Hannoversches Jäger Battalion No. 10

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Hannoversches Jäger Battalion No. 10

HJB10 - Signum.jpg
active 1803 to 1919
Country coat of arms Kingdom of Prussia
Province of Hanover
Armed forces Prussian Army
Armed forces army
Branch of service Hunter
Type battalion
structure see structure
Subordinate troops

Machine gun department No. 3, cycling department, telephone squad, mortar department

Strength 368 (foundation strength)
Insinuation see insinuations
Location see garrison
march March of the morning. hann. Guard hunter battalions (presentation march)

March of the morning. hann. 2nd and 3rd Jäger Battalions (parade march)

management
Commanders see commanders

When the campaign of 1866 was over - the Kingdom of Hanover , the Elbe Duchies , the Electorate of Hesse , the Duchy of Nassau and the Free City of Frankfurt had ceased to be independent states and formed three new provinces of Prussia - three new associations in the form of hunters were formed - Battalions formed. Of these, the later Lauenburg Jäger Battalion No. 9 already met during the campaign.

At Babelsberg Castle , King Wilhelm issued a General Cabinet Order (AKO) on September 27, 1866, ordering the formation of the 10th and 11th Jäger Battalions.

By the highest order of January 24th, 1899, the emperor gave new life to the glorious traditions of the former Hanoverian army. He distinguished the Hanoverian Jäger Battalion No. 10 by allowing them to view the history of the former Hanoverian hunters as their own.

During the First World War , the Reserve Jäger Battalion No. 10 was formed from that battalion on August 2, 1914 , according to the mobilization date calendar worked out in peace after the regular battalion had moved out. The remaining capable teams were sent to the replacement battalion.

After the Battle of the Marne , the replacement battalion received the telegraphic order to set up Reserve Jäger Battalion No. 23 as the third Hannoversches Jäger battalion .

organization

Surname

  • Oct. 2, 1866 - No. 10 Hunter Battalion
  • November 7, 1867 - Hannoversches Jäger Battalion No. 10

Allegations

Old Hanoverian hunters

Uniforms of the two light battalions of the King's German Legion
1816
  • 1st Brigade under Major General Graf von Kielmannsegg
    • Regiment Göttingen
      • Guard Hunter Battalion
        • 6 (then 4) companies from the two light battalions of the King's German Legion
          • Budget:
          • Staff: lieutenant colonel, major, adjutant, regimental quartermaster, chief surgeon, assistant surgeon, premier of music
          • Companies: 1 each captain, 2 lieutenants, 1 ensign, sergeant, 2 sergeants, 4 non-commissioned officers, 4 corporals, 2 reels, 133 common (including 12 whistlers or janissaries )
    • Calenberg Regiment
March 18, 1820
  • 1st Brigade under General Carl von Alten
    • Guard Hunter Battalion
    • Guard Grenadier Regiment
    • 1st, 2nd and 3rd Infantry Regiments
1833
  • 1st Division under General Carl von Alten
    • a brigade
      • Guard Hunter Battalion
      • Guard Grenadier Regiment
      • 2nd and 4th Line Battalion
January 16, 1838
  • Light Brigade
    • Guard Hunter Battalion
    • 1st light battalion
    • 2nd light battalion
    • 3rd light battalion
September 16, 1856
  • 1st division in Hanover
    • 1st Brigade in Hanover
      • Guard regiment
      • 1st or body regiment
      • Guard hunter battalion in Hanover
        • Budget: 4 * 128 + 20 (staff) = 892 people

Hanoverian hunter

in the Franco-German War
  • X. Army Corps in Altona
    • 20th division in Hanover
      • Hannoversches Jäger Battalion No. 10 in Goslar
April 1, 1890
1899
  • 39th division in Colmar
    • Jäger Brigade in Colmar
      • Magdeburg Hunter Battalion No. 4
      • Rhenish Jäger Battalion No. 8
      • Hannoversches Jäger Battalion No. 10
      • Mecklenburg Jäger Battalion No. 14
April 1, 1901
October 1, 1909
  • X. Army Corps in Hanover
    • Hannoversches Jäger Battalion No. 10 in Goslar

Regular Jäger Battalion in World War I

from August 4, 1914
August 12, 1914
November 29, 1914
May 28, 1915
October 22, 1915
December 1, 1915
  • German Alpine Corps
    • 2nd Jäger Brigade
      • Hunter Regiment 2
        • Hannoversches Jäger Battalion No. 10
April 4, 1916
  • 2nd Jäger Brigade
  • Hunter Regiment 2
    • Hannoversches Jäger Battalion No. 10
July 10, 1916
October 3, 1916
  • 9th Army
    • German Alpine Corps
      • Bavarian 1st Jäger Brigade
        • Hunter Regiment 2
          • Hannoversches Jäger Battalion No. 10
November 10, 1916
August 11, 1917

Army Group Mackensen

  • Hannoversches Jäger Battalion No. 10
October 1, 1917
  • 14th Army
    • German Alpine Corps
      • Hunter Regiment 2
        • Hannoversches Jäger Battalion No. 10
April 9, 1918
  • 6th Army
    • German Alpine Corps
      • Hunter Regiment 2
        • Hannoversches Jäger Battalion No. 10
August 11, 1918

Army Group v. Boehn

Reserve Jäger Battalion No. 10 (RJB 10)

August 13, 1914

2nd Army

October 19, 1914
November 16, 1914
  • 38th Reserve Infantry Brigade
    • Reserve Hunter Battalion No. 10
February 1, 1915

1st Army

  • 26th Reserve Infantry Brigade
    • Reserve Hunter Battalion No. 10
April 23, 1915
  • X. Reserve Corps
    • 2nd Guard Reserve Division
      • 38th Reserve Infantry Brigade
        • Reserve Hunter Battalion No. 10
from June 1915 see regular battalion

Reserve Jäger Battalion No. 23 (RJB 23)

October 13, 1914

4th Army

October 20, 1914
October 20, 1914
October 21, 1914
September 21, 1915
June 22, 1916
  • Reserve Hunter Battalion No. 23
200th Infantry Division, August 7, 1916
August 7, 1916

kuk 7th Army

October 15, 1917

14th Army

  • " Berrer " group
    • 200th Infantry Division
      • 2nd Jäger Brigade
        • Jäger Regiment 5
          • Reserve Hunter Battalion No. 23
November 3, 1917
  • Group " stone "
    • 200th Infantry Division
      • 2nd Jäger Brigade
        • Jäger Regiment 5
          • Reserve Hunter Battalion No. 23
December 11, 1917
  • " Krauss " group
    • 200th Infantry Division
      • 2nd Jäger Brigade
        • Jäger Regiment 5
          • Reserve Hunter Battalion No. 23
March 21, 1918

2nd Army

June 12, 1918

18th Army

July 9, 1918

7th Army

  • VIII Reserve Corps
    • 200th Infantry Division
      • 2nd Jäger Brigade
        • Jäger Regiment 5
          • Reserve Hunter Battalion No. 23
July 17, 1918
  • Jäger Regiment 3
    • Battalion "Ohlendorf"
      • a company was formed from the remnants of Jäger Battalions 23 and 17
August 2, 1918
  • Jäger Regiment 5
    • Reserve Hunter Battalion No. 17
    • Reserve Hunter Battalion No. 18
    • Reserve Hunter Battalion No. 23
August 24, 1918

