This article includes a list of references, related reading or external links, but its sources remain unclear because it lacks inline citations. Please help to improve this article by introducing more precise citations. (September 2021) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) | German infantry on the march, September 1914 This is the order of battle for both the Russian and German armies at the Battle of Tannenberg, August 17 to September 2, 1914. ## Contents * 1 Russian Northwestern Front * 1.1 First Army * 1.2 Second Army * 2 German Eighth Army * 3 References * 4 Further reading ## Russian Northwestern Front[edit] General Yakov Zhilinsky, Front Commander (not present) Maj. Gen. Sir Alfred Knox, British Military Attache (attached to 2nd Army) ### First Army[edit] General Paul von Rennenkampf, Commander Lt. Gen. Gavriil Mileant, Chief of Staff II Corps (transferred from the Second Army, 22 August) – General Sergei Scheidemann 26th Infantry Division 43rd Infantry Division III Corps – General Nikolai Epanchin 25th Infantry Division 27th Infantry Division IV Corps – General Eris Khan Sultan Giray Aliyev [ru] 30th Infantry Division 40th Infantry Division XX Corps – General Vladimir Vasilyevich Smirnov 28th Infantry Division 29th Infantry Division 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 [ru] * 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 [ru] 1st Independent Cavalry Brigade * 19th Dragoons * 16th Hussars * 3rd Horse Battery 1st Heavy Artillery Brigade Organization of the Imperial Russian Army at the Battle of Tannenberg[1] ### Second Army[edit] General Alexander Samsonov, Commander Maj. Gen. Postowski, Chief of Staff I Corps – General Artamanov, relieved on August 28 – Lt. Gen Alexander Alexandrovich Dushkevich 22nd Infantry Division 24th Infantry Division VI Corps – General Alexander Blagoveshchensky 4th Infantry Division 16th Infantry Division XIII Corps – Lt. Gen. Nikolai Klyuev 1st Infantry Division 36th Infantry Division XV Corps – General Nikolai Martos 6th Infantry Division 8th Infantry Division 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 2nd Infantry Division 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] Hindenburg at Tannenberg, by Hugo Vogel Colonel General Maximilian von Prittwitz, Commander, replaced on August 23 Colonel General Paul von Hindenburg, Commander Maj. Gen. Erich Ludendorff, Chief of Staff Maj. Gen. Paul Grünert, Quartermaster General Maj. Gen. Otto Kersten, Chief Engineer Lt. Col. Max Hoffmann, Chief of Operations I Army Corps – General Hermann von François Col. Walter Schmidt von Schmidtseck, Chief of Staff 1st Infantry Division – Lt. Gen. 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 2nd Infantry Division – Lt. Gen. 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 German 8th Army at the Battle of Tannenberg 26–31 August 1914[2] XVII Army Corps – General August von Mackensen 35th Infantry Division – Lt. Gen. 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 36th Infantry Division – Lt. Gen. Konstanz von Heineccius 69th Infantry Brigade – Maj. Gen. George von Engelbrechten 129th Infantry – Colonel Breßler 175th Infantry – Lt. Col. Schleenstein 71st Infantry Brigade – Colonel Lutz von Dewitz 5th Grenadiers – Colonel Freiherr von Eichendorff 128th Infantry – Colonel von Tresckow 36th Field Artillery Brigade – Maj. Gen. Viktor Hahndorff 36th Field Artillery – Maj. Waldeyer 72nd Field Artillery – Colonel von Rabenau 5th Hussars – Colonel Freiherr von Barnekow XX Army Corps – General Friedrich von Scholtz 37th Infantry Division – Lt. Gen. 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 41st Infantry Division – Maj. Gen. 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 I Reserve Corps – Lt. Gen. Otto von Below 1st Reserve Division – Lt. Gen. Sigismund von Förster 1st Reserve Infantry Brigade – Ma. 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 3rd Reserve Division – Lt. Gen. 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 36th Reserve Division – Maj. Gen. 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 (detached from the 3rd Division at the outbreak of war) – Colonel von Tippelskirch 36th Reserve Field Artillery – Lt. Col. Lannert 1st Reserve Hussars – Maj. von Borcke Höheres Landwehr Kommando No. 1 / 1st Landwehr Division – Lt. Gen. 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 – Colonel Becker Landwehr Cavalry Regiment – Cpt. von Sydow 1st Cavalry Division – Lt. Gen. Hermann Brecht 1st Cavalry Brigade – Colonel 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 – Colonel 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 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 – Colonel Arthur Freiherr von Lupin From the Western Front XI Army Corps 22nd Division 38th Division Guards Reserve Corps 3rd Guards Infantry Division 1st Guards Reserve Division ## References[edit] 1. ^ Nafziger, George. "Russian Army at the Battle of Tannenberg 26-31 August 1914" (PDF). United States Combined Arms Research Library. Retrieved 11 January 2016. 2. ^ 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. Tannenberg: Clash of Empires. Hamden, Connecticut: Archon Books, 1991. * Sweetman, John (2004), Tannenberg 1914 (1st ed.), London: Cassell, ISBN 978-0-304-35635-5.