Royal Bavarian 2nd Field Artillery Regiment "Horn"
The 2nd field artillery regiment "Horn" was an artillery regiment of the Bavarian Army .
history
The regiment was formed on October 11, 1824 from the 2nd, 4th and a reserve battalion of the former artillery regiment with twelve companies . In 1827 the 2nd artillery regiment was relocated to Würzburg . In 1841 the regiment was expanded to fourteen, in 1848 to fifteen companies. The first regiment owner was from November 1st, 1839 Lieutenant General Karl von Zoller, whose name the regiment had as an addition. This addition ceased with the death of the regiment owner. Instead, it was referred to as "vacant" during the ownerless period.
Together with the 11th Field Artillery Regiment , it formed the 4th Field Artillery Brigade since October 1901 . The place of peace for both regiments was Würzburg .
German war
During the war against Prussia , the regiment was used in the Main Campaign .
Franco-German War
During the Franco-Prussian War the regiment was assigned to the II Army Corps as corps artillery . It was involved in the battles near Wörth , Sedan , the Lisaine and the shelling of Bitsch . In addition, the regiment was used in the enclosure and siege of Paris and the siege of Belfort .
First World War
At the beginning of the First World War , the regiment mobilized on August 2, 1914 . It first took to the border skirmishes and the Battle of Lorraine part, fought at Nancy - Epinal and went on after the battle Somme in trench warfare over. This was interrupted in November 1914 by the Battle of Ypres . Lying in Flanders and Artois since the end of December 1914 , the regiment took part in the spring and autumn slaughter at La Bassée and Arras in 1915 . The Battle of the Somme followed in August / September 1916 . From the end of February 1917, the regiment was briefly subordinate to the newly formed artillery commander of the 4th Infantry Division and then from March 11 to June 29, 1917 with the army field artillery . Then it was again subordinated to the artillery commander No. 4 and participated under his leadership u. a. at the battles at Messines , Cambrai and around the Kemmelberg .
Whereabouts
After the end of the war , the remnants of the regiment marched back to Würzburg, where demobilization took place from December 1918 . The III. The division was disbanded on December 24, 1918 and the regiment was finally disbanded at the end of March 1919. Various free formations were formed from parts . The former 2nd battery formed the Thelemann volunteer battery; The Aschenbrandt Volunteer Battery was created from Division II, and the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Volkswehr batteries were also formed. After the formation of the Provisional Reichswehr , these units were merged with the Reichswehr Artillery Regiment 23.
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 24th 1921 the 1st battery of the 7th (Bavarian) Artillery Regiment in Würzburg. In the Wehrmacht , the tradition was continued by the 2nd Division of the 93rd Artillery Regiment.
Regimental owner
Rank | Surname | date |
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Lieutenant General | Karl von Zoller | November 1, 1839 to August 26, 1849 |
Lieutenant General | Ludwig von Lüder | November 24, 1852 to March 6, 1862 |
Feldzeugmeister | Karl von Brodesser | May 5, 1870 to February 2, 1876 |
General of the Infantry | Karl von Horn | August 21, 1884 until dissolution |
Commanders
Until 1872 the commanders used the designation Oberstkommandant.
