10th Rhenish Infantry Regiment No. 161

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10th Rhenish Infantry Regiment No. 161

active March 31, 1897 to January 1919
Country Prussia KingdomKingdom of Prussia Prussia
Armed forces Prussian Army
Branch of service infantry
Insinuation VIII Army Corps
Former locations Cologne , Trier , Düren

The 10th Rhenish Infantry Regiment. 161 was an infantry joined the Prussian army .

history

The association was established as part of the army expansion in 1897 on March 31, 1897 at the same time as the infantry regiments No. 146 to 176. The garrison was in Cologne in 1897/99 , then in Trier and from August 1, 1914 in Düren . The II. Battalion was from this point in time in Eschweiler and the III. Battalion is based in Jülich (temporarily Cologne).

Together with the infantry regiment "von Lützow" (1st Rheinisches) No. 25 , the association formed the 29th Infantry Brigade, which in 1914 was subordinate to the 15th 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 10th Rhenish Infantry Regiment No. 161.

First World War

The regiment made on August 2, 1914 mobile and was in the First World War, mainly on the Western Front used. It fought in 1914 a. a. on the Marne , 1916 on the Somme and 1917 in Flanders . On October 2, 1918, the regiment received its own mine thrower company. Eight days later, following losses, the regiment formed into two combat battalions, and on October 22, 1918, after further heavy losses suffered at Solesmes , it consisted of only half a company . At the end of the month the I. to III. Battalion set up again.

Whereabouts

After the Compiègne armistice , the remnants of the regiment marched back home. The Workers 'and Soldiers' Council in Düren, in cooperation with the garrison command and the command of the 1st Replacement Battalion of Infantry Regiment 161, founded a security guard on November 10, 1918. At the end of December 1918, the rest of the regiment was demobilized first in Meppen and then from mid-January 1919 via the settlement center in Nordhorn . With the demobilization, the Cologne Security Company , active as a Freikorps , was formed from parts . This went on in June 1919 in the Reichswehr Department Rhineland.

The tradition in the Reichswehr was taken over by the 3rd Company of the 17th Infantry Regiment by decree of the Chief of Army Command, General of the Infantry Hans von Seeckt on August 24, 1921 .

Commanders

Rank Surname date
Colonel Karl Galli 0April 1, 1897 to April 17, 1899
Colonel Armin Kloth April 18, 1899 to April 21, 1902
Colonel Johannes von Poellnitz April 22, 1902 to February 1, 1904
Colonel Louis Rasch 0February 2, 1904 to March 21, 1908
Colonel Ludwig von Mühlenfels March 22, 1908 to March 8, 1912
Colonel Robert von Bernuth 0March 9, 1912 to July 30, 1914
Colonel Kurt Wilhelm Ernst Wilcke 0August 1, 1914 to March 11, 1915
Lieutenant Colonel / Colonel Ernst Schütz March 12, 1915 to July 26, 1918
major Hertzberg July 27 to December 12, 1918
Lieutenant colonel Paul Lentz December 13, 1918 to January 29, 1919
(responsible for the tour)

Other officers

literature

  • Jürgen Kraus : Handbook of the associations and troops of the German army 1914-1918. Part VI: Infantry. Volume 1: Infantry Regiments. Publishing house Militaria. Vienna 2007. ISBN 978-3-902526-14-4 . P. 251.
  • Hans Kohl: 10th Rhenish Infantry Regiment No. 161. Volume I. (1914 to April 1915), Bernhard Sporn publishing house. Zeulenroda / Thuringia 1931 ( digitized version of the Württemberg State Library ).
  • Reinhard Seiler: 10th Rhenish Infantry Regiment No. 161. Volume II. (May 1915 to April 1917), Verlag Bernhard Sporn. Zeulenroda / Thuringia 1939.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b 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. 251
  2. ↑ Peter Leßmann: The Prussian Police in the Weimar Republic: Streifendienst and Strassenkampf, Droste Verlag 1989, ISBN 3-7700-0794-8 , p. 19
  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 hunter and machine gun battalions, military district commands and training managers from the foundation or list until 1939. Biblio Verlag. Osnabrück 1992. ISBN 3-7648-1782-8 . P. 368.