5th Artillery Regiment (Reichswehr)
The 5th Artillery Regiment was a southern German regiment of the Reichswehr .
5th Artillery Regiment |
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active | 1921 to 1934 |
Country | German Empire |
Armed forces | Reichswehr |
Armed forces | army |
Branch of service | artillery |
Type | Artillery Regiment |
structure | See outline |
Location | See garrisons |
management | |
Commanders | See list of commanders |
history
Lineup
The regiment was set up on January 1, 1921 in Ulm from the Reichswehr Artillery Regiments 11, 13 and 14 of the transitional army . In the early 1920s, the departments in Ulm and Fulda exchanged their numbering.
In the course of the expansion of the Reichswehr in 1934, the new regiments Artillery Regiment Ulm , Artillery Regiment Fulda and Artillery Regiment Ludwigsburg , each with five departments, were set up from the three departments of the regiment . On October 15, the Ulm Artillery Regiment was renamed Artillery Regiment 5 and subordinated to the 5th Infantry Division .
Garrisons
- Ulm: Staff, II. (Baden) department, 10th (supplementary) training battery
- Fulda: I. Department
- Ludwigsburg : III. (Württemberg) department
- Fritzlar : 11th mounted (Prussian) battery
Commanders
No. | Surname | Beginning of the appointment | End of appointment |
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1. | Colonel Constantin Rembe | October 1, 1920 | March 31, 1923 |
2. | Colonel Albrecht Reinecke | April 1, 1923 | December 31, 1925 |
3. | Colonel Hugo Grimme | January 1, 1926 | January 31, 1927 |
4th | Colonel Hans Knuth | February 1, 1927 | January 31, 1929 |
5. | Colonel Ludwig Beck major general from February 1, 1931 |
February 1, 1929 | August 31, 1931 |
6th | Colonel Otto Tscherning | September 1, 1931 | March 31, 1933 |
7th | Colonel Paul Bader | April 1, 1933 | September 30, 1934 |
organization
Association membership
The regiment was subordinate to Artillery Leader V of the 5th Division in Stuttgart .
structure
- I. compartment with 1st to 3rd battery
- II. (Baden) department with 4th to 6th battery
- III. (Württemberg) department with 7th to 9th battery
- 10. (Württembergische) (supplementary) from 1921 training battery
- 11th mounted (Prussian) battery
Main armament
The Peace Treaty of Versailles only allowed the Reichswehr a total of 204 cannons 7.7 cm and 84 howitzers 10.5 cm. Since there were different gun models from the First World War , the batteries of the artillery were equipped differently.
The regiment had
- 20 7.5 cm field cannons (FK 16), 4 each in the 1st, 4th and 7th battery and 12 in the 11th battery,
- 12 7.7 cm field cannons (FK 96/1), 4 each in the 3rd and 6th battery and 4 in the 10th supplementary (from 1921 training) battery,
- 4 7.7 cm field cannons (KW cannons 14) in the 9th battery
- 12 10.5 cm light field howitzers 16 , 4 each in the 2nd, 5th and 8th battery.
Others
Takeover of tradition
In 1921 the regiment took over the tradition of the old regiments:
- 1st battery: Field Artillery Regiment No. 25, 2nd Grand Ducal Hessian Field Artillery Regiment No. 61
- 2nd battery: Field artillery regiment "von Holtzendorff" (1st Rhenish) No. 8 , foot artillery regiment "General Feldzeugmeister" (Brandenburg) no. 3 , Rhenish foot artillery regiment No. 8
- 3rd battery: 1st Thuringian field artillery regiment No. 19 , 2nd Kurhessian field artillery regiment No. 47 , 2nd Thuringian field artillery regiment No. 55 , Thuringian foot artillery regiment No. 18
- 4th battery: Field artillery regiment "Grand Duke" (1st Baden) No. 14 and 3rd Baden field artillery regiment No. 50
- 5th battery: Hohenzollern foot artillery regiment No. 13 and Baden foot artillery regiment No. 14
- 6th battery: 2nd Baden Field Artillery Regiment No. 30 , Field Artillery Regiment 66 and 5th Baden Field Artillery Regiment No. 76
- 7th battery: Field artillery regiment "Prince Regent Luitpold von Bayern" (2nd Württembergisches) No. 29
- 8th battery: Field artillery regiment "King Karl" (1st Württembergisches) No. 13
- 9th battery: 3rd Württemberg field artillery regiment No. 49 , 4th Württemberg field artillery regiment No. 65 and Württemberg flak troops
- 11th battery: Field Artillery Regiment No. 11 , Field Artillery Regiment No. 27 and Field Artillery Regiment No. 63
References
swell
- Main State Archives Stuttgart, inventory M 433/2, Bü 926 ranking list of the Reichswehr Artillery Regiment 13.
literature
- Hans-Joachim Harder: Military history handbook Baden-Württemberg . Editor of the Military History Research Office . Kohlhammer Verlag , Stuttgart 1987, ISBN 3-17-009856-X .
- Georg Tessin : German associations and troops, 1918–1939. Old army. Volunteer associations. Reichswehr. Army. Air force. National Police . Edited on the basis of the documents of the Federal Archives-Military Archives; published with the support of the Federal Archives and the Defense Research Working Group . Biblio-Verlag, Osnabrück 1974, ISBN 3-7648-1000-9 , p. 201 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Overview No. 2 on Article 165 of the Treaty
- ↑ Decree of the Chief of the Army Command Colonel General von Seeckt of August 24, 1921
Remarks
- ↑ The divisions and regiments were given aliases to camouflage the enlargement
- ↑ Motor vehicle gun, cannons on motorized self-propelled guns for anti-aircraft defense