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This is a list of Imperial German artillery regiments [1] 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 ...
Pages in category "World War II artillery of Germany" The following 107 pages are in this category, out of 107 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
During the Franco-Prussian War, there were 11 Prussian artillery regiments, each with one horse, one reserve and three foot units. Each horse artillery unit comprised three batteries, each battery was equipped with six C64 guns, for a total of eighteen guns per unit. The foot artillery units had an equal mixture of 6-pounder Krupp guns and the ...
Reserve divisions were also formed, Landwehr brigades were aggregated into divisions, and other divisions were formed from replacement (Ersatz) units. As World War I progressed, additional divisions were formed, and by wars' end, 251 divisions had been formed or reformed in the German Army's structure.
The designation "Light" (leichte in German) had various meanings in the German Army of World War II. There were a series of 5 Light divisions; the first four were pre-war mechanized formations organized for use as mechanized cavalry, and the fifth was an ad hoc collection of mechanized elements rushed to Africa to help the Italians and ...
In peacetime the Corps was assigned to the II Army Inspectorate but joined the 2nd Army at the start of the First World War. [1] It was still in existence at the end of the war [2] in the 4th Army, Heeresgruppe Kronprinz Rupprecht, on the Western Front. [3] The Corps was disbanded with the demobilisation of the German Army after World War I.
The 2nd Guards Field Artillery Regiment (German: 2. Garde-Feldartillerie-Regiment) was an artillery unit in the Prussian Army prior to and during the First World War. [1] The regiment was part of the 4th Guards Infantry Division.
The II Army Corps / II AK (German: II. Armee-Korps ) was a corps level command of the Prussian and then the Imperial German Armies from the 19th Century to World War I . It was established on 3 April 1820 with headquarters initially in Berlin .