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This is the order of battle for both the Russian and German armies at the Battle of Tannenberg, August 17 to September 2, 1914.
Russian Northwestern Front
[edit]General Yakov Zhilinsky (not present)
Major General Sir Alfred Knox, British Military Attache[a]
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Russian prisoners following the battle -
![Organization of the Imperial Russian Army at the Battle of Tannenberg[1]](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0a/Russia_Tannenberg_AUG_1914.png/543px-Russia_Tannenberg_AUG_1914.png)
Organization of the Imperial Russian Army at the Battle of Tannenberg[1]
![Organization of the Imperial Russian Army at the Battle of Tannenberg[1]](/wiki/File:Russia_Tannenberg_AUG_1914.png)
First Army
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General Paul von Rennenkampf[b]
Lieut. General Gavriil Mileant, Chief of Staff
Corps deployed left to right (south to north):
- Unattached
- 56th Infantry Division
- 221st Roslav Infantry Regiment
- 222nd Krasnan Infantry Regiment
- 223rd Odoev Infantry Regiment
- 224th Yukhnov Infantry Regiment
- 73rd Artillery (Reserve) Brigade
- 5th Rifle Brigade
- 1st Guard Cavalry Division (Lt. Gen. Nikolai Kaznakov)
- 1st Brigade
- Chevalier Guard Regiment
- Guard Cavalry Regiment
- 2nd Brigade
- Guard Cuirassier Regiment of the Emperor
- Guard Cuirassier Regiment of Empress Marie
- 2nd Guard Cavalry Division (Lt. Gen. Georgy Ottonovich Rauch)
- 1st Brigade
- Guard Horse Grenadier Regiment
- Guard Ulan Regiment of the Empress
- 2nd Brigade
- Guard Dragoon Regiment
- Guard Hussar Regiment of the Emperor
- 1st Cavalry Division (Lt. Gen. Vasily Gurko)
- 2nd Cavalry Division (Lt. Gen. Huseyn Khan Nakhchivanski)
- 3rd Cavalry Division (Lt. Gen. Vladimir Belgard)
- 1st Independent Cavalry Brigade
- 19th Dragoons
- 16th Hussars
- 3rd Horse Battery
- 1st Heavy Artillery Brigade
- 56th Infantry Division
Second Army
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General Alexander Samsonov[d]
Major General Postowski, Chief of Staff
Corps deployed left to right (south to north):
- I Corps
- General Leonid Artamonov (relieved 28 Aug)
- Lieut. General Alexander Alexandrovich Dushkevich
- XXIII Corps
- General Kyprian Kandratovich
- 3rd Guard Infantry Division
- 1st Brigade
- Guard Regiment Lithuania
- Guard Regiment Kexholm – Colonel Sirelius
- 2nd Brigade
- Guard Regiment St. Petersburg
- Guard Regiment Wolhyna
- 1st Brigade
- 2nd Infantry Division
- 3rd Guard Infantry Division
- XV Corps
- General Nikolai Martos
- XIII Corps
- Lieut. General Nikolai Klyuev
- VI Corps
- General Alexander Blagoveshchensky
- Unattached
- 1st Rifle Brigade
- 4th Cavalry Division (Lt. Gen. Anton Tolpygo)
- 6th Cavalry Division (Lt. Gen. Vladimir Roop)
- 15th Cavalry Division (Lt. Gen. Pavel Lyubomirov)
- 2nd Heavy Artillery Brigade
German Eighth Army
[edit]Colonel General Maximilian von Prittwitz (replaced 23 Aug)
Colonel General Paul von Hindenburg[e]
Maj. Gen. Erich Ludendorff[f], Chief of Staff
Maj. Gen. Paul Grünert, Quartermaster General
Maj. Gen. Otto Kersten, Chief Engineer
Lt. Col. Max Hoffmann, Chief of Operations
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Hindenburg at Tannenberg
by Hugo Vogel -
![German 8th Army at the Battle of Tannenberg 26–31 August 1914[2]](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dd/German_Tannenberg_AUG_1914.png/624px-German_Tannenberg_AUG_1914.png)
German 8th Army at the Battle of Tannenberg 26–31 August 1914[2]
![German 8th Army at the Battle of Tannenberg 26–31 August 1914[2]](/wiki/File:German_Tannenberg_AUG_1914.png)
I Army Corps
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General Hermann von François
Colonel Walter Schmidt von Schmidtseck, Chief of Staff
- 1st Infantry Division
- Lieut. General Richard von Conta
