Central Powers Artillery in WW1

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Austria-Hungary Artillery in spring 1918

Field Artillery
288 FKnBt with 1728 8cm guns (18 new pattern)
429 FHbBt with 2574 10cm howitzers (all new pattern)
220 GbKnBt with 880 7.5 guns (all new pattern)
92 GbHbBt with 368 10cm howitzers (all new pattern)
76 10.4cm KnBt with 272 guns (all new pattern)
158 15cm HbBt with 610 howitzers (588 new pattern)
45 batteries of various kind of guns/howitzers with 270 guns/howitzers
53 FlakBt with 214 guns

Heavy Artillery
8 42cm HbBt with 8 howitzers
7 38cm HbBt with 7 howitzers
1 35cm KnBt with 1 gun
2 24cm KnBt with 2 guns
36 30.5 MsBt with 72 mortars
3 24 cm MsBt with 12 mortars
2 21cm MsBt with 2 mortars
20 12cm or 15cm KnBt with 80 guns
5 10.4cm KnBt with 20 guns
17 15cm HbBt with 68 howitzers
48 position batteries with 192 gun
154 FlakBt with 299 guns

At the end of the war there were:
6610 field artillery guns
579 heavy artillery guns
562 a/a guns (among them 59 naval guns and 54 captured guns)
1717 fortress guns (among them 1109 fortress, 433 naval and coast, 172 captured guns)
2506 reserve guns
829 captured guns not operative

All these data are from Österreich-Ungarn letzter Krieg, VII, Beilage 2, Tabelle 7.

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German Field Artillery at the end of WW1

I added also the data I have about Austro-Hungarian artillery production during WW1.
The datas came from F.CAPPELLANO, L'artiglieria austroungarica nella grande guerra, p. 75. I corrected some little mistakes using various western sources.

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German Field Artillery at the end of WW!

Field artillery
936 batteries with 7.7cm Feldkanone 96 n/A (3744 guns)
755 batteries with 7.7cm Feldkanone 16 (3020 guns)
286 batteries with 10.5cm leichte Feldhaubitze 98/09 (1144 howitzers)
751 batteries with 10.5cm leichte Feldhaubitze 16 (3004 howitzers)
66 batteries with 10.5cm leichte Feldhaubitze Krupp (264 howitzers)

Trial guns:
1 battery with 7.7cm Versuchsfeldkanone Rheinmetall M. I (4 guns)
1 battery with 7.7cm Versuchsfeldkanone Krupp (4 guns)
1 battery with 9cm Versuchsfeldkanone Rheinmetall M. I (4 guns)
1 battery with 7.7cm Versuchsfeldkanone Rheinmetall M. II (4 guns)
1 battery with 8.8cm Versuchsfeldkanone Krupp (4 guns)
1 battery with 9cm Versuchsfeldkanone Rheinmetall M. II (6 guns)

At the end of WW1 as trial guns there were also
1 battery with 8,35cm Versuchsfeldkanone Škoda (4 guns)
1 battery with Österreichische 10.4cm Feldkanone M. 15 (zerlegbar) (2 guns)
at least 1 battery with Putilow 7.62cm Feldkanone M. 1902 L/30 (4 guns)

In spring 1918 field artillery batteries in West added two more guns. But they were unbespannt (position gun, not horse-drawn).

In East there wre also 98 batteries (8 guns each) armed with Russian captured field guns.

Both the position and captured guns are not in previous total amount of German guns in 1918.

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German Mountain artillery at the end of WW1

Mountain artillery
7 mountain artillery groups with three batteries each:
9 batteries with 7,5cm-Gebirgskanone L/14 Krupp M 13 (36 guns)
3 batteries with 7,5cm-Gebirgsgeschütz L/16 M Rheinmetall 1914 (12 guns)
4 batteries with 7,5cm Gebirgskanone 15 Skoda [L/15] (16 guns)
4 batteries with 10,5cm-Gebirgshaubitze L/12 Krupp (16 howitzers)
1 battery with 10cm Gebirgshaubitze 16 Skoda [L/19.3] (4 howitzers)
1 battery with mountain trial howitzers (Versuchs-Gebirgshaubitze-Batterie 941)

Two groups were in Flanders - 6th, 7th; two in the Vosges (south France, near Switzerland) - 1st, 4th; 3 in Macedonia - 3rd, 5th; 1 in Finland - 2nd.
The experimental mountain howitzer battery was in Macedonia too.
Some heavy guns/howitzers were converted for mountain transport:
3 batteries with 10-cm Kanone 04
2 batteries with 10-cm Kanone 14
1 battery with 15-cm schwere Feldhaubitze 02
1 battery with 15-cm schwere Feldhaubitze 13


Remark: I found that Germany obtained only a battery of Skoda mountain howitzers and that built only two batteries of Krupp mountain howitzers. So something should be wrong.

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Whether there is an information on heavy artillery of Germany on end WW1?

Best regards
Cyril