Royal Bavarian 4th Field Artillery Regiment "König"

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The 4th field artillery regiment "König" was an artillery regiment of the Bavarian Army .

history

On March 30, 1859, the association was formed by handing over six batteries each from the 1st and 2nd artillery regiments in Augsburg . It was divided into four field and eight foot batteries. In 1867, the field-batteries were six guns expanded and the following year it formed up to eight field and five foot batteries and a Fuhrwesen - squadron . From October 1, 1901, the regiment was divided into two departments with three batteries and two mobile batteries.

From October 12, 1867, the first regiment owner was King Ludwig II of Bavaria . The regiment therefore received the addition "King" from this point in time. With the death of Ludwig II the ownership passed to his successor.

Together with the 9th Field Artillery Regiment , it formed the 2nd Field Artillery Brigade since October 1901 .

German war

During the war against Prussia , the regiment was used in the Main Campaign .

Franco-German War

In the Franco-Prussian War , the regiment took part in the battles near Weißenburg , Wörth , Sedan , Loigny and Poupry as well as Beaugency . It was also effective in the enclosure of Bitsch , 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 . In association with the 2nd Infantry Division , it initially took part in the border battles and the Battle of Lorraine , fought near Nancy - Épinal and from October 1914 went into the trench warfare on the Somme . A year later it was in Flanders and Artois , participated in the Battle of Verdun from May to July 1916 and the Battle of the Somme in October / November 1916 . Then it went back to trench warfare between the Maas and Moselle and on April 16, 1917, the regiment was directly subordinated to the Army Field Artillery, where it was until the armistice.

Whereabouts

After the end of the war , the remnants of the regiment marched back to the garrison in Augsburg, where demobilization took place on December 16, 1918 . Various free formations were formed from parts . So the four national armed forces or volunteer batteries Laux, Jodl , Fahrmbacher and Hegemann. After the formation of the Provisional Reichswehr , these units were merged with the Reichswehr Artillery Regiment 22.

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 4th battery of the 7th (Bavarian) Artillery Regiment in Landsberg am Lech . In the Wehrmacht , the tradition was continued by the 27th Artillery Regiment in Augsburg.

Regimental owner

Rank Surname date
Ludwig II of Bavaria October 12, 1867 to June 13, 1886
Otto of Bavaria June 13, 1886 to November 4, 1913
Ludwig III. from Bavaria 0November 5, 1913 to the end of December 1918

Commanders

Until 1872 the commanders used the designation Oberstkommandant.

Rank Surname date
Maximilian Herdegen 0April 6, 1859 to January 10, 1865
Franz Rosenstengel January 11, 1865 to June 17, 1866
Nepomuk Müller from Gnadenegg June 18, 1866 to March 31, 1872
Hugo von der Tann-Rathsamhausen 0April 1, 1872 to December 3, 1874
Colonel Ludwig von Mussinan 0December 4, 1874 to November 1, 1882
Matthäus Schmauß 0November 2, 1882 to November 16, 1887
Maximilian von Linprun November 17, 1887 to September 24, 1889
Bernhard Seuffert September 25, 1889 to July 26, 1893
Joseph Mahler July 27, 1893 to May 11, 1896
Colonel Friedrich Pflaum May 12, 1896 to July 26, 1899
Colonel Arthur Strassner September 27, 1899 to September 30, 1901
Edwin von Rauscher on Weeg 0October 1, 1901 to March 8, 1904
Colonel Gustav Scanzoni von Lichtenfels 0March 9, 1904 to May 24, 1906
Major / Lieutenant Colonel Hermann von Stein May 25, 1906 to April 28, 1908
Colonel Ferdinand Jodl April 29, 1908 to July 23, 1911
Lieutenant Colonel / Colonel Gustav von Safferling July 24, 1911 to September 25, 1914
Colonel Georg Röck 0October 7, 1914 to February 25, 1917
major Justin Meyer February 26, 1917 to July 27, 1918
major Heinrich Uhl July 28 to December 17, 1918

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. 501.
  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. 446.
  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. 446f.