Old Prussian Infantry Regiment No. 14 (1806)

Old Prussian Infantry Regiment No. 14 (1806)
active	1626 to 1919
Country	Prussia
Branch of service	infantry
Former locations	Pillau , then Bartenstein , Friedland , from 1751 also Schippenbeil , grenadiers stood in Landsberg until 1770 , then Prussian Holland .
Origin of the soldiers	originally in the Mark Brandenburg then East Prussia
owner	1629 Johann Streiff von Lauenstein , 1632 Henning von Goetz , 1634 Adam Valentin von Redern , 1653 Otto Wilhelm von Podewils , 1657 Pierre de la Cave , 1679 Wolfgang Christoph Truchsess von Waldburg , 1688 Johann Georg von Belling , 1689 Wilhelm von Brandt , 1702 Christoph Albrecht von Canitz , 1711 Albrecht Konrad Finck von Finckenstein , 1736 Andreas Joachim von Kleist , 1738 Johann von Lehwaldt , 1768 Friedrich von Anhalt , 1777 Johann Christian Wilhelm von Steinwehr , 1782 Viktor Amadeus Henckel von Donnersmarck , 1786 Franz Ludolph Ferdinand von Wildau , 1794 Johann Karl Leopold von Larisch , 1795 Georg Friedrich Heinrich von Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen , 1803 Ehrenreich Wilhelm Gottlieb von Besser
Tradition	Grenadier Regiment King Frederick the Great (3rd Eastern Pr.) No. 4
Tribe list	Old Prussian infantry regiments
Trunk number	No. 14th
Wars & major battles	War of the Austrian Succession , Seven Years War

The infantry regiment with the later number No. 14 was a Brandenburg-Prussian regiment on foot, which was formed in 1626. Initially, it was mostly located in East Prussia .

annotation

In 1707 Major General Canitz gave the formal regiment to Friedrich Ludwig Prince of Orange (1707–1708), which from then on bore the name Orange . The prince was the first-born son of the future King Friedrich Wilhelm I. He died a year later. Still the name stayed. Even after the death of Major General Canitz in 1711, the regiment name remained Orange . Only under his successor Finck von Finckenstein it became the Finckenstein Regiment in 1713 .

evaluation

The regiment fell into constant disgrace with Frederick II (Prussia) due to poor performance in the Seven Years' War . In 1776 the chief Friedrich von Anhalt is said to have left the regiment for this reason.

Whereabouts and succession

The regiment remained in the army reform of 1806 as a unit and was left with the Corps L'Estocq in East Prussia; it went up in the Grenadier Regiment King Frederick the Great (3rd Eastern Pr.) No. 4 . The grenadiers in battalion 14/16 were also able to survive and were transferred to the Guard Grenadier Regiment No. 1.

Uniform, equipment

In the middle of the 18th century, the regimental uniform consisted of a blue uniform jacket with red lapels. There were white and red bows on the red bush lapel and above the round, open cuffs. The grenadiers' cap was white, with gold brass fittings and red tufts. The regimental flag was burgundy.

See also

• List of infantry regiments of the Old Prussian Army

literature

• Hans Bleckwenn : The Frederician uniforms: 1753–1786 . In: The bibliophile paperbacks . No. 444. Hardenberg, Dortmund 1984, ISBN 3-88379-444-9 (license from Biblio-Verl. Osnabrück as: The Old Prussian Army; Part 3, Vol. 3, 4 and 5). Volume I, pp. 105ff.

Web links

• Private English-language project on the Seven Years War: Here No. 14th

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hans Bleckwenn : The Frederician uniforms: 1753–1786 . In: The bibliophile paperbacks . No. 444. Hardenberg, Dortmund 1984, ISBN 3-88379-444-9 (license from Biblio-Verl. Osnabrück as: The Old Prussian Army; Part 3, Vol. 3, 4 and 5). Volume I, p. 108.