1st Hannoversches Infantry Regiment No. 74

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1st Hannoversches Infantry Regiment No. 74

active September 26, 1866 to January 1919
Country Kingdom of Prussia
Armed forces Prussian Army
Branch of service infantry
Type Infantry regiment
Insinuation Xth Army Corps
Former locations Hanover
Soldiers of the 1st Hanoverian Infantry Regiment No. 74 drill around 1898 on Welfenplatz in Hanover

The first Hanoverian Infantry Regiment. 74 was an infantry joined the Prussian army .

history

Lineup and lines of tradition

Soldier in regimental uniform;
Studio shot of Paul Hassert, Welfenplatz 16a;
Colored photo in carte de visite format

After the end of the German War and the annexation of the Kingdom of Hanover by Prussia on September 26th to October 30th, 1866, the regiment was formed from the 2nd, 14th and 15th companies of the 3rd East Prussian Grenadier Regiment No. 4 and the 13th. , 14th and 15th companies of regiments No. 5 and 44 and 45 established. It formed three battalions in Danzig and was assigned to Cologne as the first garrison .

By order of the Ministry of War of November 21, 1866, the recruits of the former royal Hanoverian army, who were called up in the same year and were released after the surrender of Langensalza on June 29, 1866, were called up again. The regiment received the recruits of the former 3rd Hanover Infantry Regiment assigned.

The foundation day was set by AKO on January 24, 1899 to be November 27, 1813. The troops were raised from 1867 in the Hanover area. After winning the war against France in 1870/71, the association remained as part of the occupation troops in Nancy and was stationed in Hanover from 1873.

The regiment was in the tradition of infantry units that had been set up in the area around Hanover in the locations of Celle , Einbeck , Hildesheim , Northeim , Peine and Salzgitter and had taken part in the battles on the Göhrde , Waterloo and Langensalza .

With AKO of March 11, 1887, the 10th company for the reorganization of a 4th battalion in the infantry regiment "Graf Barfuß" (4th Westphalian) No. 17 was handed over on April 1st . On October 2, 1893 - as with all infantry regiments - an IV Battalion was set up, but this consisted of only two weak companies with a total of eight officers and 193 NCOs and men (so-called half battalion). Since these did not prove themselves, all IV battalions were combined into new regiments by AKO on March 31, 1897. The IV Battalion of the, together with the IV Battalion of IR 73, formed the II Battalion of the 4th Hanoverian Infantry Regiment No. 164 . In 1906 the 4th company had to set up the III. Battalions in Infantry Regiment No. 151 were handed over - and reorganized - and a machine gun company was set up at the regiment on October 1, 1913.

At the end of the German Empire "[...] it had become common practice that in Hanover the [... regiment ...] filmed past [...] Paul von Hindenburg's apartment with kettledrums and trumpets" with every move for training purposes . "

Franco-German War

During the Franco-Prussian War , the regiment took part in the Battle of Spichern and the sieges of Metz , Montmédy and Belfort .

First World War

"Entry of the 3rd company of the Inf.-Rgts. in the barracks yard before moving into the field on the 1st day of mobilization , 2nd August 1914 "
"The crowd on Welfenplatz [...] and the 1st Battalion marching out of the barracks [...]"
"Lieutenant Austria in front of his 3rd company of the Inf.-Rgts. 74 [...] "

With the outbreak of World War I , the regiment mobilized on August 2, 1914 . To the cheering of the population and the singing of the Deutschlandlied , the march took place from Welfenplatz . As part of the 38th Infantry Brigade of the 19th Division , the regiment marched into neutral Belgium and initially took part in the capture of Liege . This was followed by the further advance to France. As a result, the association fought at St. Quentin , the Marne and Reims . During the trench warfare on the Aisne , the regiment was subordinated to the 37th Infantry Brigade from March 28, 1915 and moved to the Eastern Front at the end of April 1915 . Here it took u. a. participated in the bug offensive . In mid-September 1915 he was briefly transferred back to the Western Front and participated in the autumn battle in Champagne . From mid-October 1915 to mid-May 1916 it was used again in trench warfare on the Aisne. The regiment then moved back to the Eastern Front and was expanded here on June 15, 1916 by a 2nd and 3rd MG company. After fighting on the Stochid , the association returned to the Western Front and was in action here until the end of the war. There the regiment u. a. participated in the battle of the Aisne , the battles for Verdun , the German spring offensive 1918, the battle of Noyon as well as the trench warfare in Lorraine and the retreat from the Veslefront behind the Aisne .

Around 3,100 men of this regiment died in the course of the war.

Whereabouts

After the end of the war, the remnants of the regiment marched back home, where the troops were initially demobilized in Hanover on December 26, 1918 and finally disbanded in January 1919. Various volunteer units were formed from parts.

