2nd Kurhessisches Infantry Regiment No. 82

2nd Kurhessisches Infantry Regiment No. 82
active	October 30, 1866
Country	Kingdom of Prussia
Armed forces	Prussian Army
Branch of service	infantry
Insinuation	XI. Army Corps
Former locations	Hanau, Frankfurt am Main, Bad Homburg vor der Höhe, Göttingen , Northeim, Einbeck

Regiment's peace uniform

The second Kurhessische Infantry Regiment. 82 was an infantry joined the Prussian army .

history

The association was set up on October 30, 1866 as Infantry Regiment No. 82 in Posen and in 1914 belonged to the 22nd Division in Kassel .

With a tribe of staff from the “2. Electoral Hessian Infantry Regiment Landgraf Wilhelm ” , the Prussian Infantry Regiment No. 82 was set up after the annexation of Kurhessen . In November a total of twelve companies from regiments 6, 37, 46 and 50 were added to supplement personnel.

The regiment formed with the Infantry Regiment No. 83 the 43rd Infantry Brigade of the 22nd Division in the XI. Army Corps . On July 3, 1867, it received its flags and in the autumn of the same year the name “2. Hessian Infantry Regiment No. 82 ”.

Locations

• 1866: Staff, 1st and 2nd battalion in Hanau , III. Battalion (Fusilier Battalion) in Frankfurt am Main
• 1867: Homburg , Jägerkaserne
• 1871: Staff, I. Battalion in Göttingen , II. Battalion in Hameln , III. Battalion in Einbeck
• 1872: 2nd battalion in Northeim
• 1890: 2nd battalion in Goslar
• October 1, 1896: III. Battalion Göttingen
• April 1, 1897: III. Battalion Göttingen (entire regiment now in Göttingen)

Franco-German War

In the Franco-German War , the II. And III. Battalion in the Battle of Wörth on August 6, 1870, the 1st Battalion was deployed on this day to cover the Crown Prince's headquarters in Sulz . At the Battle of Sedan , the regiment fought on the northern front and took part in the siege of Paris from September 22, 1870 . On March 1, 1871, the fusilier battalion moved into Paris.

On January 24, 1899, the regiment was named “2. Kurhessisches Infantry Regiment 82 ". Since it officially continued the tradition of the " 2nd Kurhessian Infantry Regiment Landgraf Wilhelm ", the regiment celebrated its centenary in 1913.

First World War

On August 1, 1914, the regiment received the order to mobilize and on the morning of August 4, 1914, it crossed the Belgian border at Malmedy with the aim of Stavelot and La Gleize . Until August 13th it took part in the battles for and the conquest of the fortress city of Liège and was then used in the conquest of Namur from August 20th to 24th .

On August 30, the regiment with the XI. Army corps relocated to East Prussia , where it arrived in Osterode on September 3rd. On September 11, 1914, the regiment was the first German unit to fall into the hands of a Russian regimental flag near Erdauen. It was the “St. Georgsfahne “of the 119th Russian Infantry Regiment. After heavy fighting near Stallupönen , the regiment succeeded in capturing around 2,000 Russian soldiers. The unit fought on October 4th in the battle near Opatow , from October 13th to 20th on the Vistula and under General von Mackensen near Wlozlawc, Kutno and Lodz . Until May 18, 1915, the Association was in position battles on the Rawka .

From June 12th to 15th, 1915, he participated in the great breakthrough battle of Lubaczowka and the recapture of Lemberg . From July 16 to 18, 1915 fighting on the Austrian-Russian border near Krasnostraw. Participation in the battles of Wlodawa on the Bug (August 13th to 17th), near Brest-Litovsk , Chernysh, trench warfare on the Stochod and the Styr . From March 23, 1916, the regiment was in the Mitau area , but until October 1917 fought frequently in the south to strengthen the Austro-Hungarian front.

In October 1917 the regiment left the Eastern Front , occupied positions in front of Verdun on October 21 and stayed there until May 10, 1918. This was followed by participation in the Battle of Reims and the last major German offensive on both sides of Reims from July 15 to 17 1918. Here it was possible to conquer the Courton forest and the height 230 near Nanteuil. After the major offensive, the major defensive battles between Soissons and Reims followed . At the end of the war on November 11, 1918, the unit was already on the march back between Douai and Valenciennes .

