Old Prussian Infantry Regiment No. 9 (1806)

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Regiment on foot & name of owner

Schmalen-Manuscript No.9 1759.jpg

Contemporary depiction of a musketeer 1759 ( Schmalen manuscript )
active 1646 to 1806 (surrender)
Country Prussia
Branch of service infantry
Former locations Hamm , Soest , Unna (until 1756)
Origin of the soldiers County mark
owner 1646 Johann Ernst von Pöllnitz , 1684 Heinrich de Briquemault , 1692 Anton Sigismund de Buys , 1694 Otto von Schlabrendorff , 1713 Etienne du Trossel , 1714 Johann Sigismund von der Heyden , 1719 Jonas Casimir von Auer , 1721 Johannes du Buisson , 1726 Christoph Rudolf von Schliewitz , 1732 Sigismund Rudolf von Waldow , 1735 Otto Friedrich von Leps , 1747 Johann Christian Rölemann Quadt von Wickrath , 1756 Friedrich Ludwig von Kleist , 1758 Georg Friedrich von Oldenburg , 1758 Nikolaus Lorenz von Puttkamer , 1759 Friedrich August von Schenckendorf , 1763 Karl Friedrich von Wolffersdorff , 1782 Alexander von Budberg , 1792 Wilhelm Dietrich von Manstein , 1796 Christian Ludwig von Winning , 1796 Johann Friedrich von Brehmer , 1802 Johann Friedrich Schenck zu Schweinsberg
Tribe list Old Prussian infantry regiments
Trunk number No. 9
Wars & major battles War of Austrian Succession , Seven Years War - Kesselsdorf (1745), Lobositz (1757), Prague (1757), Roßbach (1757), Battle of Kay (1759); Kunersdorf (1759); Maxen (1759)

The infantry regiment with the later number No. 9 was an old Prussian regiment on foot, which was formed in 1646 as the Minden garrison. It was located in the Brandenburg-Prussian enclave of Grafschaft Mark .


Garrison, replacement and social conditions

The regiment was from 1763 with six companies in Hamm (Westphalia) , with six companies in Soest . Before that, the regiment also had garrisons in Unna (until 1756), Minden and Lippstadt . The districts of Hamm , Hörde , Wetter and Altena replaced the regiment . Furthermore, conscripts from the cities north and south of the Ruhr had to serve, as well as from Soest and the Soester Börde . As was customary in the 18th century, the soldiers were not housed in barracks, but in private quarters, where they also had to do sideline jobs because of the low wages. In 1775 the troops consisted of 40% foreigners and 60% cantonists. Of the foreigners, 2% came from countries outside Germany, 15% from non-Westphalian imperial territories. The Prussian theologian Rulemann Friedrich Eylert condemned the regimental conditions in the Westphalian regiments: “These were usually stray people who had learned nothing else and chose the soldier class because they were given their daily bread in order to eke out their lives and at least, albeit meagerly, their bread have nothing else to do. "

evaluation

The regiment was one of the average good regiments in the Seven Years' War . Friedrich II described his two Westphalian regiments (later No. 9 & 10 ) as "rough but reliable". The regiment was "worn out" especially in the "Russian battles" Kunersdorf and Kay and was rarely used primarily, but nevertheless retained the benevolence of the king.

Whereabouts and succession

The association was dissolved as a regiment "von Schenk" on October 16, 1806 during the Fourth Coalition War through the surrender near Erfurt .

Uniform, equipment

Until the middle of the 18th century, the regimental uniform consisted of a blue uniform jacket with red lapels. There were white bows on the red bush lapel and the round open cuffs. The grenadiers' cap was red, gold brass fittings with a yellow-red tuft. The regimental flag was light green with red flames.

See also

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-Verlag Osnabrück as: The Old Prussian Army. Part 3, Vol. 3, 4 and 5). Volume I, pp. 85ff.
  • Rulemann Friedrich Eylert : Between Hamm and Potsdam, Selected reprint of the character traits and historical fragments from the life of the King of Prussia Friedrich Wilhelm III. edited by Jürgen Kloosterhuis (= sources and writings on military history, volume 1). Publisher M. Hüttemann, Paderborn 1989.

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Individual evidence

  1. Eylert 1988: 36, cf. also introduction Kloosterhuis S. XVII.
  2. cit. after Bleckwenn 1984: I 88