The German heavy artillery in Macedonia

 

 

General der Fußartillerie Nr. 1

History :

formed at the beginning of September 1915

Attached to :

11. Armee (30 September 1915 – 9 December 1915)

Balkan (18 December 1915)

sent to France at the end of December 1915

General der Fußartillerie Nr. 28

History :

formed at the beginning of July 1916 from AOK 6

become Arko 138 on 16 February 1917

Attached to :

1st Bulgarian Army (19 October 1916 – 26 December 1916)

 

Stab des Reserve-Fußartillerie-Regiments Nr. 1

History :

mobilized on 2 August 1914 (Staff and two Battalions)

Attached to :

3rd Bulgarian Army (11 December 1916)

Army Group Mackensen (1 February 1917 – 1 March 1917)

Fußartillerie-Regimentsstab Nr. 108

History :

raised in April 1916

Attached to :

Army Group Mackensen (16 March 1916 – 1 July 1916)

11. Armee (1 August 1916 – 4 December 1918)

Fußartillerie-Regimentsstab Nr. 210

History :

raised in June 1916 from Fußartillerie-Bataillonsstab 210

Attached to :

11. Armee (2 July 1916 – 1 September 1916)

1st Bulgarian Army (1 October 1916)

11. Armee (7 October 1916 – 1 January 1917)

Army Group Below (1 February 1917)

1st Bulgarian Army (14 April 1917 – 1 September 1918)

Army Group Scholtz (18 September 1918 – 9 October 1918)

11. Armee (16 October 1918 – 20 November 1918)

 

bayerisches Fußartillerie-Bataillonsstab Nr. 204

History :

raised in July 1915

sent to Macedonia in early October 1916

become the Staff of bayerisches Fußartillerie-Bataillone 13 on 19 December 1916

Attached to :

11. Armee (10 October 1916 – 1 December 1916)

Fußartillerie-Bataillonsstab Nr. 209

History :

raised in July 1915

become the Staff of Landwehr Fußartillerie-Bataillone 25 on 13 January 1916

Attached to :

Balkan (3 – 13 January 1916)

Fußartillerie-Bataillonsstab Nr. 222

History :

raised in November 1915

sent to Macedonia on 8 December 1915

become the Staff of Landwehr Fußartillerie-bataillone 12 on 21 January 1917

Attached to :

11. Armee (8 December 1915 – 1 September 1916)

1st Bulgarian Army (1 September 1916 – 1 January 1917)

bayerisches Fußartillerie-Bataillonsstab Nr. 231

History :

raised on 20 June 1916

sent to Macedonia in early October 1916

become the Staff of bayerisches Fußartillerie-Bataillone 24 on 10 February 1917

Attached to :

11. Armee (10 October 1916 – 15 November 1916)

1st Bulgarian Army (16 November 1916 – 21 January 1917)

 

Fußartillerie-Ersatz-Abteilung der Heeresgruppe Below

History :

raised on 6 November 1916

become Fußartillerie-Ersatz-Abteilung der Heeresgruppe Scholtz on 22 April 1917

Attached to :

Army Group Below (6 November 1916 – 22 April 1917)

Fußartillerie-Ersatz-Abteilung der Heeresgruppe Scholtz

History :

raised on 22 April 1917 from Fußartillerie-Ersatz-Abteilung der Heeresgruppe Below

become Fußartillerie-Ersatz-Abteilung der 11. Armee on 23 October 1918

Attached to :

Army Group Scholtz (22 April 1917 – 16 October 1918)

 

Fußartillerie-Regiment Encke (Magdeburgisches) Nr. 4

History :

mobilized on 2 August 1914 (Staff and three Battalions)

Weapons :

5. and 6. Batterie : 21cm Mörser

Attached to :

Regimental Staff : 1st Bulgarian Army (23 July 1916 – 27 December 1916)

II. Bn. (5., 6. Bt.) : 11. Armee (24 September 1915 – 1 October 1916)

II. Bn. Staff and 5. Bt. : 11. Armee (1 October 1916 – 10 October 1918)

6. Bt. : 1st Bulgarian Army (10 October 1916 – 1 September 1916)

Allocation :

Battalion Staff: 1st Bulgarian Army (1 October 1916 – 1 January 1917)

5. Bt. : 101. I.D. (11 October 1915)

          IV. Res. Korps (22 October 1915)

          Bulgarian Army (9 December 1915)

