Royal Bavarian 5th Field Artillery Regiment "King Alfons XIII. from Spain"

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The 5th field artillery regiment "King Alfons XIII. von Spanien “ was an artillery regiment of the Bavarian Army .

history

On October 1, 1890, the association was given six batteries each from the staff of the III. Division, the 7th and 8th mobile battery of the 1st , the 6th mobile battery of the 3rd and 2nd division of the 2nd artillery regiment formed in Landau in the Palatinate . It was divided into two sections , each with three mobile batteries . On October 1, 1901, the 1st and 6th mobile batteries for the establishment of the 12th Artillery Regiment were handed over and a new mobile battery was formed at the same time. The association was now divided into two departments with three batteries and two mobile batteries.

Together with the 12th Field Artillery Regiment, it formed the 3rd Field Artillery Brigade since October 1901 .

The regiment owner King Alfonso XIII. from Spain

The first and only regiment holder was King Alfonso XIII from January 27, 1904 . of Spain . 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 . The riding department left the regimental association and was subordinated to the cavalry division from this point on . In association with the 3rd Infantry Division , it initially took part in the border battles and the Battle of Lorraine , fought near Nancy - Épinal and on the Somme . After the Battle of Ypres , the regiment was engaged in trench warfare in Flanders and Artois . This was interrupted in 1915 by the spring and autumn battles at La Bassée and Arras . From August 24, 1916, the unit was used in the Battle of the Somme and on September 6, 1916 was directly subordinate to the 3rd Infantry Division. After the Battle of Arras , the subordination changed on May 12, 1917 to Artillery Commander No. 20 of the 30th Reserve Division . It was now in trench warfare in Lorraine and from the end of October 1917 in Upper Alsace . From mid-May to October it was subordinate to the army field artillery and then to the artillery commander No. 134 at the Ciney military training area until the armistice .

Whereabouts

After the end of the war , the remnants of the regiment marched back home, where from December 1918 the demobilization took place in Eltmann and in January 1919 it was dissolved. The Loch Volunteer Battery , which was deployed in the artillery department of the Bamberg Freikorps in the border guards , was formed from parts . The battery was also involved in protecting the legal government and liberating Munich . After the formation of the Provisional Reichswehr , this unit was merged with the 4th Battery of the 23rd Reichswehr Artillery Regiment.

The tradition in the Reichswehr was taken over by the 3rd battery of the 7th (Bavarian) Artillery Regiment in Würzburg 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 continued by the 2nd Division of the 33rd Artillery Regiment in Landau.

Commanders

Rank Surname date
Colonel Aloys of Trentini 0October 1, 1890 to September 10, 1894
Colonel Karl von Landmann September 11, 1894 to June 19, 1896
Lieutenant colonel Emil Högenstaller June 20, 1896 to August 10, 1897
Lieutenant colonel Hermann Schöller August 11, 1897 to February 21, 1900
Lieutenant colonel Hermann Keller February 22, 1900 to April 14, 1901
Colonel Luitpold von Horn April 15 to October 1, 1901
Lieutenant colonel Wilhelm Goertz 0October 1, 1901 to April 8, 1905
Lieutenant colonel Oskar Deßloch 0April 9, 1905 to May 18, 1906
Lieutenant colonel Otto von Gyßling May 19 to July 20, 1906
Lieutenant colonel Robert Paul July 20, 1906 to August 3, 1908
Lieutenant colonel Heinrich Bauer 0August 4, 1908 to March 6, 1912
Lieutenant Colonel / Colonel Walter Kollmann 0March 7, 1912 to April 24, 1916
Lieutenant colonel Heinrich von Ranke April 25, 1916 to January 1919

literature

  • Bavarian War Ministry (Hrsg.): Military manual of the Kingdom of Bavaria. Munich 1911.
  • Konrad Krafft von Dellmensingen , Friedrichfranz Feeser : The Bavaria book of the world wars 1914-1918. Volume 1, Chr.Belser AG Verlagbuchhandlung, Stuttgart 1930.
  • Walter Kollmann, Herbert Loch: The Kgl. Bayer. 5 Field Artillery Regiment King Alfonso XIII. from Spain. Munich 1926 (memorial sheets of German regiments, volume 45).

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. 502.
  2. ^ Jürgen Kraus: Handbook of the units and troops of the German army 1914-1918. Part IX: Field Artillery. Volume 1, Verlag Militaria, Vienna 2007, ISBN 978-3-902526-15-1 , p. 503.
  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 Verlag, Osnabrück 1993, ISBN 3-7648-2413-1 , p. 447 f.