List of Imperial German artillery regiments explained

This is a list of Imperial German artillery regiments before and during World War I. In peacetime, the Imperial German Army included 100 regiments of Field artillery (plus the Lehr instruction unit) and 24 regiments of Foot artillery (plus another Lehr instruction unit) who operated the heavier pieces. Some of these regiments had a history stretching back to the 17th Century, while others were only formed as late as October 1912.[1]

Field Artillery Regiments

Regiment Raised[2] Garrison Corps
1st Guards Field Artillery[3] BerlinGuards Corps
2nd Guards Field ArtilleryPotsdamGuards Corps
3rd Guards Field ArtilleryBerlin, BeeskowGuards Corps
4th Guards Field ArtilleryPotsdamGuards Corps
1st (1st Lithuanian) Field Artillery "Prince August of Prussia"Gumbinnen, InsterburgI Army Corps
2nd (1st Pomeranian) Field ArtilleryKolberg, BelgardII Army Corps
3rd (1st Brandenburg) Field Artillery "General-Feldzeugmeister"BrandenburgIII Army Corps
4th (Magdeburg) Field Artillery "Prince Regent Luitpold of Bavaria"MagdeburgIV Army Corps
5th (1st Lower Silesian) Field Artillery "von Podbielski"Sprottau, SaganV Army Corps
6th (1st Silesian) Field Artillery "von Peucker"BreslauVI Army Corps
7th (1st Westphalian) Field ArtilleryWesel, DüsseldorfVII Army Corps
8th (1st Rhenish) Field Artillery "von Holtzendorff"Saarbrücken, SaarlouisXXI Army Corps
9th (Schleswig) Field Artillery "General Field Marshal Graf Waldersee"ItzehoeIX Army Corps
10th (1st Hannover) Field Artillery "von Scharnhorst"HannoverX Army Corps
11th (1st Kurhessian) Field ArtilleryKassel, FritzlarXI Army Corps
12th (1st Royal Saxon) Field ArtilleryDresden, KönigsbrückXII Army Corps
13th (1st Württemberg) Field Artillery "King Charles"Ulm, CannstattXIII Army Corps
14th (1st Baden) Field Artillery "Grand Duke"KarlsruheXIV Army Corps
15th (1st Upper Alsatian) Field ArtillerySaarburg, MörchingenXXI Army Corps
16th (1st East Prussian) Field ArtilleryKönigsbergI Army Corps
17th (2nd Pomeranian) Field ArtilleryBrombergII Army Corps
18th (2nd Brandenburg) Field Artillery "General-Feldzeugmeister"Frankfurt/OderIII Army Corps
19th (1st Thuringian) Field ArtilleryErfurtXI Army Corps
20th (1st Posen) Field ArtilleryPosenV Army Corps
21st (1st Upper Silesian) Field Artillery "von Clausewitz"Neiße, GrottkauVI Army Corps
22nd (2nd Westphalian) Field ArtilleryMünsterVII Army Corps
23rd (2nd Rhenish) Field ArtilleryKoblenzVIII Army Corps
24th (Holstein) Field ArtilleryGüstrow, NeustrelitzIX Army Corps
25th (1st Grand Ducal Hessian) Field ArtilleryDarmstadtXVIII Army Corps
26th (2nd Hannover) Field ArtilleryVerdenX Army Corps
27th (1st Nassau) Field Artillery "Oranien"Mainz, WiesbadenXVIII Army Corps
28th (2nd Royal Saxon) Field ArtilleryPirnaXII Army Corps
29th (2nd Württemberg) Field Artillery "Prince Regent Luitpold of Bavaria"LudwigsburgXIII Army Corps
30th (2nd Baden) Field ArtilleryRastattXIV Army Corps
31st (1st Lower Alsatian) Field ArtilleryHagenauXXI Army Corps
32nd (3rd Royal Saxon) Field ArtilleryRiesaXIX Army Corps
33rd (1st Lotharingian) Field ArtilleryMetzXVI Army Corps
34th (2nd Lotharingian) Field ArtilleryMetzXVI Army Corps
35th (1st West Prussian) Field ArtilleryDeutsch-EylauXX Army Corps
36th (2nd West Prussian) Field ArtilleryDanzigXVII Army Corps
37th (2nd Lithuanian) Field ArtilleryInsterburgI Army Corps
38th (Vorpommersches) Field ArtilleryStettinII Army Corps
39th (Kurmark) Field ArtilleryPerlebergIII Army Corps
40th (Altmark) Field ArtilleryBurgIV Army Corps
41st (2nd Lower Silesian) Field ArtilleryGlogauV Army Corps
42nd (2nd Silesian) Field ArtillerySchweidnitzVI Army Corps
