Old Prussian Infantry Regiment No. 5 (1806)

Regiment on foot & name of owner
active	1655/1707 to 1806 (surrender)
Country	Electorate of Brandenburg / Prussia
Branch of service	infantry
Former locations	Magdeburg
Origin of the soldiers	Duchy of Magdeburg
owner	1655 Jonas Casimir von Eulenburg , 1667 Bogusław Radziwiłł , 1670 Karl Emil von Brandenburg , 1674 Hans Adam von Schöning , 1707 Georg Abraham von Arnim , 1731 Jakob von Bechefer , 1732 Christoph Heinrich von der Goltz , 1739 Johann von Wedell , 1742 Anselm Christoph von Bonin , 1755 Ferdinand von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel , 1766 Friedrich Christoph von Saldern , 1785 Christian August von Lengefeld , 1789 Ludwig Karl von Kalckstein , 1800 Franz Kasimir von Kleist .
Tribe list	Old Prussian infantry regiments
Trunk number	No. 5
Wars & major battles	War of Spanish Succession , War of Austrian Succession , Seven Years' War , Napoleonic Wars

The infantry regiment with the later number No. 5 was one of the oldest Brandenburg-Prussian regiments. It was founded in 1655 as Eulenburg on foot .

General story

The regiment was established in 1655 from recruits from Kurbrandenburg offices. In 1674 it was united with the Guard . In 1707 it became independent again.

Garrison, replacement and social conditions

In the 18th century, the regiment was always in the Magdeburg garrison.

evaluation

The regiment was considered an elite regiment, certainly also because of its guard background.

Personalities

Outstanding personality was the commander-in-chief of the Allied Western Army in the Seven Years' War Ferdinand von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel , his commander Johann Christoph von Prignitz died in the battle of Roßbach . The regiment chief Friedrich Christoph von Saldern also established a good reputation for the regiment.

Whereabouts and succession

The regiment was founded on November 8, 1806 as the Regiment on Foot Kleist No. 5 dissolved in Magdeburg by surrender.

Uniform, equipment

In the 18th century the regimental uniform consisted of a blue uniform jacket with paille sleeves and red skirt lapels and paille borders with two red braids. The cap of the winged grenadiers was beige-blue, gold brass fittings with yellow-white-red tufts. The regimental flag was yellow with red flames.

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. 69ff.

Web links

Private English-language project on the Seven Years War: Here No. 5

Individual evidence

↑ 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. 72.

[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. 72.