2nd Upper Alsatian Infantry Regiment No. 171

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2nd Upper Alsatian Infantry Regiment No. 171

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Barracks in Colmar
active April 1, 1897 to February 1919
Country coat of arms Kingdom of Prussia,
Province of Alsace-Lorraine
Armed forces Prussian Army
Branch of service infantry
Type Infantry regiment
structure see structure
Strength 2000-2500
Insinuation see submission
Location see garrison
First World War Western front
First Battle of Flanders
German spring offensive 1918

Eastern Front

Romanian theater of war
management
Commanders see commanders

The second upper-Alsatian Infantry Regiment. 171 was an infantry joined the Prussian army .

history

Corporal body of the II. Replacement Battalion

The association was set up on April 1, 1897 under the name Infantry Regiment No. 171 and initially stationed in Bitsch . It was formed from the IV half battalions of infantry regiments 97 and 136 (1st battalion) and 60 and 137 (2nd battalion), which were set up in 1893 . The regiment was subordinate to the 85th Infantry Brigade of the 30th Division .

With the move to Colmar as the new garrison in 1901, the regiment was placed under the 82nd Infantry Brigade of the 39th 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 2nd Upper Alsatian Infantry Regiment No. 171.

In 1909, the federation was under taxes from companies of other regiments to a III. Battalion expanded. From this point on, it formed three battalions of four companies each. On October 1, 1912, the regiment received an MG company.

First World War

During the war two replacement battalions were set up in Lahr , of which the second was disbanded in 1917.

1914

At the beginning of the First World War , the regiment mobilized on August 2, 1914 and was initially used in border protection against France . There were battles in the Vosges and at Sennheim - Mulhouse . This was followed by the battles in Lorraine and, until September 7, before Nancy - Epinal . From September 13 to October 19, the regiment was in fighting on the Aisne and went into the starting 23 October trench warfare in Flanders and Artois over. After the battle of the Yser from November 27th to 30th, the regiment was engaged in trench warfare.

1915

From April 2nd the regiment belonged to the reserve of the OHL and on April 13th was subordinated to the 229th Infantry Brigade.

  • May 9-27 --- Battle of La Bassée and Arras
  • May 27th to June 10th --- Reserve of the OHL
  • June 11th to July 30th --- Fights on the Aisne
  • July 30th to August 11th --- OHL reserve and transport to the east
  • 17th to 18th August --- Siege of Kovno
  • 19th August to 8th September --- Battle of Nyemen
  • September 9th to October 2nd --- Battle of Vilna
  • from October 3rd --- position battles between Krewo-Smorgon- Narotschsee -Tweretsch

1916

During the positional battles between Krewo-Smorgon-Narotschsee-Tveretsch, the regiment was directly subordinate to the 31st Infantry Division from January 1 to June 27 . Then the association came back to the 229th Infantry Brigade, in whose association the regiment was in action with a brief interruption (August 5 to November 2 with Detachment " Melior ") until the end of the war.

  • June 28th to July 26th --- 10th Army Reserve
    • July 16-23 --- Battle of Kekkau
  • July 27 to August 20 --- 8th Army Reserve
  • August 20 to September 9 --- Trench warfare in front of Riga

Subsequently assigned to the Upper East Reserve , the regiment received a 2nd and 3rd MG company on September 20, 1916.

  • September 21 to November 4 --- Battle of Kovel

Assumptions under the 115th Division

  • November 5th to 12th --- Position battles on the upper Styr - Stochod
  • November 18-23 --- Persecution by Western Wallachia
  • November 24th to 27th --- Fights on the lower Alt
  • December 1st to 5th --- Battle of the Argesch
  • December 4th to 8th --- Persecution after the Battle of the Arges
  • December 9th to 20th --- Persecution fights against Jalomita-Prahova and Buzaul
  • December 21-27 --- Battle of Rimnicul-Sarat
  • from December 28th --- pursuit battles after the battle of Rimnicul-Sarat

1917

After the persecution after the Battle of Rimnicul-Sarat, the regiment took part in the Battle of Putna from January 4th to 8th. Until July 21, it was up to Putna and Sereth in trench warfare and then participated in the defensive battles on the Sereth until July 25. From July 26th to December 9th, trench warfare followed on the Sereth and Susita, until finally the armistice on the Romanian front.

1918

After the armistice, the regiment was transported to the West from April 12 to 17 and assigned to the OHL reserve until June 2. The association then took part in the Battle of Soissons and Reims until June 13th . This was followed by positional battles between Oise , Aisne and Marne until July 4 and west of Soissons until July 17. During the defensive battle between Soissons and Reims , which began on July 18, the regiment suffered heavy losses and the remnants were combined into a combat battalion on July 19. After this had been withdrawn from the front a day later and assigned to the reserve of the OHL, the regiment re-formed into three battalions at the end of the month. From August 8th the regiment was engaged in trench warfare at Verdun . There, at the end of August, a company had to be disbanded due to losses and the lack of replacement positions in each battalion. On September 10, the regiment received its own MW company. From 21 to 26 September, trench warfare followed in the Woëvre plain and west of the Moselle . This was followed by the defensive battles in Champagne and on the Meuse. During these battles the II. Battalion at Gesnes was wiped out and the remains were transferred to the I. and III. Battalion distributed.

Whereabouts

After the armistice at Compiègne, the regiment marched back to Germany on November 11, 1918, where it finally reached Greiz via Trier , Mainz , Frankfurt, Bilbel, Teltow and Magdeburg at the beginning of January 1919 . Here the regiment was demobilized and disbanded in February 1919.

Two free formations formed from demobilized troops . In January 1919 the establishment of the II. Department / 1 began. Country Rifle Brigade with MW - train . This was followed by the formation of a volunteer company, which joined the "Eulenburg" Freikorps in mid-February 1919 as the 6th company. Both formations joined the Provisional Reichswehr in June 1919 .

The tradition in the Reichswehr was adopted by the 7th Company of the 12th 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 Gotthilf Rahtz 0April 1, 1897 to August 17, 1900
Colonel Friedrich von Jagwitz August 18, 1900 to January 26, 1903
Lieutenant colonel Franz von Geyso January 27 to October 17, 1903
Colonel Richard Emanuel Nicolai October 18, 1903 to April 9, 1906
Colonel Christian from Ompteda April 10, 1906 to March 21, 1910
Lieutenant Colonel / Colonel Georg Nagel February 20, 1910 to August 1, 1914
Lieutenant colonel Fritz Bauer 0August 2 to September 15, 1914
Colonel Hans von Imhoff September 16 to November 4, 1914
major Adolf von Kühn 0November 5 to December 1, 1914 (in charge of the tour)
Lieutenant colonel Viktor Bauernstein 0December 2, 1914 to August 29, 1915
Lieutenant colonel Franz Kaiser August 30, 1915 until demobilization

uniform

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Curt Jany : History of the Prussian Army from the 15th Century to 1914. Volume 4. Biblio Verlag. Osnabrück 1967. p. 303.
  2. ^ Georg Tessin : German associations and troops 1918–1939. Biblio Verlag, Osnabrück 1974, ISBN 3-7648-1000-9 , p. 192.
  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 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 , p. 378.