6th Infantry Regiment (Reichswehr)
6th (Prussian) Infantry Regiment |
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active | 1921 to 1934 |
Country | German Empire |
Armed forces | Reichswehr |
Armed forces | Imperial Army |
Branch of service | infantry |
Type | Infantry Regiment |
structure | s. u. |
Location | See garrisons |
management | |
Commanders | See commanders |
The 6th Infantry Regiment was a regiment of the Reichswehr .
history
The regiment was formed on January 1, 1921 from the Reichswehr Infantry Regiments 17 and 18 of the transitional army . Since it was a mixed country team, only the respective battalions received on May 29, 1922, in addition to their names, the country team designation "Hanseatisches", "Mecklenburgisches" or "Prussian".
In the course of the expansion of the Reichswehr, the regiment was divided into the first wave in 1934, forming the Lübeck Infantry Regiment, the Flensburg Infantry Regiment and the Neumünster Infantry Regiment.
Garrisons
- Lübeck : Regimental staff, II. (Hanseatic) battalion with staff, 5th and 8th company
- Schwerin : 1st (Mecklenburg) battalion with staff
- Eutin : 6th and 7th companies
- Flensburg : III. (Prussian) battalion
- Ratzeburg : (Prussian) training battalion and 13th ( MW ) company
Regiment chief
After his departure at the end of 1922, Walter von Bergmann was appointed chief of the 6th Infantry Regiment in Lübeck on October 31, 1925 .
Commanders
No. | Surname | Beginning of the appointment | End of appointment |
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1. | Colonel Heftritz | January 1, 1921 | 1921 |
2. | Colonel Stoltz | 1922 | 1923 |
3. | Colonel Heinrich von dem Hagen | November 1, 1923 | December 31, 1924 |
4th | Colonel Hartwig von Bülow | January 1, 1925 | November 30, 1926 |
5. | Colonel Walter von Unruh | December 1, 1926 | February 28, 1927 |
6th | Colonel / Major General Curt Ludwig von Gienanth | March 1, 1927 | February 28, 1928 |
7th | Colonel Bodo von Witzendorff | March 1, 1928 | January 31, 1931 |
8th. | Colonel Hubert Gercke | February 1, 1931 | January 31, 1934 |
9. | Colonel Kuno-Hans von Both | February 1, 1934 | September 30, 1934 |
organization
Association membership
The regiment was subordinate to Infantry Leader II of the 2nd Division in Schwerin.
structure
The regiment consisted of the regimental staff with a news relay
- 1st battalion with staff and news relay, emerged from the Reichswehr Infantry Regiment 17,
- 2nd battalion with staff and news squadron, emerged from the Reichswehr Infantry Regiment 18,
- III. Battalion with staff and news relay, emerged from the Reichswehr Infantry Regiment 18,
- Supplementary battalion, from March 23, 1921 a training battalion, emerged from the Reichswehr Infantry Regiment 17.
Each field battalion was divided into three companies of three officers and 161 non-commissioned officers and men (3/161) and one machine gun company (4/126). In total, a battalion consisted of 18 officers and officials (including medical officers ) and 658 men.
Armament and equipment
Main armament
The shooters were equipped with the K98a carbine . Each platoon had an MG 08/15 light machine gun .
In the machine gun companies, the 1st platoon consisted of three groups with three MG 08 heavy machine guns on a carriage, drawn in four horses, the 2nd to 4th platoon consisted of three groups with three MG 08 heavy machine guns on a carriage, drawn in two horses.
The heaviest weapons in the regiment were the mortars in the 13th Company. The 1st train was equipped with two medium-sized launchers 17 cm, drawn in four horses, the 2nd and 3rd train with three light launchers 7.6 cm, driven in two horses.
Others
Takeover of tradition
In 1921 the regiment took over the tradition of the old regiments:
- 1st Company: Grand Ducal Mecklenburg Grenadier Regiment No. 89
- 2nd Company: Grand Ducal Mecklenburg Fusilier Regiment "Kaiser Wilhelm" No. 90
- 3rd Company: Protection force for Cameroon
- 4th Company: Infantry Regiment "Graf Bose" (1st Thuringian) No. 31
- 5th Company: Infantry Regiment "von der Marwitz" (8th Pomeranian) No. 61
- 6th Company: Schleswig-Holstein Infantry Regiment No. 163
- 7th Company: Infantry Regiment "von Manstein" (Schleswigsches) No. 84
- 8th Company: Infantry Regiment "Lübeck" (3rd Hanseatic) No. 162
- 9th Company: Infantry Regiment "Hamburg" (2nd Hanseatic) No. 76
- 10th Company: Infantry Regiment "Herzog von Holstein" (Holsteinisches) No. 85
- 11th Company: Infantry Regiment "von Borcke" (4th Pomeranian) No. 21
- 12th Company: Fusilier Regiment "Queen" (Schleswig-Holstein) No. 86
- 13th Company: Prussian Mine Thrower Troop
- 14th Company: Grand Ducal Mecklenburg Jäger Battalion No. 14
- 15th Company: Lauenburg Jäger Battalion No. 9
- 16th Company: Kulmer Infantry Regiment No. 141
literature
- Georg Tessin : German associations and troops 1918-1939, Biblio Verlag, Osnabrück 1974, ISBN 3-7648-1000-9 , pp. 187ff.
- Edgar Graf von Matuschka: Organization of the Reichsheeres in Handbook on German Military History 1648–1939 , Ed. Military History Research Office , Freiburg (Breisgau), Part VI: Reichswehr and Republic (1918–1933) , Bernard & Graefe Verlag für Wehrwesen, Frankfurt am Main 1970 , Pp. 320-322.
Individual evidence
- ^ Georg Tessin : German Associations and Troops 1918–1939 , Biblio Verlag, Osnabrück 1974, ISBN 3-7648-1000-9 , p. 188.
- ↑ Decree of the Chief of Army Command, General of the Infantry Hans von Seeckt, of August 24, 1921.