Grenadier Regiment "Kaiser Wilhelm, King of Prussia" (2nd Royal Saxon) No. 101

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Grenadier Regiment "Kaiser Wilhelm, King of Prussia" (2nd Royal Saxon) No. 101

active April 30, 1670 to 1919
Country City arms Kingdom of Saxony
Armed forces Saxon Army
Branch of service infantry
Type regiment
structure see structure
Insinuation 23rd Division (1st Royal Saxon)
XII. (I. Royal Saxon) Army Corps
Location see garrison
management
Commanders See commanders

The Grenadier Regiment No. 101 "Kaiser Wilhelm, King of Prussia" (2nd Royal Saxon) was the oldest infantry regiment of the electoral (later royal) Saxon army . It was founded on April 30, 1670 as a body regiment on foot during the reign of Prince Elector and Arch-Marshal Johann Georg II and dissolved on March 31, 1919 following the loss of Saxon military autonomy after the First World War and an almost 250-year military tradition .

Lineup

Took place after the draft in the Reithaus in Dresden (formerly located between the court theater and the Zwinger) by the first commander, Colonel Kuffer. The company was between 101 and 151 men. 60 of them armed with pikes and the rest with muskets and pig feathers .

Regimental names

Electoral body regiment , body regiment on foot , Saxon Guards Grenadier Regiment , 2nd body regiment , body guard on foot , guard on foot , Saxon Guard , German Guard , regiment Kurfürst , regiment König , Bataillon König , guard battalion , Leibgrenadier (body infantry) regiment , Leibbrigade , from April 1, 1867 with the introduction of general conscription in Saxony : 2nd Grenadier Regiment No. 101 , from September 1868 awarding (naming) of the regiment to Wilhelm I "King of Prussia", from January 18, 1871 "Kaiser Wilhelm, King of Prussia" for the establishment of the German Empire

Locations

Since the regiment was founded, companies have been housed in small garrisons and the like. a. in Meißen , Bischofswerda , Senftenberg , Grossenhain , Oschatz , Torgau , Pirna , Lommatzsch , Zittau , Döbeln , Freiberg and Dresden or together in practice camps before the start of campaigns , which were often followed by years of absence from home. In March 1877 the regiment was able to move into the newly built Grenadier Barracks (later Kaiser Grenadier Barracks ) in Albertstadt in the north of Dresden.

Commanders

  • 1670 Colonel Kuffer (?)
  • 1681 Colonel v. Escher
  • 1683 Colonel v. Schönfeld (t)
  • 1685 Lieutenant Colonel v. Throw
  • 1688 Lieutenant Colonel v. Schweinitz
  • 1690 Colonel v. Throw
  • 1692 Colonel v. Bornstädt
  • 1694 Colonel v. Ben (c) kendorf (f)
  • 1695 Colonel Friedrich von Brause
  • 1697 Colonel Siegmund von Brause
  • 1697 Colonel v. the Drost
  • 1699 Colonel Wustromirsky v. Rakittnigk
  • 1700 Colonel Baron v. Degenfeld
  • 1703 Colonel Baron v. Angry

I. Guard:

  • 1707 Colonel v. Stojentin
  • 1718 Colonel Baron v. Schmettau
  • 1719 Colonel v. Fitzner
  • 1728 Colonel v. Weissenbach
  • 1740 Colonel v. Stutterheim
  • 1745 Colonel Noè de Crousaz

