Royal Bavarian 8th Field Artillery Regiment "Prince Heinrich of Prussia"

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The 8th field artillery regiment "Prince Heinrich of Prussia" was an artillery regiment of the Bavarian Army .

history

On October 1, 1900, the association from III. Division of the 2nd and two new field howitzer batteries formed in Nuremberg . It was divided into two sections with three batteries and two traveling batteries .

Together with the 3rd field artillery regiment "Queen Mother" , it formed the 6th field artillery brigade since October 1901 .

The regiment owner Prince Heinrich of Prussia

The first and only regiment owner from June 15, 1913 was the brother of Kaiser Wilhelm II , Prince Heinrich of Prussia . 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 . It initially took part in the border battles and the Battle of Lorraine , fought near Nancy - Épinal and went into position warfare from mid-September 1914 between the Meuse and the Moselle . From July to August 1916 it was used in the Battle of Verdun . Before the start of the Battle of the Somme , the regiment was directly subordinated to the 6th Infantry Division on September 15, 1916 , and from October 1, 1916 was engaged in trench warfare in Flanders and Artois . According to the instructions of the War Ministry of January 28, 1917, the association was converted to a III. Department added, which was mobile from March 15, 1917. Just seven days before the regiment was the newly formed artillery commander of the 16th Infantry Division had been assumed. Here it took part in the Battle of Arras in April 1917 and in the Great Battle of France from March 21 to April 6, 1918 , and was involved in permanent defensive battles until the end of the war.

Whereabouts

After the end of the war , the remnants of the regiment marched back to the garrison , where they arrived on December 18, 1918, initially demobilized on December 28, 1918 and finally disbanded in February 1919. Various free formations were formed from parts . For example, the Fraunhofer artillery staff, which was deployed in the Regensburg Freikorps, the Gerstner volunteer battery and the Hirschauer volunteer battery. The Volkswehr battery from Axthelm was created from the former 4th battery and the Volkswehr and Wachbatterie Schleip from the former 6th battery. With the formation of the Provisional Reichswehr , the units in the Reichswehr Artillery Regiment 24 were absorbed.

The tradition in the Reichswehr was adopted by the 7th battery of the 7th (Bavarian) Artillery Regiment in Nuremberg 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 through the regimental staff and the III. Department of Artillery Regiment 17 continued in Nuremberg.

Commanders

Rank Surname date
Colonel Karl von Menz October 1, 1900 to March 8, 1904
Lieutenant colonel Julius Burckart March 9, 1904 to December 31, 1906
Lieutenant colonel Wilhelm Taubler January 1, 1907 to April 21, 1910
Lieutenant colonel Maximilian von Hellingrath April 22, 1910 to January 22, 1913
Lieutenant Colonel / Colonel Karl von Bomhard January 23, 1913 to December 5, 1916
Major z. D. Hugo Stöber December 6, 1916 to February 5, 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. 510.
  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. 450f.