          1st Bulgarian Army (1 October 1916 – 5 November 1916)

          Div. Hippel (11 December 1916 – 31 December 1916)

          Div. Kdo z.b.V. 302 (1 January 1917 – 5 May 1918)

6. Bt. : 101. I.D. (11 October 1915)

          IV. Res. Korps (22 October 1915)

Niederslesisches Fußartillerie-Regiment Nr. 5

History :

mobilized on 2 August 1914 (Staff and two Battalions)

Weapons :

1., 2. and 3. Batterie : schw. Feldhb. 13

Attached to :

I. Bn. Staff and 1., 2., 3. Bts : 11. Armee (10 October 1916 – 1 August 1918)

Allocation :

half of 1. Bt. : Seeabschnitt (7 August 1917 – 20 August 1917)

half of 2. Bt. : Seeabschnitt (23 June 1917 – 4 October 1917)

2. Bt. : 101. I.D. (22 October 1916 – 31 December 1916)

          Div. Hippel (22 October 1916 – 31 December 1916)

          Div. Kdo z.b.V. 302 (1 January 1917 – 23 March 1918)

Remarck :

in April 1918 the battalion gave its howitzers to the 2nd Heavy Artillery Regiment

Westafälisches Fußartillerie-Regiment Nr. 7

History :

mobilized on 2 August 1914 (Staff and three Battalions)

II. Bn. (5., 6. Bts.) took part in the invasion of Serbia in September 1915 – March 1916

Weapons :

5. and 6. Batterie : 21cm Mörser

Attached to :

II. Bn. Staff and 5., 6. Bts : 11. Armee (21 September 1915 – 13 March 1916)

Allocation :

II. Bn. Staff and 5., 6. Bts : III. Armeekorps (11 – 22 October 1915)

Schleswig-Holsteinisches Fußartillerie-Regiment Nr. 9

History :

mobilized on 2 August 1914 (Staff and three Battalions)

9. Batterie raised on 30 January 1916

5. Batterie sent to Turkey on 15 May 1918

Weapons :

3., 4. and 9. Batterie : Mörser

5., 7. and 8. Batterie : schw. Feldhb. 13

Attached to :

II. Bn. Staff and 3., 4., 9. Bts : Army Group Mackensen (4 – 21 September 1916)

III. Bn. Staff and 5., 7., 8. Bts : 11. Armee (23 September 1915 – 25 September 1916)

                                            1st Bulgarian Army (25 September 1916 – 22 August 1918)

                                            Army Group Scholtz (23 August 1918 – 18 October 1918)

Allocation :

III. Bn. : 5th Bulgarian Division (9 March 1916 – 22 August 1918)

            Army Group Reserve (23 August 1918 – 19 September 1918)

            3rd Bulgarian Division (20 – 24 September 1918)

III. Bn. Staff : 210. Inf. Brig. (16 December 1915 – 22 February 1916)

7. Bt. : 1st Bulgarian Army (16 November 1915 – 9 December 1915)

          210. Inf. Brig. (16 December 1915 – 22 February 1916)

          5th Bulgarian Division (9 March 1916 – 9 December 1916)

          210. Inf. Brig. (30 January 1918 – 10 May 1918)

Remarck :

in April 1918 the 7. Batterie gave its howitzers to the 2nd Heavy Artillery Regiment

Hoehnzollernsches Fußartillerie-Regiment Nr. 13

History :

mobilized on 2 August 1914 (Staff and two Battalions)

I. Bn. (2., 3., 4. Bts.) took part in the invasion of Serbia in September – December 1915

III. Bn. with 9. and 10. Bty. raised on 15 July 1916

Weapons :

2., 3., and 4. Batterie : schw. Feldhb. 02

9. and 10. Batterie : schw. Feldhb. 13

Attached to :

I. Bn. Staff and 2., 3., 4. Bts. : Army Group Mackensen (30 September 1915 – 9 December 1915)

III. Bn. Staff and 9., 10. Bts. : Army Group Mackensen (17 September 1916 – 1 March 1917)

Allocation :

I. Bn. : 26. RD. (30 September 1915 – 22 October 1916)

9. Bt. : 4th Bulgarian Division (20 September 1916 – 11 October 1916)

Thüringisches Fußartillerie-Regiment Nr. 18

History :

mobilized on 2 August 1914 (Staff and three Battalions)

6. Bt. took part in the invasion of Serbia in October – December 1915

Weapons :

6. Batterie : Mörser

Attached to :

