Grenadier Regiment "Prince Carl of Prussia" (2nd Brandenburg) No. 12

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Grenadier Regiment "Prince Carl of Prussia" (2nd Brandenburg) No. 12

active July 1, 1813 to September 30, 1919
Country Kingdom of Prussia
Armed forces Prussian Army
Branch of service infantry
Insinuation III. Army Corps
Former locations Frankfurt (Oder) , Crossen an der Oder , Guben , Sorau u. a.
Tradition 8th (Prussian) Infantry Regiment

The Grenadier Regiment "Prince Carl of Prussia" (2nd Brandenburg) No. 12 was an infantry joined the Prussian army .

history

The association was founded on July 1, 1813 with AKO by King Friedrich Wilhelm III. from the I. and II. Reserve Battalion of the Leib-Infanterie-Regiment and the III. Battalion of the 1st West Prussian Infantry Regiment formed. It was initially called Brandenburg Infantry Regiment No. 12 and was subordinate to the 8th Brigade. The strength was 61 officers , 180 NCOs , 2184 men , thirteen surgeons , ten skin boists and three gunsmiths .

Wars of Liberation 1813/15

German War 1866

After war readiness had been decreed on May 3, 1866, the regiment received its mobilization order two days later. The first day of mobilization was May 6, 1866. By May 12, all reservists had been called up and the individual battalions had been brought up to war strength. On May 16, the march towards the Saxon border took place. The 1st battalion moved into quarters near Drehna , the 2nd battalion near Zinnitz and the fusilier battalion near Ruhland . The fusiliers were the avant-garde of the III. Army Corps assigned to Major General Wilhelm zu Mecklenburg .

Franco-German War 1870/71

First World War

At the beginning of the First World War , the regiment mobilized on August 2, 1914. As part of the 10th Infantry Brigade of the 5th Division , to which it was subordinate to the entire war, the grenadiers took part in the invasion of neutral Belgium . During the battle of the Gete , the regiment first came into action in mid-August.

Whereabouts

After the end of the war , the remnants of the regiment marched back via Potsdam and Berlin to the garrison in Frankfurt (Oder), where demobilization began on December 30, 1918 . Two free formations were formed from parts . First the 1st Battalion of the Volunteer Detachment "Küntzel" and, from February 14, 1919, the 12th Volunteer Grenadier Regiment with three battalions and an MG company. With the formation of the Provisional Reichswehr , the first formation in the III. Battalion of the Reichswehr Rifle Regiment 59. The volunteer regiment formed the staff and the 1st battalion of the Reichswehr Grenadier Regiment 54.

The tradition in the Reichswehr was adopted by the 2nd Company of the 8th (Prussian) Infantry Regiment on August 24, 1921, by decree of the Chief of Army Command, General der Infanterie Hans von Seeckt . In the Wehrmacht , the 1st Battalion of the 8th Infantry Regiment continued the tradition.

Regiment chief

Rank Surname date
General of the Infantry Carl of Prussia May 23, 1822 to January 21, 1883
General of the Infantry /
General Field Marshal 		Wilhelm von Hahnke 0September 1, 1896 to February 8, 1912
General of the Infantry /
General Field Marshal 		Karl von Bülow June 16, 1913 until dissolution

Commanders

Rank Surname date
Lieutenant Colonel /
Colonel 		Karl August Ferdinand von Borcke 0July 1, 1813 to May 30, 1815
Lieutenant Colonel /
Colonel 		Karl Thomas von Othegraven 0June 8, 1815 to May 7, 1817
Lieutenant Colonel /
Colonel 		Karl von Götz and Schwanenfließ 0May 9, 1817 to March 25, 1832
Lieutenant colonel Johann von Werder March 30, 1832 to March 29, 1833 (in charge of the tour)
Colonel Johann von Werder March 30, 1833 to August 9, 1840
Colonel Hans Wilhelm von Schack March 25, 1841 to March 29, 1844
Colonel Wilhelm von Thümen March 30, 1844 to March 21, 1845
Colonel Wilhelm von Sommerfeld and Falckenhayn March 22, 1845 to November 17, 1848
Lieutenant Colonel /
Colonel 		Friedrich von Knobloch November 18, 1848 to April 24, 1854
Lieutenant Colonel /
Colonel 		Albert of Baczko 0May 4, 1854 to May 6, 1857
Colonel Ludwig von Dalwig 0May 7, 1856 to May 30, 1859
Colonel Hans von Quitzow May 31, 1859 to November 10, 1862
Lieutenant Colonel /
Colonel 		Kolmar von Debschitz January 29, 1863 to October 29, 1866
Colonel Eduard von Reuter October 30, 1866 to July 23, 1870
Colonel Hermann von Kalinowski July 24, 1870 to February 19, 1871
Colonel Otto von Stülpnagel February 20, 1871 to February 13, 1874
Colonel Eduard of Jena February 14 to June 8, 1874 (in charge of the tour)
Colonel Eduard of Jena 0June 9, 1874 to February 2, 1880
Colonel Paul Karl von Lettow-Vorbeck 0February 3, 1880 to April 14, 1884
Lieutenant Colonel /
Colonel 		Rudolf von Seelhorst April 15, 1884 to August 1, 1888
Lieutenant colonel Wilhelm Amann 0August 4 to December 16, 1888 (in charge of the tour)
Colonel Wilhelm Amann December 17, 1888 to May 20, 1889
Colonel Wilhelm von Jahn May 22, 1889 to September 19, 1890
Colonel Alkmar von Alvensleben September 20, 1890 to May 13, 1894
Colonel Eduard Liebert May 14, 1894 to December 2, 1896
Colonel Reinhold von Asmuth December 17, 1896 to June 14, 1899
Colonel Thilo von Tresckow June 15, 1899 to August 17, 1902
Colonel Adolf von Oven August 18, 1902 to October 17, 1904
Colonel Cuno von der Goltz October 18, 1904 April 9, 1906
Colonel Ernst von Pressentin April 10, 1906 to December 18, 1907
Colonel Hugo von Freytag-Loringhoven December 19, 1907 to January 26, 1910
Colonel Friedrich von Ditfurth January 27, 1910 to April 3, 1913
Colonel Traugott from Sauberzweig 0April 4, 1913 to January 31, 1914
Colonel Ernst von Reuter 0February 1 to September 24, 1914
Lieutenant colonel Georg Lueder September 25, 1914 to March 14, 1916
major Friedrich Schönlein March 15 to May 8, 1916 (in charge of the tour)
Lieutenant colonel August Schenck zu Schweinsberg May 11 to October 10, 1916
Lieutenant colonel Alexander of Johnston October 11, 1916 to March 22, 1917
Lieutenant colonel Caesar Amann von Borowski March 23, 1917 to November 1, 1918
major Richard Küntzel 0November 2, 1918 to January 19, 1919
Colonel Georg Lueder January 20 to September 30, 1919

