Royal Bavarian Foot Artillery Brigade

The foot artillery brigade was a large unit of the Bavarian Army .

history

The brigade was formed on January 1, 1875 and was based in Munich . The 1st and 2nd , and after the formation on December 1, 1912, the 3rd foot artillery regiment were subordinate to it.

At first the large association was part of the inspection of the artillery and the train. With the dissolution of this inspection on March 31, 1889, the brigade was replaced by an inspection of the foot artillery. This existed until December 27, 1900. The foot artillery brigade was then re-established.

With the mobilization at the outbreak of the First World War , the brigade was disbanded and the foot artillery brigade command 1 was formed from the staff. From September 24, 1915 to February 21, 1917, this was called General of the Foot Artillery No. 1 and then Artillery Commander No. 18. The artillery commander was subordinate to the 6th Reserve Division until the end of the war . After the armistice , the troops returned home on December 18, 1918 and were dissolved in Schwabmünchen by the end of January 1919 .

Commanders

Rank	Surname	date
Major general	Hugo von der Tann-Rathsamhausen	0January 1, 1875 to March 8, 1880
Major general	Theodor of Fries	0March 9, 1880 to November 1, 1882
Major general	Ernst von Büller	0November 2, 1882 to October 2, 1886
Major general	Frido von Blume	0October 3, 1886 to May 11, 1892
Major General / Lieutenant General	Ludwig Reinhard	May 12, 1892 to April 19, 1898
Lieutenant General	Eugen von Keller	April 20, 1898 to June 16, 1900
Major general	Gustav Strassner	June 17, 1900 to August 10, 1903
Major general	Franz Murmann	August 11, 1903 to August 17, 1906
Major general	Albert Löll	August 18, 1906 to March 10, 1910
Major General / Lieutenant General	Maximilian von Höhn	March 11, 1910 to March 26, 1912
Major general	Otto Kreppel	March 27, 1912 to March 14, 1917
Major general	Arnold Müller	March 15 to August 18, 1917
Lieutenant colonel	Friedrich Oelhafen von Schöllenbach	August 19, 1917 to January 1919

literature

Konrad Krafft von Dellmensingen , Friedrichfranz Feeser : The Bavaria book of the world wars 1914-1918. Volume 1. Chr. Belser AG. Publishing bookstore. Stuttgart 1930.
Bavarian War Ministry (Hrsg.): Military manual of the Kingdom of Bavaria. Munich 1905.

Individual evidence

^ 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. 133.
^ 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 active regiments, battalions and departments from the foundation or formation until August 26, 1939. Cavalry, artillery, pioneers, motor and driving departments, armored forces, traffic forces and intelligence departments. Biblio Publishing House. Osnabrück 1993. ISBN 3-7648-2413-1 . P. 455f.

[Kraus-1] 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. 133.

[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 active regiments, battalions and departments from the foundation or formation until August 26, 1939. Cavalry, artillery, pioneers, motor and driving departments, armored forces, traffic forces and intelligence departments. Biblio Publishing House. Osnabrück 1993. ISBN 3-7648-2413-1 . P. 455f.