Foot artillery regiment "Encke" (Magdeburgisches) No. 4

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Foot artillery regiment "Encke" (Magdeburgisches) No. 4

active 1864 to 1919
Country Kingdom of Prussia Kingdom of Prussia
Armed forces Prussian Army
Branch of service artillery
Type Artillery Regiment

The foot artillery regiment "Encke" (Magdeburgisches) No. 4 was an association of foot artillery (heavy artillery) of the Prussian army .

history

It was set up on June 16, 1864 as Magdeburg Fortress Artillery Regiment No. 4 to two divisions of four companies each. The regimental staff and the first division were stationed in Magdeburg , the second division in Erfurt . On August 27, 1866 the 9th and 10th companies of the 7th / 5th and 3rd / 6th from the II. Division became a III. Division formed and assigned to Saxony . This III. Division left the regiment on March 1, 1868.

With the separation from the field artillery on September 7, 1872, the association was renamed Magdeburg Foot Artillery Regiment No. 4. From this point on, the previous departments were referred to as battalions. The 2nd Battalion was stationed in the Ehrenbreitstein Fortress in Koblenz from 1877 . On April 1, 1881, the 6th Company was transferred to the 11th Foot Artillery Regiment .

Wilhelm II decreed on January 27, 1889 that the regiment had to use his name in honor and in memory of Lieutenant General August Encke (1794–1860). From this point on, it was called "Encke" (Magdeburgisches) No. 4 foot artillery regiment.

On October 2, 1893, the 7th Company was transferred to the Schleswig-Holstein Foot Artillery Regiment No. 9 and the 4th Company to the Foot Artillery Regiment No. 15 . In the same year the regiment was put back together in Magdeburg and placed under the newly formed 1st Foot Artillery Inspection in Berlin. On April 1, 1902, a clothing department from the Magdeburg Train Battalion No. 4 was incorporated into the regiment and on October 1, 1903 the 2nd company was transferred to the Hohenzollern Foot Artillery Regiment No. 13 . In 1912 the subordination changed again and the association joined the 6th Foot Artillery Brigade of the 3rd Foot Artillery Inspection. From 1913 the regiment used the Magdeburg Enckekaserne .

German war

During the German War of 1866, only one "emergency battery" (5th Company) took active part in the fighting and was used in the battle of Langensalza . This company had two dead and five wounded.

Franco-German War

In the war against France in 1870/71, the regiment took part in the sieges of Toul , Paris and Belfort as well as the capture of the fortress of Soissons and the battle of the Lisaine .

First World War

With the mobilization at the outbreak of the First World War , the regimental association was dissolved, the battalions were directly subordinate to the army corps and the regimental staff of the 2nd Army . In accordance with the ordinance of the War Ministry of February 24, 1917, the regimental staff was transformed into General of Artillery No. 13 and, from May 31, 1917, placed under the Army Artillery Reserve of the 1st Army .

Whereabouts

After the end of the war , the association was initially demobilized and finally dissolved at the end of March 1919.

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 2nd battery of the 4th Artillery Regiment in Halberstadt .

Commanders

Rank Surname date
Lieutenant colonel Wilhelm Roth June 16, 1864 to December 11, 1865
Lieutenant Colonel / Colonel Feodor von Haenel December 12, 1865 to August 13, 1868
Lieutenant Colonel / Colonel Höckner August 14, 1868 to October 17, 1871
major Siber October 18 to November 22, 1871 (in charge of the tour)
Lieutenant Colonel / Colonel Julius Hartmann November 23, 1871 to June 8, 1874
Major / Lieutenant Colonel Franz Robert Konstantin Eck 0June 9, 1874 to January 10, 1877
Major / Lieutenant Colonel / Colonel Arved von Teichman and Logischen January 25, 1877 to October 13, 1884
Major / Lieutenant Colonel Adolf Heinicke October 14, 1884 to March 10, 1886
Major / Lieutenant Colonel Richard Polmann March 11, 1886 to June 13, 1888
Lieutenant Colonel / Colonel Karl Weitzel June 14, 1888 to August 11, 1890
Major / Lieutenant Colonel Paul von Tauchnitz August 12, 1890 to September 18, 1891
Lieutenant Colonel / Colonel Wilhelm Brennecke September 19, 1891 to March 30, 1894
Lieutenant Colonel / Colonel Bialonski March 31, 1894 to May 12, 1895
Lieutenant Colonel / Colonel Wilhelm von Roth May 13, 1895 to July 21, 1900
Lieutenant Colonel / Colonel Maximilian von Hörder July 22, 1900 to March 22, 1902
Major / Lieutenant Colonel Heinrich Schwedler March 23, 1902 to April 21, 1905
Lieutenant Colonel / Colonel Ernst Walter April 22, 1905 to December 18, 1907
Major / Lieutenant Colonel / Colonel Guido Schwierz December 19, 1907 to July 19, 1912
Lieutenant Colonel / Colonel Hugo chicken July 20, 1912 to January 17, 1917
Lieutenant colonel Kurt Scharf January 18, November 20, 1917
major Paul Uhlenhaut November 21, 1917 to April 14, 1918
Lieutenant colonel Günter Krauss 00 April 1918 to January 1919
Colonel Johannes Stuckenschmidt January 10 to March 31, 1919

literature

  • White, Hans Richter, Loppe: History of the foot artillery regiment "Encke" (Magdeburg.) No. 4 and its main troop units. Verlag Karl Peters, Magdeburg 1909, DNB 364046112 .
  • Max Dobrzynski: Foot Artillery Regiment Encke (Magdeburgisches) No. 4 along with information about its war organizations. Memorial sheets of German regiments . Gerh. Stalling, Oldenburg i. O. 1924. Digital full text at the Württemberg State Library

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Curt Jany (ed.), Hermann Cron: History of the German Army in the World Wars 1914-1918. Biblio Verlag, Osnabrück 1990, ISBN 3-7648-1767-4 , p. 154.
  2. ^ Jürgen Kraus : Handbook of the units 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. 7.
  3. ^ 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 . Pp. 305-306.