2nd Thuringian Infantry Regiment No. 32

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2nd Thuringian Infantry Regiment No. 32

active March 7, 1815 to the end of December 1918
Country Kingdom of Prussia
Armed forces Prussian Army
Branch of service infantry
Insinuation XI. Army Corps
Location Meiningen
Former locations Mainz , Erfurt
Regimental soldiers with regimental flags in different time periods

The second Thuringian Infantry Regiment. 32 was an infantry joined the Prussian army .

history

The regiment emerged from several Landwehr battalions that fought together against Napoleon during the Wars of Liberation and were united to form an infantry regiment in Wesel on November 25, 1815 . These were one battalion each from the "Elb Regiment", the "Westphalian Landwehr Regiment" and the "Upper Saxon Landwehr Regiment". The locations changed frequently in the first decades and were in Münster , Dortmund , Hamm and Soest in 1816 , in Erfurt in 1817 , in Koblenz in 1830 , in Cologne in 1831 , in Erfurt again in 1832 and in Halle (Saale) in 1860 .

On May 7, 1861, the regiment finally became the 2nd Thuringian Infantry Regiment No. 32 and was based in Mainz for a few years under Regiment Chief General of the Infantry Hans Wilhelm von Schack , before finally moving to Meiningen , the state capital, after the German War was stationed by Sachsen-Meiningen . There, the 1st and 2nd Battalions moved into the main barracks , also known as the city barracks , which were newly built between 1865 and 1867 . The III. (Fusilier) battalion initially remained in Kassel. After the Franco-Prussian War in 1871 it was stationed in Hersfeld and from 1895 also in Meiningen. There the battalion moved into the newly built north barracks in Leipziger Strasse.

Schleswig-Holstein War

Participation in the Schleswig-Holstein War of 1848/51.

German war

In the war against Austria and its German allies in 1866, the regiment fought near Hammelburg (July 10th), Helmstadt (July 25th) and Uettingen (July 26th).

Franco-German War

Regimental flag

In the Franco-Prussian War of 1870/71 the regiment took part in the battles near Wörth (August 6, 1870), Sedan (September 1), Paris (September 22 to October 6), Artenay (October 10), Orléans ( October 11), Châteaudun (October 18), Chartres (October 21), Châteauneuf en Thimerais (November 18), Brétoncelles (November 21), Loigny-Paupry (December 2), Orléans ( December 3rd / 4th) December), Beaugency-Cravant (December 8-10 ), Bellême (January 8-9, 1871), Le Mans (January 10-11) and Alençon (January 15).

First World War

At the beginning of the First World War , the regiment mobilized on August 2, 1914 and was subsequently deployed first in the 22nd Division and from May 15, 1915 in the 103rd Division on the western and eastern fronts. On September 26, 1918, the association was broken up near Ripont on the Dormoise and large parts were taken prisoner here. One day later, the remnants formed a battalion with three companies and three machine gun companies. At the beginning of October 1918 the regiment was reorganized. As a result of heavy losses in the Battle of Vouziers , the III. Battalion disbanded on October 21, 1918.

Whereabouts

After the end of the war , the remnants of the regiment marched back home, where it was demobilized in Meiningen from December 15 to 18, 1918 and then disbanded. Parts were transferred to the IV. Division of the Voluntary Landesjäger Regiment 2.

The tradition took over in the Reichswehr by decree of the Chief of the Army Command General of the Infantry Hans von Seeckt from August 24th 1921 the 5th Company of the 15th Infantry Regiment in Sondershausen , from 1925 in Weimar .

From 1921 the 1st Battalion of the 14th (Bad.) Infantry Regiment of the Reichswehr was in the main barracks, the 1st and 2nd Battalion of the Meiningen Infantry Regiment in 1934/35, various battalions of the Wehrmacht from 1935/45 and from 1945 / 91 the 23rd Panzer Battalion and the 11th Reconnaissance Battalion of the 8th Guard Army of the Soviet Army are stationed. Today there is a justice center here . The buildings of the north barracks served as residential buildings from 1919, were reactivated as barracks in 1935/45 and completely demolished in the 1990s.

Regiment chief

The first head of the regiment since September 20, 1861, was General of the Infantry Hans Wilhelm von Schack. With his death, the position was vacant from September 25, 1866 until King Wilhelm I appointed Duke Georg II of Saxony-Meiningen as the new head of the regiment on October 31, 1867.