3rd Army

  • 200th Infantry Division
    • 2nd Jäger Brigade
      • Jäger Regiment 5
        • Reserve Hunter Battalion No. 23
October 13, 1918
  • Jäger Regiment 5
    • Reserve Hunter Battalion No. 18
October 18, 1918

18th Army

  • Bavarian I. Army Corps
    • 200th Infantry Division
      • 2nd Jäger Brigade
        • Jäger Regiment 5
          • Reserve Hunter Battalion No. 23

structure

  • When it was founded, the battalion consisted of four foot companies.
  • 1901 - In the battalion, on October 1st, the machine gun department (MGA) became the regular machine gun department No. 3
    • six rifles
    • two cartridge cars
  • October 1, 1913 - in the course of the army increase, two more companies are set up by the battalion
Cycling company
  • July 1, 1915.
    • Snipers become part of the battalion.
    • A new RC must be formed.
  • In 1916 the battalion received guard dogs.
  • September 25, 1916 - the Jäger battalions have to set up a second MGK.
  • With the receipt of the light mine throwers in November 1916, a mine thrower department (MA) was formed.

Subordinate troops

  • In 1912 a makeshift cycling department was set up.
    • two officers
    • 90 chief hunters and hunters
    • 100 service bikes from the Panther works
  • On July 29, 1916, the battalion received a guard dog.

Assignments

  • October 1, 1906 - Machine Gun Division No. 3 was assigned to the 4th Lower Alsatian Infantry Regiment No. 143 in Strasbourg
  • August 4, 1914 - the cycling department was placed under the cavalry (returned on November 5).
  • During the Battle of the Marne the 10th Jäger were in reserve
    • September 8th - 2nd Company is sent to support the 4th Jäger.
    • September 9th - 4th Company assigned to Ussy to support the 3rd Jäger .
  • November 7, 1914 in the Battle of St. Yves, the infantry regiment "King Georg" (7th Royal Saxon) No. 106 are subordinated to the attack on the Ploegsteert forest:
    • 2nd company
    • Cyclist company
    • Machine gun company
  • December 8, 1914 - the cyclist company was assigned to the border guards at the Belgian-Dutch border

Structure of the RJB 10

  • October 14, 1914.
    • four hunter companies (was soon reduced to three and had four again from February 5, 1915)
  • November 27, 1914.
    • 5th Company: a machine gun company
  • June 1915.
  • 6th Company: Mountain MGA

Structure of the RJB 23

  • October 14, 1914.
    • four hunter companies
  • February 28, 1915.
    • Cyclists Department
      • a lieutenant
      • 15 men
  • March 19, 1916.
    • a machine gun company
  • July 1916.
    • the battalion received guard dogs
  • October 12, 1916.
    • When the Jäger Regiment was withdrawn to Burkut, the craftsmen of all three battalions were ordered by the regiment to carry out the construction work, winter was just around the corner and there were only three houses, the so-called "valley construction company".
  • July 1, 1917.
    • one storm troop per battalion
      • two officers
      • eight chief hunters
      • 40 men
  • October 14, 1917.
    • Machine gun company receives four more light machine guns
  • October 15, 1917.
    • a mine throwing company
  • May 16, 1918.
    • two companies were formed from the remnants of the four companies
    • 3rd Company was formed on the remnants of Reserve Jäger Battalion No. 17
  • August 8, 1918.
    • four companies
    • a MGK
    • a MWK

Subordinate units of the RJB 23

  • May 21, 1915.
    • Field Machine Gun Train (FMG)
      • an officer
      • 29 chief hunters and hunters
      • three French MG 07
  • February 18, 1916.
    • Machine Gun Supplementary Train (MGEZ)
      • an officer
      • 35 men
      • three machine guns
  • August 25, 1916.
    • two hunting squads - "Plaik" and "Kruhla"
      • one officer each
      • 15 head hunters and 15 hunters each
  • March 28, 1918.

Assignment of the RJB 23

  • August 17, 1916.
    • the 3rd company is temporarily subordinated to the commander of the Skupowa group, Captain Stoffleth (commander of the RJB 18). This group marched off and occupied the Skupowa (1583 m).
  • September 1, 1916.
    • After a Russian attack on the Jagdkommando north of Höhe 868, the battalion had to march groups to RJB 18 at Höhe 1478
      • 3 groups of the 3rd / RJB 23rd
      • 2 groups of the 4th / RJB 23rd

Armament and equipment

Main armament

MG 08
  • When it was founded, the hunters received ignition needle rifles M./54 (the so-called pike rifles) and deer catchers
  • 1866 - Re-armament in October with the improved Jäger rifle M./65 by adding a bolt lock
  • 1872 - modified ignition needle barrel M / 65 together with apt. Deer catcher.
  • 1874 - after acknowledging the advantages of a Chassepot rifle in the Franco-German War, the battalion's needle rifles were replaced by M 71 rifles including a hunting catcher
  • 1886 - the army was re-armed with the M 71/84 magazine rifle
  • 1887 - The hunting knife is the bayonet replaced
  • The bayonet was arriving in Colmar again by his knife, and the M71 / 84 by - 1,890 rifles 88 replaced
  • 1899 - In May, a division (MGA) consisting of four machine guns and two cartridge cars was attached to the battalion on a trial basis
  • 1901 - After the MGA was expanded to include two rifles, it became the regular machine gun division No. 3 on October 1st
  • 1906 - on October 1st, the battalion was re-armed with the Gewehr und Seitengewehr 98 . The speed of its projectiles allowed a distance between 800 and 1200 meters.
  • 1915 - from July each company was equipped with two telescopic rifles.
  • 1916 - The armament was to flamethrower extended
  • 1917 - in March, four light mortars were assigned to the battalion .

uniform

Kgl. German Legion (1803-1816)

In this the Hanoverians formed the 1st and 2nd light battalions

  • skirt
    • dark green with short tails
  • Officers
  • Teams
    • only one row (1.)
    • without lacing (2.)
  • Pants
    • light gray and silver braids along the leg (1.)
    • dark gray and silver braids along the leg (2.)
  • Headgear
    • high, narrow shako with short plume and silver horn as shield (1.)
    • Winged cap with the same badge (2.)
  • Lapels and collars
    • black, officers with deep black braids
  • shoulder
    • silver scales (wings) (1.)
    • black shoulder cords (2.)
  • Paddock and bandolier
    • black
  • Others
    • wearing a mustache is not permitted (1.)

Althannoversche Jäger (1816–1866)

The uniform of the 1st Light Battalion was retained.

Uniform skirt
  • Teams
    • 1838
Tunic made of dark green cloth in Prussian cut
black cuffs
Collar with red rasp
Buttons and fittings in silver
Headgear: Austrian cap with drooping black bush of hair
Pants
light blue and silver braids along the leg
  • 1848
black-gray with red piping
  • 1849
Tabard without braids
Leather gear was worn crosswise (Kreuzbandelier)
  • Officers
high, narrow shako with hanging green plume
Saber was to be carried over the shoulder in the belt
Sash first yellow, then silver with yellow
: On Shako was still Peninsula Waterloo Venta del Pozo out
  • 1838
silver strands
carries a saber stuck through his skirt
  • 1849
Tabard without braids

Hannoversches Jäger Battalion No. 10

The assigned hunters initially kept their old uniforms. As a result, you could see their ancestral battalion years later.

