3rd Guards Regiment on foot

3rd Guards Regiment on foot
active	May 5, 1860 to 1919
Country	Kingdom of Prussia
Armed forces	Prussian Army
Branch of service	infantry
Insinuation	Guard Corps
Former locations	Gdansk , Hanover , Berlin
Anniversaries	May 5, 1860

The historic poplar on the Tempelhof field. It stood since the time of the Soldier King and Frederick the Great. Here the regiment passes her.

Flag of the 1st Battalion

The 3rd Guards Regiment on Foot was a guards regiment of the Prussian Army .

history

The association emerged from the 1st Combined Guard Infantry Regiment formed on May 5, 1860. This date marks Foundation Day. On July 4, 1860 it was named 3rd Guards Regiment on Foot. Staff, 1st and fusilier battalions were stationed in Danzig , and the 2nd battalion in Stettin . The regiment moved out for the first time at the end of February 1863 on the occasion of the January Uprising and was deployed in the border guards in the Neidenburg , Johannisburg and Lyck districts until August 1863 . After returning from this mission, the entire association moved into its garrison in Danzig. After the end of the German War , the regiment moved into the barracks on Waterlooplatz in Hanover as a new garrison on September 23, 1866 and was last stationed in the Wrangelstrasse barracks in Berlin from 1878 until it was dissolved . On October 1, 1911, the regiment was an MG - Company expands.

German-Danish War

After the regiment had received the mobilization order in early December 1863, it moved out in mid-January 1864, relocated via Hamburg to the Schleswig border and on February 2, 1864 initially moved into quarters in the vicinity of Rendsburg . At the Dannewerk the 10th Company had enemy contact with Danish troops for the first time on February 5th during a reconnaissance . The 1st Battalion cleared up on February 10th at Satrup and Nübel . This was followed by the enclosure and siege of Fredericia . Staff, 1st and 2nd battalions were then used for the siege and on April 18, 1864, the storming of the Düppeler Schanzen . After the peace treaty, it was transferred back to the garrison via Lübeck and Berlin.

German war

The mobilization order was issued on May 5, 1866 and the regiment then moved to Potsdam on May 24, initially by rail. From there it began the march to Brieg and crossed the border to Bohemia on June 26th in association with the 1st Guard Infantry Division . In the case of thrush , the first battles with the Austrians took place on June 28. The next day, the 1st and 2nd Battalions at Burkersdorf and Staudenz succeeded in bringing in twelve officers and 394 men as prisoners. The fusiliers were used in the battle near Königinhof , but had no direct part in the victorious outcome. In the battle of Königgrätz on July 3, the 1st and 2nd Battalions took the strategically important height near Chlum and switched off the enemy artillery batteries positioned there . During the battle the regiment lost thirty men and had four officers and 189 men wounded.

Franco-German War

On the night of July 15-16, 1870, the mobilization for war against France took place . The regiment marched out on July 30th and moved via Bingen am Rhein to the meeting place of the Guard Corps south of Worms . From here it marched on August 4th and crossed the border with France four days later . The regiment reached Doncourt in the morning hours of August 18, 1870 and was deployed on the same day in the battle of Gravelotte . In the heavy fighting it lost 37 officers and 1,065 men. Two companies were therefore formed from the remnants of the 2nd and Fusilier Battalions. The regiment then took part in the advance on Paris and reached the French capital on September 19th. As a result, it participated in the enclosure and siege in the northeastern section . The 1st Battalion and the 9th – 11th Company involved in fighting on December 21 in a sortie at Le Bourget . After that, there was no further fighting. After the peace treaty, the regiment took part in the ceremonial entry of the Guard Corps into Berlin on June 16, 1871.

First World War

As part of the 1st Guard Infantry Brigade, the regiment mobilized on August 2, 1914 at the beginning of the First World War . In association with the 1st Guard Infantry Division, it took part in the advance into neutral Belgium and fought near Namur . This was followed by the battles at Arras and in Flanders, as well as the trench warfare there. In the course of the war, the subordination changed and the association came on February 11, 1917 to the 2nd Guard Infantry Brigade.

Loss numbers 1914–1918

• Dead: 3391
• Missing: 760
• Total: 4151

Whereabouts

Memorial for the fallen soldiers of the 3rd Guards Regiment on foot (1914–1918) in Döberitz. Inauguration on May 6, 1923. Destroyed after 1945.