43rd (Cleve) Field ArtilleryWeselVII Army Corps
44th (Trier) Field ArtilleryTrierVIII Army Corps
45th (Lauenburg) Field ArtilleryAltona, RendsburgIX Army Corps
46th (Lower Saxony) Field ArtilleryWolfenbüttel, CelleX Army Corps
47th (2nd Kurhessian) Field ArtilleryFuldaXI Army Corps
48th (4th Royal Saxon) Field ArtilleryDresdenXII Army Corps
49th (3rd Württemberg) Field ArtilleryUlmXIII Army Corps
50th (3rd Baden) Field ArtilleryKarlsruheXIV Army Corps
51st (2nd Upper Alsatian) Field ArtilleryStraßburgXV Army Corps
52nd (2nd East Prussian) Field ArtilleryKönigsbergI Army Corps
53rd (Hinterpommersches) Field ArtilleryBromberg, HohensalzaII Army Corps
54th (Neumark) Field ArtilleryKüstrin, Landsberg an der WartheIII Army Corps
55th (2nd Thuringian) Field ArtilleryNaumburg an der SaaleXI Army Corps
56th (2nd Posen) Field ArtilleryLissaV Army Corps
57th (2nd Upper Silesian) Field ArtilleryNeustadt/Oberschlesien, GleiwitzVI Army Corps
58th (Minden) Field ArtilleryMindenVII Army Corps
59th (Berg) Field ArtilleryKölnVIII Army Corps
60th (Grand Ducal Mecklenburgian) Field ArtillerySchwerinIX Army Corps
61st (2nd Grand Ducal Hessian) Field ArtilleryDarmstadt, BabenhausenXVIII Army Corps
62nd (East Frisisan) Field ArtilleryOldenburg, OsnabrückX Army Corps
63rd (2nd Nassau) Field ArtilleryFrankfurt/Main, MainzXVIII Army Corps
64th (5th Royal Saxon) Field ArtilleryPirnaXII Army Corps
65th (4th Württemberg) Field ArtilleryLudwigsburgXIII Army Corps
66th (4th Baden) Field ArtilleryLahr, NeubreisachXV Army Corps
67th (2nd Lower Alsatian) Field ArtilleryHagenau, BischweilerXXI Army Corps
68th (6th Royal Saxon) Field ArtilleryRiesaXIX Army Corps
69th (3rd Lotharingian) Field ArtillerySt. AvoldXVI Army Corps
70th (4th Lotharingian) Field ArtilleryMetz, SaarlouisXVI Army Corps
71st Field Artillery "Grand Komtur"GraudenzXVII Army Corps
72nd Field Artillery "Grand Master"Marienwerder, Preußisch StargardXVII Army Corps
73rd (1st Masurian) Field ArtilleryAllensteinXX Army Corps
74th (Torgau) Field ArtilleryTorgau, WittenbergIV Army Corps
75th (Mansfeld) Field ArtilleryHalle/SaaleIV Army Corps
76th (5th Baden) Field ArtilleryFreiburg im BreisgauXIV Army Corps
77th (7th Royal Saxon) Field ArtilleryLeipzigXIX Army Corps
78th (8th Royal Saxon) Field ArtilleryWurzenXIX Army Corps
79th (3rd East Prussian) Field ArtilleryOsterodeXX Army Corps
80th (3rd Upper Alsatian) Field ArtilleryColmar, NeubreisachXV Army Corps
81st (Thorn) Field ArtilleryThornXVII Army Corps
82nd (2nd Masurian) Field ArtilleryRastenburg, LötzenXX Army Corps
83rd (3rd Rhenish) Field ArtilleryBonn, DürenVIII Army Corps
84th (Straßburg) Field ArtilleryStraßburgXV Army Corps
1st Royal Bavarian Field Artillery "Prince Regent Luitpold"MunichI Royal Bavarian Corps
2nd Royal Bavarian Field Artillery "Horn"WürzburgII Royal Bavarian Corps
3rd Royal Bavarian Field Artillery "Price Leopold"AmbergIII Royal Bavarian Corps
4th Royal Bavarian Field Artillery "King"AugsburgI Royal Bavarian Corps
5th Royal Bavarian Field Artillery "King Alfons XIII of Spain"LandauII Royal Bavarian Corps
6th Royal Bavarian Field Artillery "Price Ferdinand of Bourlon, Duke of Calabria"FürthIII Royal Bavarian Corps
7th Royal Bavarian Field Artillery "Prince Regent Luitpold"MunichI Royal Bavarian Corps
8th Royal Bavarian Field Artillery "Prince Heinrich of Prussia"NurembergIII Royal Bavarian Corps
9th Royal Bavarian Field ArtilleryFreisingI Royal Bavarian Corps
10th Royal Bavarian Field ArtilleryErlangenstyle=white-space:nowrapIII Royal Bavarian Corps
11th Royal Bavarian Field ArtilleryWürzburgII Royal Bavarian Corps
12th Royal Bavarian Field ArtilleryLandauII Royal Bavarian Corps
Lehr Field ArtilleryJüterbogGuards Corps

