4th Guards Regiment on foot

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4th Guards Regiment on foot

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active May 5, 1860 to June 6, 1919
Country Kingdom of Prussia
Armed forces Prussian Army
Branch of service infantry
Type Infantry regiment
Insinuation Guard Corps
Former locations Spandau , from 1893 Berlin , district Moabit
management
Commanders See commanders

The 4th Guards Regiment on Foot was a guards regiment of the Prussian Army .

history

The association was established on May 5, 1860 from the Guards Landwehr main battalions "Berlin", "Magdeburg" and "Cottbus" of the 2nd Guards Landwehr regiment and levies of the 2nd Guards Regiment on foot . For a short time it was called the 2nd Combined Guard Infantry Regiment, but was renamed the 4th Guards Regiment on Foot just two months after it was set up. At first it garrisoned in Spandau and from August 14, 1893 was housed in Berlin-Moabit .

It was nicknamed "The Moabiter Violets".

A 4th battalion was set up on August 11, 1893, but was disbanded by AKO on March 31, 1897. On October 1, 1911, the regiment was an MG - Company expands.

German-Danish War 1864

During the German-Danish War , the regiment took part in the enclosure of Fredericia and the assault on the Düppeler Schanzen . It had 171 men killed, wounded and deceased.

German War 1866

The regiment was supposed to be used as an occupation force in the German War , but was then subordinated to the II Reserve Army Corps.

Franco-German War 1870/71

In the war against France the regiment was subordinate to the 2nd and Maas Army. It took part in the Battle of St. Privat on August 18, 1870 and the Battle of Sedan on September 1, 1870 . Then it was used in the siege of Paris .

In total, the association had 620 men killed, wounded and deceased during this war.

Boxer Rebellion 1900

On the occasion of the suppression of the Boxer Rebellion , four officers, six NCOs and 43 men of the regiment volunteered for service in China.

Herero and Nama uprising in 1904/08

Volunteers from the regiment also took part in the suppression of the Herero and Nama uprising.

First World War

After mobilization on August 2, 1914, the regiment initially took part in the invasion of neutral Belgium on August 12, 1914. This was followed by the further march to France on August 26, 1914 . There it fought in the battles on the Marne , near St. Quentin and in Champagne . After trench warfare, the association moved to the Eastern Front on April 19, 1915 and was used in the Battle of Gorlice-Tarnów . In mid-September 1915 it moved back to France, was engaged in trench warfare and took part in the Battle of the Somme .

On October 1, 1918, the combat strength of the regiment was only about 150 men.

Whereabouts

After the end of the war , the withdrawal from France began on November 17, 1918. The remnants of the regiment then returned to Berlin, where demobilization took place from 14 to 21 December 1918 and the association was finally disbanded on June 6, 1919.

On December 24th, the former members of the Reinhard volunteer regiment began to be formed, which then opposed the Spartacus uprising and was used in the March fighting in Berlin . The Freikorps was transferred to the Reichswehr Infantry Regiment 29 on June 6, 1919 as staff and 1st battalion.

The tradition in the Reichswehr was carried over to the 10th Company of the 9th (Prussian) 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
Lieutenant Colonel / Colonel Ludwig von Korth 0July 1, 1860 to November 20, 1864
Lieutenant Colonel / Colonel Leo von der Osten-Sacken November 21, 1864 to July 6, 1868
Colonel Gustav von Neumann 0July 7, 1868 to June 2, 1871
Lieutenant colonel Wilhelm von Grolman June 20 to November 3, 1871 (in charge of the tour)
Lieutenant Colonel / Colonel Wilhelm von Grolman 0November 4, 1871 to May 17, 1876
Colonel Albrecht von Sanitz May 18, 1876 to May 14, 1881
Colonel Waldemar von Roon May 15, 1881 to July 7, 1883
Colonel Hermann von Lettow-Vorbeck 0July 7, 1883 to March 25, 1885
Colonel Robert von Unger March 26, 1885 to December 3, 1886
Colonel Hermann von Wilczeck 0December 4, 1886 to April 5, 1889
Lieutenant Colonel / Colonel Ludwig Böcklin von Böcklinsau 0April 6 to May 21, 1889 to March 29, 1892
Colonel Julius Heinrich von Gemmingen-Steinegg March 29, 1892 to January 26, 1894
Colonel Karl von Bülow January 27, 1894 to February 5, 1897
Lieutenant Colonel / Colonel Konrad Ernst von Goßler 0February 6, 1897 to April 17, 1900
Colonel Alfred von Haugwitz April 18, 1900 to December 17, 1901
Colonel Albert von Lüdinghausen called Wolff December 18, 1901 to October 23, 1903
Colonel Ewald von Lochow October 24, 1903 to December 12, 1906
Colonel Alfred von Larisch December 13, 1906 to July 30, 1908
Colonel Konstantin Schmidt von Knobelsdorf July 31, 1908 to January 26, 1911
Colonel Erich von Falkenhayn January 27, 1911 to February 19, 1912
Colonel Walter von Hülsen February 20, 1912 to July 3, 1914
Colonel Engelbert of the bush 0July 4, 1914 to May 30, 1915
Colonel Wilhelm Reinhard 0June 1, 1915 to February 6, 1919

Flags

The regiment's flags were made of square white silk four feet by six inches. In the middle was the lettering " Pro Gloria et Patria " in gold and a black Prussian eagle surrounded by laurel and crowned with a golden crown. On each of the four sides there was a golden, flaming grenade and in each corner the royal name “ FWR ”, surrounded by green and silver laurel. According to AKO, each battalion was dated. Such a flag was awarded on October 15, 1860, and consecrated on January 18, 1861 in Berlin.

Trivia

Of the soldiers deceived in 1906 by Wilhelm Voigt, the “ Captain von Köpenick ”, six belonged to the 4th Guards Regiment on foot, four more to the Guards Fusilier Regiment .

literature

  • Paul Curtius: List of officers of the Royal Prussian 4th Guards Regiment on foot 1860–1905. Publisher R. Eisenschmidt, Berlin 1905.
  • Wilhelm Reinhard : The 4th Guards Regiment on foot. Verlag Gerhard Stalling, Oldenburg 1924.
  • Günther Voigt .: The Guard and Grenadier Regiments 1–12 of the Prussian Army . In: Dermot Bradley , Hans Bleckwenn (ed.): Germany's armies until 1918. Origin and development of the individual formations . tape 1 . Biblio-Verlag, Osnabrück 1980, ISBN 3-7648-1199-4 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Curt Jany : History of the Prussian Army from the 15th Century to 1914. Volume 4. Biblio Verlag. Osnabrück 1967. pp. 300f.
  2. ^ Curt Jany: History of the Prussian Army from the 15th Century to 1914. Volume 4, Biblio Verlag, Osnabrück 1967, p. 305.
  3. ^ 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. 21.
  4. ↑ http://www.gedenkmal-berlin.de/fritz-schloss/regiment/03-geschichte
  5. ^ 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 commands and training managers from the foundation or list until 1939. Biblio Verlag, Osnabrück 1992, ISBN 3-7648-1782-8 , p. 12f.