Old fashioned German artillery in 1914

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Old fashioned German artillery in 1914

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Post by CroGer » 21 Jan 2022, 17:08

Hello,

You might have seen my other thread about German artillery & ammunition in 1914. I have a question about the "old fashioned" guns.
Weyrauch lists:

Old guns and (in?) fortesses (2.500 guns in 1912)

9cm Kanonen C73 871.000 shells
12cm Kanonen C80 385.000 shells
15cm Ringkanonen etc 370.000 shells

These probably do not include sFH 93 and Mörser 99.

Wolfgang Fleischer wrote, that Germany had 620 12cm Kanonen C80 in 1914, and 614 9cm Kanonen C73 as anti-aircraft guns in 1918.

Does anybody have the number of how many of the other obsolete artillery types Germany had at thge outbreak of the war? How many 9cm Kanone C73 were there, how many 15cm Ringkanonen?

I only know that in 1873, the Prussian war ministry ordered 2.500 gun barrels for the models 8cm and 9cm.
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Post by CroGer » 21 Jan 2022, 19:57

Ok, I just wrote down a long quote from the book here, and when I clicked submit, it wanted me to log in again.

I will not type that down again. Just believe me that the book says that there were 1.000 shells per modern gun and 650 per old gun.
So 1.340 9cm Kanone C73/91 and 569 15cm Rinkanone. + 620 12cm Kanone C80 = 2.529
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Re: Old fashioned German artillery in 1914

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Post by Sheldrake » 21 Jan 2022, 20:25

How far back do you want to go historically for this inventory? THere were probably significant numbers of cannosn from the 1870 war. You also have to add significant numbers of Belgian and Russian artillery pieces captured in the first year of the war.

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Post by CroGer » 21 Jan 2022, 21:15

No, this is just about what the Germans had in August 1914
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