Old Prussian Magdeburg Land Regiment ML
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Magdeburg Land Regiment |
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| active | 1729 to 1788 (dissolved) |
| Country | Kingdom of Prussia |
| Branch of service | infantry |
| Former locations | Magdeburg |
| owner | 1730–1735 Johann Adolph Marschall von Bieberstein ; 1735–1743 Kaspar Wilhelm von Düringshofen ; 1745–1753 Bernhard Sigismund von Berg ; 1753–1757 Bernhard Friedrich von Ahlimb ; 1757–1774 Johann Christoph von Wegnern ("Alt-Wegnern"); 1774–1780 Johann Friedrich Christoph von Weißenfels ; 1780–1788 Karl Wilhelm von Kottwitz |
| Tribe list | Old Prussian infantry regiments |
| Trunk number | 3 |
| Wars & major battles | Seven Years War - Regenstein (1757) |
The Magdeburg Land Regiment was an infantry regiment of the Old Prussian Army .
history
The Magdeburg Land Regiment was set up in 1729 by King Friedrich Wilhelm I as the Magdeburg Garrison Regiment . In 1735 the land regiment was regulated to five companies . Before the outbreak of the Seven Years' War , the regiment consisted of four musketeer companies, each with 215 soldiers. In the course of the Prussian mobilization in 1757 it was increased to seven companies of the same number of men. The land regiment led since 1757 to differentiate it from the land militia regiment "Jung-Wegener" after its head of the regiment, the name "Alt-Wegener". In 1788 the Magdeburg Land Regiment was disbanded.
garrison
- 1729–1788 Magdeburg
Organization, strength and use
Without exception, the team ranks were regarded as unpaid and permanently on leave. Most of the year they stayed in their hometowns, only once a year they were drawn together for 14 days to drill in Magdeburg. During this time they received pay , and also when they were used on other occasions. The officers , NCOs and Tambours were on duty all year round, but were permanently on half pay. The determination of the troops was a second contingent, which was mainly due to the fact that it consisted largely of soldiers and officers who were no longer able to be used in the field, disabled , retired or transferred to prison. The Land Regiment (No. 3) was the last to be listed among the Magdeburg-Halberstadt troops and was only to appear locally defensive in exceptional cases in times of war.
Fighting
On August 27, 1756, the regiment's men were drafted into the garrison . Whether the Land Regiment (No. 3) took part in combat operations with the French in front of the Regenstein Fortress on September 13, 1757 or whether it was confused with the Dragoon Regiment No. 7 , also garrisoned in Magdeburg , whose commander Colonel Joachim von Ahlimb († 1754), brother of the Magdeburg regiment chief Colonel Bernhard Friedrich von Ahlimb († 1757), remains unclear.
Uniformity
The uniform was marked by carmoisine red open lapels and collars and dark blue undergarments.
Heads of regiments
- 1730–1735 Colonel Johann Adolph Marschall von Bieberstein
- 1735–1743 Colonel Kaspar Wilhelm von Düringshofen
- 1745–1753 Colonel Bernhard Sigismund von Berg
- 1753–1757 Colonel Bernhard Friedrich von Ahlimb
- 1757–1774 Colonel Johann Christoph von Wegnern ("Alt-Wegnern")
- 1774–1780 Colonel Johann Friedrich Christoph von Weißenfels
- 1780–1788 Colonel Karl Wilhelm von Kottwitz
literature
- Peter Cremer: The Prussian land regiments and militias, the Stettiner Haff flotilla and the catering of the army 1756–1753 , Heimbach 1987
- Günther Gieraths : The fighting of the Brandenburg-Prussian army , Berlin 1964, p. 325
- Eduard Lange : The soldiers of Frederick the Great , Leipzig 1853, p. 310
- Brief list of members and rankings of all regiments of the Royal Prussian Army . Berlin 1786, p. 120
- Ranking list of the Royal Prussian Army , Berlin 1787, p. 115
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Eduard Lange : History of the Prussian Landwehr from its creation to 1856. Allgemeine Deutsche Verlagsanstalt, Berlin 1857, p. 84.
- ↑ Directory of the heads of regiments 1713 to 1786.
- ↑ R. Braeuner: History of the Prussian Landwehr: Historical and illumination of its history, construction and subsequent organization , Volume 1. Mittler , Berlin, 1863, pp 28-29 .
- ^ Johann Heilmann : The Art of War of the Prussians under King Frederick the Great , Volume 1, Leipzig and Meißen 1853, p. 398 .
- ^ René de L'Homme de Courbière: History of the Brandenburg-Prussian Army Constitution Berlin 1852, p. 95 .
- ↑ Giertahs (Lit.).
- ^ Magdeburg regiments until 1912.
- ↑ Lange (lit.).