  • 1866
    • green cloth
    • red swedish cuffs
    • Shoulder pieces red cloth with yellow numerals
    • Shako with yellow heraldic eagle
  • 1897
    • On the occasion of the 100th birthday of Kaiser Wilhelm I, his grandson gave the Military League the Imperial Cockade as a sign of togetherness .
      • At the helm , the German cockade right, the Landeskokarde is worn on the left.
The German cockade is affixed to the right of the shako , chapka and the fur hat of the hussars, the standard is in the color of the state cockade, on the field, umbrella and service cap the state cockade sits on the trim and the German cockade above it on the center of the base cloth, Unless special awards to be worn on the hat require a further distance between the two cockades.
Officers
Hunter with Gibraltar band
  • 1888
    • Those on horseback had to wear high boots when serving on horseback
    • Since epaulettes were only allowed to be worn for gala, parade and social purposes, modified armpit pieces were introduced
    • Wearing spurs became compulsory for captains
    • The horse blanket was simplified and no longer had a gold braid.
    • The previous white one has been replaced by a reed-colored shako cover.
  • March 22, 1889.
    • Instead of the pocket sword with a leather scabbard, the infantry officer had to wear his officer's sword with a steel scabbard and leather belt with trimmings , on which the cavalry portepee was now worn
  • 1893
    • The previous gray paletot was replaced by a black one.
    • The chief of the company with the best shooting result was given a bust Se. Majesty (former expression for his / her majesty) awarded
  • 1894
    • The chief of the best rifle company was decorated with a fishing line .
  • 1895
    • For the small service one was Litewka green fabric introduced.
  • 1896
  • 1899
    • The officers' baggage was restricted to a prescribed level
    • A gray cloak was introduced
    • From then on, red-brown gloves were required for maneuvers
  • 1908
    • Introduction of brown leather lace-up shoes with gaiters for unmounted officers
Mountain equipment of the RJB 23 in the Carpathian Mountains
Standard bearer
  • 1898
    • The flag bearers received a corresponding badge on the left sleeve,
    • as well as a half-length side gun of a new design with the handle of an officer's sword
    • For the service with helmet one was gorget from brass to create
Medical officers
  • April 29, 1869.
    • Death marks were worn as identification vulgo.
  • 1896
  • February 13, 1913.
    • Via AKO, the medical teams had to wear the uniform of their unit and on its right upper arm an Aesculapian staff made of yellow material as a distinguishing feature.
Teams
  • March 12, 1887 (infantry baggage M. 87)
    • Knapsacks and cookware have been made smaller.
    • three cartridge pouches (in addition to the two front ones there is also a rear one)
    • smaller side gun
    • waterproof two-part bread bag
  • 1889
    • The soldier in question was awarded a rifle cord made from a silver braid with black stripes for outstanding shooting performance .
  • 1891
    • The wearing of a Litewka made of green fabric was introduced for the small service .
  • 1893
    • From that year (until 1895), canteens , drinking cups and cooking utensils made of aluminum were introduced. Furthermore, the equipment was expanded to include portable tent equipment.
    • From then on the rifle cord consisted of a braided, silver cord.
    • The company with the best shooting results was allowed to wear a special badge on the left sleeve.
  • 1894
  • 1895
The so-called roof knapsack clung to the shape of the back. A waterproof knapsack bag attached inside was detachable and could be attached to the carrying frame without a badger, similar to a rucksack.
  • First World War
    • April 4, 1916, in preparation for the battle for Verdun , the companies received gas masks
    • June 4, 1916, before the transfer to the Battle of Verdun , the shako was replaced by the new steel helmet .
Music corps
  • 1898
    • The clothing of the bar hoboists was made of finer cloth than the tunic for better emphasis .
    • The shoulder pieces were now made of edging cord.
    • The cloth pads (shoulder pieces) were to be provided in the colors of the troop unit.
    • A waist band was put on in the manner of an officer's field bandage.

banner

Flag of the Hanoverian Jäger Battalion No. 10

On the anniversary of the Battle of Königgrätz , all newly established units received new flags and standards by AKO on June 24, 1867. Each unit sent a deputation to Potsdam for nailing and consecration . On July 2nd, the standard-bearers and commanders gathered in the marble hall of the Potsdam Palace . The king appeared with his wife and family and a numerous retinue of generals, civil servants and dignitaries. After the king's greeting, the nailing began by hammering in the first nail. The commander struck the penultimate and the last of the standard-bearers who had held the flag until then.

After the standard-bearers of the 1st Guards Regiment followed on foot from the castle in a tripartite section to the pleasure garden , they formed a square open to the castle with the Potsdam garrison troops. The commanders took up positions in front of their standard-bearers with swords drawn .

In addition to Crown Prince Humbert of Italy, who was currently in Potsdam, those who had already appeared the day before appeared.

After the garrison preacher of Potsdam had completed the church consecration , General v. Alvensleben commanded the parade before the flags returned to the castle. There they were packed up and sent to their garrisons.

On July 6th in Goslar the 1st Company removed the flag from the apartment of the deputy commander, Major Dunin v. Przychowski, fetched and taken to Lindenplan, where the other three companies were already waiting. After addressing the commander, the handover to the battalion took place. At the same time as the new field symbols, the new units were given the corresponding old names. Thus, after the companies marched past , the Hanoverian Jäger Battalion No. 10 entered the city with a sounding game and its new flag at the head.

By AKO on April 13, 1872, the emperor awarded the flags of all units involved in the campaign the Iron Cross . It distinguished it by attaching it to the tip of the flag. The "new" flag was consecrated by a festival service on May 26th in Goslar and then handed over to the battalion by the battalion's war commander, who had meanwhile been transferred to the 3rd Guard Regiment .

Flags and standards that were carried in the field during the Franco-Prussian War were awarded by AKO on August 18, 1895 flag and standard ribbons in the form of the ribbon of the commemorative coin with clasps donated for this war . Since the flag of the 10th Jäger remained in its garrison during the war, i.e. it had not been used in any battle, it could not receive any ribbons.

At the turn of the century, in 1900 the emperor awarded the flags of the 10th hunters decorations. There were two bronze clasps attached to ribbons. On one side they wore the W II with the crown, on the other the day of the award, January 1, 1900, and the regiment's birthday, December 19, 1803.

The pattern of flags of the line infantry regiments of the Prussian Army was regulated in 1890.

On August 23, 1908, the consecration and nailing of new standards took place at Kassel Castle . New flags were awarded to the 10th Battalion.

On August 4, 1914, the battalion in Malmedy , which was moving to the front, received an order from the Emperor's infantry order to send the flag home again.

History of the old Hanoverian hunters

The Seven Years War

At the beginning of the Seven Years' War , Prussia , England , Hanover and some small states united in an alliance in which England took over the defense between the Maas and the Lower Rhine .

After the First Silesian War , Frederick II created particularly agile troops in the form of hussars and hunters.

Following this example, Hanover created a hussar and hunter corps. The head hunter, Count Schulenburg, was entrusted with the establishment of the latter. He initially formed two companies on foot under the captains Dykhoff and Baring and two on horseback under the Rittmeisters Friedrichs and v. Ompteda. The commander of the two foot companies was Major Wilhelm von Freytag under whose command from 1759, meanwhile promoted to colonel, the entire corps stood.