The regiment suffered losses of 88 officers, 13 officer-on-duty and 2,574 NCOs and men during the war.

Whereabouts

On November 27, 1918, the regiment returned to its garrison town of Göttingen, where it was demobilized on November 28, 1918 and finally disbanded. After demobilization, parts of the regiment formed the volunteer regiment of the Hesse-Thuringia-Waldeck Free Corps . In October 1919 this became the 1st Battalion of the Reichswehr Infantry Regiment 20.

The tradition in the Reichswehr was adopted by the 5th Company of the 17th Infantry Regiment in Göttingen by decree of the Chief of the Army Command, General of the Infantry Hans von Seeckt , on August 24, 1921 . In the Wehrmacht , the 82nd Infantry Regiment continued the tradition.

Commanders

Rank	Surname	date
Colonel	Ferdinand von Borries	October 30, 1866 to November 21, 1870
Colonel	Dietrich von Grawert	November 21, 1870 to March 28, 1871 (in charge of the tour)
Colonel	Dietrich von Grawert	March 29 to December 31, 1871
Lieutenant colonel	Rudolf von Hildebrand	0January 1 to 10, 1872 (in charge of the tour)
Colonel	Rudolf von Hildebrand	January 10, 1872 to October 12, 1877
Colonel	Felix von Erckert	October 13, 1877 to February 2, 1881
Lieutenant colonel	Robert von Unger	0February 3 to May 13, 1881 (in charge of the tour)
Lieutenant Colonel / Colonel	Robert von Unger	May 14, 1881 to March 25, 1885
Colonel	Hermann von Peschke	March 26, 1885 to February 27, 1888
Colonel	Max Gottschalck	0March 1, 1888 to March 23, 1890
Colonel	Karl von Schierstedt	March 24, 1890 to April 15, 1892
Colonel	Hans von Zschüschen	April 16, 1892 to April 17, 1896
Colonel	Hugo Kohlhoff	April 18, 1896 to March 24, 1899
Colonel	William von Voigts-Rhetz	March 25, 1899 to July 6, 1901
Colonel	Ernst von Dassel	0July 7, 1901 to April 23, 1904
Colonel	Otto Kunau	April 24, 1904 to March 20, 1906
Colonel	Ernst von Gladitz	March 21, 1906 to March 23, 1909
Colonel	Wilhelm Muller	March 24, 1909 to March 21, 1912
Colonel	Max Chalons	March 22, 1911 to April 17, 1913
Colonel	Gustav von Förster	April 18, 1913 to December 30, 1914
Lieutenant Colonel / Colonel	Georg Schmidt	December 31, 1914 to December 1918

Others

formerly "82er Platz" in front of the New Town Hall, Göttingen

The former parade ground of the regiment in Göttingen was called “82er Platz” until 1992, since then at the instigation of the Green parliamentary group in the Göttingen city council, Hiroshimaplatz . The old name is still used in everyday language. Today there is a small complex with a fountain in front of the former barracks building erected in 1834 and next to the New Town Hall, which was occupied in 1978.

→ see also: Electoral Hessian Army

literature

• 2nd Kurhessisches Infantry Regiment No. 82. Verlag Gerhard Stalling, Berlin 1922.
• Dieterichs: Officer master list of the 2nd Kurhessian Infantry Regiment No. 82. Ludwig Funk, Hersfeld 1903.
• Dieterichs: Officer master list of the 2nd Kurhessian Infantry Regiment No. 82. Ludwig Funk, Göttingen 1912.
• Garrison town of Göttingen. Göttinger Tageblatt , Göttingen 1983.
• Wilhelm Sunkel, History of the 2nd Hessian Infantry Regiment No. 82 , 1876, digitized

Individual evidence

1. ^ Jürgen Kraus: Handbook of the units 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. 150.
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 commands and training managers from the foundation or list until 1939. Biblio Verlag, Osnabrück 1992, ISBN 3-7648-1782-8 , pp. 214-215 .