Empire entered into conventions with Prussia regarding their armies and only the Bavarian Army remained fully autonomous.〕 The division was formed on January 27, 1915 out of two formerly Mixed Landwehr Brigades (55th and the 57th). The division spent the period from its formation to early 1917 on the Western Front, mainly involved in positional warfare in Upper Alsace, after which it went to the Lorraine front. It was transferred to the Eastern Front in the Spring of 1917, where it remained after the 1917 armistice on that front. In 1918, it served on internal security missions in Ukraine, where it was located when World War I ended. Allied intelligence rated the division as a fourth class division.〔(08.Landwehr-Division (Chronik 1915/1919) )〕〔''Histories of Two Hundred and Fifty-One Divisions of the German Army which Participated in the War (1914-1918), compiled from records of Intelligence section of the General Staff, American Expeditionary Forces, at General Headquarters, Chaumont, France 1919'' (1920), pp. 153-155.〕 The division was disbanded in 1919, during the demobilization of the German Army after World War I. The 7th Landwehr Division, like the 55th and 57th Brigades before it, was raised in the Kingdom of Württemberg. As a Landwehr division, it was primarily composed of older soldiers who had already fulfilled their regular and reserve service obligations. ==Order of battle on April 1, 1915== The order of battle of the division on April 1, 1915, shortly after its formation, was as follows:〔Hermann Cron et al., ''Ruhmeshalle unserer alten Armee'' (Berlin, 1935).〕 *51. Landwehr-Infanterie-Brigade: * *Kgl. Württembergisches Landwehr-Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 119 * *Kgl. Württembergisches Landwehr-Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 123 *Radfahrer-Kompanie Nr. 1 *52. Landwehr-Infanterie-Brigade: * *Kgl. Württembergisches Landwehr-Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 121 * *Kgl. Württembergisches Landwehr-Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 126 *Kgl. Württembergische Gebirgs-Kompanie *1. Landwehr-Eskadron/XIII. (kgl. württ.) Armeekorps *2. Landwehr-Eskadron/XIII. (kgl. württ.) Armeekorps *Kgl. Württembergisches Landwehr-Feldartillerie-Regiment Nr. 1 *2. Landwehr-Pionier-Kompanie/XIII. (kgl. württ.) Armeekorps *3. Landwehr-Pionier-Kompanie/XIII. (kgl. württ.) Armeekorps 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「7th Landwehr Division (German Empire)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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