The hunter's uniform was green and they wielded a rifle drawn .

The importance of the partisan war was evident in the first part of the campaign of Duke Ferdinand of Braunschweig , who took over the command of the allied army of Cumberland in November 1757 , from 1758. He drove the French from the Bremen area across the Rhine without a battle beat.

After the war, the Hanoverian corps were disbanded. When the war against the French revolutionaries broke out, they formed like a hunting force of 2 companies, which were to be dissolved again in 1801.

Royal German Legion

When the danger of war increased, Hanover assumed, on the basis of the Basel Peace Treaty, that it would be able to remain neutral in the upcoming struggle. The Treaty of Lunéville also assured him the protection of the confederation. On June 3, 1803 also a deputation to the French General graduated Mortier the Treaty of Sulingen from. Napoleon did not recognize that treaty . Instead, the so-called Elbe Convention took place on July 5, 1803

King George III , Elector of Hanover, thereupon on December 19, 1803, gave Colonel Friedrich von dercken the right to use advertising letters to set up a Hanoverian corps of light infantry for British service. In Article XIV of this sales letter, the budget of the battalions was laid down. The Legion, called the King's German Legion , was among others in the infantry from the 1st and 2nd Light Battalion that formed the Protect Brigade. Their traditions would later live on in the Hanoverian Jäger Battalion No. 10 .

The command of the 1st was given to Lieutenant Colonel Carl von Alten , and the 2nd Colin Halkett .

The saber was carried on the swing paddock. Officers wore the dark red English sash above this . They were armed with a short flint lock rifle and a hunting catcher .

When the Swedish King Gustav IV on the side of Napoleon was preparing to defend his Pomeranian territory in 1807, England sent an auxiliary corps to the opposite island of Rügen . While the Legion troops fought in Pomerania , the brigade stayed on Rügen. Since Denmark also tended more towards the Swedish side, it was decided in August to conquer Copenhagen . On the ramparts of the city, the brigade noticed a Danish redoubt . This was, by today's standards in the coup taken. The light infantry had received their baptism of fire .

After brief expeditions to Sweden and the Scheldt , the Hanoverians were not supposed to see England for a long time when they embarked for Portugal in 1811 . The brigade was named Independent light Brigade .

In the Peninsular War , the brigade fought in the Battle of Albuera .

On June 20, 1811 the order was issued that the Braunschweig-Ölser light infantry battalions were combined into one brigade and combined with an English and a Portuguese brigade to form the 7th division .

During the siege of Ciudad Rodrigo , the 7th Division was sent to Sabugal , with the light brigade from Robleda watching the banks of the Águeda . During the siege of Badajoz , the 7th had to prevent the French Army of the South under Soult , which had already reached Llerena , from advancing further to protect the siege corps.

To expel Marshal Marmont from Salamanca , the division was stationed on the Arapillen, two steep, conical hills. During the Battle of Salamanca , the 7th Division was the reserve.

The next day, it chased towards Madrid and passed García Hernández on the 24th . While in Madrid, the news came that on October 18, 1812, the English government had given all Legion officers a permanent rank in the English army in recognition of their achievements.

On October 23, the 7th Division was combined with the English Cavalry Brigade. Under Sir Stapleton Cotton she formed the arrièregarde . The battle of Venta del Pozo (Tavern by the Well) broke out.

On January 16, 1813, the light battalions of the 1st Division were placed under General von Hinüber .

After the victorious battle of Vitoria , King Joseph had to refuse to retreat to France. The 1st light battalion under the leadership of Lieutenant Colonel v. On June 25th Ompteda converted Tolosa into a fortress by the French .

On August 31, the English conquered San Sebastián with partial participation of the Hanoverians .

Until April 1814 they took part in battles near Bayonne . But France was not left until July 15th.

Instead of disbanding the Legion now, it was relocated to the Austrian Netherlands and became part of the Dutch Army . As such, she took part in the Battle of Waterloo .

The English Prince Regent George IV ordered the dissolution of the Legion in Carlton House on December 23, 1815. The two light battalions were directed to Liebenau in the Kingdom of Hanover , newly created by the Congress of Vienna , in order to be demobilized when they arrived there.

German war

The Hanoverian army was assembled in Göttingen between June 15 and 20, 1866 . After the expected Prussian attack on Göttingen had not taken place, they marched via Heiligenstadt , Mühlhausen , Langensalza to Eisenach .

An armistice was offered, which included the condition that Hanover would not take up arms against Prussia for a year. This was not accepted and the Hanoverian army withdrew to the area around Langensalza.

Late in the morning of the following day, the Prussians attacked for the battle of Langensalza . In the evening the council of war convened in Langensalza demanded a rapid advance on Gotha , Der General v. Arentschildt and most of the senior officers declared such an impossible event because of the lack of ammunition and food, as well as the great fatigue of the troops . So the king had to give in and the proposal of a temporary armistice was decided.

Lieutenant Mejer was also among the wounded officers .

Lieutenant Colonel Franz Friedrich von Rudorff , sent to the enemy by the General Staff , returned on the 28th with the rejection of all proposals. A consultation showed that any further action would only lead to unnecessary bloodshed, King George initiated the surrender . General v. She signed Arentschild on 29.

The Hanoverian Army was disbanded, and most of its officers entered Prussian service in the spring of 1867.

The old Hanoverian hunters in peace

Fallen NCOs of the Hanoverian Army - inscription on the left coat of arms: NUNQUAM RETRORSUM ("never go back"), the motto of the Guelphs - right coat of arms: NEC ASPERA TERRENT ("Adversity is not afraid"), motto on the flags of the chur-braunschweig-lüneburg army

If the troop components were once recruited, from 1816 there was a compulsory military service for all conscripts between the ages of 18 and 25. A substitute was allowed in peacetime.

Each battalion of the Guards Jäger Regiment was awarded a flag in 1820. The percussion rifle was introduced from 1849 . The barracks on Waterlooplatz in Hanover was considered a garrison location .

From 1838 to 1866 the King of Hanover was chief of the Guard Jäger battalion.

In the Schleswig-Holstein War , the Hanoverian hunters fought as part of the Federal Corps and Prussia. For their cooperation on April 24, 1848 in the battle near Bilschau , on May 8 in the battle near Sonderburg-Fähr , on May 28 and 29 in the battle near the Rübel-Mühle and Düppel , from June 28 to July 1 the enterprise against Hadersleben and on April 6, 1849 in the battle of Ulderup one did not feel sufficiently rewarded. During the German-Danish War (also known as the second Schleswig-Holstein War) they were condemned to inactivity by the federal troops.

This was one of the reasons why Hanover sided with the Austrians in the decision between Austria and Prussia.

history

Formation of the battalions

founding

A cabinet order of September 27, 1866 ordered the establishment of the 10th and 11th Jäger Battalions. This day was set as the foundation day by the Highest Cabinet Order (AKO) of August 25, 1887. As early as October 2, 1866, the AKO had stipulated that the battalion should be called Jäger Battalion No. 10 .

from companies of the Jäger Battalion
Replacement battalion crew Guard Hunter Battalion No. 1
Replacement battalion crew Pomeranian Jäger Battalion No. 2
Replacement battalion crew 1st Silesian Jäger Battalion No. 5
Replacement battalion crew 2nd Silesian Jäger Battalion No. 6

The battalion met for the first time on November 5 in Potsdam and was assigned to Goslar as a garrison. According to the AKO of January 24, 1899, the battalion, consisting of the former Hanoverian Guard, as well as the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Jäger Battalion, should be regarded as one. December 19, 1803 was determined to be its foundation day.

