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Ehrhardt E-V/4 was a German heavy armored car of the First World War period.

In 1915, the Imperial German Army requested three automobile companies to provide it with prototypes of armored cars. One of them, Heinrich Ehrhardt Automobilewerke AG, used an E-V/4 truck as a basis, covering it with Krupp armored plates. In 1916, the prototype was sent for combat trials to the Romanian Front; in 1917 12 more cars were ordered. Unlike the prototypes, the production cars were fitted with rotating turrets. 20 more cars were ordered before the end of 1917, but these were finished only in 1919.

On February 7th 1919, insurgents of the Greater Poland Army (Armia Wielkopolska) engaged one of such cars on a road near Budzyń, north of Poznań. They attacked the machine with rifles and grenades, and one of the soldiers managed to score a lucky shot, killing the driver through the vision port. Among the dead was a German noble, Ltn. Graf von Schwerin. After the battle, the German casualties were buried with honors in Budzyń cemetary, and the car was transfered to the armored car units of GPA, where it was named Kazimierz Grudzielski, after one of the Great Poland Uprising's commanders who managed to repell German attacks on the south-eastern Greater Poland in mid-January 1919.

The car took part in other fightings as well: it was sent to the east, where its crew clashed with a German armored train near Zamość. During the 3rd Silesian Uprising, it was sent to Silesia, and renamed Górny Śląsk-Alzacja (Upper Silesia-Alsace, after its commander, A. Forrestier who was born in the latter). After the uprising, it was sent to Poznań and assigned to the 2nd Armored Car Squadron, then it was relocated to Warsaw in 1925. Three years later, it was retired and eventually scrapped.

Description
Ehrhardt E-V/4 was a German heavy armored car of the First World War period.

In 1915, the Imperial German Army requested three automobile companies to provide it with prototypes of armored cars. One of them, Heinrich Ehrhardt Automobilewerke AG, used an E-V/4 truck as a basis, covering it with Krupp armored plates. In 1916, the prototype was sent for combat trials to the Romanian Front; in 1917 12 more cars were ordered. Unlike the prototypes, the production cars were fitted with rotating turrets. 20 more cars were ordered before the end of 1917, but these were finished only in 1919.

On February 7th 1919, insurgents of the Greater Poland Army (Armia Wielkopolska) engaged one of such cars on a road near Budzyń, north of Poznań. They attacked the machine with rifles and grenades, and one of the soldiers managed to score a lucky shot, killing the driver through the vision port. Among the dead was a German noble, Ltn. Graf von Schwerin. After the battle, the German casualties were buried with honors in Budzyń cemetary, and the car was transfered to the armored car units of GPA, where it was named Kazimierz Grudzielski, after one of the Great Poland Uprising's commanders who managed to repell German attacks on the south-eastern Greater Poland in mid-January 1919.

The car took part in other fightings as well: it was sent to the east, where its crew clashed with a German armored train near Zamość. During the 3rd Silesian Uprising, it was sent to Silesia, and renamed Górny Śląsk-Alzacja (Upper Silesia-Alsace, after its commander, A. Forrestier who was born in the latter). After the uprising, it was sent to Poznań and assigned to the 2nd Armored Car Squadron, then it was relocated to Warsaw in 1925. Three years later, it was retired and eventually scrapped.