Altmark Field Artillery Regiment No. 40

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The Altmark Field Artillery Regiment No. 40 was an association of the Prussian Army , which existed from 1899 to 1919.

history

The association became on October 1, 1899 (foundation day) as field artillery regiment No. 40 from the II. Department of the field artillery regiment "Prince Regent Luitpold of Bavaria" (Magdeburgisches) No. 4 , as well as the 9th and 11th battery of the Posenchen Field Artillery Regiment No. 20 set up. The regiment had its garrison in Burg near Magdeburg and was subordinate to the 7th Field Artillery Brigade .

On January 27, 1902, Kaiser Wilhelm II issued the army order that the associations, which had previously been run without a rural designation, were given a name extension for better differentiation and to establish tradition. From that point on, the regiment was known as Altmark Field Artillery Regiment No. 40.

First World War

With the outbreak of the First World War , the regiment mobilized with staff, 1st and 2nd divisions and initially took part in the fighting in neutral Belgium in conjunction with the 7th Field Artillery Brigade in the 7th Infantry Division . Then it advanced to France and took part in the battles for Le Cateau , the Marne and the Aisne and in Flanders . During the trench warfare in the Artois , the 3rd battery for the formation of Field Artillery Regiment No. 103 was surrendered. In the further course of the year the regiment was involved in the Loretto Battle and the Battle of Loos . After position battles in Artois and Flanders, the brigade association was disbanded during the Battle of the Somme and the regiment was directly subordinated to the 7th Infantry Division from October 3, 1916. On January 7, 1917, the regiment was then a III. Department expanded as directed by the War Department . Until the end of the war, the regiment remained in constant use on the Western Front .

Whereabouts

After the armistice , the association returned to the garrison in Burg. The III. The division was demobilized from December 26, 1918, the rest of the regiment from January 10, 1919 and finally disbanded at the end of May 1919. Various free formations were formed from parts , which were later adopted by the Provisional Reichswehr.

The tradition took over in the Reichswehr by decree of the Chief of the Army Command General of the Infantry Hans von Seeckt from August 24, 1921, the 3rd battery of the 4th Artillery Regiment in Halberstadt . In the Wehrmacht , the 1st Division of Artillery Regiment 4 continued the tradition.

Commanders

Rank Surname date
Major / Lieutenant Colonel / Colonel Arnold Berg 0October 1, 1899 to September 14, 1904
major Franz Ziemer September 15 to October 17, 1904 (in charge of the tour)
Major / Lieutenant Colonel / Colonel Franz Ziemer October 18, 1904 to March 19, 1911
Lieutenant Colonel / Colonel Fritz Thiemig March 20, 1911 to October 21, 1913
Lieutenant colonel Adolf Büstorff February 22, 1913 to March 4, 1916
major Ulrich von Dincklage-Campe 0March 5, 1916 to May 22, 1917
major Schröder May 23 to June 24, 1917
major Gustav von Suchten June 25, 1917 to September 14, 1918
major Hans Caemmerer September 15, 1918 to January 7, 1919
Colonel Felix von Lewinski 0January 8 to May 26, 1919

literature

  • Claus von Bredow : Historical ranking and master list of the German army. Verlag August Scherl, Berlin 1905, p. 377.
  • History of the Altmark Field Artillery Regiment No. 40. Verlag von Carl Jacobsen, Leipzig around 1905.
  • Ernst Glaser-Gerhard: The Altmark Field Artillery Regiment No. 40 in the World Wars 1914-1918 . Sporn, Zeulenroda 1932. (Volume 53 of the series From Germany's Great Times )
  • Jürgen Kraus : Handbook of the associations and troops of the German army 1914-1918. Part IX: Field Artillery. Volume 1, Verlag Militaria, Vienna 2007, ISBN 978-3-902526-15-1 , p. 269.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Military weekly paper . No. 9, January 28, 1902, pp. 221-224.
  2. ^ Günter Wegmann (Ed.), Günter Wegner: Formation history and staffing of the German armed forces 1815-1990. Part 1: Occupation of the German armies 1815–1939. Volume 3: The occupation of the active regiments, battalions and departments from the foundation or list up to August 26, 1939. Biblio Verlag, Osnabrück 1993, ISBN 3-7648-2413-1 , p. 283.