12th Infantry Regiment (Reichswehr)
12th Infantry Regiment |
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active | 1921 to 1934 |
Country | German Empire |
Armed forces | Reichswehr |
Armed forces | Imperial Army |
Branch of service | infantry |
Type | Infantry Regiment |
structure | See organization |
Location | See garrisons |
management | |
Commanders | See commanders |
The 12th Infantry Regiment was a regiment of the Reichswehr .
history
The regiment was formed on January 1, 1921 from the Reichswehr Rifle Regiments 7 and 8 and the Reichswehr Jäger Regiments 31 and 32 of the transitional army . Since it was a mixed country team, only the respective battalions were given the country team designation “Anhaltinisches” or “Prussian” on May 29, 1922 in addition to their names.
In the course of the expansion of the Reichswehr, the regiment was divided into the first wave in 1934 and the Halberstadt Infantry Regiment and the Glogau Infantry Regiment were formed.
Garrisons
- Halberstadt : regimental staff, (Prussian) training battalion and 13th ( MW ) company
- Dessau : 1st (Anhaltinisches) battalion with staff, 1st and 4th company
- Zerbst : 2nd and 3rd companies
- Quedlinburg : II. (Prussian) battalion with staff
- Magdeburg : III. (Prussian) battalion with staff, location Angerkaserne
Commanders
No. | Surname | Beginning of the appointment | End of appointment |
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1. | Colonel Georg Siehr | January 1, 1921 | January 31, 1923 |
2. | Colonel Rudolf Schniewindt | February 1, 1923 | January 31, 1926 |
3. | Colonel Paul Oppermann | February 1, 1926 | March 31, 1928 |
4th | Colonel Adolf von Brauchitsch | April 1, 1928 | January 31, 1929 |
5. | Colonel Ivo von Trotha | February 1, 1929 | February 28, 1932 |
6th | Colonel Erich Lüdke | February 1, 1932 | January 31, 1934 |
7th | Colonel Albrecht Schubert | February 1, 1934 | October 5, 1936 |
organization
Association membership
The regiment was subordinate to Infantry Leader IV of the 4th Division in Magdeburg.
structure
The regiment consisted of the regimental staff with a news relay
- 1st battalion with staff and news relay, emerged from the Reichswehr-Schützen-Regiment 8,
- II. Battalion with staff and news relay, emerged from the Reichswehr-Schützen-Regiment 7,
- III. Battalion with staff and news relay, emerged from the Reichswehr-Schützen-Regiment 8 and from the Reichswehr-Jäger-Regiment 32,
- Supplementary battalion, from March 23, 1921 a training battalion, emerged from the Reichswehr Jäger Regiments 31 and 32.
Each field battalion was divided into three companies of three officers and 161 non-commissioned officers and men (3/161) as well as an MG company (4/126). In total, a battalion consisted of 18 officers and officials (including medical officers) and 658 men.
Armament and equipment
Main armament
The shooters were equipped with the K98a carbine . Each platoon had an MG 08/15 light machine gun .
In the machine gun companies, the 1st platoon consisted of three groups with three MG 08 heavy machine guns on a carriage, drawn in four horses, the 2nd to 4th platoon consisted of three groups with three MG 08 heavy machine guns on a carriage, drawn in two horses.
The heaviest weapons in the regiment were the mortars in the 13th Company. The 1st train was equipped with two medium-sized launchers 17 cm, drawn in four horses, the 2nd and 3rd train with three light launchers 7.6 cm, driven in two horses.
Others
Takeover of tradition
In 1921 the regiment took over the tradition of the old regiments.
- 1st Company: 8th Rhenish Infantry Regiment No. 70
- 2nd Company: Anhalt Infantry Regiment No. 93
- 3rd Company: 10th Lorraine Infantry Regiment No. 174
- 4th Company: Infantry Regiment "Hessen-Homburg" No. 166
- 5th Company: 4th Magdeburg Infantry Regiment No. 67 and 8th Thuringian Infantry Regiment No. 153
- 6th Company: 5th Hannoversches Infantry Regiment No. 165
- 7th Company: 2nd Upper Alsatian Infantry Regiment No. 171
- 8th Company: 4th Thuringian Infantry Regiment No. 72
- 9th Company: Magdeburg Jäger Battalion No. 4 and MG Division No. 2
- 10th Company: 3rd Magdeburg Infantry Regiment No. 66
- 11th Company: Infantry Regiment "Prince Leopold von Anhalt-Dessau" (1st Magdeburgisches) No. 26
- 12th Company: Infantry Regiment "Graf Werder" (4th Rheinisches) No. 30
- 13th Company: King Infantry Regiment (6th Lorraine) No. 145
- 14th Company: 4th Lower Alsatian Infantry Regiment No. 143
- 15th Company: Infantry Regiment "Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia" (2nd Magdeburgisches) No. 27
- 16th Company: 4th Lorraine Infantry Regiment No. 136
literature
- Georg Tessin : German associations and troops 1918-1939, Biblio Verlag, Osnabrück 1974, ISBN 3-7648-1000-9 , pp. 187ff
- Edgar Graf von Matuschka: Organization of the Reichsheeres in Handbook on German Military History 1648–1939 , Ed. Military History Research Office , Freiburg (Breisgau), Part VI: Reichswehr and Republic (1918–1933) , Bernard & Graefe Verlag für Wehrwesen, Frankfurt am Main 1970 , Pp. 320-322.
- The 12th Infantry Regiment of the German Reichswehr - 1 January 1921 to 1 October 1934 , AW Zickfeldt Verlag, Osterwieck / Harz & Berlin, 190 pages.
Individual evidence
- ^ Georg Tessin : German Associations and Troops 1918–1939 , Biblio Verlag, Osnabrück 1974, ISBN 3-7648-1000-9 , p. 188
- ↑ Decree of the Chief of Army Command, General of the Infantry Hans von Seeckt, of August 24, 1921