Royal Bavarian 12th Field Artillery Regiment

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The 12th Field Artillery Regiment was an artillery regiment of the Bavarian Army .

history

On October 1, 1901, the association from III. Department and the 6th mobile battery of the 2nd field artillery regiment "Horn" as well as two newly formed mobile batteries set up in Würzburg . It was divided into two sections with three batteries and two traveling batteries. The last place of peace for the regiment was Landau in the Palatinate .

Together with the 5th Field Artillery Regiment , it formed the 3rd Field Artillery Brigade since October 1901 .

First World War

At the beginning of the First World War , the regiment mobilized on August 2, 1914 . In association with the 3rd Infantry Division , it initially took part in the border battles and the Battle of Lorraine , fought near Nancy - Épinal and on the Somme . After the Battle of Ypres , the regiment was engaged in trench warfare in Flanders and Artois . This was interrupted in 1915 by the spring and autumn battles at La Bassée and Arras . Already at the end of February it had surrendered two guns each from the 1st, 2nd and 3rd batteries to reorganize the 21st Field Artillery Regiment . From August 24, 1916, the unit was used in the Battle of the Somme and on October 8, 1916, it was directly subordinate to the 3rd Infantry Division.

According to the instructions of the War Ministry of January 7, 1917, the association was converted to a III. Department added. The staff as well as the 7th to 9th battery were by the deputy general command of the III. Army Corps was formed and, after being set up for training, initially relocated to the Thimougies military training area . On February 27, 1917, the III. Division to the regiment in the field.

From March 3 to April 24, 1917, the regiment was subordinate to Artillery Commander No. 3 of the 3rd Infantry Division. Subsequently, after the Battle of Arras, the subordination relationship changed directly to the division and was involved in the fighting in Flanders and before Verdun . With the relocation of the regiment to Lorraine on July 19, 1917, the association came back under the command of Artillery Commander No. 3, who led it in the trench warfare in Champagne , on the Ailette and on the Chemin des Dames . From March 21, 1918 it took part in the Great Battle of France in the German offensive before the regiment returned to trench warfare at the beginning of April. After the heavy defensive battles in the Woëvre level, on November 7, 1918 the III. Division and the 7th battery disbanded. The 8th battery was transferred to Division I, the 9th battery to Division II.

Whereabouts

After the end of the war , the remnants of the regiment marched back to Germany. Since the Garrison Landau was no longer available due to the Allied occupation of the Rhineland , the regiment was initially demobilized in Ebermannstadt on December 18, 1918 and finally dissolved in January 1919. The Zacherl or Heyl volunteer or national army battery was formed from parts . With the formation of the Provisional Reichswehr , this unit became the 3rd battery in the Reichswehr Artillery Regiment 23.

The tradition in the Reichswehr was taken over by the 3rd battery of the 7th (Bavarian) Artillery Regiment in Würzburg by decree of the Chief of Army Command, General of the Infantry Hans von Seeckt , on August 24, 1921 . In the Wehrmacht , the tradition was initially continued by the 2nd Division of the 33rd Artillery Regiment in Landau and later by the 69th Artillery Regiment in Mannheim .

Commanders

Rank Surname date
Lieutenant colonel Johann Gebhard October 1, 1901 to December 7, 1902
Lieutenant Colonel / Colonel Lothar Straßner December 8, 1902 to April 27, 1906
Lieutenant colonel Maximilian Hopf April 28, 1906 to March 25, 1909
Lieutenant Colonel / Colonel Hermann von Burkhardt March 26, 1909 to April 21, 1912
Lieutenant Colonel / Colonel Hugo Muller April 22, 1912 to July 1, 1916
Lieutenant colonel Eduard Pfeiffer July 2, 1916 to January 1919

literature

Individual evidence

  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. 516.
  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. 453.