Foot Artillery Regiments

Regiment Raised Garrison Corps
Guards Foot ArtillerySpandauGuards Corps
1st (East Prussian) Foot Artillery "von Linger"Königsberg, LötzenI Army Corps
2nd (1st Pomeranian) Foot Artillery "von Hindersin"Swinemünde, EmdenII Army Corps
3rd (Brandenburg) Foot Artillery "General-Feldzeugmeister"MainzXVIII Army Corps
4th (Magdeburg) Foot Artillery "Encke"MagdeburgIV Army Corps
5th (Lower Silesian) Foot ArtilleryPosenV Army Corps
6th (Silesian) Foot Artillery "von Dieskau"Neiße, GlogauVI Army Corps
7th (Westphalian) Foot ArtilleryKölnVII Army Corps
8th (Rhenish) Foot ArtilleryMetzXVI Army Corps
9th (Schleswig-Holstein) Foot ArtilleryEhrenbreitsteinVIII Army Corps
10th (Lower Saxony) Foot ArtilleryStraßburgXV Army Corps
11th (1st West Prussian) Foot ArtilleryThornXVII Army Corps
12th (1st Royal Saxon) Foot ArtilleryMetzXVI Army Corps
13th (Hohenzollern) Foot ArtilleryUlm, BreisachXV Army Corps
14th (Baden) Foot ArtilleryStraßburgXV Army Corps
15th (2nd Pomeranian) Foot ArtilleryBromberg, GraudenzII Army Corps
16th (Lotharingian) Foot ArtilleryMetz, DiedenhofenXVI Army Corps
17th (2nd West Prussian) Foot ArtilleryDanzig, PillauXVII Army Corps
18th (Thuringian) Foot ArtilleryNiederzwehren bei KasselXI Army Corps
19th (2nd Royal Saxon) Foot ArtilleryDresdenXII Army Corps
20th (Lauenburg) Foot ArtilleryAltona, Lockstedt (temp.)IX Army Corps
1st Royal Bavarian Foot Artillery "vakant Bothmer"Munich, Neu-UlmI Royal Bavarian Corps
2nd Royal Bavarian Foot ArtilleryMetzII Royal Bavarian Corps
3rd Royal Bavarian Foot ArtilleryIngolstadtstyle=white-space:nowrapIII Royal Bavarian Corps
Lehr Foot ArtilleryJüterbogGuards Corps

See also

Bibliography

Notes and References

  1. Web site: The Prussian Machine, Field and Foot Regiments . https://archive.today/20121220184823/http://home.comcast.net/~jcviser/army/rgtsfldarty.htm . dead . 20 December 2012 . 19 May 2012 .
  2. Web site: A Pocket German Army . 2012-10-23 . bot: unknown . https://web.archive.org/web/20090224174920/http://users.hunterlink.net.au/~maampo/militaer/armtoc.html . 24 February 2009 .
  3. Had a third (Horse Artillery) Abteilung of three batteries of 4 guns.