Old Prussian Infantry Regiment No. 13 (1806)
The infantry regiment with the later number No. 13 was a Brandenburg-Prussian regiment on foot, which was formed in 1685 in Soest, Westphalia, as a regiment on foot Varenne from Huguenot refugees . As a result, it had locations in the Mark Brandenburg and finally in Berlin .
General story
In 1685, following the Edict of Fontainebleau in Soest in the county of Mark , the regiment was composed of French religious refugees. The first in command was Colonel Jacques L'Auiuonier Marquis de Varenne. A few years later some of the regimental members went to the new Huguenot regiment on foot Wylich . In 1724 the regiment was brought to Berlin to be garrisoned. The recruits came from the Havelland (Glien, Löwenberg , Oberbarnim and the Priegnitz with Friesack, Rhinow, Plauen, Havelberg and Brandenburgisches Domstift).
evaluation
The regiment was considered one of the best units in the Prussian army of the 18th century. Due to its extraordinary performance, it was allowed to rank immediately after the oldest regiment (1806: No. 1) .
Personalities
A prominent member of the regiment was the Swiss Ulrich Bräker , who in his literary description " The life and adventures of the poor man in Tockenburg " drastically reproduces the Prussian advertising methods and social and war conditions. At the same time as Bräker, the two only simple musketeers from the Prussian heartlands served in the same regiment "Itzenplitz", of which written personal testimonies from the time of the Seven Years' War have come down. The later commander of Berlin and General Egidius Ehrentreich von Sydow was a lieutenant colonel in the regiment in 1710.
Whereabouts and succession
The regiment was founded in 1806 as a regiment on foot by Arnim No. 13 dissolved by surrender. The 1st battalion surrendered on October 28th near Prenzlau , the 2nd battalion on November 4th near Pinnow , the III. Battalion near Szczecin .
Uniform, equipment
Until the middle of the 18th century, the regimental uniform consisted of a blue uniform jacket with yellowish-white cuffs and lapels and red skirt lapels. The cap of the winged grenadiers was blue and white, silver brass fittings with a white tuft. The regimental flag was black with wine-red flames.
See also
literature
- Hans Bleckwenn : The Frederician uniforms: 1753–1786 . In: The bibliophile paperbacks . No. 444. Hardenberg, Dortmund 1984, ISBN 3-88379-444-9 , pp. 101 ff . (License from Biblio-Verl. Osnabrück as: The Old Prussian Army. Part 3, Vol. 3, 4 and 5).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Cf. Curt Jany : History of the Prussian Army from the 15th Century to 1914 . Ed .: Eberhard Jany. tape 1 . Biblio Verlag, Osnabrück 1967, p. 296 ff . (extended edition of the original edition from 1928).
- ↑ Hans Bleckwenn : The Frederician uniforms: 1753 - 1786 . In: The bibliophile paperbacks . No. 444. Hardenberg, Dortmund 1984, ISBN 3-88379-444-9 , pp. 101 (License from Biblio-Verl. Osnabrück as: The Old Prussian Army. Part 3, Vol. 3, 4 and 5).
- ↑ Full text: Ulrich Bräker: Life story and natural level of the poor man in Tockenburg. Retrieved June 22, 2011 . For the classification of Bräker's regiment cf. Helmut Eckert: Archival contribution to Ulrich Bräker's tales of his time as a soldier . In: Ulrich Bräker (ed.): The life and adventures of the poor man in Tockenburg . Biblio-Verlag, Osnabrück 1980, ISBN 3-7648-0837-3 , p. 1-39 .
- ↑ Christian Zander: "You better esteem a dog ..." Prussian soldiers' letters (1747–1758) . In: Ders .: Fundstücke - documents and letters from a Prussian peasant family (1747–1953) . Kovač, Hamburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-8300-8555-3 , pp. 15–158.