K. k. Field artillery regiment No. 44

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Imperial-Royal Field Artillery Regiment No. 44

active 1916 to 1918
Country Flag of the Habsburg Monarchy.svg Austria-Hungary
Armed forces Austro-Hungarian Land Forces
Armed forces army
Branch of service artillery
Type Artillery Regiment
structure See outline
Location See garrisons
management
Commanders See list of commanders

The Imperial and Royal Field Artillery Regiment No. 44 was from 1916 to 1918 a regiment of the Imperial and Royal Landwehr and thus part of the land forces of Austria-Hungary .

history

Surname

The regiment was established on March 1, 1916 as the kk Landwehrfeldkanonenregiment No. 44 . The main troops were the kk field cannon division No. 44 established on January 1, 1913, and the "sister unit" established on January 1, 1909, the kk field howitzer division No. 44 . At the request of the Imperial and Royal Ministry for National Defense, implemented by the Kaiser by means of a resolution of the highest order on February 27, 1916, these were renamed regiments, previously reinforced by additional batteries. In 1917 the designation "Landwehr" was abolished and the regiment was designated as the Imperial and Royal Field Gun Regiment No. 44 . When it was reorganized in June 1918, it was named kk field artillery regiment No. 44 .

garrison

K. k. Landwehr artillery barracks in Linz.

As a war formation, the regiment had no peace garrison. The combined Imperial and Royal replacement battery No. 44 was located in Linz and was responsible for the Imperial and Royal Field Artillery Regiments No. 44 and 144 as well as for the Heavy Field Artillery Regiment No. 44.

The replacement personnel were recruited from the Prague military command area.

Participation in skirmishes and combat operations

In the Austro-Hungarian army during World War I , the regiment was deployed on the eastern and southwestern fronts.

In May 1916 the regiment for restoration was in South Tyrol .

Due to the great offensive of the Russian Army under General Brusilov's on the eastern theater of war, the Army High Command was forced to shorten the front in South Tyrol and in June 1916 two divisions, u. a. the Imperial and Royal Landwehr Infantry Troop Division No. 44 and with it the newly established Imperial and Royal Landwehr Field Gun Regiment No. 44 to move there. In the course of the Battle of Stanislau , the regiment was deployed around 30 km southwest of Stanislau from late July to mid-August 1916.

In August 1916 it was moved back to the Southwest Front by rail. From August 20, the regiment arrived at Prvacina station and was then used in the 9th, 10th, 11th and 12th Isonzo battles. In September 1917 it was in the Ternowaner Forest .

After the capitulation, the march back to Linz took place in November 1918. There the regiment was demobilized and finally disbanded.

organization

Association membership

From the day of its establishment, the regiment was subordinate to the Imperial and Royal (Landwehr) Field Artillery Brigade No. 44 and thus part of the Imperial and Royal Landwehr Infantry Division or Rifle Division No. 44.

structure

In 1914 the kk Landwehrfeldkanonendivisionen consisted of two cannon batteries with six guns each. In 1916 these were used to set up the Landwehr field cannon regiments comprising four batteries, which were expanded by two to six batteries in 1917. In May 1917 the war level per battery was reduced by around 22 men to 190 soldiers. In 1918 the unified field artillery regiments with mixed equipment took the place of the previous field cannon regiments.

Structure in 1916 as kk Landwehrfeldkanonenregiment No. 44 (LFKR 44)

  • Rod
  • Field cannon battery No. 1, renaming of the battery No. 1 of the kk Landwehrfeldkanonendivision No. 44, built in 1913
  • Field cannon battery No. 2, renaming of the battery No. 2 built in 1913 for the kk Landwehr field cannon division No. 44
  • Field cannon battery no. 3, renaming of battery no. 3 of the kk Tyrolean field cannon regiment built in 1915
  • Field cannon battery No. 4, renaming of the battery No. 4 of the kk Tyrolean field cannon regiment built in 1915

Structure in 1917 as kk field cannon regiment No. 44 (FKR 44)

  • Rod
  • Field cannon battery No. 1, was previously battery No. 1 of the LFKR 44
  • Field cannon battery No. 2, was previously battery No. 2 of the LFKR 44
  • Field cannon battery no.3, was previously battery no.3 of LFKR 44
  • Field cannon battery No. 4, was previously battery No. 4 of LFKR 44
  • Anti-aircraft gun battery No. 5, renaming of the 8 cm M. 14 / R anti-aircraft gun train No. 1 of the Austro-Hungarian Mountain Artillery Regiment No. 14 built in 1917
  • Mortar battery No. 6, rebuilt in 1917

Division 1918 as kk field artillery regiment No. 44 (FAR 44)

Commanders

No. Surname Beginning of the appointment
1. Colonel Artur Ritter Bogusz von Ziemblice March 16, 1916
2. Colonel Vinzenz Scholler von Konty 1917

Armament and equipment

Main armament

The Imperial and Royal Landwehrfeldkanonendivisions were initially equipped with 8 cm rapid-fire cannons made of steel bronze with a 5/8 meter barrel return. In the course of the war, these were to be completely replaced by the modern steel 8 cm field cannon M. 17, which, however, only partially succeeded by autumn 1918.

References

swell

Austrian State Archives : holdings of the war archive

literature

  • M. Christian Ortner : The Austro-Hungarian Artillery from 1867 to 1918 , Verlag Militaria, Vienna 2007, ISBN 978-3-902526-12-0
  • Georg Sobicka: Old batteries. A contribution to the history of our field artillery (reprint from Streffleuer's military. Magazine) , published by J. Roller & Co., Vienna 1914
  • Georg Sobicka: Structure and development of the batteries of the Austro-Hungarian field and mountain artillery in the World War 1914-1918 , Verlag Karl Harbauer, Vienna and Leipzig 1920

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See Ortner 2007, p. 380.
  2. ↑ See Sobicka 1920, pp. 28, 83 and 86, and Ortner 2007, p. 378.
  3. ↑ See Sobicka 1920, pp. 83 and 86.
  4. ↑ See Sobicka 1920, p. 83.

Remarks

  1. ^ A "division" in Austria-Hungary consisted of two batteries or companies. The major military organization "Division" was called the Troop Division.
  2. ↑ With a total of 16 cannons.
  3. ↑ Consists of two trains with two guns each.