4th Guard Infantry Brigade

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4th Guard Infantry Brigade

active April 29, 1852 to April 30, 1919
Country coat of arms Kingdom of Prussia
Armed forces Prussian Army
Branch of service infantry
Type brigade
structure structure
Insinuation Guard Corps
Location Berlin

The 4th Guard Infantry Brigade was a large unit of the Prussian Army .

structure

Peace structure 1914

The brigade was divided into

Division of war on August 22, 1918

history

The brigade was established on April 29, 1852 and was subordinate to the 2nd Guard Division of the Guard Corps . The command remained in Berlin until the large association was dissolved in 1919.

Franco-German War

In the war against France , the brigade fought in the Battle of Gravelotte and the Battle of Sedan and took part in the siege of Paris . Here it came to the battle of Le Bourget .

First World War

During the First World War , the brigade was deployed from July 1915 at Krasnystaw and Biskupice and from Wieprz to Jasziolda .

In September the brigade was transferred to the Western Front. This was followed by fights at La Bassée and Arras , trench warfare in Artois and, until February 1916, in position between Roye and Noyon .

Whereabouts

In the course of the demobilization caused by the Versailles Peace Treaty , the brigade was disbanded in 1919.

Commanders

Rank Surname date
Major general Eduard von Brauchitsch 0May 4, 1852 to April 24, 1854
Major general Adolf von Bonin April 25, 1854 to February 18, 1857
Major general Karl Friedrich von Steinmetz February 19 to December 2, 1857
Colonel / Major General Otto von der Mülbe 0December 3, 1857 to June 2, 1858
Major general Heinrich von Plonski 0June 3, 1858 to January 28, 1863
Major general Leopold Hermann von Boyen January 29 to August 12, 1863
Major general Julius von Loewenfeld August 12, 1863 to January 8, 1864
Major general August from Werder 0January 9, 1864 to October 17, 1865
Major general Leopold of Loën October 18, 1865 to June 17, 1869
Major general Emil von Berger June 18, 1869 to August 17, 1871
Major general Ferdinand von Dannenberg August 18, 1871 to October 4, 1874
Major general Rudolf von Thile 0October 5, 1874 to October 27, 1875
Major general Oskar von Meerscheidt-Hüllessem October 28, 1875 to March 14, 1876
Major general Emil from Conrady March 15, 1876 to February 4, 1878
Major general Paul von Leszczynski 0February 5, 1878 to March 11, 1881
Major general Heinrich von Olszewski March 12, 1881 to July 6, 1883
Major general Waldemar von Roon 0July 7, 1883 to February 10, 1886
Major general Paul von Kropff February 11, 1886 to September 18, 1888
Major general Oskar von Collas September 19, 1888 to March 31, 1889
Major general Bernhard of Saxe-Meiningen 0April 1, 1889 to January 26, 1891
Major general Friedrich Wilhelm of Baden January 27, 1891 to April 17, 1893
Major general Eduard von Müller April 18, 1893 to November 13, 1894
Major general Friedrich Leopold of Prussia November 14, 1894 to September 1, 1897
Major general Remus of Woyrsch 0September 1, 1897 to October 17, 1900
Major general Eberhard von der Lancken October 18, 1900 to September 14, 1904
Major general Fritz von Below September 15, 1904 to February 12, 1906
Colonel Georg von Krosigk February 13 to September 12, 1906 (in charge of the tour)
Major general Georg von Krosigk September 13, 1906 to January 26, 1910
Major general Otto von Stein zu Nordheim and Ostheim January 27 to October 12, 1910
Major general Friedrich von Gontard January 27, 1913 to December 18, 1914
Major general Karl von Lewinski December 19, 1914 to May 25, 1915
Colonel Otto von Düring May 26 to July 26, 1915
Major general Albert of Mutius July 27, 1915 to February 12, 1916
Major general Maximilian von Mutius February 13, 1916 to November 30, 1917
Colonel Karl von Fabeck 0December 1, 1917 to January 9, 1919
Major general Gustav von Waldersee January 10 to April 30, 1919

Web links

Commons : 4th Guards Infantry Brigade  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dermot Bradley (ed.), Günter Wegner: Occupation of the German Army 1815-1939. Volume 1: The higher command posts 1815–1939. Biblio Verlag, Osnabrück 1990, ISBN 3-7648-1780-1 , pp. 205f.