Rank | Surname | date |
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Colonel | Ignaz Göschl | October 11, 1824 to October 8, 1825 |
Colonel | Karl of Caspers | October 9, 1825 to January 19, 1840 |
Colonel | Franz von Hoffstellen | January 20, 1840 to May 16, 1842 |
Colonel | Eduard von Weishaupt | October 25, 1842 to March 30, 1848 |
Colonel | Baptist von Roppel | March 31, 1848 to October 24, 1849 |
Colonel | Joseph von Poellath | November 6, 1849 to June 24, 1854 |
Colonel | Xaver Hamel | June 25, 1854 to April 27, 1859 |
Colonel | Gustav von Reibeld | May 9, 1859 to April 12, 1861 |
Colonel | Maximilian von Steinsdorf | October 22, 1861 to May 19, 1866 |
Colonel | Fedor Schultze | May 20, 1866 to November 6, 1867 |
Colonel | Johann von Pillement | December 25, 1867 to November 12, 1871 |
Colonel | August von Feilitzsch | November 13, 1871 to March 19, 1873 |
Colonel | Carl Brandt | May 1, 1873 to April 10, 1874 |
Lieutenant Colonel / Colonel | Karl Hollenbach | July 17, 1874 to February 10, 1877 |
Colonel | Ernst von Büller | April 2, 1877 to October 1, 1878 |
Colonel | Franz von Will | December 1, 1878 to July 30, 1883 |
Colonel | Maximilian von Speck | September 12, 1883 to October 25, 1886 |
Colonel | Joseph Mayr | October 26, 1886 to March 7, 1889 |
Colonel | Wilhelm Jamin | March 8, 1889 to September 26, 1889 |
Lieutenant Colonel / Colonel | Emil von Stengel | October 30, 1889 to June 30, 1895 |
Colonel | Maximilian von Gerstner | May 31, 1895 to April 19, 1898 |
Lieutenant Colonel / Colonel | Friedrich Lobenhoffer | April 20, 1898 to September 18, 1900 |
Colonel | Kaspar Häusler | September 19, 1900 to September 30, 1901 |
Lieutenant Colonel / Colonel | Moritz Vogl | October 1, 1901 to April 2, 1903 |
Lieutenant Colonel / Colonel | Franz von Guttenberg | April 3, 1903 to April 18, 1905 |
Lieutenant Colonel / Colonel | Eugene Schmid | April 19, 1905 to November 19, 1907 |
Lieutenant Colonel / Colonel | Oskar von Etzel | November 20, 1907 to July 23, 1911 |
Major / Lieutenant Colonel / Colonel | Wilhelm longhouses | July 24, 1911 to November 3, 1914 |
major | Eugene Peringer | November 4 to December 19, 1914 (in charge of the tour) |
major | Friedrich von Oelhafen | December 20, 1914 to April 25, 1915 (responsible for the tour) |
major | Friedrich Ris | April 26 to June 28, 1915 (entrusted with the tour) |
Lieutenant colonel | Hugo Gramich | June 29 to December 11, 1915 (entrusted with the tour) |
major | Friedrich Ris | December 12, 1915 to April 28, 1916 (in charge of the tour) |
major | Friedrich of Luxburg | April 29, 1916 to May 11, 1918 (in charge of the tour) |
Lieutenant colonel | Ludwig Pollmann | May 12, 1918 to March 25, 1919 |
literature
- Joseph Karl Brennfleck: The Royal Bavarian 2nd Field Artillery Regiment Horn. Max Schick publishing house, Munich 1939.
- Military manual of the Kingdom of Bavaria. Munich 1905.
- Konrad Krafft von Dellmensingen , Friedrichfranz Feeser : The Bavaria book of the world wars 1914-1918. Volume 1, Chr.Belser AG Verlagbuchhandlung, Stuttgart 1930.
- Adolf Thelemann: The kb 2nd field artillery regiment Horn, processed after d. official war diaries. Bavarian War Archives, Munich 1924, urn : nbn: de: 101: 1-201304288491 . (Volume 27 on the royal Bavarian units in the series of memorial sheets of German regiments )
Individual evidence
- ^ Sybille Grübel: Timeline of the history of the city from 1814-2006. In: Ulrich Wagner (Hrsg.): History of the city of Würzburg. 4 volumes, Volume I-III / 2, Theiss, Stuttgart 2001-2007; III / 1–2: From the transition to Bavaria to the 21st century. Volume 2, 2007, ISBN 978-3-8062-1478-9 , pp. 1225-1247; here: p. 1226.
- ^ 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. 497f.
- ^ 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. 441.
- ^ 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. 442f.