General inspection of the foot artillery

The General Inspection of the Foot Artillery was a military authority of the Prussian Army .

history

In the course of the separation of the field and foot artillery, the General Inspection of the Artillery was established on March 30, 1887 from the General Inspection of the Artillery that had existed until then . It was based in Berlin until it was dissolved in 1917 . The task of the general inspection was to manage the business and personnel affairs of the foot artillery and to supervise training and further training in weapons. In addition, she was jointly responsible for the artillery interests of the fortresses.

At the head of the authority stood the General Inspector of the Foot Artillery with the rank and fees of a Commanding General . He was directly subordinate to the Kaiser , a member of the National Defense Commission and was a member of the board of the United Artillery and Engineering School .

The 1st and 2nd foot artillery inspection in Berlin, the 3rd foot artillery inspection in Mainz (from 1893 in Cologne) and the 4th foot artillery inspection in Metz were subordinate to the general inspection . In addition, the staff and the 1st Battalion of the 2nd Foot Artillery Regiment of the Bavarian Army were attached to the General Inspection. In addition, she was subordinate to the artillery shooting school, the upper fireworks school and the examination committee for captains and prime lieutenants of the foot artillery. On August 11, 1893, the general inspection was expanded with the establishment of the 5th foot artillery inspection in Thorn and the 6th foot artillery inspection in Strasbourg . On March 30, 1895, the existing six foot artillery inspections were dissolved by order of the War Ministry . They were replaced by the newly established 1st foot artillery inspection in Berlin and the 2nd foot artillery inspection in Cologne, each with two foot artillery brigades. On October 1, 1912, a 3rd foot artillery inspection was formed with two other foot artillery brigades. From this point on, the 2nd inspection was in Strasbourg, the 3rd in Cologne.

In addition to the foot artillery shooting school in Jüterbog, which had existed since April 1, 1890, new schools were built in Wahn and Thorn during the First World War due to the increased need for personnel .

The general inspection was dissolved on March 1, 1917 and transformed into the inspection of foot artillery shooting schools, which is directly subordinate to the general inspector of the artillery shooting schools in the main headquarters . The general of the foot artillery in the main headquarters Major General Alfred Ziethen was entrusted with the management of the general inspector of the artillery shooting schools on August 16, 1917.

General inspectors

Rank	Surname	date
Lieutenant General / General of the Artillery	Rudolf von Roerdansz	0April 2, 1887 to April 7, 1890
Lieutenant General / General of the Artillery	Reinhold Sallbach	April 12, 1890 to June 9, 1893
Lieutenant General / General of the Artillery	Max von der Planitz	June 10, 1893 to June 12, 1902
Lieutenant General / General of the Infantry	Georg von Perbandt	June 19, 1902 to April 4, 1906
General of the artillery	Otto von Dulitz	April 10, 1906 to December 11, 1911
General of the artillery	Ludwig von Lauter	December 12, 1911 to August 1, 1914
General of the artillery z. D.	Georg Kuhn	0August 2, 1914 to February 28, 1917 (substitute)

literature

• Claus von Bredow : Historical ranking and master list of the German army. Verlag August Scherl, Berlin 1905, pp. 799–805.
• Curt Jany : History of the Prussian Army from the 15th Century to 1914. Fourth volume, Verlag Karl Siegismund, Berlin 1929, pp. 273, 314-316.
• Military weekly paper . No. 30, April 6, 1887, pp. 671-676.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Hermann Cron: History of the German Army in World Wars 1914-1918. Military publishing house Karl Siegesmund, Berlin 1937, p. 305.
2. ↑ Dermot Bradley (ed.), Günter Wegner: Occupation of the German Army 1815-1939. Volume 1: The higher command posts 1815–1939. Biblio Verlag, Osnabrück 1990, ISBN 3-7648-1780-1 , p. 476.