- 1st Infantry Brigade (Maj. Gen. Friedrich von Trotha)
- 1st Grenadiers (Lt. Col. Eggerss)
- 41st Infantry (Colonel Schönfeld)
- 2nd Infantry Brigade (Maj. Gen. Conrado Paschen)
- 3rd Grenadiers (Colonel von Wedel)
- 43rd Infantry (Colonel von Eisenhart-Rothe)
- 1st Field Artillery Brigade (Maj. Gen. Kurt Moewes)
- 16th Field Artillery (Colonel Bromeis)
- 52nd Field Artillery (Colonel Hellwig)
- 8th Uhlans (Lt. Col. Freiherr Schäffer von Bernstein)
- 1st Infantry Brigade (Maj. Gen. Friedrich von Trotha)
- 2nd Infantry Division
- Lieut. General Adalbert von Falk
- 3rd Infantry Brigade (Maj. Gen. Theodor Mengelbier)
- 4th Grenadiers (Colonel Stern)
- 44th Infantry (Colonel von Löper)
- 4th Infantry Brigade (Maj. Gen. Bernhard Böß)
- 33rd Fusiliers (Lt. Col. Weicke)
- 45th Infantry (Colonel Maaß)
- 3rd Infantry Brigade (Maj. Gen. Theodor Mengelbier)
XVII Army Corps
[edit]General August von Mackensen
- 35th Infantry Division
- Lieut. General Otto Hennig
- 70th Infantry Brigade (Maj. Gen. Heinrich Schmidt von Knobelsdorff)
- 21st Infantry (Colonel Brunnemann)
- 61st Infantry (Maj. Lüdecke)
- 87th Infantry Brigade (Maj. Gen. Johannes von Hahn)
- 141st Infantry (Lt. Col. von Steinkeller)
- 176th Infantry (Maj. Runge)
- 35th Field Artillery Brigade (Maj. Gen. Leopold Uhden)
- 71st Field Artillery (Lt. Col. Hecht)
- 81st Field Artillery (Lt. Col. Bertog)
- 4th Mounted Rifles (Lt. Col. Freiherr von Lön)
- 70th Infantry Brigade (Maj. Gen. Heinrich Schmidt von Knobelsdorff)
- 36th Infantry Division
- Lieut. General Konstanz von Heineccius
- 69th Infantry Brigade (Maj. Gen. George von Engelbrechten)
- 129th Infantry (Colonel Breßler)
- 175th Infantry (Lt. Col. Schleenstein)
- 71st Infantry Brigade (Col. Lutz von Dewitz)
- 5th Grenadiers (Col. Freiherr von Eichendorff)
- 128th Infantry (Col. von Tresckow)
- 36th Field Artillery Brigade (Maj. Gen. Viktor Hahndorff)
- 36th Field Artillery (Maj. Waldeyer)
- 72nd Field Artillery (Col. von Rabenau)
- 5th Hussars (Col. Freiherr von Barnekow)
- 69th Infantry Brigade (Maj. Gen. George von Engelbrechten)
XX Army Corps
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General Friedrich von Scholtz
- 37th Infantry Division
- Lieut. General Hermann von Staabs
- 73rd Infantry Brigade (Maj. Gen. Carl Wilhelmi)
- 147th Infantry (Colonel Ritzsch)
- 151st Infantry (Colonel Dorsch)
- 1st Jager Battalion (Maj. Weigelt)
- 75th Infantry Brigade (Maj. Gen. Alfred von Böckmann)
- 146th Infantry (Colonel von Heydebreck)
- 150th Infantry (Colonel Küster)
- 37th Field Artillery Brigade (Maj. Gen. Wilhelm Buchholz)
- 73rd Field Artillery (Colonel Forst)
- 82nd Field Artillery (Lt. Col. Plantier)
- 11th Dragoons (Lt. Col. Maaß)
- 73rd Infantry Brigade (Maj. Gen. Carl Wilhelmi)
- 41st Infantry Division
- Major General Leo Sontag
- 72nd Infantry Brigade (Maj. Gen. Georg Schaer)
- 18th Infantry (Colonel Mecke)
- 59th Infantry (Colonel Sonntag)
- 74th Infantry Brigade (Maj. Gen. Rudolf Reiser)
- 148th Infantry (Colonel von der Osten)
- 152nd Infantry (Colonel Geisler)
- 41st Field Artillery Brigade (Maj. Gen. Wilhelm Johann Neugebauer)
- 35th Field Artillery (Lt. Col. Wilke)
- 79th Field Artillery (Lt. Col. Marcus)
- 10th Dragoons (Lt. Col. von Lewinski)
- 72nd Infantry Brigade (Maj. Gen. Georg Schaer)
I Reserve Corps
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Lieut. General Otto von Below
- 1st Reserve Division
- Lieut. General Sigismund von Förster
- 1st Reserve Infantry Brigade (Maj. Gen. Karl Barre)
- 1st Reserve Infantry (Lt. Col. von Sommerfeld und Falkenhayn)
- 3rd Reserve Infantry (Lt. Col. von Steuber)
- 72nd Reserve Infantry Brigade (Maj. Gen. Maximilian Gustav Licht)
- 18th Reserve Infantry (Lt. Col. Freiherr von Lützow)
- 59th Reserve Infantry (Lt. Col. Modrow)
- 1st Reserve Jager Battalion (Cpt. Mellin)
- 1st Reserve Field Artillery (Lt. Col. Schulz)