Commemoration

In Frankfurt (Oder) on August 24, 1924, a memorial based on the design by the sculptor Georg Fürstenberg for the Prince Carl Grenadiers was inaugurated on what was then Hohenzollernplatz. The group of figures on the base represented a group of storming infantrymen. In autumn 1946 the group of figures was removed from the base and sunk in the nearby extinguishing water pond ; the base was destroyed by order of the German administration. The fire extinguishing pond was filled in shortly afterwards. In 1991 the Reich Association of War Victims and Survivors suggested raising the figure group. The suggestion was not implemented; in this respect the project remains an order.

literature

  • Hugo von Mueller: History of the Grenadier Regiment Prince Carl of Prussia (2nd Brandenburgisches) No. 12. 1813–1895. ES Mittler & Sohn , Berlin 1896.
  • Ulrich von Reden: Officer master list of the Grenadier Regiment Prince Carl von Prussia (2nd Brandenburg) No. 12. From the establishment of the regiment on July 1, 1813 to April 30, 1913. 1913.
  • Ernst von Schönfeldt: The Grenadier Regiment Prince Karl of Prussia (2nd Brandenburg) No. 12 in the world wars . Stalling, Oldenburg 1924 (Volume 103 of the series "Former Prussian Troop Units " in the memorial sheets of German regiments , available digitally: urn : nbn: de: 101: 1-201308253233 )
  • Walter Bloem: The Grenadier Regiment Prince Carl von Prussia (2nd Brandenburg) No. 12. According to the memorial sheets of Major von Schönfeldt and the notes of other combatants, 1940.
  • Jürgen Kraus : Handbook of the associations and troops of the German army 1914-1918. Part VI: Infantry. Volume 1: Infantry Regiments. Verlag Militaria, Vienna 2007, ISBN 978-3-902526-14-4 , p. 53.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hugo von Mueller: History of the Grenadier Regiment Prince Carl of Prussia (2nd Brandenburgisches) No. 12. 1813-1895. ES Mittler & Sohn , Berlin 1896, p. 40.
  2. ^ Günter Wegmann (Ed.), Günter Wegner: Formation history and staffing of the German armed forces 1815-1990. Part 1: Occupation of the German armies 1815–1939. Volume 2: The staffing of the active infantry regiments as well as Jäger and MG battalions, military district commands and training managers from the foundation or list until 1939. Biblio Verlag, Osnabrück 1992, ISBN 3-7648-1782-8 , p. 73.
  3. ^ Günter Wegmann (Ed.), Günter Wegner: Formation history and staffing of the German armed forces 1815-1990. Part 1: Occupation of the German armies 1815–1939. Volume 2: The occupation of active infantry regiments as well as Jäger and MG battalions, military district commandos and training managers from the foundation or list until 1939. Biblio Verlag, Osnabrück 1992, ISBN 3-7648-1782-8 , pp. 74f.
  4. ^ Georg Fürstenberg (1884–1974), sculptor in Frankfurt / Oder; see. http://www.moz.de/artikel-ansicht/dg/0/1/247687
  5. ↑ Bernhard Klemm: Frankfurt Monument History - told based on the fate of individual monuments. in: Messages of the historical association to Frankfurt (Oder) e. V. 1997 issue 1, pp. 14-15.
  6. ↑ Ralf-Rüdiger Targiel : On the fate of Frankfurt monuments after 1945. in: Mitteilungen des Historische Verein zu Frankfurt (Oder) e. V. 2002 issue 2, p. 38.
  7. ↑ DenkFried - Monuments and Cemeteries - A page to remember and commemorate