Royal Bavarian 2nd Field Artillery Regiment "Horn"

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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
Lieutenant General Karl von Zoller 0November 1, 1839 to August 26, 1849
Lieutenant General Ludwig von Lüder November 24, 1852 to March 6, 1862
Feldzeugmeister Karl von Brodesser 0May 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
Colonel Ignaz Göschl October 11, 1824 to October 8, 1825
Colonel Karl of Caspers 0October 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 0November 6, 1849 to June 24, 1854
Colonel Xaver Hamel June 25, 1854 to April 27, 1859
Colonel Gustav von Reibeld 0May 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 0May 1, 1873 to April 10, 1874
Lieutenant Colonel / Colonel Karl Hollenbach July 17, 1874 to February 10, 1877
Colonel Ernst von Büller 0April 2, 1877 to October 1, 1878
Colonel Franz von Will 0December 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 0March 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 0October 1, 1901 to April 2, 1903
Lieutenant Colonel / Colonel Franz von Guttenberg 0April 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 0November 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

  1. ^ 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.
  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. 497f.
  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 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.
  4. ^ 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.