6. Bt. : 3rd Austro-Hungarian Army (4 October 1915 – 16 December 1915)

2. bayerisches Fußartillerie-Regiment

History :

mobilized on 2 August 1914 (Staff and two Battalions)

7. Batterie disbanded on 3 August 1918

Weapons :

6. and 7. Batterie : 10cm Kan. 04

Attached to :

6. Bt. : 11. Armee (2 October 1916 – 30 September 1918)

7. Bt. : 11. Armee (24 September 1916 – 20 December 1917)

           Army Group Scholtz (21 December 1917– 3 August 1918)

Allocation :

6. Bt. : Div. Hippel (22 October 1916 – 31 December 1916)

          Div. Kdo z.b.V. 302 (1 January 1917 – 30 September 1918)

3. bayerisches Fußartillerie-Regiment

History :

mobilized on 2 August 1914 (Staff and two Battalions)

5. Bt. took part in the invasion of Serbia in October – December 1915

Weapons :

5. Batterie : Mörser

Attached to :

5. Bt. : 11. Armee (3 October 1915 – 18 December 1915)

 

2. Garde-Reserve-Fußartillerie-Regiment

History :

mobilized on 2 August 1914 (Staff and two Battalions)

Weapons :

6. and 7. Batterie : 10cm Kan. 04

Attached to :

Army Group Mackensen (18 November 1916)

9. Armee (1 December 1916)

3rd Bulgarian Army (11 December 1916)

Army Group Mackensen (1 January 1917 – 1 March 1917)

Reserve-Fußartillerie-Regiment Nr. 5

History :

mobilized on 2 August 1914 (Staff and two Battalions)

II. Bn. (5., 8. Bt.) took part in the invasion of Serbia in October 1915 – April 1916

Weapons :

5. and 8. Batterie : schw. Feldhb. 02

Attached to :

Staff of the II Bn., 5. and 8. Bts : 25. RD. (11 October 1915 – 6 April 1916)

Reserve-Fußartillerie-Regiment Nr. 6

History :

mobilized on 2 August 1914 (Staff and two Battalions)

I. Bn. reduced to two Batteries (1. and 2. Batterie) on 11 September 1915

II. Bn. (5., 6., 7., 8. Bt.) took part in the invasion of Serbia in September – December 1915

10. Batterie raised on 24 January 1917 from Fußartillerie-Batterie Nr. 105

Weapons :

1., 2. and 10. Batterie : schw. Feldhb. 13

5. and 6. Batterie : schw. Feldhb. 13

7. and 8. Batterie : schw. Feldhb. 02

Attached to :

I. Bn. : Army Group Mackensen (25 September 1916 – 1 March 1917)

10. Batterie : Army Group Mackensen (30 January 1917 – 1 March 1917)

II. Bn. : 11. Armee (21 September 1915 – 22 October 1915)

            Army Group Mackensen (9 – 18 December 1915)

Allocation :

Staff of the II. Bn., 7. and 8. Batterie : X. Reserve-Korps (21 June 1915 – 30 October 1915)

5. and 6. Batterie : III. Armee-Korps (11 – 22 October 1915)

Reserve-Fußartillerie-Regiment Nr. 8

History :

mobilized on 2 August 1914 (Staff and two Battalions)

9. Batterie raised on 18 April 1917 from Fußartillerie-Batterie Nr. 110

Weapons :

1. and 2. Batterie : 10cm Kan. 04

2. Batterie : 10cm Kan. 14 (from October 1916)

9. Batterie : 10cm Kan. 14

Attached to :

Regimental Staff : Army Group Mackensen (6 December 1915)

                        11. Armee (17 December 1915 – 9 March 1916)

I. Bn. and 1., 2. Batterie : O.H.L Reserve in Sofia (25 January 1916 – 13 March 1916)

                                      Army Group Mackensen (14 – 19 March 1916)

                                      1st Bulgarian Army (20 March 1916 – 26 September 1916)

                                      11. Armee (27 September 1916 – 30 June 1917)

                                      Gen. Kdo. z.b.V. 62 (1 July 1917 – 18 December 1918)

9. Batterie : 11. Armee (1 May 1917 – 4 December 1918)

Allocation :

Staff of the II. Bn., 1., 2. Batterie : 1st Bulgarian Army (1 February 1916 – 1 September 1916)