Installation of the RJB 10

According to the elaborated in the peace mobilization appointment calendar was on August 2, 1914 by a Rifle Battalion. 10 , the Reserve Rifle Battalion. 10 , consisting of the older vintages of the reserve and the younger of Landwehr placed.

On August 11th the reserve hunters were blessed on the Domkasernenplatz at the end of their preparation time and left the city the next morning to the sounds of a civil band played “Woe, that we have to part!”.

Installation of the RJB 23

Moved out of Goslar on September
19, 1914

Those in a hurry to mobilize to Thomaswall barracks according to Horace 's quotation were turned away because the “Goslar Jäger” had not hired anyone.

From August 8th, war volunteers were hired and dressed in fifth sets . In addition, 300 men from the substitute divisions of Fusilier Regiment No. 73 from Hanover and 212 from Infantry Regiment No. 79 from Hildesheim arrived.

On August 16, the emperor ordered the formation of six new army corps ( XXII. To XXVII. RK ) and a Bavarian RD .

In connection with this order, on August 20, 1914, the Deputy General Command of the X. Army Corps issued the order to set up the "Reserve Jäger Battalion 23" by the Jäger 10 replacement battalion , which was formed on September 1, 1914 .

The battalion was led by Major v., Who had been part of the active Goslar battalion for over ten years. Winterfeldt.

Garrisons

Goslar
Colmar
Bitsch
  • 1866 Goslar
    • Cathedral barracks
  • 1890 Colmar i. E.
    • Hunter barracks
  • 1901 Bitsch
    • New barracks (military training area)
  • 1909 Goslar
  • Jäger barracks

  • Domkaserne (today Krahmer-Möllenberg-Kaserne)

  • Hunter barracks

  • 'New barracks' at the military training area

Members of the battalions

Commanders of the Jäger Battalion

Rank Surname Beginning of the appointment
major Georg von Rechenberg October 30, 1866
major Alexander Dunin from Przychowski 0August 3, 1867
major Albert von Bülow May 21, 1872
Lieutenant colonel Hermann von Mertens March 30, 1880
Major / Lieutenant Colonel Otto von Grone 0December 6, 1883
major Hermann von Brauchitsch 0September 6, 1887
major Wilhelm von Rolshausen 0November 4, 1890
major Hermann von Hanneken May 17, 1892
major Hermann von Spiegel from and to Peckelsheim March 22, 1897
major Adolf von Bodelschwingh May 22, 1900
major Friedrich Guderian January 27, 1903
major Georg Mühry December 17, 1908
major Franz Bauer April 18, 1912
major Hans Petersen 0August 2, 1914
Captain Friedrich (Fritz) von Rauch October 1914
Captain Heinrich Kirchheim August 15, 1916
major Benno Pflugradt 0March 3, 1919

Other officers of the Jäger Battalion

Commanders of the RJB 10

Major Krahmer-Möllenberg, namesake of a Goslar barracks
Rank Surname Beginning of the appointment
Captain Krahmer-Möllenberg 0August 2, 1914
Reserve captain Pogge (guided tour) 0September 5, 1914
Captain Stephen (guided tour) September 13, 1914
Reserve captain Pogge (guided tour) October 15, 1914
Captain Shepherd (tour) 0August 9, 1916
Captain shepherd November 8, 1916
Captain Fisherman July 30, 1917
First lieutenant Hermann Clauditz (tour) 1918
Reserve captain Ernst Nottbohm (leadership) October 16, 1918
Captain Hans Kreysing (leadership) October 27, 1918

Other officers of the RJB 10

  • Konrad Stephanus , captain and holder of the Knight's Cross of the Royal House Order of Hohenzollern

Commanders of the RJB 23

Rank Surname Beginning of the appointment
major from Winterfeld September 10, 1914
Captain de Cuvry (guided tour) October 21, 1914
major from Mengersen October 26, 1914
major Hoffmann 0November 8, 1914
Captain from Rechenberg April 21, 1915
major Robert Horn August 18, 1915
Landwehr captain Joseph Pütz (representative) December 25, 1915
major from Nauendorf 0January 1, 1916
Captain Wolff von Graeffendorff 0August 1, 1916
Reserve captain Wilhelm Paulcke (substitute) January 13, 1917
Captain Weber (representative) January 28, 1917
Reserve captain by Apell (on behalf of) 0February 4, 1917
Reserve captain Conrad 0February 6, 1917
First lieutenant Schmidt (representative) October 20, 1917
Captain from Leesen October 22, 1917
lieutenant Storm (leadership) July 15, 1918
First lieutenant Wreath (leadership) July 16, 1918
Captain from Freeden August 23, 1918
lieutenant Friedrich-Wilhelm Bock (representative) September 29, 1918

Other officers of the RJB 23

  • Friedrich-Wilhelm Bock - volunteered as a war volunteer. On July 3, 1915, he became platoon leader of the newly established 2nd Bicycle Company / Jäger 10
  • Waldemar Geyer
  • Curt von Gottberg
  • Walter Holste - The war volunteer Holste was appointed lieutenant on June 18, 1916 after the undertaking to blow up the bridgehead over the Yser . R. promoted. At the beginning of the Carpathian deployment a so-called mountain squadron was formed by the regiment in Burkut. To whose leadership he was ordered. He was sent to a storm training course in Ruskirva , which was based on the latest experience on the Western Front, on April 4, 1917, when spring set in and the fighting resumed unhindered due to the deep snow. At the end of the course, the Austrian army leader Generalfeldmarschall v. Kövecs instead. When the deputy officer Düssel was wounded on October 28, 1917 , the lieutenant took his place. In November he was appointed company commander.

Hanoverian Jäger Battalion in peace

On September 11, 1866, the youngest generation of the former Hessian Rifle Battalion transferred to the battalion.

The battalion was allocated areas in the Grauhofer Holz for its shooting ranges .

On May 19, 1868, the commanding General v. Voigts-Rhetz the battalion and from June 27th to July 1st the inspector for hunters and riflemen Frhr. v. Obernitz . The former district court building on Worthstrasse was handed over as an officers' mess.

In 1875 the Kaiser, Wilhelm I , and the Crown Prince, Friedrich III stayed. , to visit the imperial house in Goslar. After the parade in the barracks square and the inspection of the monument in front of the barracks, Se. Your Majesty that its side fields remained empty and ordered them to be filled with the names of those who had fallen, wounded and died in the campaign as part of a pouring around.

On March 21, 1887, a new regulation came into force , which resulted in the discontinuation of hunter class A II. From then on, all hunters who passed their exams were entitled to the same rights in forest care .

During the imperial maneuver in 1889, the hunters first appeared before their new supreme warlord. Even before the maneuver, the newspapers reported that the battalion should be relocated. On November 15, the news arrived that the Hanoverian Jäger Battalion No. 10 was ordered to Colmar on April 1, 1890 .