Commanders

The regiment's barracks in Meiningen around 1880
Rank Surname date
Lieutenant Colonel / Colonel Wilhelm Benedikt von Clausewitz December 28, 1815 to July 20, 1822
Lieutenant Colonel / Colonel Friedrich Wilhelm von Brünneck July 21, 1822 to March 29, 1832
Lieutenant Colonel / Colonel Friedrich von Drigalski March 30, 1832 to March 29, 1838
Lieutenant Colonel / Colonel Ferdinand von Salisch March 30, 1838 to March 29, 1844
Colonel Hans Wilhelm von Schack March 30, 1844 to March 21, 1845
Lieutenant colonel Hermann von Suckow March 22 to August 14, 1845
Lieutenant Colonel / Colonel Hermann von Suckow August 15, 1845 to November 5, 1848
Colonel Karl Friedrich von Steinmetz 0November 6, 1848 to April 16, 1851
Colonel Friedrich von Hering April 17, 1851 to May 9, 1855
Colonel August Wernecke May 10, 1855 to September 17, 1858
Colonel Julius von Rohrscheidt September 18, 1858 to June 21, 1861
Colonel Otto von Hoffmann June 22, 1861 to June 24, 1864
Colonel Kurt von Schwerin June 25, 1864 to March 21, 1868
Colonel Otto von Foerster March 22, 1868 to October 12, 1872
Lieutenant Colonel / Colonel Ferdinand von Zeuner December 12, 1872 to December 29, 1875
Colonel Arnold von Bessel December 30, 1875 to July 11, 1879
Lieutenant Colonel / Colonel Ferdinand von Wulffen July 12, 1879 to February 18, 1885
Colonel Gerhard from the east February 19, 1885 to November 5, 1888
Lieutenant colonel Adolf Boecklin von Boecklinsau 0November 6 to December 12, 1888 (in charge of the tour)
Colonel Adolf Boecklin von Boecklinsau December 13, 1888 to October 23, 1891
Colonel Louis Stoetzer October 24, 1891 to June 15, 1894
Colonel Alexander von der Goltz June 16, 1894 to April 16, 1897
Colonel Hermann von Viebahn April 17, 1897 to May 17, 1901
Colonel Kurt von Seydlitz-Kurzbach May 18, 1901 to April 21, 1905
Colonel Bodo from Oheimb April 22, 1905 to October 15, 1906
Colonel Martin Chales de Beaulieu October 16, 1906 to February 20, 1911
Colonel Alfred von Lewinski February 21, 1911 to September 30, 1913
Colonel Paul von Stolzmann 0October 1, 1913 to August 1, 1914
Lieutenant colonel Julius Fischer 0August 2 to September 12, 1914
Lieutenant colonel Hans von Wangenheim September 25, 1914 to July 10, 1916
Lieutenant colonel Hans von Bojan July 15, 1916 to August 17, 1918
Lieutenant colonel Wilhelm von Marcard August 18 to December 1918

literature

  • 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 , pp. 75f.
  • Alfred Richter: The 2nd Thuringia. Infantry Regiment No. 32 (=  memorial sheets of German regiments. Formerly Prussian troops . Volume 252 ). Stalling, Oldenburg iO / Berlin 1928. Digitized version of the Württemberg State Library .
  • Dieter Zeigert: Military buildings in Thuringia. A catalog of the barracks buildings with a detailed description of the military-historical circumstances in Thuringia since the German military constitution of 1821 . Ed .: Thuringian State Office for Monument Preservation and Archeology. Verlag Bildung + Wissen, Bad Homburg / Leipzig 1997, ISBN 3-927879-94-0 , p. 65-69, 238 ff .
  • Kuratorium Meiningen: Lexicon on city history. Bielsteinverlag, Meiningen 2008, ISBN 978-3-9809504-4-2 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Alfred Börckel : Mainz as a fortress and garrison from Roman times to the present . Verlag von J. Diemer, Mainz 1913, p. 293 .
  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 commandos and training managers from the foundation or list until 1939. Biblio Verlag, Osnabrück 1992, ISBN 3-7648-1782-8 , pp. 120–121 .