After being returned home, the regiment was demobilized in Berlin on December 13, 1918 and finally disbanded in June 1919. No free formations were formed .

The tradition in the Reichswehr was adopted by the 2nd Company of the 9th (Prussian) Infantry Regiment in Potsdam by decree of the Chief of the Army Command, General of the Infantry Hans von Seeckt , on August 24, 1921 .

Commanders

Rank	Surname	date
Lieutenant Colonel / Colonel	Wilhelm von der Groeben	0July 1, 1860 to April 17, 1865
Lieutenant colonel	Julius Knappe von Knappstädt	April 18 to June 15, 1865 (in charge of the tour)
Colonel	Julius Knappe von Knappstädt	June 16, 1865 to May 15, 1867
Colonel	Hugo von Thile	May 18, 1867 to June 17, 1869
Colonel	Hometown of Linsingen	June 18, 1869 to July 3, 1872
Colonel	Rudolf von Thile	0July 4, 1872 to October 14, 1874
Colonel	Ernst von Grolman	October 15, 1874 to April 9, 1880
Lieutenant colonel	Paul von Kropff	April 10-11, 1880
Lieutenant Colonel / Colonel	Paul von Kropff	April 12, 1880 to February 10, 1886
Lieutenant colonel	Viktor von Loßberg	February 11 to September 17, 1886 (in charge of the tour)
Colonel	Viktor von Loßberg	September 18, 1886 to September 21, 1888
Colonel	Heinrich von Goßler	September 22, 1888 to February 13, 1891
Colonel	Ulrich von Bismarck	February 14, 1891 to August 17, 1894
Colonel	Heinrich von Twardowski	August 18, 1894 to September 11, 1896
Colonel	Reinier from the end	September 12, 1896 to June 14, 1898
Colonel	Alfred von Loewenfeld	June 15, 1898 to July 21, 1900
Lieutenant colonel	Georg von Haslingen	July 22, 1900 to January 17, 1901 (in charge of the tour)
Colonel	Georg von Haslingen	January 18, 1901 to April 30, 1904
Colonel	Georg von Krosigk	0May 1, 1904 to February 12, 1906
Colonel	Ernst von Arnim	February 15, 1906 to May 17, 1907
Colonel	Hermann Rieß from Scheurnschloß	May 18, 1907 to October 26, 1908
Lieutenant colonel	Hugo Elstermann from Elster	October 27, 1908 to March 23, 1909 (in charge of the tour)
Colonel	Hugo Elstermann from Elster	March 24, 1909 to April 1, 1912
Colonel	Karl von Lewinski	0April 2, 1912 to August 1, 1914
Lieutenant colonel	Wather von Schultzendorff	0August 3, 1914 to October 20, 1915
Lieutenant colonel	Dietrich Georg Milchling of Schönstadt	October 21, 1915 to August 27, 1918
major	Johannes von Schierstädt	August 28, 1918 to January 13, 1919
Lieutenant colonel	Dietrich Georg Milchling of Schönstadt	January 14th to June 14th, 1919

literature

• K. von Dunker: The 3rd Guards Regiment on foot. 1860 to 1908. ES Mittler & Sohn , Berlin 1908.
• 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. 19f.
• von Loebell (ed.): The 3rd Guards Regiment on foot in the World War. Part I: The 3rd Guards Regiment on foot in the association of the 1st Guards Inf. Division (=  memorial sheets of German regiments. Formerly Prussian troops . Volume 85 ). Stalling, Oldenburg iO / Berlin 1926 ( digitized version of the Württemberg State Library ).
• von Loebell (ed.): The 3rd Guards Regiment on foot in the World War. Part II: The 3rd Guards Regiment on foot in the association of the 5th Guards Inf. Division (=  memorial sheets of German regiments. Formerly Prussian troops . Volume 85 ). Stalling, Oldenburg iO / Berlin 1923 ( digitized version of the Württemberg State Library ).

Individual evidence

1. ^ Curt Jany : History of the Prussian Army from the 15th Century to 1914. Volume 4. Biblio Verlag. Osnabrück 1967. p. 305.
2. ↑ Egon v. Loebell: On foot with the 3rd Guards Regiment in the World Wars 1914/18. Hiehold & Lanz, Berlin 1920, p. 462.
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 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 , p. 10f.