Fridericus Rex Grenadier March

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The Fridericus Rex Grenadier March ( Army March II, 136 ( Army March II, 198)) was composed in the mid-1860s by the Prussian military musician Ferdinand Radeck . In the trio of the march he used the melody with which the composer Carl Loewe had underlayed the ballad Fridericus Rex ( Latin for Frederick the Great ) , written shortly before by Willibald Alexis , in 1837 . During this time of the Prussian expansion policy, in which Frederick the Great was again greatly admired, both Radeck's march and Loewe's ballad with his name enjoyed great popularity.

Even today, the Fridericus Rex Grenadier March is one of the most famous German military marches . It is one of the traditional marches of the 10th Panzer Division in Sigmaringen , the military police force of the Bundeswehr and the armored combat troops in general .

song lyrics

Fridericus Rex, our King and Lord,
called all his soldiers into the rifle,
two hundred battalions and about a thousand squadrons,
and each grenadier gets sixty cartridges.

“You damned fellows,” said His Majesty,
“that everyone in the Bataille is his man,
they won't grant me Silesia and the County of Glatz
and the hundred million in my treasure.

The Kais'rin has allied with the French,
and the Roman Empire revolted against me,
the Russians invaded Prussia
, let's show that we are good children of the country.

My Generals Schwerin and Field Marshal von Keith
and Major General von Ziethen are always ready.
Potz Mohren, Blitz und Kreuzelement,
who doesn't know Fritz and his soldiers yet. ”

“ Well, adje Luise, wipe off your face,
every bullet won't hit,
because if every bullet hit her husband apart,
where would the kings get their soldiers then!

The musket ball makes a small hole,
the cannon ball a much larger one;
the bullets are all made of iron and lead,
and some bullets may pass by.

Our artillery is of an excellent caliber,
and none of the Prussians goes over to the enemy,
the Swedes , they have damned bad money,
who knows whether the Austrian will hold better.

His king pays the French with pomade,
we get it every week at Heller und Pfennig.
Potz Mohren, Blitz and Kreuzsakrament,
who gets his treatise as promptly as the Prussian.

Fridericus, my king, who is adorned by the laurel wreath,
oh, if only you had allowed to plunder more often,
Fridericus Rex, my king and hero,
we will beat the devil out of the world for you. "

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