Honorary Invalids Corps (Württemberg)
Württembergs Ehren-Invaliden-Corps was founded by a decree of King Frederick I of December 29, 1806 for the construction of a building to accommodate invalids . Military personnel who had become incapacitated due to wounds , field strain or long periods of service were accepted there. Until then, the provision of war invalids had consisted of assigning them to a tract or of being assigned to a company of invalids. The strength of the corps was set at 6 officers , 12 NCOs and 150–200 disabled soldiers.
Status and Uniforms
The King assigned the Honorary Invalids Corps the first rank within the army. His relatives were greeted by all other soldiers and they were fed like the royal guard on foot. Their only duty - as far as they were able - was guard duty at the gate.
The corps had its own uniform:
- 1806: A dark blue Spenzer with a red collar and red cuffs , yellow trousers, and a dark blue bicorn .
- from 1849: A dark blue overskirt with a row of curved white buttons without embossing, red button placket and red collar and sleeve flaps, dark blue trousers with red side seams that were to be worn over the boots, a gray coat and a dark blue cap with a round lid the crowned Württemberg coat of arms made of metal, above a cockade.
Seat and accommodation
The corps was initially housed in its own house in Stuttgart (inaugurated on March 5, 1810) opposite the Hohen Karlsschule . In April 1817 the corps was relocated to the Comburg building near Schwäbisch Hall .
When the military pension law of 1871 regulated the provision of the soldiers, no further invalids were accepted. The four invalids who were still alive when the corps was dissolved on March 31, 1909, kept their apartment. The last member of the corps died in 1925.
graveyard
A separate cemetery was laid out below the Comburg for the corps in 1851 , where 105 people were buried between 1851 and 1905. The youngest still existing tomb dates from 1917. This cemetery, which still exists today, is not a military cemetery like others in which the dead from wars were buried, but a cemetery where members of the Württemberg army and their immediate relatives were buried. who died of natural causes. To this day it is neither a church nor a communal institution, but - in the legal succession of the former Kingdom of Württemberg - an institution of the state of Baden-Württemberg .
Commandants of the Corps
| No. | Surname | Beginning of the appointment | End of appointment |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Lieutenant General Friedrich Ludwig Adebar von Seckendorff | 1806 | 1810 |
| 2. | Colonel Gottfried Daniel von Zieten | March 23, 1810 | 1826 |
| 3. | Colonel Christoph Daniel von Hoyen | 1826 | 1827 |
| 4th | Colonel Franz von Theobald | 1827 | 1828 |
| 5. | Colonel Ludwig Christian von Beulwitz | 1828 | 1832 |
| 6th | Colonel Job August von Milkau | 1832 | 1849 |
| 7th | Colonel Theodor von Klapp | 1849 | 18xx |
literature
- Leo Ignaz von Stadlinger: History of the Württemberg War , K. Hofdruckerei zu Guttenberg, Stuttgart, 1856
- Elisabeth Schraut : The cemetery of the royal Württemberg honorary invalid corps at the foot of the Comburg , published by Stadt Schwäbisch Hall and Verein Alt-Hall eV, 1990
- Harder, Hans-Joachim, Military History Manual Baden-Württemberg , Ed. Military History Research Office , Kohlhammer Verlag Stuttgart, 1987, ISBN 3-17-009856-X
- Herbert Hahn, Das Königlich Württembergische Heer , Ed. On behalf of the German Society for Heereskunde e. V., Beckum, 1994
- Leo Ignaz von Stadlinger, History of the Württemberg Warfare from the Earliest to the Most Recent Times , p.614
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Image of the hat ( Memento from October 15, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Schraut, p. 17