Old Prussian Infantry Regiment No. 26 (1806)
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Regiment on foot & name of owner |
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  Commoner and officer 1758. Engraving after IC Schmalen, 1759 |
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| active | 1678 to 1806 (surrender near Erfurt and in the Corps Blücher ) |
| Country | Prussia |
| Branch of service | infantry |
| Former locations | Berlin ( Cölln / Spittelmarkt ) |
| Origin of the soldiers | Districts Lebus , Cottbus , Beeskow ; Cities Müllrose , Seelow , Fürstenwalde , Beeskow, Peitz . |
| owner | 1714 Kurt Hildebrand von Loeben , 1730 Henning Alexander von Kleist , 1749 Dietrich Richard von Meyerinck , 1758 Carl Heinrich von Wedel , 1760 Christian Bogislaw von Linden , 1764 Anton Abraham von Steinkeller , 1778 Hans Christoph von Woldeck , 1789 Philipp Adolph von Schwerin , 1795 Johann Karl Leopold von Larisch . |
| Tribe list | Old Prussian infantry regiments |
| Trunk number | No. 26 (1806) |
| Butcher |
War of Austrian Succession , Seven Years War , Fourth Coalition War - 1715 Pomeranian Campaign , 1741 Mollwitz , 1757 Prague , Roßbach , Leuthen , 1758 Hochkirch , 1760 Liegnitz ; 1762 Freiberg ;
Grenadiers together with the wing grenadiers of No. 13 fighting in a battalion (from 1760 together with No. 13/19/25) in further battles |
Infantry Regiment No. 26 was an old Prussian regiment on foot that was formed in 1714 from different contingents. It was located in Berlin. Its tradition is traced back to 1678.
Garrison, replacement and social conditions
The regiment was in Berlin in the districts of Cölln and around the Spittelmarkt . The southeastern Brandenburg districts Lebus, Cottbus and Beskow supplied the replacement for the regiment. As was customary in the 18th century, the soldiers were not in barracks, but in private quarters, where they had to do sideline jobs due to the low wages.
Historical
The regiment was one of the above-average regiments in the Seven Years' War. Basically, it has had to completely renew itself several times. More than 464 members of the regiment, which comprised around 1000 men, died near Leuthen, 360 near Hochkirch, 655 near Hochkirch. Field Marshal Prince Moritz von Anhalt-Dessau is credited with saying to King Frederick the Great : "Your Majesty can entrust the regiment with your crown and scepter if they run in front of the field, I don't like to stay there either."
In the Battle of Leuthen in 1757 it was the standard-bearer of the then avant-garde regiment Meyerinck, the Freikorporal Ernst Friedrich Rudolf von Barsewisch , to whom Frederick the Great addressed the words before the advance:
“Junker of the Leib Compagnie, he sees well; He should march on the mess. But it does not have to advance too strongly so that the army can follow. "
Personalities
- Friedrich Sebastian Wunibald Truchsess zu Waldburg (later Regiment Head No. 13 )
- Friedrich Erdmann von Anhalt-Köthen-Pleß (head of a company until 1755; later owner of the French Anhalt regiment )
Whereabouts and succession
The regiment was with the Blücher Corps in 1806 and went down with it. Another part capitulated at Erfurt .
Uniform, equipment
The regiment wore a blue uniform with red facings and yellow buttons in the mid-18th century. On the chest and the round cuffs were 6 pairs of pointed yellow ribbon strands. The grenadiers' hat was white with a white and red tuft. The fittings were yellow. The regimental flag was yellow with a white cross of flames.
After the last owner of the regiment, the name Larisch embroidery is derived for the component of the uniform that was later adopted outside the regiment.
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.
- Georg Tessin : The regiments of the European states in the Ancien Régime des XVI. to XVIII. Century ; 3 volumes; Biblio Verlag: Osnabrück 1986–1995. ISBN 3-7648-1763-1 . P. 110.