7th (Prussian) Infantry Regiment (Reichswehr)
7th (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 | See organization |
Location | See garrisons |
management | |
Commanders | See commanders |
The 7th (Prussian) Infantry Regiment was a regiment of the Reichswehr .
history
The regiment was formed on January 1, 1921 from the Reichswehr Infantry Regiments 11, 15 and 16 of the transitional army . On May 29, 1922, the regiment received the country team designation "Prussian" in addition to its name.
In the course of the expansion of the Reichswehr, the regiment was divided into the first wave in 1934 and the Schweidnitz Infantry Regiment and the Breslau Infantry Regiment were formed.
Garrisons
- Schweidnitz : regimental staff and training battalion
- Brieg , later Opole : 1st battalion with staff, 1st and 2nd company
- Neisse : 1st Battalion, 3rd and 4th Companies
- Hirschberg : II. (Jäger-) Battalion with staff, 7th and 8th companies
- Glatz : II. (Jäger) Battalion, 5th, 6th Company and 13th ( MW ) Company
- Wroclaw : III. Battalion with staff
Commanders
No. | Surname | Beginning of the appointment | End of appointment |
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1. | Colonel Karl von Keizer | January 1, 1921 | March 31, 1923 |
2. | Colonel / Major General Lothar Fritsch | April 1, 1923 | March 31, 1927 |
3. | Colonel Otto von Stülpnagel | April 1, 1927 | 1929 |
4th | Colonel / Major General Metz | 1929 | March 31, 1931 |
5. | Colonel Paul Gerhardt | April 1, 1931 | September 30, 1933 |
organization
Association membership
The regiment was subordinate to Infantry Leader III of the 3rd Division in Potsdam .
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 16,
- 2nd battalion with staff and news relay, emerged from the Reichswehr Infantry Regiment 11,
- III. Battalion with staff and news relay, emerged from the Reichswehr Infantry Regiments 11 and 16,
- Supplementary battalion, from March 23, 1921 a training battalion, emerged from the 15th Reichswehr Infantry Regiment.
Each field battalion was divided into three companies of three officers and 161 non-commissioned officers and men (3/161) as well as an MG 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 a light machine gun 08/15 .
In the machine gun companies, the 1st platoon consisted of three groups with three MG 08 heavy machine guns on a carriage, drawn by four horses, the 2nd to 4th platoon consisted of three groups with three MG 08 heavy machine guns on a carriage, drawn by 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: 4th Silesian Infantry Regiment No. 157
- 2nd and 16th company: Infantry Regiment "Emperor Karl of Austria and King of Hungary" (4th Upper Silesian) No. 63
- 3rd and 4th company: Infantry Regiment "von Winterfeldt" (2nd Upper Silesian) No. 23
- 5th, 6th and 13th Company: Fusilier Regiment "General-Feldmarschall Graf Moltke" (Silesian) No. 38
- 7th Company: 2nd Silesian Jäger Battalion No. 6
- 8th Company: Jäger Battalion "von Neumann" (1st Silesian) No. 5
- 9th and 12th company: Grenadier Regiment "King Friedrich III." (2nd Silesian) No. 11
- 10th and 11th companies: 4th Lower Silesian Infantry Regiment No. 51
- 14th and 15th company: Grenadier Regiment "King Friedrich Wilhelm II." (1st Silesian) No. 10
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 a manual on German military history 1648–1939 , published by the 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