Since the IV (half) battalions formed in all infantry regiments by October 2, according to AKO of August 11, 1893, with their two weak companies with a total strength of 201 officers, non-commissioned officers and men (including battalion staff) proved to be too weak for peacekeeping, they were disbanded and the personnel used to set up new regiments. The Infantry Regiment No. 154 was set up on April 1, 1897 as part of this army expansion . The 1st Battalion was made up of the 4th Battalion of the 3rd Lower Silesian Infantry Regiment No. 50 and the 4th Battalion of the 3rd Posen Infantry Regiment No. 58 , the 4th Battalion of the Grenadier Regiment No. 7 and the Infantry Regiment No. 19 formed the 2nd Battalion. The III. The battalion was only set up in 1913 from contributions from the 3rd Company (Kp) / Infantry Regiment (IR) No. 58, the 8th Kp / IR 46, the 8th Kp / IR 37 and the 10th Kp / IR 47.
Together with the Grenadier Regiment "King Wilhelm I." (2nd West Prussian) No. 7, it formed the 19th Infantry Brigade belonging to the 19th Division .
On January 27, 1902, Wilhelm II. The AKO issued a name extension for all associations that had previously been run without a rural name for better differentiation and to establish tradition. From this point on, the regiment was called the 5th Lower Silesian Infantry Regiment No. 154.
First World War
With the outbreak of World War I , the regiment mobilized on August 2, 1914 and was used exclusively on the Western Front until November 1918 .
Between September and October 1916, the regiment was supplemented by a newly established 2nd and 3rd MG company.
Whereabouts
After the war ended , the regiment returned to Jauer, where demobilization took place on December 17, 1918 .
In January 1919, the Volunteer Infantry Regiment 154 was formed from parts and was used by the Freikorps "Silesia" in the border guard of Upper Silesia .
Jürgen Kraus : Handbook of the associations 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. 242.
↑ Curt Jany: The Royal Prussian Army and the German Reichsheer 1807 to 1914 . Publishing house by Karl Siegismund. Berlin 1933, p. 300f.
^ 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. 362.