Schleswig-Holstein Foot Artillery Regiment No. 9

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The Schleswig-Holstein Foot Artillery Regiment No. 9 (FsAR 9) was founded on September 14, 1867. The name of the regiment was still: "Schleswig Fortress Artillery Department No. 9".

history

1812–1815 Wars of Liberation

In the Wars of Liberation , the 1st and 2nd companies of the later 9th foot artillery regiment fought. The first company was formed in 1809 from dispersed artillerymen from field artillery regiments 1 and 3. She served as the provisional 10th company of the Brandenburg Brigade . In the campaign of 1813/1814 it fought as 12-pound battery No. 6 of the II AR under Friedrich von Kleist . The battery was commanded by Premier Lieutenant Wolf.

In the summer campaign of 1815 she was subordinate to the I. AR under von Zieten. The battery chief was Captain Reuter. Like other heavy artillery units, the 1st Company was not used as mobile field artillery at Waterloo , but with its artillery and ammunition park provided the material for the siege of various French fortresses.

The second company was established in Graudenz in 1813 . It served as a foot reserve battery. The company was in command of Lieutenant Hertig. The 2nd Company was equipped with Prussian 12 pounders. In October 1813 French seven-pound howitzers were captured. Due to insufficient training and training times on the howitzers, these were lost relatively quickly in the course of the campaign and were replaced by captured French 12-pounders. The second company, like the first, took part in the 1815 campaign against Napoleon and was mainly used as siege artillery.

1860

The 3rd company is founded in Königsberg . From June 16, 1864, it became the 6th company of the East Prussian fortress artillery regiment No. 1.

1864 war against Denmark

The first company took part in the war against Denmark in 1864 under Captain Heineccius. She occupied two reduced batteries of four 24-pounders each and one battery with four 12-pounders. The company's artillerymen also took part in the assault on the Düppeler Schanzen . The task assigned to them, namely turning Danish artillery over and overfire one's own troops with enemy artillery material, could not be fulfilled by the artillerymen. The Danes had made all the guns unusable in time.

1865

From the 8th company of the Pomeranian fortress artillery regiment No. 2, the 4th company of FsAR 9 is founded. It emerged from the 4th company of this regiment created in Berlin in 1809.

1866 German War

The foot artillery regiment No. 9 did not take part in the German war . Like almost all Prussian troops, it was mobilized, but only occupied the Prussian fortresses as instructed.

1870–1871 war against France

Only the 1st Mobile Company took part in the war against France. The remaining units of the regiment were used as instructed for coastal defense. (It was feared, and justifiably so, that the French navy would be superior). The first company crossed the French border on November 15, 1870. Among other things, it deposited gun material for the siege of Metz and later of Paris. The 1st Company provided the artillery garrison of the previously captured Fort Plappeville in the northwest of Metz. The fortress was not yet fully operational at the start of the war and was completed by 1871 with the help of the artillerymen and German engineering troops. In April 1871 the fort's crew returned to their garrison in Sønderborg.

1900 Boxer Rebellion

Flag of the Schleswig-Holstein foot artillery regiment 9

On January 27, 1900 (the birthday of Kaiser Wilhelm II), FsAR 9 received the flag that had previously remained with Field Artillery Regiment 9 as its own regimental flag. Both regiments "shared" the flag handed over on June 24, 1867. The flag ribbons and the war memorial coins (markings) remain with the delivered flag. Units of the regiment are assigned to suppress the Boxer Rebellion . In China three gunners are killed and one gunners are wounded.

1903

The 9th (previously 3rd FsAR 2) and 10th (previously 6th FsAR 2) companies join the regiment as a half battalion. Diedenhofen becomes a garrison town .

1905

The battalion will be equipped with type 02 howitzers .

1906

The 1st Battalion received steel mortars. These replace the outdated bronze mortars. The half battalion in Diedenhofen is used to form the III. Foot artillery 8 delivered.

1908

The companies are given the designation "batteries".

1912

The 1st Battalion received a return pipe mortar (21 cm mortar). This gun will later become the field gun.

1913

The clothing department is enlarged. Half a department is relocated to Cologne.

1914–1918 First World War

Mobilization. Two battalions are formed from I / 9, namely I./9 consisting of 1st and 2nd battery and II./9 consisting of 3rd and 4th battery. The II./9 in Ehrenbreitstein goes to war as III./9.

  • I./FsAR 9
February 1916: Battle of Verdun ( Bois de Caures , Cote de Horgne)
  • II./FsAR 9
September 1914: Maas Army (Hombourg, Visé)

1920

On September 30th, the Schleswig-Holstein Foot Artillery Regiment No. 9 was formally dissolved.

Garrisons

  • 1866–1871: Sonderburg
  • 1872: Sonderburg, Cuxhaven and Lehe
  • 1873: Geestemünde, Geestendorf, Lehe, Cuxhaven
  • 1874: Bremerhaven, Cuxhaven, Lehe
  • 1875–1887: Bremerhaven, Lehe
  • 1893–1903: Ehrenbreitstein and Cologne
  • From 1903: Ehrenbreitstein (2nd battalion: Feste Ehrenbreitstein and Fort Rheineck), Cologne, Diedenhofen
  • 1914–1918: Ehrenbreitstein (staff; 2nd battalion in Feste Ehrenbreitstein and Fort Rheineck) and Cologne (1st battalion); In 1914 the regiment was to be combined in Ehrenbreitstein

Members of the regiment

Memorials

  • A memorial for the fallen of the regiment is in Cologne. The monument erected in the Friedenspark in 1927 commemorates the units related to the (garrison) city of Cologne during the First World War. The inscription on the bronze plaque reads:

PRO GLORIA ET PATRIA FROM THE SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEINIAN FOOT ARTILLERY REGT. NO. 9 AND ITS WAR FORMATS DIED IN THE FIELD OF HONOR 78 OFFICERS 184 SUB-OFFICERS 184 TEAMS.

  • Another memorial plaque is located in the main cemetery in Koblenz in the central memorial for the victims of the First World War. The inscription there reads:

SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN. FUSZARTILLERIE REG. NO. 9 AND HIS FIELD INFORMATION 78 OFFICERS 1368 SUB-OFFICERS AND TEAMS.

literature

  • von Abel: Stammliste of the Royal Prussian Army. Berlin: Middle 1905.
  • Kurt Heydemann: Schleswig-Holstein Foot Artillery Regiment No. 9 (memorial sheets of German regiments; [18] Artillery-H. 1), Verlag Gerhard Stalling, 1921 Oldenburg. Digitized version of the Württemberg State Library .
  • A. Schwencke, M. Reymann: battles of the world war , volume 13, 14 and 15 The tragedy of Verdun 1916 , Verlag Gerhard Stalling, 1928 Oldenburg iO / Berlin 1928, (on behalf of the Reichsarchiv).
  • 1. Regimental roll call with reunion of the husband. Schleswig-Holstein Foot Artillery Regiment No. 9 and its war formation in the liberated Ehrenbreitstein garrison from May 31. - 2.6.1930 / Ed .: 9er Bund. Cologne, club print, 1930. [1]

Web links

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