Landwehr (disambiguation)
Landwehr is a word of German origin (literally: "land defence") and may refer to:
- Military forces
- Landwehr, a type of national home guard or territorial army employed historically e.g. in Germany and Austria-Hungary
- k.k. Landwehr, the territorial army of the Austrian half of the Empire of Austria-Hungary
- k.u. Landwehr, the territorial army of the Hungarian half of the Empire of Austria-Hungary
- Places in Germany
- Landwehr, Lower Saxony, a municipality in the county of Hildesheim, Lower Saxony
- Landwehr (Golßen), a village in the borough of Golßen, Brandenburg
- Landwehr (Halver), a farmstead in the borough of Halver in the county of Märkischen Kreis, North Rhine-Westphalia
- Landwehr (Menden), a village in the borough of Menden, Sauerland
- Landwehr (Quarnbek), a village in the municipality of Quarnbek in the county of Rendsburg-Eckernförde, Schleswig-Holstein
- Landwehr (Radevormwald), part of Radevormwald in the county of Oberbergischen Kreis, North Rhine-Westphalia
- Landwehr, until 1938 Geswethen, county of Insterburg, East Prussia, since 1946: Nagornoje, settlement in Chernyakhovsky District, Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia
- Other geographical or manmade features
- Landwehr (Astengebiet), a series of fortifications around the Kahler Asten in the county of Hochsauerlandkreis, Germany
- Kirchwehrener Landwehr, a stream in Hanover Region, Germany
- Landwehr (Wachau), a woodland in Wachau, Saxony near Radeberg, Saxony, Germany
- People
- Albrecht Landwehr, mayor of in Vohwinkel 1919–1929
- Achim Landwehr (* 1968), German historian
- Gordian Landwehr (1912–1998), German Dominican prior
- Gottfried Landwehr (1929–2013), German physicist
- Heinrich Landwehr (1908–1974), German politician (SPD)
- Hermann Landwehr (1884−1955), German lawyer and ministerial official
- Johann Landwehr (recorded around 1658–1670), German artist, son of Jürgen Landwehr
- Jürgen Landwehr (ca. 1580–1646) German artist
- Karl-Heinrich Landwehr (b 1935), German company lawyer
- Ludwig Landwehr (1897−1981), German politician
- Lutz Landwehr von Pragenau (* 1963), German composer
- Mathis Landwehr (* 1980), German actor
- Wilma Landwehr (1913−1981), German politician (SPD)
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