- 1st Reserve Infantry Brigade (Maj. Gen. Karl Barre)
- 3rd Reserve Division
- Lieut. General Curt von Morgen
- 5th Reserve Infantry Brigade (Maj. Gen. Emil Hesse)
- 2nd Reserve Infantry (Lt. Col. Rodig)
- 9th Reserve Infantry (Lt. Col. Wobring)
- 6th Reserve Infantry Brigade (Maj. Gen. Erich Krause)
- 34th Reserve Infantry (Colonel Hein)
- 49th Reserve Infantry (Lt. Col. Freiherr von Eberstein)
- 3rd Reserve Field Artillery (Maj. Erhardt)
- 5th Reserve Dragoons (Maj. von Götz)
- 1st Reserve Uhlans (Maj. Berner)
- 5th Reserve Infantry Brigade (Maj. Gen. Emil Hesse)
- 36th Reserve Division
- Major General Kurt Kruge
- 69th Reserve Infantry Brigade (Maj. Gen. Otto von Homeyer)
- 21st Reserve Infantry (Lt. Col. Heyn)
- 61st Reserve Infantry (Colonel Immanuel)
- 2nd Reserve Jager Battalion Cpt. Brückner)
- 70th Reserve Infantry Brigade Maj. Gen. Detlev Vett)
- 5th Reserve Infantry Lt. Col. Graf zu Reventlow)
- 54th Infantry[g] (Colonel von Tippelskirch)
- 36th Reserve Field Artillery (Lt. Col. Lannert)
- 1st Reserve Hussars (Maj. von Borcke)
- 69th Reserve Infantry Brigade (Maj. Gen. Otto von Homeyer)
- Höheres Landwehr Kommando No. 1 / 1st Landwehr Division
- Lieut. General Georg Freiherr von der Goltz
- 33rd Mixed Landwehr Brigade (Maj. Gen. Viktor von Oertzen)
- 75th Landwehr Infantry (Lt. Col. von Stwolinski)
- 76th Landwehr Infantry (Lt. Col. Billig)
- 34th Mixed Landwehr Brigade (Lt. Gen. Ernst von Pressentin)
- 31st Landwehr Infantry (Lt. Col. von Lilienhoff-Zwowitzki)
- 84th Landwehr Infantry (Col. Becker)
- Landwehr Cavalry Regiment (Cpt. von Sydow)
- 33rd Mixed Landwehr Brigade (Maj. Gen. Viktor von Oertzen)
- 1st Cavalry Division
- Lieut. General Hermann Brecht
- 1st Cavalry Brigade (Col. Wedig von Glasenapp)
- 3rd (East Prussian) Cuirassiers "Count Wrangel" (Lt. Col. von Lewinski)
- 1st (Lithuanian) Dragoons "Prince Albrecht of Prussia" (Lt. Col. Graf von Kanitz)
- 2nd Cavalry Brigade (Maj. Gen. Robert Freiherr von Kapherr)
- 12th (Lithuanian) Uhlans (Col.von Below)
- 9th Jäger zu Pferde (Lt. Col. von Koppelow)
- 41st Cavalry Brigade (Maj. Gen. Heinrich von Hofmann)
- 5th (West Prussian) Cuirassiers "Duke Frederick Eugene of Württemberg" (Lt. Col. von Rex)
- 4th (1st Pomeranian) Uhlans "von Schmidt" (Maj. Charisius
- 1st Cavalry Brigade (Col. Wedig von Glasenapp)
Other forces
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- Other units in the field
- Königsbergs Reserve (Lt. Gen. Günther von Pappritz)
- Königsberg Fortress Division (Lt. Gen. Georg Ludwig Franz Brodrück)
- Thorn Fortress Division (Lt. Gen. Max Philipp von Schmettau)
- Graudenz Fortress Division (Maj. Gen. Fritz von Unger)
- Lötzen Fortress Brigade (Colonel Busse)
- 6th Landwehr Brigade (Maj. Gen. Adolf Karl Krahmer)
- 70th Landwehr Brigade (Maj. Gen. Adolf Breithaupt)
- Reinforcements
- Posen Fortress Division
- 1st Landwehr Division
- 2nd Landwehr Brigade (Col. Arthur Freiherr von Lupin)
- From the Western Front
Notes
[edit]- ^ Attached to Second Army
- ^ Shot by the Bolsheviks during the Red Terror, April 1918
- ^ Transferred from Second Army, 22 August
- ^ Committed suicide following battle
- ^ Served as German head of state, 1925-1934
- ^ Contributed to the postwar rise of the Nazi Party
- ^ Detached from 3rd Division at outbreak of war
References
[edit]- ^ Nafziger, George. "Russian Army at the Battle of Tannenberg 26-31 August 1914" (PDF). United States Combined Arms Research Library. Retrieved 11 January 2016.
- ^ Nafziger, George. "German Army at the Battle of Tannenberg 26-31 August 1914" (PDF). U.S. Army Combined Arms Research Library. Retrieved 12 January 2016.
Further reading
[edit]- Showalter, Dennis E. (1991). Tannenberg: Clash of Empires. Hamden, Connecticut: Archon Books.
- Sweetman, John (2004). Tannenberg 1914 (First ed.). London: Cassell. ISBN 978-0-304-35635-5.