2. Batterie : Div. Hippel (22 October 1916 – 31 December 1916)

                 Gen. Kdo. z.b.V. 62  (24 April 1917 – 30 June 1916)

9. Batterie : Div. Kdo. z.b.V. 302 (4 April 1917 – 23 July 1917)

                 Bulgarian Div. Minkov (27 April 1917 – 26 May 1918)

                 Div. Kdo. z.b.V. 302 (18 September 1918 – 16 October 1918)

Reserve-Fußartillerie-Regiment Nr. 13

History :

mobilized on 2 August 1914 (Staff and two Battalions)

III. Battalion raised on 22 August 1915 with 1. and 3. Batterie

13. Batterie raised on 24 January 1917 from Fußartillerie-Batterie Nr. 101

Become Reserve-Fußartillerie-Regiment Nr. 24 on 19 December 1917

Weapons :

1., 3. Batterie : schw. Feldhb. 13

13. Batterie : schw. Feldhb. 02

Attached to :

2. Batterie :  11. Armee (8 December 1915 – 29 July 1916)

                   Army Group Mackensen (1 October 1916 – 1 March 1917)

Staff of III. Bn, 1., 3. Batterie : 11. armee (27 September 1915 – 18 November 1915)

                                           Army Group Mackensen (9 December 1915)

                                           11. Armee (17 January 1916 – 1 September 1917)

                                           1st Bulgarian Army (1 October 1916 – 22 November 1917)

13. Batterie : 1st Bulgarian Army (1 February 1917 – 22 November 1917)

Allocation :

2. Batterie : Detachment Kaufmann (31 August 1916 – 9 September 1916)

Reserve-Fußartillerie-Regiment Nr. 16

History :

mobilized on 2 August 1914 (Staff and two Battalions)

I. Bn. sent to Köln in mid-August 1918

Weapons :

2. Batterie : 10cm Kan. 14

2. Batterie : 10cm Kan. 04 (from April 1917)

2. Batterie : 10cm Kan. 14 (from February 1918)

3. Batterie : 10cm Kan. 04

3. Batterie : 10cm Kan. 14 (from February 1916)

4. Batterie : 10cm Kan. 14

Attached to :

2., 3., 4. Batterie : 11. Armee (21 September 1915 – 22 October 1915)

                          11. Armee (17 January 1916 – 1 September 1916)

                          1st Bulgarian Army (1 October 1916 – 15 August 1918)

Remarck :

in August 1918 the I. Bn. gave its guns to the 2nd Heavy Artillery Regiment

Reserve-Fußartillerie-Regiment Nr. 24

History :

raised from Reserve-Fußartillerie-Regiment Nr. 13 on 19 December 1917

sent to Immingen in mid-February 1918

Weapons :

1., 3. Batterie : schw. Feldhb. 13

13. Batterie : schw. Feldhb. 02

Attached to :

III. Bn. : Army Group Scholtz (till 10 February 1918)

 

Fußartillerie-Bataillon Nr. 12

History :

mobilized on 2 August 1914 (Staff and four Batteries)

Weapons :

1. and 3. Batterie : 21cm Mörser

Attached to :

Staff and 1., 3. Bts : 11. Armee (21 September 1915 – 9 March 1916)

Allocation :

Staff and 1. Batterie: 11. b.ID. (11 October 1915)

                             IV. Reservekorps (22 October 1915 – 3 November 1915)

3. Batterie :  101. ID. (11 October 1915)

                   X. Reserve Korps (22 October 1915 – 3 November 1915)

Fußartillerie-Bataillon Nr. 22

History :

raised on 10 April 1915 (Staff and three Batteries)

took part in the invasion of Serbia in September – January 1916

Weapons :

1., 2., 3. Batterie : schw. Feldhb. 13

Attached to :

XXII. Reserve-Korps (12 April 1915 – 1 September 1916)

Fußartillerie-Bataillon Nr. 45

History :

raised on 16 August 1916 (Staff and three Batteries)

3. Batterie sent to Macedonia in December 1916

3. Batterie sent to France at the end of January 1917

Weapons :

3. Batterie : Mörser

Attached to :

1st Bulgarian Army (11 December 1916)

Army Group Mackensen (1 January 1917)

Fußartillerie-Bataillon Nr. 53

History :

raised on 9 March 1916 (Staff and three Batteries)

3. Batterie sent to Macedonia at the beginning of October 1916

3. Batterie become 2. Batterie of Fußartillerie-Bataillon 159 on 18 April 1917

Weapons :

