The Congregational Livguard
Den Kongelige Livgarde (Eng .: The Royal Life Guard) is a regiment of the Danish Army . The association serves both as a regular infantry regiment and, together with the Gardehusarregimentet, as part of the guard of the Danish royal family. He is housed in two barracks ( Gothersgade in Copenhagen and Høvelte ).
history
The life guard was in 1658 by King Friedrich III. founded as a regular infantry and bodyguard regiment. In addition to the infantry unit, called the Leibgarde zu Fuß , there was an additional cavalry unit from 1661 to 1866 , which was called the Mounted Guard . There was also the Drabantgarden ( Trabantengarde ) and the Grenaderkorpset ( Grenadierkorps ), both units were merged with the foot bodyguard in 1663.
Your baptism of fire received the Royal Danish Livgarde at the Siege of Copenhagen 1658-59 , then took her by the Scanian War , Great Northern War , the theater of war and the Napoleonic Wars ( Danish-Swedish War ), First Schleswig-Holstein War and Second Schleswig-Holstein War part .
In World War II , the regiment defended in the occupation of Denmark , the Amalienborg Palace on 9 April 1940 against the German Wehrmacht and was on August 29, 1943, to the skirmishes involved in the then state of emergency.
During the Cold War , the association regularly participated in maneuvers of NATO and UN peacekeeping missions (140 soldiers of a tank company in KFOR ) and the Iraq War (140 soldiers of an armored infantry company) part.
On July 6, 2016, the drum corps of the Royal Danish Life Guard marched through the center of Flensburg , making music , where its Lord Mayor Simon Faber and the population gave a warm welcome. In this way, the guardsmen advertised the upcoming Sonderburger Ringreiterfest for the first time , one of the largest festivals of its kind alongside the one in Aabenraa .
assignment
The regiment provides property protection in Amalienborg Palace and Rosenborg Palace . Further guard objects are the castles Fredensborg , Marselisborg , Gråsten , Christiansborg and other places in Denmark. In a possible war, the regiment is supposed to defend the Danish capital Copenhagen.
organization
The regiment currently consists of two battalions (consisting of four operational companies and one headquarters company ):
- I. Bataljon : founded in 1658, armored infantry unit
- II. Bataljon : founded in 1867, training unit
- The following battalions were disbanded as part of a reclassification in 2005:
- III. Bataljon (founded 1923)
- IV. Bataljon (founded 1961)
- V. Bataljon (founded 2000)
- VI. Bataljon (founded 2000)
- VII. Bataljon (founded in 2000)
There are also the following battalion-independent units:
- Vagtkompagniet with the Livgardens Tambourkorps
- Livgarde's Music Corps
- Garrisonstøtteelement
The 1st Bataljon is subordinate to the 1st Brigade , the 2nd Bataljon to the 2nd Brigade of the Danish Army .
The regiment is made up of professional soldiers and approximately 700 to 800 conscripts from all over Denmark.
uniform
The uniform of the Den Kongelige Livguard changed over the centuries. Originally they were light red, blue trousers were introduced in 1805 and today's dark blue parade uniform has been worn since 1848. Bearskin hats are used as headgear , and the guardsmen symbolically wear the guard saber (Danish: Gardersabel), which was introduced after the First Schleswig-Holstein War . The model for this saber was the French infantry saber of the coalition wars .
In 1903 olive-colored field uniforms were introduced; the field uniform currently worn was introduced in 1984.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Website: Hæren - Den Kongelige Livgarde: Vagtkompagniets historie ( Memento of July 11, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), (Danish), accessed on July 11, 2016
- ^ Behring / Lippmann: Before the Ringreiterfest in Sonderburg: Video: Royal Danish Guard marches through Flensburg. In: Flensburger Tageblatt . July 7, 2016, accessed July 8, 2016 .