4th Royal Bavarian Field Artillery Brigade
The 4th Field Artillery Brigade was a large unit of the Bavarian Army .
history
The brigade was established on October 1, 1901 by renaming the 2nd Field Artillery Brigade . She was part of the 4th Division and had her command in Nuremberg .
The large association was used at the beginning of the First World War as part of the 6th Army on the Western Front.
In the further course of the war the Artillery Commander No. 4 was formed from the command of the War Ministry of February 22, 1917 .
At the end of the war, the command returned home at the beginning of December 1918, where it was demobilized and finally dissolved on December 16, 1918.
Insinuation
Before the beginning of World War I, the brigade was subordinate to the following units:
- 2nd field artillery regiment "Horn" in Würzburg
- 11th field artillery regiment in Würzburg
Commanders
| Rank | Surname | date |
|---|---|---|
| Major general | Arthur Strassner | September 13, 1901 to April 9, 1905 |
| Major general | Wilhelm Goertz | April 10, 1905 to July 15, 1907 |
| Colonel / Major General | Ferdinand Habersack | July 16, 1907 to May 24, 1911 |
| Colonel | Konrad Krafft from Dellmensingen | May 25, 1911 to April 21, 1912 |
| Colonel / Major General | Hermann von Burkhardt | April 22, 1912 to April 22, 1916 |
| Major general | Walter Kollmann | April 23, 1916 to December 1918 |
literature
- Jürgen Kraus : Handbook of the associations and troops of the German army 1914-1918. Part IX: Field Artillery. Volume 1. Militaria Publishing House. Vienna 2007. ISBN 978-3-902526-15-1 . P. 129.
- Konrad Krafft von Dellmensingen, Friedrichfranz Feeser : The Bavaria book of the world wars 1914-1918. Chr. Belser AG. Publishing bookstore. Stuttgart 1930.
- Günter Wegner: Germany's armies until 1918. Volume 10: Bavaria. Biblio Publishing House. Osnabrück 1984.
- Rudolf von Kramer, Otto Freiherr von Waldenfels: The royal Bavarian military Max-Joseph-Order. Self-published by the kb Military Max Joseph Order. Munich 1966.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dermot Bradley (ed.), Günter Wegner: Occupation of the German Army 1815-1939. Volume 1: The higher command posts 1815–1939. Biblio Publishing House. Osnabrück 1990. ISBN 3-7648-1780-1 . P. 710.
