3rd Upper Alsatian Infantry Regiment No. 172

3rd Upper Alsatian Infantry Regiment No. 172
The regiment moved into its new barracks in 1909
active	March 31, 1897 to January 15, 1919
Armed forces	Prussian Army
Branch of service	infantry
structure	12 companies & MG company
Strength	2000-2500
Insinuation	XV. Army Corps
Location	Offenburg 1914–1918 (replacement battalion)
Former locations	1897–1914 Neubreisach
Origin of the soldiers	Alsace, Rhineland, Westphalia
Tradition	17th Infantry Regiment
Butcher	Second Battle of Flanders

The third upper-Alsatian Infantry Regiment. 172 was an infantry joined the Prussian army .

history

Seal mark K. Pr. 3rd Upper Alsatian Infantry Regiment No. 172, 1st Battalion

The association was set up on March 31, 1897 under the name Infantry Regiment No. 172 and initially stationed in Strasbourg . It was formed from the IV. Half-Battalions of Infantry Regiments No. 132 and 138 (1st Battalion) and 99 and 143 (2nd Battalion), established in 1893 . The regiment was subordinate to the 85th Infantry Brigade of the 30th Division .

In 1901 the regiment of the 82nd Infantry Brigade was placed under 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 3rd Upper Alsatian Infantry Regiment No. 172.

In 1907, the federation was under taxes from companies of other regiments to a III. Battalion, which was stationed in Neubreisach , expanded. From this point on, it formed three battalions of four companies each. On October 1, 1912, the regiment received an MG company. In the same year the association was merged in Neubreisach.

First World War

The regiment was used exclusively on the Western Front in World War I and was u. a. involved in the Second Battle of Ypres . The regiment was south of the Menenstrasse before Ypres. During this time the Koelberg military cemetery practically became their regimental cemetery , which they sponsored.

Whereabouts

After the end of the war , the regiment returned home, where it arrived in Weida on December 18, 1918 . Demobilization took place there from January 15, 1919 . A volunteer company and a volunteer machine gun company were formed from parts of the regiment, which then transferred to the "Eulenberg" Freikorps in mid-February 1919 as the 4th company and the 2nd machine gun company . In June 1919, both companies joined the Provisional Reichswehr in the 2nd Battalion of the 52nd Reichswehr Infantry Regiment.

The tradition in the Reichswehr was adopted by the 8th Company of the 17th Infantry Regiment by decree of the Chief of the Army Command, General of the Infantry Hans von Seeckt , on August 24, 1921 .

Commanders

Rank	Surname	date
Colonel	Ulrich von Zanthier	March 31, 1897 to May 21, 1899
Colonel	Otto Heckert	May 22, 1899 to August 17, 1901
Lieutenant Colonel / Colonel	Heinrich Geppert	August 18, 1901 to April 17, 1903
Colonel	Albert Schöpflin	April 18, 1903 to August 31, 1907
Colonel	Friedrich von Wacholtz	0September 1, 1907 to May 17, 1908
Colonel	Rudolf von Bercken	May 18, 1908 to April 20, 1911
Colonel	Friedrich von Dungern	April 21, 1911 to September 30, 1912
Colonel	Maximilian von Suter	0October 1, 1912 to October 11, 1914
major	Roedenbeck	October 12 to November 7, 1914 (in charge of the tour)
Lieutenant colonel	Ludwig von Gemmingen-Guttenberg	November 14, 1914 to February 10, 1915
Lieutenant colonel	Otto waterfall	February 11, 1915 to March 31, 1916
Lieutenant colonel	Leopold von Rath	0April 1 to October 9, 1916
major	Bulkheads	October 10 to November 18, 1916 (responsible for the tour)
Lieutenant colonel	Wladislaw Semerak	November 19 to December 30, 1916
Lieutenant colonel	Kurt Panse	December 31, 1916 to August 6, 1918
major	Johannes Hahn	0August 7, 1918 to January 9, 1919
Colonel	Armin Koenemann	January 10, 1919 until dissolution

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 , p. 264.
• Hans Wegener: The history of the 3rd Upper Alsatian Infantry Regiment No. 172 Zeulenroda (Thuringia) 1934.
• Werner Bernhard Sendker: Fallen in Flanders fields. Germans and their relationship to the First World War. Tönningen 2005, ISBN 3-89959-366-9 .

Web links

Commons : 3rd Upper Alsatian Infantry Regiment No. 172  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

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. ↑ Hans Wegener: The history of the 3rd Upper Alsatian Infantry Regiment No. 172. Zeulenroda (Thuringia) 1934. P. 127.
3. ^ 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. 264.
4. ^ 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 the Jäger and MG battalions, military district commands and training directors from the foundation or list until 1939. Biblio Verlag, Osnabrück 1992, ISBN 3-7648-1782-8 , p. 379.