II. Guard:

  • 1707 Major General Baron v. Angry
  • 1714 Colonel Baron v. Friezes
  • 1719 Colonel v. Pflugk
  • 1725 Colonel v. Iasmund
  • 1734 Colonel v. Natzmer
  • 1734 Colonel v. Münch
  • 1745 Colonel Noè de Crousaz
  • 1752 Colonel v. Winkelmann
  • 1757 Lieutenant Colonel v. Goetz
  • 1764 Colonel v. Pirch
  • 1778 Colonel v. Gersdorff
  • 1778 Colonel Wolf Reinhard von Hartitzsch
Bernhard von Sachsen-Weimar in the uniform of the Saxon Guard Grenadier Regiment 1812, portrait by Rudolph Suhrlandt
  • 1788 Colonel de Leger
  • 1791 Colonel v. Stammer
  • 1795 Colonel v. Low
  • 1795 Colonel v. goldfinch
  • 1796 Colonel v. Biela
  • 1800 Colonel v. Hayn
  • 1801 Colonel v. Gertenberg
  • 1807 Colonel Donat
  • 1809 Major General Friedrich Georg von Hartitzsch
Heinrich Wilhelm von Zeschau
  • 1809 Major General Heinrich Wilhelm von Zeschau
  • 1810 Colonel v. Göphardt
  • 1814 Colonel Prince Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar
  • 1815 Colonel v. Radeloff
  • 1819 Colonel v. Wolan
  • 1828 Colonel v. Koppenfels
  • 1836 Colonel v. Einsiedel
  • 1845 Colonel v. Schuch
  • 1848 Colonel v. Sure
  • 1853 Colonel Karl Rudolph v. Outside
  • 1860 Colonel Baron v. Falkenstein
  • 1861 Colonel Clemens Heinrich Lothar von Hausen
  • 1866 Colonel v. Bünau
  • 1867 Colonel Alban of Montbé
  • 1869 Colonel Friedrich von Seydlitz-Gerstenberg
  • 1872 Colonel Hans Otto von Schimpff
  • 1875 Colonel Johann von O'Byrn
  • 1883 Colonel Gottlob von Hodenberg
  • 1887 Colonel Arndt von Egidy
  • 1890 Colonel Max von Hausen
  • 1892 Colonel Paul von Hingst
  • 1896 Colonel Richard Sachse
  • 1899 Colonel Paul Vitzthum von Eckstädt
  • 1901 Colonel Klemens von Hausen
  • 1903 Colonel Egon von Schlieben
  • 1907 Colonel Otto von Tettenborn
  • 1911 Colonel Klemens Ullrich
  • 1912 Colonel Johann Meister
  • 1915 Colonel Werner von Seydlitz-Gerstenberg
  • 1917 Colonel Oskar Schulz
  • 1918 Colonel Arndt von Schmalz
  • 1918 Major Hodo von Hodenberg
  • 1919 Major von Löben

War crimes in World War I

Soldiers of the regiment were involved in the Dinant massacre in Belgium on August 23, 1914 . This war crime was only recognized by the Federal Republic of Germany in 2001 .

tradition

After the establishment of the Reichswehr , the 3rd Company of the 10th (Saxon) Infantry Regiment , later the Dresden Infantry Regiment and 10th Infantry Regiment, continued the tradition of the regiment. The parade march assigned to the regiment “Glück auf!” ( Composed by Carl Faust in 1865 ) is now part of the army march collection (AM II, No. 157) of the German Bundeswehr .

monument

The memorial in honor of fallen regimental members of the First World War is located in the honor grove of the Dresden North Cemetery . It was dedicated on April 30, 1920 to the 250th anniversary of the founding of former comrades.

Picture gallery

  • Uniforms 1670 to 1810

  • Uniforms 1815 to 1867

  • Kaiser-Grenadier-Kaserne around 1880

  • The 101s move out

  • Regimental commander Colonel v. Seydlitz-Gerstenberg (center) on the Western Front in 1915

  • 21st corporal body of 2nd Grenadier Regiment No. 101 in the war year 1916

  • Map of the Grenadier Barracks with Kaiser Grenadier Barracks (right) around 1917

  • Regimental memorial on the honor grove of the Dresden North Cemetery

See also

literature

  • O'Byrn, von Seydlitz-Gerstenberg, von Zeschau, Jungnickel: In memory of the 250th anniversary of the establishment of the Saxon Grenadier Brigade. C. C. Meinhold & Sons, Dresden 1920.
  • Alfred Meyer, Georg Reyher: 2nd Grenadier Regiment No. 101 according to official war diaries. (= Memorial sheets of German regiments. Saxon Army. Issue 14). Wilhelm u. Bertha von Baentsch Foundation, Dresden 1924.
  • Hans-Otto von Schimpff: History of the two Royal Saxon Grenadier Regiments, First (Body) Grenadier Regiment No. 100 and Second Grenadier Regiment No. 101, Kaiser Wilhelm, King of Prussia. 2nd Edition. Carl Höckner publishing house, Dresden 1877.

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