4th Lorraine Infantry Regiment No. 136

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4th Lorraine Infantry Regiment No. 136

active April 1, 1887 to January 1919
Country Kingdom of Prussia
Armed forces Prussian Army
Branch of service infantry
Insinuation XV. Army Corps
Former locations Strasbourg

The fourth Lothringische Infantry Regiment. 136 was an infantry joined the Prussian army .

history

The regiment was set up by the Highest Cabinet Ordre (AKO) on March 11, 1887 on April 1, 1887. It was formed by delivering individual companies from the following infantry regiments: 1st battalion: 4th company of 8th Infantry Regiment (4th / IR 8,) 6th / IR 48, 6 / IR 52, 8 / IR 12; II. Battalion: 5./IR 20, 8./IR 24, 12./IR 35, 12./IR 64; III. Battalion: 2./IR 93, 10./IR 27, 12./IR 26, 8./IR 66. The garrison was Strasbourg .

Together with the infantry regiment "King Wilhelm II of Württemberg" (6th Royal Saxon) No. 105 , it formed the 85th Infantry Brigade belonging to the 30th Division .

Allegations

First World War

The regiment made on August 2, 1914 mobile . After heavy losses at Blanzy, the remnants of the regiment were combined in a battalion. At the end of the month the regiment was replenished. As a result of further losses, the 4th, 8th and 11th companies were dissolved on August 20, 1918.

Whereabouts

After the end of the war, the remnants of the regiment marched to Bad Wildungen , where the unit was initially demobilized and finally disbanded from January 1919 . At the end of December 1918, a volunteer battalion had already been formed from parts of the 1st Division of the 1st Landesschützen Brigade (Landesschützenkorps). In February 1919, a volunteer company was also set up, which then functioned as the 5th company of the " Eulenburg " Freikorps .

The tradition in the Reichswehr was adopted by the 16th Company of the 12th Infantry Regiment in Halberstadt by decree of the Chief of Army Command, General of the Infantry Hans von Seeckt , on August 24, 1921 .

Commanders

Rank Surname date
Colonel Paul Patrunky 0April 1, 1887 to March 23, 1890
Colonel Karl von Bardeleben March 24, 1890 to April 20, 1894
Lieutenant colonel Heinrich Gisevius April 21, 1894 to October 17, 1895
Colonel Adolf Pagenstecher October 18, 1895 to December 16, 1898
Colonel Ernst von Twardowski December 17, 1898 to April 21, 1902
Colonel Franz Wahnschaffe April 22, 1902 to May 9, 1905
Colonel Hans Hering May 10, 1905 to November 16, 1906
Colonel Wilhelm von Rintelen November 17, 1906 to January 26, 1909
Colonel Justus Roeder January 27, 1909 to April 21, 1912
Colonel Friedrich von Scherbeing April 22, 1912 to March 31, 1914
Lieutenant Colonel / Colonel Stephan Matthies 0April 1 to September 18, 1914
Lieutenant colonel Kurt Marschall von Bieberstein September 19, 1914 to November 9, 1916
Colonel Springman November 10th to December 26th, 1916
major Friedrich Münzer January 24, 1917 to September 28, 1918
major Günther von Scheliha September 29, 1918 until demobilization

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. 220.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Jürgen Kraus: Handbook of the associations and troops of the German army 1914-1918, part VI, volume 1, p. 230
  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 staffing of the active infantry regiments as well as the hunter and machine gun battalions, military district commands and training managers from the foundation or list until 1939. Biblio Verlag. Osnabrück 1992. ISBN 3-7648-1782-8 . P. 344.