Old Prussian Infantry Regiment No. 15 (1806)
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Regiment on foot & name of owner / Regiment Guard |
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 1st Battalion Guard after 1740 - Depiction by Richard Knötel (1890) |
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| active | 1688 to 1806 (surrender) |
| Country | Electorate of Brandenburg / Prussia |
| Branch of service | infantry |
| Former locations | Wesel , from 1733 Ruppin , Nauen , from 1740 Potsdam |
| Origin of the soldiers | Huguenots , 1740–1786 elite soldiers from all parts of the army |
| owner | 1688 Philipp Karl von Wylich and Lottum , 1719 Friedrich Wilhelm von Koenen , 1720 Christoph Heinrich von der Goltz , 1732 Crown Prince Friedrich of Prussia , 1740 King Friedrich II. Of Prussia, 1786 Franz Georg Gneomar von Kunitzky , 1793 Friedrich von Ingersleben , 1798 Karl Friedrich from Hirschfeld |
| Tradition | After the Prussian army reform, taken over as the 1st Guards Regiment on foot in the New Prussian Army. |
| Tribe list | Old Prussian infantry regiments |
| Trunk number | No. 15th |
| Wars & major battles | War of Spanish Succession , War of Austrian Succession , Seven Years' War , Napoleonic Wars |
The infantry regiment with the later number No. 15 was an old Prussian regiment on foot, which was formed in 1688 as the Wylich foot regiment from Huguenot refugees . Originally stationed in Wesel , it was relocated to Ruppin as the Crown Prince Regiment . As king, Frederick II made it a regiment guard with the 1st battalion guard at the Potsdam location .
General story
In 1688 the regiment was composed of French religious refugees after the Edict of Fontainebleau . In 1732 the young Crown Prince Friedrich received the regiment from his father. In 1733 it was moved to Ruppin and Nauen. On June 1, 1740, the new king appointed the regiment to the Guard Regiment, which replaced the previous royal regiment . Potsdam became the new garrison. Unlike other units, the regiment had three battalions. The 1st Battalion was named “I. Bataillon Leibgarde "called.
Personalities
In addition to Friedrich II. The most prominent member of the family was the playwright Heinrich von Kleist . He entered the III. Battalion. With the regiment he took part in the Rhine campaign against France and in the siege of the first bourgeois republic on German soil in Mainz. In 1795 he was promoted to ensign and in 1797 to lieutenant . He repeatedly expressed growing doubts about being a soldier and left the regiment in April 1799.
Regimental commanders
| Rank | Surname | date |
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| Colonel | Margrave Friedrich Wilhelm of Brandenburg-Schwedt | June 23, 1740 |
| Major general | Prince Ferdinand of Braunschweig | December 1744 |
| Major general | Johann Ludwig von Ingersleben | June 7, 1755 |
| Colonel | Friedrich Bogislav von Tauentzien | November 27, 1757 |
| Colonel | Prince Friedrich Wilhelm of Prussia | June 25, 1763 |
| Colonel | Johann Christoph von Billerbeck | April 24, 1764 |
| Colonel | Otto Heinrich von Laxdehnen | November 22, 1765 |
| major | Ernst Gottlob von Scheelen | February 6, 1773 |
| major | Franz Georg Gneomar von Kunitzky | August 10, 1786 |
| Lieutenant colonel | Friedrich von Ingersleben | January 9, 1793 |
| Colonel | Karl Friedrich von Hirschfeld | January 19, 1798 |
| Rank | Surname | date |
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| Colonel, | Asmus Ehrenreich von Bredow | June 23, 1740 received the regiment No. 33 |
| Colonel | Felix Bogislaw von Schwerin , died on June 7th, 1745 as a result of an injury near Hohenfriedeberg | October 23, 1743 |
| Colonel | Kaspar Ernst von Schultze , received regiment no.29 | June 11, 1745 |
| Colonel | Dietrich Richard von Meyerinck , received Regiment No. 26 | April 22, 1747 |
| Lieutenant colonel | Christoph Moritz von Beschwitz (No. 2nd Battalion) (1696–1769) | August 24, 1749 (2nd Battalion) |
| Colonel | Samuel Christoph von Meseberg (1703–1781) | August 24, 1749 - March 3, 1754 (No. 3rd Battalion) then both |
| Colonel | Baron Karl Ferdinand von Hagen called Geist , received regiment No. 8 | July 18, 1756 |
| Colonel | Friedrich Christoph von Saldern , received the regiment No. 6 | May 12, 1757 |
| major | Wichard Joachim Heinrich von Möllendorff , received Regiment No. 39 | February 5, 1760 |
| Colonel | Julius Adolf Friedrich Treusch von Buttlar | May 7, 1771 |
| Colonel | Friedrich Wilhelm von Rohdich , received Regiment No. 6 | October 10, 1776 |
| Colonel | Wilhelm Magnus von Brünneck , received regiment No. 36 | June 17, 1779 |
| Lieutenant colonel | Friedrich Friedrich Adrian Dietrich von Roeder , received the regiment No. 6. | April 5, 1785 |
| Colonel | Friedrich Wilhelm Felix of Schwerin | January 29, 1796 |
| Colonel | Ludolf August Friedrich von Alvensleben , received Regiment No. 33. | September 9, 1800 |
| major | Johann Ferdinand von Frankenberg - Commander and Chief of the Regiment of the Guard († November 21, 1827) | January 5, 1805 |
| Lieutenant General | Ernst von Rüchel , previously chief of the regiment. No. 30, received regiment No. 2 in 1805. | January 13, 1798 |
Whereabouts and succession
The regiment was established as a regiment on foot from Hirschfeld No. 15 dissolved on October 28, 1806 by the surrender near Prenzlau .
Uniform, equipment
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Until the middle of the 18th century, the regimental uniform consisted of a blue uniform jacket with red cuffs. The 1st Battalion of Life Guards wore opulent silver ribbons on their chests. The cap of the winged grenadiers was red and had silver brass fittings with a white and red pompom . The regimental flag was striped silver and white. The II. And III. The battalion had less ornate uniforms, with red borders and smaller silver bows. All crew ranks were called grenadiers , although only the wing grenadiers and the entire III. Battalion wore grenadier caps. These in turn were yellow.
See also
literature
- Hans Bleckwenn : The Frederician uniforms: 1753–1786 ; Dortmund: Harenberg 1984 (= The bibliophile pocket books No. 444); License d. Biblio publ. Osnabrück as: The Old Prussian Army; Part 3, Vol. 3, 4 and 5; ISBN 3-88379-444-9 . Volume I: Infantry I; Volume II: Infantry II. P. 109ff.
- Carl von Reinhard: History of the Royal Prussian First Guard Regiment on foot traced back to the historical origins of the regiment from the 1st Body Guard Battalion, the Guard Regiment and the Grenadier Guard Battalion 1740–1857 , Potsdam 1858, ( books.google.de ).
- List of all regiments and corps of the Royal Prussian Army 1796, p. 35 ff. ( Books.google.de ).
Web links
- Private English-language project on the Seven Years War: Here No. 15 / I
- Private English-language project on the Seven Years War: Here No. 15 / II & III
Individual evidence