2nd (Prussian) Infantry Regiment (Reichswehr)
2nd (Prussian) 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 2nd (Prussian) Infantry Regiment was a regiment of the Reichswehr .
history
The regiment was formed on January 1, 1921 from the Reichswehr Infantry Regiments 6, 39 and 40 and the Reichswehr Rifle Regiment 2 of the transitional army . On May 29, 1922, the regiment received the country team designation "Prussian" in addition to its name.
In the course of the expansion of the Reichswehr, the regiment was divided into the first wave in 1934, forming the Allenstein Infantry Regiment and the Rastenburg Infantry Regiment.
Garrisons
- Allenstein : Regimental staff, 2nd, 4th and 13th ( MW ) companies , training battalion
- Ortelsburg : 1st (Jäger) Battalion, 1st and 3rd Company
- Rastenburg : 2nd Battalion
- Soldering : III. battalion
Commanders
No. | Surname | Beginning of the appointment | End of appointment |
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1. | Colonel Voigt | 1921 | 1921 |
2. | Colonel Robert Bürkner | 4th August 1921 | January 31, 1924 |
3. | Colonel Reinicke | February 1, 1924 | November 30, 1925 |
4th | Colonel / Major General Axel von Platen | December 1, 1925 | December 31, 1928 |
5. | Colonel Waldemar Henrici | January 1, 1928 | January 31, 1929 |
6th | Colonel Karl Held | February 1, 1929 | September 30, 1930 |
7th | Colonel Siegfried Haenicke | October 1, 1930 | September 30, 1932 |
8th. | Colonel / Major General Fritz Kühne | October 1, 1932 | September 30, 1934 |
9. | Colonel Walter Model | October 1, 1934 | October 14, 1935 |
organization
Association membership
The regiment was subordinate to Infantry Leader I of the 1st Division in Königsberg .
structure
In addition to the regimental staff with a news relay, the regiment consisted of:
- I. (Jäger-) Battalion with staff and news squadron, 1st and 3rd company, each with three platoons of three groups each, and 4th ( MG ) company, originated from Reichswehr Infantry Regiment 39,
- 2nd battalion with staff and news relay, emerged from the Reichswehr Rifle Regiment 2 and the Reichswehr Infantry Regiment 40,
- III. Battalion with staff and news relay, emerged from the Reichswehr Infantry Regiment 6,
- Supplementary battalion, from March 23, 1921 a training battalion, emerged from the Reichswehr Infantry Regiment 39.
Each battalion was divided into three companies of three officers and 161 non-commissioned officers and men (3/161) as well as one machine gun 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 by four horses, the 2nd to 4th platoon consisted of three groups with three MG 08 heavy machine guns on a carriage, drawn by 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 and 3rd company: Jäger Battalion "Graf Yorck von Wartenburg" (East Prussian) No. 1
- 2nd Company: 1st Warmian Infantry Regiment No. 150
- 4th Company: 2nd Warmian Infantry Regiment No. 151
- 5th and 8th company: Grenadier Regiment "King Friedrich the Great" (3rd East Prussian) No. 4
- 6th Company: Teutonic Order Infantry Regiment No. 152
- 7th Company: 5th West Prussian Infantry Regiment No. 148
- III. Battalion: Infantry Regiment "Graf Tauentzien von Wittenberg" (3rd Brandenburgisches) No. 20
- 13th Company and Training Battalion: Infantry Regiment "General Field Marshal von Hindenburg" (2nd Masurian) No. 147
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.
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