Once adopted by the entire citizenry of Goslar train with the battalion on the morning of March 31 left Muss i denn, must I then to Städtele addition singing, his former garrison. In Göttingen the battalion was greeted by a deputation from the 2nd Kurhessian Infantry Regiment No. 82 . In Bebra the 4th Jäger Battalion , which was to follow them soon, was waiting at the station. In the early morning it went in Mannheim on the Rhine and happened around 7 am the former French border at Lauterbourg . In Schlettstadt there was a greeting from the officer corps of the Rhenish Jäger Battalion No. 8 , which had arrived from Zabern half an hour earlier .

When it arrived at Colmar train station at noon, a delegation from the imperial district and city authorities, the officer corps of the Mecklenburg Jäger Battalion No. 14 and the Kurmärkische Dragoon Regiment No. 14 welcomed the battalion with music.

The Grand Duke of Baden visited Colmar on May 19, 1890, the barracks.

One of the local tasks was the border guard in the Vosges. In addition to the 10th hunters, the hunter battalion No. 4 was barracked here.

When the budget was increased in 1897: The fourth half battalions of the infantry regiments were dropped, two half battalions became a regular battalion and two battalions formed a new regiment. These increased the army by 33 regiments, which the commanders needed. The commander of the 10th Jäger thus became the commander of the 5th Grand Ducal Hessian Infantry Regiment No. 168 in Offenbach am Main via AKO .

The ammunition wagons had proven impractical in the mountains and were replaced by ammunition- carrying horses ( cold-blooded animals ) in 1898 .

The AKO of January 24, 1899 stipulated that the troops that the old Hanoverian warriors had absorbed became the bearers of their traditions. The foundation day of the 10th hunters was set accordingly on December 19, 1803.

The royal music conductor a. D. Rothe. With him, he was staff member of the battalion until 1898 , the last former royal Hanoverian hunter left the battalion.

Just to say goodbye to the two departing Jäger battalions, the commanding general traveled from Karlsruhe to Colmar on March 31.

The train that left Colmar in Alsace with them the next day for Lorraine , made its first stop in Schlettstadt. There he was greeted by the 8th hunters. The next stop was Strasbourg . At the station, the commanding general, Lieutenant General v. Bittenfeld the battalion by expressing the hope that it would soon feel at home here. In Hagenau they met the military trains of Infantry Regiment No. 171, which was swapping their homes with them .

To the east of Bitsch was the large parade ground, which was to be expanded into a military training area in the course of the following years .

General von Hugo was placed by AKO on September 10, 1908 à la suite of the battalion. However, he died on November 6th of that year.

A replacement in Bitsch was announced by AKO on April 4, 1909. On October 1st, the Jäger Battalion No. 4 was transferred to Naumburg , its MGA No. 2 to Trier and the 10th Jäger back to Goslar. The from Hanau coming Infantry Regiment "Hesse-Homburg" no. 166 they took over from here.

On September 30th, the officers' corps met at the train station to see off the 4th Jäger, with whom they had lived for 19½ years. They too left Bitsch two hours later.

In Goslar, which had just been left by the 5th Hanoverian Infantry Regiment No. 165 , it was greeted 26 hours later by the commanding General Emmich and led to the reception of the city. Mayor Georg von Garßen welcomed the returning hunters in front of the barracks.

The next morning, Lieutenant General z. D. v. Mejer laid a wreath at the monument. He then sent a telegram of homage to the emperor, whose reply reached the battalion that evening.

In June 1910, the battalion took part in the training of the 39th Infantry Brigade at the Munster training area. The Chinese Prince Tsai-Tao attended one of the exercises there. When he returned to China, he became chief of the general staff there.

When the battalion drove to the training area next year, because of dysentery, it had to be transported to the garrison instead of to the maneuvering area as planned. In order to prevent the spread of the disease, a strict cordon was implemented in Goslar.

In November of that year the tradition was established to celebrate the anniversary of the Battle of Beaune-la-Rolande with the former battalion members.

Sweden mug

The Sweden cup

The skiing , then referred to as snowshoe sport boomed in Goslar. In February 1913 in Oberhof ( Thuringia ), the competition for the Sweden Cup , a challenge prize donated by the Swedish Ski Association, was won by the Goslar team.

After the war, the Jäger Battalion IR 17, which followed the battalion, was to fight for this award again in 1923, 1924 and 1925.

Anniversaries

25th anniversary celebration

On September 27, 1891, the 25th anniversary of the AKO should return, to which the battalion owed its reorganization. However, since this feast day was at a time when the older teams had already been released and the recruits had not yet arrived, not even due to the presence of many former hunters, if only because of the long journey, the battalion had been moved from Goslar to Colmar the previous year could be expected, the ceremony was rescheduled for the summer immediately after the inspection.

After a shooting competition was held in the Fronholz in accordance with the old hunter's custom, guests and hosts gathered around the stand. The commander gave a speech about the past 25 years and finally pointed out the battalion's new tasks in the Vosges.

The guests of honor at the banquet after returning to the barracks were the commanding general, General v. Schlichting , and the inspector, General v. Oidtmann, at.

A trip to Münstertal concluded the celebrations the following day.

100 year celebration

The celebration of the 100th anniversary of the battalion took place in December at the Hotel Siebering in Bitsch. Among those appearing are particularly mentioned: The General Inspector of Military Education and Training, General der Infanterie v. Hugo, the oldest old Hanoverian hunter who was still active at the time, Prince Wilhelm of Saxony-Weimar, deputations of the garrison, representatives of the city, the authorities and the regional warrior association.

The emperor awarded the general Bothe, v. Arentschild, v. Oesterley and v. Mejer got permission to wear the battalion's uniform.

On the last day there was a shooting of all companies in the morning. The subsequent celebration was marked by the reading of the text to General v. Hugo finished the telegram sent by the Emperor:

"I would like to express my royal thanks to the former and current officers of the good Hanoverian Jäger Battalion No. 10, who were united there for the jubilee celebration" for the renewed vow of unbreakable loyalty "

- Wilhelm R.

Imperial visit to Bitsch

Kaiser on the Schanzberg called Kaiserhöhe

The emperor visited the garrison on May 14, 1903. The 82nd Infantry Brigade had already arrived a week before, a division of Field Artillery Regiment No. 31 and three squadrons of Dragoons 15 arrived the day before. In addition to the heads of the civil authorities, the imperial governor , Prince Hohenlohe, the commanding general of the XV. AK, Lieutenant General Ritter Hentschel v. Gilgenheimb , and the commandant of Bitsch, Colonel Brunzlow, the Kiser at the station.

In the parade house of the Fakenstein barracks the nailing of the 4th hunters of the new flag was completed and handed over to the battalion in the barracks yard. A delegation of the 10th hunters attended the ceremony. Then an exercise was held with the above, which received positive criticism from the emperor. A parade followed. As the 10th hunters marched past, the Kaiser shouted an excellent, perfect! to and the battalion a good morning hunter! what of this with a good morning, Your Majesty! has been answered.

In the afternoon the Kaiser drove on to Metz.