3. Batterie : schw. Feldhb.

                 schw. Feldhb. 13 (from November 1916)

Attached to :

11. Armee (10 October 1916)

Genkdo z.b.V. 61 (17 October 1916 – 8 February 1918)

Army Group Scholtz (10 February 1918)

Allocation :

Div. Hippel (22 October 1916 – 2 December 1916)

Fußartillerie-Bataillon Nr. 65

History :

raised on 29 August 1916 (Staff and three Batteries)

sent to Macedonia in early October 1916

sent to France on 13 February 1918

Weapons :

1., 2., 3. Batterie : schw. Feldhb. 02

Attached to :

11. Armee (24 September 1916 – 1 December 1916)

1st Bulgarian Army (26 December 1916 – 14 April 1917)

Allocation :

Div. Hippel (22 October 1916 – 2 December 1916)

Fußartillerie-Bataillon Nr. 84

History :

raised on 10 November 1916

sent to Dobrudja after 12 November 1916

assigned to 9. Armee on 1 December 1916

Weapons :

2. Batterie : schw. Feldhb. 02

Attached to :

Army Group Mackensen (15 November 1916)

1st Bulgarian Army (26 December 1916 – 14 April 1917)

Fußartillerie-Bataillon Nr. 118

History :

raised on 19 December 1917 from Landwehr Fußartillerie-Bataillon Nr. 38

Weapons :

1., 2., 3. Batterie : schw. Feldhb.

Attached to :

Army Group Scholz (10 February 1918)

1st Bulgarian Army (25 March 1918 – 1 September 1918)

Army Group Scholz (18 September 1918 – 9 October 1918)

11. Armee (16 – 30 October 1918)

Fußartillerie-Bataillon Nr. 159

History :

raised on 18 April 1917 from Fußart. Battr. 103, 3. Battr./Fußart.Btl.53 an Fußart. Battr. 114

sent to Macedonia at the end of April 1918

Weapons :

1. Batterie : schw. Feldhb. 02

2. Batterie : schw. Feldhb. 13

3. Batterie : 10cm Kan. 04

Attached to :

Army Group Scholz (28 April 1917)

1st Bulgarian Army (8 June 1917 – 1 September 1918)

Army Group Scholz (18 September 1918 – 9 October 1918)

11. Armee (16 – 30 October 1918)

bayerisches Fußartillerie-Bataillon Nr. 14

History :

raised on 18 October 1916 (Staff and two Batteries)

sent to Macedonia at the end of November 1916

3. Batterie raised in Macedonia from bayer. Fußartillerie-Batterie 492 on 16 January 1917

Weapons :

1. and 2. Batterie : schw. Feldhb. 13

3. Batterie : schw. Feldhb.

Attached to :

1., 2. Bt. : Army Group Below (25 November 1916)

               11. Armee (1 December 1916 – 18 December 1918)

3. Bt. : Army Group Below (22 January 1917)

          11. Armee (6 February 1917 – 18 December 1918)

Landwehr Fußartillerie-Bataillon Nr. 38

History :

raised on 4 November 1916 from Fußartillerie-Batterie 219, 340 and 491

become Fußartillerie-Battaillon 118 on 19 December 1917

Weapons :

schw. Feldhb.

Attached to :

Staff : Army Group Below (12 November 1916)

         11. Armee (1 December 1917 – 6 February 1917)

         1st Bulgarian Army (14 April 1917 – 22 November 1917)

1. and 3. Batterie : 11. Armee (12 November 1916)

2. Batterie : 1st Bulgarian Army (12 November 1916)

1., 2., 3. Batterie :   11. Armee (26 December 1916 – 6 February 1917)

                            1st Bulgarian Army (14 April 1917 – 22 November 1917)

Allocation :

2. Batterie : Div. Kdo. z.b.V. 302 (1 January 1917 – 6 February 1917)

3. Batterie :   Div. Hippel (3 – 31 December 1916)

                   Div. Kdo. z.b.V. 302 (1 – 23 January 1917)

                   101. ID. (23 February 1917 – 30 June 1917)

 

Arko

DivKdo z.b.V.

Genkdo z.b.V.

Artillerie Kommandeur  = Artillery Commandant

Divisionkommando für besonderen Verwendung = Divisional Command for special purpose

Generalkommando für besonderen Verwerdung = General Command for special purpose

 

Remarks :

All the dates in this page are according the western – Gregorian – calendar.