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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

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General Yakov Zhilinsky (not present)
Major General Sir Alfred Knox, British Military Attache[a]

First Army

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Gen. Paul von Rennenkampff

General Paul von Rennenkampf[b]
Lieut. General Gavriil Mileant, Chief of Staff

Corps deployed left to right (south to north):

II Corps[c]
General Sergei Scheidemann
26th Infantry Division
43rd Infantry Division
IV Corps
General Eris Khan Sultan Giray Aliyev [ru]
30th Infantry Division
40th Infantry Division
III Corps
General Nikolai Epanchin
25th Infantry Division
27th 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

Second Army

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Gen. Alexander Samsonov

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
22nd Infantry Division
24th 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
XV Corps
General Nikolai Martos
6th Infantry Division
8th Infantry Division
XIII Corps
Lieut. General Nikolai Klyuev
1st Infantry Division
36th Infantry Division
VI Corps
General Alexander Blagoveshchensky
4th Infantry Division
16th 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

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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

I Army Corps

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Gen. Hermann von François

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)
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)

XVII Army Corps

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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)
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)

XX Army Corps

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Gen. Friedrich von Scholtz

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)
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)

I Reserve Corps

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Lt. Gen. Otto von Below

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)
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)
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)
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)
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

Other forces

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German infantry on the march, September 1914
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
XI Army Corps
22nd Division
38th Division
Guards Reserve Corps
3rd Guards Infantry Division
1st Guards Reserve Division

Notes

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  1. ^ Attached to Second Army
  2. ^ Shot by the Bolsheviks during the Red Terror, April 1918
  3. ^ Transferred from Second Army, 22 August
  4. ^ Committed suicide following battle
  5. ^ Served as German head of state, 1925-1934
  6. ^ Contributed to the postwar rise of the Nazi Party
  7. ^ Detached from 3rd Division at outbreak of war

References

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  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

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