Imperial maneuvers

  • In 1874 the battalion, assigned to the 38th Infantry Brigade, took part in the imperial maneuver for the first time . After detachment exercises in Salzgitter , division exercises and drills against a marked enemy, the 12th Corps maneuver followed by a parade in front of the Kaiser in Hanover. After the end of the maneuver, the battalion moved back into Goslar after a three-day march.
  • In 1881 the battalion, assigned to the 40th Infantry Brigade, took part in the imperial maneuver for the first time. The parade took place in Bemerode near Hanover. The corps maneuver took place the following day between Hanover and Elze .
  • In 1889 the imperial parade took place on Kronsberg in Bemerode. The subsequent maneuver went via Linderte , Adensen , Schulenburg to Holtensen and ended in Hildesheim
  • In 1892 the imperial maneuver was to take place at the XIV. AK. However, due to the bad and rainy weather, both the parade and the maneuver were canceled at the last minute and postponed to the following year.
  • In 1893 the four Jäger battalions of the XIV. AK formed a Jäger Brigade and were assigned to the XV. Army Corps subordinated. After the parade in Lauterburg , detachment exercises and a division maneuver were held between Pforzheim , Königsbach and Durlach .
  • 1899 Participation in the imperial maneuver in Karlsruhe. After the hunters' brigade had been excused at Lahr , the division maneuvers at Blankenloch , Königsbach and Wilferdingen , the parade took place on the Karlsruhe Great Parade Ground . Two days later the great maneuvers of the XIII. , XIV. And XV. Army corps which ended in Leonberg . Here the new MGAs led the attack.
  • In 1908, instead of the 2nd Lower Alsatian Infantry Regiment No. 137 , which had failed due to numerous and severe dysentery diseases , a regiment consisting of Jäger Battalions 4 and 10 and the Pioneer Battalion No. 19 was formed. Brigade maneuvers were held around Strasbourg from August 24th to 26th. The Imperial Parade took place on the 29th in Strasbourg, where the battalion received its new flag. In the association of the 31st Division , the division maneuvers took place from September 1st to 4th and the Imperial maneuver from September 8th to 10th.

Price shooting

Prize shooting award

In order to increase the quality of the shooting, an annual shooting competition was established for officers and non-commissioned officers of the corps.

On August 4, 1888 was first around

  • one with the name Se. Majesty's Tabbed Saber (Officer)
  • a gold watch (NCO)

shot.

Nevertheless, the enthusiasm subsided and so the individual shooting stage in 1898 was canceled. By AKO it was completely abolished as it was no longer appropriate and replaced by comparison shooting. In addition, the regiment's combat shooting was held in the group for the first time.

  • August 24, 1906.
    • the 2nd company (2./J10) was awarded the imperial badge for the best shooting performance within the inspection of hunters and riflemen .
    • every hunter and chief hunter in the company wore the badge
    • the company commander, Captain Boessel, received a shield from the Kaiser
    • a bust of his majesty was given to the officer corps. It was set up in the officers' mess.

Boxer Rebellion

German troops on contemporary postcard

When the news of the unrest in China reached Germany, the emperor sent a fleet of all branches of arms there. A combined hunter battalion was formed among the volunteers of the German hunter troops.

The 16 hunters dispatched to the 10th Jäger Battalion were supposed to return unharmed within a year.

Herero uprising

Camel rider company of the German Schutztruppe during the Herero uprising, 1904

In mid-January 1904, the first news of the Herero uprising reached Germany. On January 17th, the order to mobilize a marine expeditionary force was issued , which began its journey to Swakopmund on the 21st . The following day, among the victims of the attack on Otjituo station were three former battalion members who had once transferred to the protection force .

As in 1900, the rush of volunteers, including the entire machine gun division 3, was very large. On April 30, 18 members of the 10th hunters left the port of Hamburg . 9 more followed them.

Five members of the battalion died in the battle at Zwartfonstein (January 7, 1905), the Pelladrift battle (March 8, 1906), the Dakaib battle (May 23, 1906) as well as due to illness.

Campaigns

Franco-German War

On the morning of July 16, 1870, the battalion was at the shooting range, the order to mobilize was received and within ten days the battalion had reached its military strength.

War strength
n
Officers 22nd
Officer 3
Oberjäger 78
Private and hunters 850
Buglers 12
Train soldiers 24
Hospital attendants 3
Horses (40)
Σ 992

The second of the three armies to be formed in accordance with Memoire gathered at Völklingen and Saarbrücken and moved towards Saargemünd .

2nd Army

On August 14, the battalion at Pont-à-Mousson witnessed the distant Battle of Colombey-Nouilly . Two days later, the battle of Vionville was the battalion's first weaponry, which also resulted in his first losses.

The X Corps was assigned to the containment army , Siege of Metz , and received its section north of Metz . The 10th hunters first got the section between Maizières to Chateau Brieux on the left wing near Amelange to prevent a possible failure .

Since an attack was expected on the right bank of the Moselle and the smaller outpost battles were viewed as diversionary maneuvers , the position of the 3rd Reserve Division v. Kummers reinforced with X Corps on October 1st on the right bank.

On October 7th, the battalion was transferred to Sennécourt and took part in the Battle of Bellevue .

After Metz capitulated, the AK was relocated to the Loire .

On the morning of November 28th, the day of the Battle of Beaune-la-Rolande , the hunters were in the village of Lorcy they had occupied when their outposts noticed heavy shooting. The hunters then took cover behind the railway embankment on either side of the road leading to Lorcy. In her back was the bridge over the Rolande brook. The French attack, which took place after a short time, could be repulsed. Then the corps received orders to retreat to Long Cour to regroup.

In 1871, the 20th Infantry Division was dormant in Vendôme before the 10th Jäger served the division as side cover on the right bank of the Loire on January 6th . So on the morning of January 9th the hunters were in Chahaignes on the right side of the Brives. Since this was badly swollen due to the weather and the French had destroyed the bridges when retreating, the hunters had to create a passage themselves. With this in mind, the enemy were on the other side of the Brives. Since he had an excellent Franktireur area there, as can be seen from regimental histories, he had an advantage for the time being. However, since only weak forces were used there, the enemy lost.

The command of the army corps received the order on the 10th that a side detachment had to destroy the railway and the telegraphs from Le Mans to Tours as soon as possible. A captain, second engineer officer of the General Command (GK) was entrusted with the job and requisitioned 32 men of the battalion and successfully carried out the operation.

During the Battle of Le Mans , the commander of the hunters was wounded in the shoulder on the morning of the 12th. Shortly afterwards, Colonel v. Caprivi , chief of the general staff of the X. Corps, and ordered the dispatch of companies in the direction of the III. Corps, whereupon two of the four companies of the hunters left the battalion in the direction of the cannon thunder of the corps.

In the evening the entire battalion was found in front of Le Mans . As it moved into the city behind the GK, a street fight broke out there, which was not to end until around midnight. The next day the hunters were advanced to Saint-Denis-d'Orques . They stayed here for six days before returning to Le Mans, where the X Corps had stayed.

After the news of the armistice reached the X. Corps on January 31 , the Goslar residents left the city to be billeted in Tours. There they were placed under the 14th Cavalry Brigade and moved with them to Cléré on the 23rd, as the armistice was to expire on the 26th .

From here they returned to Tours on March 5th. The division commander General von Kraatz was waiting for it at the entrance to the city. He accepted the parade of the battalion and expressed his highest appreciation for its achievements during the campaign. Then it stepped back into the ranks of the 20th Division.

