Royal Bavarian 9th Field Artillery Regiment

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The 9th Field Artillery Regiment was an artillery regiment of the Bavarian Army .

history

On October 1, 1901, the association was formed by the handing over of the 1st division of the 3rd and the 6th mobile battery of the 1st and 3rd field artillery regiments in Freising . It was divided into two sections with three batteries and two traveling batteries .

Together with the 4th field artillery regiment "König" it formed the 2nd field artillery brigade . The artillery barracks in Landsberg am Lech had been the last place of peace since October 1, 1905 .

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 .

At the end of December 1914, the 3rd and 4th batteries of four guns were transferred to the Reserve Field Artillery Regiment 8 . Of one train of the 1st and 2nd battery, a new battery and the third of one train of the 4th and 5th battery was formed a new fourth battery. At the end of March 1915, the regiment was again affected by taxes. The third train of the 1st and 6th battery was ruled out for new formations.

From mid-October the association was engaged in trench warfare 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 was again in the trench warfare between Maas and Moselle .

According to an order of the War Ministry of January 12, 1917, the regiment received a III. Department. This was formed from the staff and the 7th battery of the 2nd replacement department of the 1st field artillery regiment "Prinzregent Luitpold" and mobilized on February 20, 1917. Shortly thereafter, from March 4, the regiment was placed under the newly formed artillery commander of the 2nd Infantry Division. In the further course of the war, the association took part in the battle of the Aisne in May 1917 and was involved in trench warfare in the Argonne and before Verdun . The last time it was offensive was at the end of March, beginning of April 1918 during the Great Battle of France . Subsequently, the regiment was in permanent defensive battles until the armistice .

Whereabouts

After the end of the war , the remnants of the regiment marched back to the garrison , where demobilization and subsequent dissolution took place from December 21, 1918 . The Mack Volunteer Division with three volunteer batteries was formed from parts . After the formation of the Provisional Reichswehr , this association became part of the Reichswehr Artillery Regiment 21 as the 2nd Division.

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 (mountain) battery of the 7th (Bavarian) Artillery Regiment in Landsberg am Lech. In the Wehrmacht , the tradition was continued by the 1st and 2nd divisions of the 63rd artillery regiment in Landsberg am Lech.

Commanders

Rank Surname date
Colonel Josef Peter 0October 1, 1901 to December 12, 1904
Lieutenant colonel Emanuel Riezler December 13, 1904 to February 22, 1906
Lieutenant colonel Karl Ebermeyer February 23, 1906 to April 14, 1908
Lieutenant colonel Emil Roeder April 15, 1908 to March 25, 1910
Lieutenant colonel Serious hero March 26, 1910 to March 25, 1911
Colonel Karl Düll March 26, 1911 to October 6, 1914
Colonel Theodor Pöhlmann 0October 7, 1914 to February 25, 1917
major Siegfried from and to Aufseß February 26 to May 29, 1917
major Friedrich Lehmann May 29 to August 5, 1917
major Eugene Abel August 16, 1917 to June 17, 1918
major Maximilian von Bodman June 18 to October 4, 1918
major Friedrich Lehmann 0October 5, 1918 to January 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. 511.
  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. 451f.