The tradition in the Reichswehr was adopted by the 6th Company of the 16th Infantry Regiment in Hanover by decree of the Chief of Army Command, General of the Infantry Hans von Seeckt , on August 24, 1921 .

Heads of regiments

Rank Surname date
Marie of Saxe-Altenburg August 13, 1889 to October 8, 1898
Colonel General Alexander von Linsingen 0October 5, 1916 until dissolution

Commanders

Rank Surname date
Lieutenant colonel August von Pannwitz October 30, 1866 to August 8, 1870
Lieutenant colonel Hermann von Kameke 0August 8, 1870 to June 19, 1871 (in charge of the tour)
Colonel Hermann von Kameke June 20 to November 1, 1871
Colonel Wilhelm von Wunsch 0November 4, 1871 to January 11, 1875
Lieutenant Colonel / Colonel Arthur of Lattre January 12, 1875 to January 17, 1878
Lieutenant colonel Allwiel von Sommerfeld and Falkenhayn January 18 to April 12, 1878 (in charge of the tour)
Lieutenant Colonel / Colonel Allwiel von Sommerfeld and Falkenhayn April 13, 1878 to October 5, 1883
Colonel Hermann von Mertens 0October 6, 1883 to July 11, 1888
Lieutenant colonel Paul von Kalbacher July 12, 1888 to January 9, 1890
Colonel Friedrich von Trotha January 27, 1890 to March 28, 1892
Colonel Eberhard von Nerée March 29, 1892 to May 19, 1893
Colonel Oskar von Lübbers May 20, 1893 to March 21, 1897
Colonel August Stein von Kaminski March 22, 1897 to June 15, 1900
Colonel Axel von Woedtke June 16, 1900 to March 9, 1904
Colonel Hugo von Kathen March 10, 1904 to March 21, 1907
Colonel Wilhelm von Worgitzky March 22, 1907 to August 8, 1910
Colonel Arthur von Lindequist 0August 9, 1910 to August 16, 1913
Colonel Friedrich Wilhelm zur Lippe August 17, 1913 to August 6, 1914
Colonel Karl von Düring August 18-22, 1914
major Reinhold Bracht August 24 to September 7, 1914
Lieutenant Colonel / Colonel Hans von Dewall 0September 8, 1914 to April 20, 1918
major Hans Funck April 24, 1918 to January 5, 1919

monument

Regiment in Spichern

A memorial was erected there for the members of the regiment who died in the Battle of Spichern in 1870. After the First World War, a memorial created by Hans Dammann was erected on Welfenplatz in 1925 .

literature

  • Curt Jany : The royal Prussian army and the German Reichsheer 1807 to 1914. Verlag von Karl Siegismund, Berlin 1933.
  • Jürgen Kraus : Handbook of the associations and troops of the German army 1914-1918. Part VI: Infantry. Volume 1: Infantry Regiments. Verlag Militaria, Vienna 2007, ISBN 978-3-902526-14-4 , pp. 135-136.
  • zur Nedden: History of the 1st Hanoverian Infantry Regiment No. 74 and the former Royal Hanoverian 3rd Infantry Regiment, (1866 to 1903). ES Mittler & Sohn , Berlin 1903.
  • Kurt Gabriel (Ed.): The 1st Hanoverian Infantry Regiment No. 74 in the World War. Self-published by the comradely associations of the former 1st Hanover Infantry Regiment No. 74. Willy Hahn printing works, Hanover 1931.

Web links

Commons : 1. Hannoversches Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 74  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Detlef HO Kopmann: Wedekindstrasse. From the villa district to the thoroughfare. in: Oststadt Journal. February 2007 edition. Online ( memento from September 1, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) on the hannover-oststadt.de page . ed. by Eckhard von Knorre, Achim Sohns, Uwe Brennenstuhl (District Information System Hannover-Oststadt), last accessed on February 25, 2013
  2. ^ Jürgen Kraus: Handbook of the associations and troops of the German army 1914-1918. Part VI: Infantry. Volume 1: Infantry Regiments. Verlag Militaria, Vienna 2007, ISBN 978-3-902526-14-4 , pp. 135-136.
  3. ^ Günter Wegmann (Ed.), Günter Wegner: Formation history and staffing of the German armed forces 1815-1990. Part 1: Occupation of the German armies 1815–1939. Volume 2: The staffing of the active infantry regiments as well as the Jäger and MG battalions, military district commands and training managers from the foundation or list until 1939. Biblio Verlag, Osnabrück 1992, ISBN 3-7648-1782-8 , p. 198.
  4. ^ Günter Wegmann (Ed.), Günter Wegner: Formation history and staffing of the German armed forces 1815-1990. Part 1: Occupation of the German armies 1815–1939. Volume 2: The staffing of active infantry regiments as well as Jäger and MG battalions, military district commandos and training managers from the foundation or list until 1939. Biblio Verlag, Osnabrück 1992, ISBN 3-7648-1782-8 , pp. 198–199 .