The 2nd Bavarian Landwehr Division initially served on the Eastern Front, entering the line in the Baltic region near Riga.
The division then remained on the line on the Duna River until the armistice on the Eastern Front in December 1917.
For most of 1918, it served in Livonia and Estonia as part of the German occupation forces.
In October 1918, it was transferred to the Western Front, and occupied a portion of the trenchline in Lorraine until the end of World War I. Allied intelligence rated the division as fourth class.
The order of battle of the division on February 19, 1917, was as follows:[3] As German divisional organizations had become fairly standardized by late 1916 when the division was formed, it underwent relatively few organizational changes over the course of the war.