Württemberg Pioneer Battalion No. 13

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Württemberg Pioneer Battalion No. 13

active 1817 to 1918
Country Kingdom of Württemberg Kingdom of Württemberg
Armed forces German Army /
Württemberg Army
Branch of service Pioneers
structure See outline
Insinuation XIII. Army Corps
Location most recently Ulm
management
Commanders See list of commanders
Württemberg pioneers around 1835
( lieutenant and commoner )

The . Württembergische Engineer Battalion No. 13 was a pioneer - Battalion of the Württemberg Army or the German army . It was established as a sapper company on May 1, 1817 as part of a new military budget . Ludwigsburg was initially designated as the garrison . As early as 1817 a commando was sent to Ulm to take part in the land survey for the federal fortress still to be built . The battalion was disbanded at the end of the First World War in 1918. During the time of the German Empire , it was one of a total of 35 engineer battalions.

garrison

Reduit of the Lower Danube Bastion

On August 8, 1857, a fortress pioneer company was set up. In September 1857 the engineer corps was transferred to the Ulm garrison, where it was housed in the Lower Danube Bastion . On December 18, 1872, as part of the reorganization of the German army, the designation "Württemberg Pioneer Battalion" was introduced and a 4th company was set up at the battalion. From 1888 the battalion received the designation "Königlich Württembergisches Pionier-Bataillon Nr. 13", in the lower Danube bastion (pioneer barracks) were the staff, 1st and 3rd companies and in the lower Gaisenberg bastion (Gaisenberg barracks) the 2nd and 3rd 4th company. The battalion was under the XIII. (Royal Württemberg) Army Corps . Ulm remained the location of the Württemberg pioneers until it was dissolved.

Campaigns

In the campaigns against Denmark in 1848 , a detachment of the pioneer corps and in 1866 against Prussia the entire pioneer corps took part in the union of the Württemberg troops. Under its commandant Major Löffler, the Ulm field pioneer corps with staff, pontoon company, entrenchment column and telegraph department went into the war against France from 1870–1871 . The fortress troops remained first as genius -Kompanie in Ulm and was in the course of the campaign to the siege of Belfort and the storming of Perouse used. The field pioneer corps took part in the battles near Wörth and Sedan as well as in the siege of Paris , apart from the pioneer missions during the advance . After the armistice, the pioneer corps prepared the parade ground near Villiers for the Württemberg, Bavarian and Saxon troops who were not involved in the entry into Paris. Kaiser Wilhelm I thanked the troops for their services.

Other uses

  • Use during floods on the Iller , 1910.

organization

structure

The battalion consisted of peacetime in 1914:

  • Rod
  • 4 companies
  • 1 headlight train
  • Medical and administrative staff (medical officers and paymasters)

Commanders

No. Surname Date of appointment
1. by Arlt 1814
2. by Yelin 1815
3. from Berger 1817
4th Merz 1824
5. von Keinitz 1826
6th from Niethammer 1850
7th Lieutenant Colonel Emil von Loeffler 1869
8th. Johann Otto von Gaertner 1874
9. Colonel Emil von Loeffler (again) 1875
10. Ziegler 1877
11. from Balluseck 1883
12. Gaede 1888
13. Lieutenant Colonel Johann Heinrich Beurlin 1891
14th Haak 1894
15th Heiber 1898
16. Spelled field 1903
17th Kahns 1906
18th Major Hermann Klotz 1910
19th Major Langenstrass August 1914
20th Major Queisner
21st Major von Stockmayer February 1917
22nd Captain Deyhle June 1917

Others

banner

The battalion's flags have been restored and have been in the guard room of Ludwigsburg Palace since 1967 .

march

The parade march by Carl Faust , composed in 1855, was the parade march of the battalion. It has been part of the Army March Collection (AM II, No. 126) of the German Bundeswehr since 1961 .

Known members of the battalion

References

swell

  • Main State Archives Stuttgart: holdings M 200, M 201, M 205, M 206, M 414, M 433/2, M 533
  • War Ministry, Secret War Chancellery (editor): Ranking list of the Royal Prussian Army and the XIII. (Royal Wuerttemberg) Army Corps for 1914. [...] According to the status of May 6, 1914. [...] , Verlag ES Mittler, Berlin o. J.

literature

  • Deyle and L. Knies: Württembergische Pioneers (Württemberg's Army in World War I, issue 16a) , Stuttgart 1932
  • Royal War Ministry (Ed.): Military Manual of the Kingdom of Württemberg, Large Edition, as of May 6, 1913 , Stuttgart 1913
  • Ludwig Knies: The Württemberg Pioneer Battalion No. 13 in World War 1914-1918 . Belser, Stuttgart 1927. (Volume 41 of the series The Württemberg Regiments in World War I , digitally available at urn : nbn: de: bsz: 24-digibib-bsz4080081138 )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Augsburger Allgemeine : The day when the bridge broke on June 14, 2006, accessed on October 28, 2010