Royal Bavarian 6th Field Artillery Regiment "Prince Ferdinand of Bourbon, Duke of Calabria"

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The 6th field artillery regiment "Prince Ferdinand of Bourbon, Duke of Calabria" was an artillery regiment of the Bavarian Army .

history

On October 1, 1890, the association from III. Department of the 3rd and 3rd and IV. Division of the 4th Field Artillery Regiment formed in Fürth . It was divided into two sections , each with three mobile batteries . On October 1, 1901, the III. Division and the 6th mobile battery for the formation of the 10th field artillery regiment handed over. The association was now divided into two departments with three batteries and two mobile batteries.

Together with the 10th Field Artillery Regiment, it formed the 5th Field Artillery Brigade since October 1901 .

The first and only regiment owner from March 1, 1911, was the husband of Princess Maria of Bavaria , Prince Ferdinand , Duke of Calabria . The regiment led from that time his name as an additive.

First World War

At the beginning of the First World War , the regiment mobilized on August 2, 1914 . In association with the 5th Infantry Division , it initially took part in the border battles and the Battle of Lorraine , fought near Nancy - Épinal and from mid-September 1914 was involved in trench warfare between the Meuse and the Moselle . At the end of December she gave the 2nd and 4th batteries to the Reserve Field Artillery Regiment 9 and the third platoon of the 6th battery to the 8th Field Artillery Regiment "Prince Heinrich of Prussia" . In the autumn of 1915 the regiment took part in the Battle of Champagne and fought in the Battle of the Somme in September 1916 . According to the instructions of the War Ministry of January 28, 1917, the association was converted to a III. Department added, which was set up in Eschenbach and was mobile from March 8, 1917. The regiment had already been subordinated to the newly formed artillery commander of the 5th Infantry Division three days earlier . Here it took part in the Battle of Arras from April 1917 and was then involved in trench warfare in Flanders and the Artois . On December 28, 1917, the subordination changed again and the regiment was with the army field artillery until the armistice.

Whereabouts

After the end of the war , the remnants of the regiment marched back to the garrison , where demobilization took place from January 6, 1919, and was dissolved in February 1919. The Schleip volunteer battery and the former staff of the Uhl field artillery staff were formed from parts . This went with the formation of the Provisional Reichswehr in the staff of the Reichswehr Artillery Regiment 21.

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 8th (mountain) battery of the 7th (Bavarian) Artillery Regiment in Landsberg am Lech . In the Wehrmacht , the tradition was through the regimental staff and the III. Department of Artillery Regiment 17 continued in Nuremberg .

Commanders

Rank Surname date
Colonel August Dietrich October 1, 1900 to February 15, 1902
Lieutenant colonel Julius Halder February 16, 1902 to August 19, 1905
Lieutenant colonel Wilhelm Dietz August 20, 1905 to June 4, 1907
Lieutenant colonel Karl Schupbaum June 5, 1907 to April 22, 1911
Lieutenant Colonel / Colonel Arthur Merlack April 23, 1911 to February 16, 1915
major Hugo Heidemann February 17, 1915 to September 7, 1917
major Paul Kollmann September 7, 1917 to January 1, 1919
major Friedrich Ris January 2 to February 6, 1919

literature

  • Military manual of the Kingdom of Bavaria. Bavarian War Ministry (ed.) Munich 1911.
  • Konrad Krafft von Dellmensingen , Friedrichfranz Feeser : The Bavaria book of the world wars 1914-1918. Volume 1. Chr. Belser AG publishing house bookstore. Stuttgart 1930.
  • Heinz Uhl: The history of the KB 6th field artillery regiment Prince Ferdinand of Bourbon Duke of Calabria (=  From Germany's great times. Formerly Bavarian troops . Volume 47 ). Sporn, Zeulenroda (Thuringia) 1931 ( digitized version of the Württemberg State Library ).

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. 505f.
  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. 449.