Old Prussian Infantry Regiment No. 35 (1806)

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Fusilier Regiment Prince Heinrich of Prussia

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Officer and fusilier of the fusilier regiment Prince Heinrich of Prussia around 1785
active 1740 to 1806 (surrender near Magdeburg )
Country Prussia
Branch of service infantry
Former locations Potsdam , from 1764 Spandau
owner Friedrich Heinrich Ludwig of Prussia (1740)
Tribe list Old Prussian infantry regiments
Trunk number No. 35
Wars & major battles War of the Austrian Succession , Seven Years War , Coalition Wars - Prague (1757), Kolin (1757), Leuthen (1757), Kunersdorf (1759), Torgau (1760)
Uniforms of the fusilier regiment Prince Heinrich of Prussia 1757, illustration from the 19th century

The Fusilier Regiment Prince Henry of Prussia was a Fusilier - Regiment of the Prussian army . For almost all of its existence it was named after its first and only chief of regiment ; it only wore the number 35 for a short time immediately before its end in 1806.

founding

Friedrich II of Prussia set up the regiment on June 27, 1740 for his brother Heinrich , who thus became head of the regiment with the rank of colonel at the age of 14 . Half the body company of the Grenadier Guard ("Infantry Regiment No. 6 / Lange Kerls") and the grenadiers of the garrison battalions Memel and Pillau formed the basic team . The regiment was replenished with recruited volunteers from the Reich . The officers were both from Infantry Regiment No. 6 and from other units transferred to Prince Heinrich's regiment.

recruitment

The regiment was not allocated its own canton for recruiting soldiers. Instead, after the conquest of Silesia, he was assigned 30 recruits every year from the royal canton, which was specially set up for regiments without cantons and which consisted of six districts in the Silesian mountainous region. The team was supplemented by advertising outside Prussia. From 1795 the regiment received its recruits from the West Prussian districts of Bomst , Meseritz , Deutsch Krone , Posen and Hohensalza . Since the supply of recruits was insufficient, the regiment retained the battalion strength of 697 men even after the companies in the rest of the army had been increased in 1756 .

Uniformity

As Fusilier Regiment, the regiment was wearing instead of the three top of the Musketeers Füsiliermützen that a lower version of the Grenadier cap represented. However, the regiment's grenadier company wore high grenadier caps.

deployment

From 1740 to 1756, when it marched out into the Seven Years' War , the regiment was stationed in Potsdam . After the end of the war in 1763, Spandau became the new garrison town, with a battalion in Nauen . After 1795 the regiment was spread over several cities, namely Königsberg in the Neumark , Pyritz , Soldin and Küstrin .

War effort

Second Silesian War

Seven Years War

Fourth coalition war

The end of the regiment

After the death of Prince Heinrich of Prussia on August 3, 1802, the regiment was not given a new boss and the position remained vacant. Therefore, the name of the regiment did not change, which was usually changed when the regiment chief changed.

When on October 1, 1806 the regiments were given numbers instead of their previous names after the respective regiment chiefs, the fusilier regiment Prince Heinrich of Prussia was assigned number 35. However, it only ran this number for just under five weeks before it ceased to exist due to the surrenders of Erfurt and Magdeburg on November 8, 1806.

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literature

  • Hans Bleckwenn : The Frederician Uniforms - Volume 1, 2nd edition, Osnabrück 1987.
  • Klaus-Peter Merta: The army in Brandenburg and Prussia from 1640 to 1806 - the uniform . Brandenburg publishing house, 1994
  • Hans Taeglichsbeck: The Fuesilier Regiment Prince Heinrich von Preussen (No. 35) 1740-1806 , ES Mittler & Sohn , Berlin 1891