1st Upper Alsatian Infantry Regiment No. 167

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1st Upper Alsatian Infantry Regiment No. 167

active March 31, 1897 to December 1918
Country Kingdom of Prussia
Armed forces Prussian Army
Branch of service Infantry regiment
Insinuation XI. Army Corps
Location Kassel and Mühlhausen / Thuringia

The first top-Alsatian Infantry Regiment. 167 was an infantry joined the Prussian army .

history

The association was founded on March 31, 1897 as Infantry Regiment No. 167 from the 4th Battalion of the Infantry Regiment "Grand Duke of Saxony" (5th Thuringian) No. 94 , the 1st Battalion of the 6th Thuringian Infantry Regiment No. .95 and the 2nd Battalion of the Infantry Regiment "von Wittich" (3rd Kurhessisches) No. 83 . The garrison was in Kassel , the III. Battalion was stationed in Mühlhausen / Thuringia .

Together with the 2nd Thuringian Infantry Regiment No. 32 , it formed the 44th Infantry Brigade belonging to the 22nd Division .

On January 27, 1902, Wilhelm II issued the army order that the associations, which had not yet been given a rural name, were given a name extension in order to better distinguish between them and to establish tradition. From this point on, the regiment was known as the 1st Upper Alsatian Infantry Regiment No. 167.

On October 1, 1912, the regiment received an MG company.

First World War

The regiment made on August 2, 1914 mobile and advanced to the Western Front . After heavy losses at Sancourt, the 1st and 2nd battalions were disbanded on September 29 and reorganized on October 4, 1918. On November 1, 1918, parts of the III. Battalion of the disbanded Reserve Infantry Regiment No. 83. Three days later, the regiment was almost completely captured near Quesnoy. Shortly before the end of the war, three new companies were set up on November 10, 1918 .

Whereabouts

After the end of the war , the remnants of the association returned to their garrisons. There they were demobilized from November 27, 1918 and the regiment was finally disbanded.

The tradition in the Reichswehr was adopted by the 13th Company of the 15th Infantry Regiment in Kassel by decree of the Chief of the Army Command, General of the Infantry Hans von Seeckt .

Commanders

Rank Surname date
Colonel Louis Muelenz 0April 1, 1897 to July 21, 1900
Colonel Karl von Oppeln-Bronikowski July 22, 1901 to May 16, 1902
Colonel Ernst Kuntze May 17, 1902 to April 23, 1904
Colonel Hugo von Schütz zu Holzhausen April 24, 1904 to March 20, 1909
Colonel Erich von Lochow March 21, 1909 to March 21, 1912
Colonel Rudolf von Langermann and Erlenkamp March 22, 1912 to March 31, 1913
Colonel Friedrich Wilhelm von Auer 0April 1, 1913 to August 1, 1914
Lieutenant colonel Felix von Kunowski 0August 2 to November 20, 1914
Lieutenant colonel Adolf Tiersch November 21, 1914 to October 7, 1915
Lieutenant colonel Heinrich Schmedes 0October 8, 1915 to July 1916
Lieutenant colonel Hans von Rode called Diezielsky July 1916 until dissolution

literature

  • 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 , p. 258.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The new Prussian regiments: 1808 - 1918 . Retrieved July 8, 2011.
  2. ^ 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 occupation of the 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 , p. 374f.