According to the Preliminary and Armistice Treaty of February 26, 1871, the Second Army withdrew eastwards. The Emperor's birthday was celebrated for the first time near Germigny . After the peace was confirmed by the Peace of Frankfurt , the battalion moved to Hanover. There was on the Waterloo Place a parade held in honor of the returning troops before the Crown Prince on July 1.

The next day, after arriving at the Goslar train station, the battalion assembled on the Lindenplan in order to move into the city.

After a last roll call in front of the barracks on July 4, 1871, the demobilization was completed.

First World War

Regular battalion
1914

On August 1, 1914 at around 6 p.m. the order to mobilize , which set August 2 as the battalion's first day of mobilization, was received. On August 3rd, Lieutenant Colonel Bauer was appointed regiment commander of the Reserve Infantry Regiment No. 78 to be set up in Braunschweig and Lüneburg .

The battalion went west on the train at peacetime . There it became the 38th Infantry Brigade (called Brigade Oertzen) with five others the Commander-in-Chief General v. Submitted to Emmich in order to conquer Liège with her . The brigade attacked the city from the south. It only got as far as the forest of Boncelles . There she was fended off.

The Higher Cavalry Commander 2 (HKK 2), General Georg von der Marwitz , were subordinated to the Liege Battalion , in addition to the Hanoverian, Brandenburg , Magdeburg , Westphalian and Lauenburg Jäger Battalion .

In memory of August 27, 1914 in Cambrai

After the battle at Thorembais , the battalion marched over historic ground on August 21st - the Waterloo written in the inscription of their shakos . The next day it was said: Belgium had made peace.

HKK 2 fought on the 24th in battle near Tournai , with the 2nd and 9th Cavalry Divisions being deployed west of Tournais. They captured Fontaine-au-Pire on the 26th . As the battalion's history shows, this was the climax of the military experience in the world war for all hunters of 1914 .

In the battle of the Marne , where the 10th hunters only serve as a reserve, what the French and English called the miracle of the Marne and was the turning point of the war then occurred . The Germans fell back to shorten the front line .

During the subsequent race to the sea, it fought at Béthancourt . When they were fighting near Dompierre , they received the order for the first time: dig in . Here they received their first replacement from Goslar on October 2nd .

In Flanders, First Battle of Flanders , the hunters should first push the English out of Zandvoorde . At the end of November the battalion for trench warfare , into which the war of movement had passed, was transferred to Warneton . The battalion now set up so-called listening posts to detect the enemy's underground intentions . The latter noticed on the evening of December 24th that something strange was going on. The Englishman on the opposite side took the initiative in no man's land , which also here, as elsewhere, led to the so-called Christmas peace.

1915

For the Emperor's birthday (January 26th), the battalion paraded in front of the Bavarian. Crown Prince in Tournai .

After a one-month break, they replaced the 13th hunters , who were to be relieved on March 29, in the warning tone, which had only ten civilians left . On May 4th they were due to enter Warneton for the third time. They replaced parts of the Bavarian 7th and 23rd Infantry Regiments 16 days later.

Edelweiss badge

The battalion was moved to the emerging Italian front.

In Auer ( Tyrol was reached) German Alpine Corps set up. Here the battalion was visited by Archduke Karl on June 27th . This awarded him the edelweiss badge to the battalion , which was worn on shako and cap until the end of the campaign. By order of the War Ministry , a new cycling company was set up. The factory owner and company chief Hpt. Adolf Krahmer-Möllenberg was appointed as their leader .

After weeks of preparation, the battalion was transferred to St. Cassian to the front with a position on the Sasso de Stria .

In October the hunters were relieved and loaded. First the train went to Champagne . When he got there, he drove in the opposite direction to Serbia .

Once there, one followed the Ibar , then the Raška . After reaching Kruševac , the march back was started. The Serbian campaign was over. They moved south. In Mramor takes Field Marshal v. Mackensen stopped the battalion's march past.

1916

On March 17th, the battalion, this time with the entire Alpine Corps, parade in front of v. Mackensen . Less than ten days later the corps left Serbia.

Fort Douaumont

The body parts already unloaded in Launois-sur-Vence on April 4th , among them the 10th hunters, were ordered to parade before the Supreme Warlord . The corps was then informed of the new location ( Verdun ).

First, however, it was necessary to get used to the conditions at the front there, such as B. wearing the gas masks , in the quiet position at Vitry south of Reims .

On May 31, the corps was drawn closer to Verdun. On June 2, an exercise took place at the Sturm Battalion Rohr at a higher exercise area, from where you could see the heights of Verdun . All the officers of the Alpine Corps were present with her.

Two days later it was sent to the Battle of Verdun near Douaumont . Here the battalion lost 856 men in four missions by August 13. That was more than his initial inventory.

It went to the Argonne Forest ( altitude 258 ). It didn't stay here long, however. Since Romania had declared war on August 28, the Hanoverian hunters were transported to the Romanian theater of war .

Romania (1916)

In the Battle of Sibiu , the Alpine Corps crossed the ridge of the Zibins Mountains and blocked the Red Tower Pass, standing behind the Romanians . This was instrumental in ensuring that the battle was won. At Turnu Roșu (German: Red Tower, Hungarian: Vöröstrony) a plaque was placed on the rock face in memory of the German Alpine Corps, September 26-29, 1916. appropriate.

On October 9th, the 9th Army advanced from Transylvania to Romania, the battalion received the order to conquer the height in 1824 . The rock cone on the northwest corner of the Fogaras Alps was considered to be the key to the entire mountain range and could only be reached above the height of 1717 . It was not until October 24th that the altitude could be reached. After fighting around the Mormantul and on the western edge of Monte Sule , the battalion moved eastward without a fight. In the Buzău valley they received the news of the emperor's offer of peace .

When this was not accepted, the year ended with the Christmas battle of Rimniculsarat and its victory. Opposite them were not only Romanians, but for the first time also Russians ( Trans-Caspian Cossack Brigade ).

1917

On January 10, the battalion arrives at the Putna in Boloteşti . On the other bank was Russia . Months of trench warfare followed.

On April 10, the Alpine Corps retired from the 9th Army. The hunters were transferred to the resting quarters in Kronstadt and then Heiligkreuz , south of Kolmar. This is followed by mine throwing training at the Kaiserstuhl . During this, the Pour le Mérite carrier Hptm. Haupt gave a lecture to them about the storming of Fort Douaumont .

Between the Swiss Jura Mountains and the Vosges - from Mühlhausen to Belfort , about 40 km away - there is an approximately 40 km wide valley basin - "the Belfort Hole". The "Jäger Regiment 2" was briefly deployed in this gateway, which was blocked by Army Division B. On June 14th, the battalion was relocated to Dollertal near Exbrücke, west of Mühlhausen , within sight of the Hartmannsweiler Kopf . In August we went back to Romania.

Monte Tomba, Italy

First as a reserve, the battalion crossed the Putna on August 12 to the left of the Alpine Corps towards Străoane . Defensive battles at Muncelul followed defensive battles at the Zabrautioru .

In September the corps was transferred to Austria on the Chiesebach . This was to cover up the deployment of the 14th Army on the Isonzo front . That army should strengthen it from October 10th.

In the Twelfth Battle of the Isonzo it was to conquer the height 1114 , the center of the whole Kolovrat position .

After the front had broken through, they advanced to the Tagliamento . The corps is assigned to the Stein group. Valdobbiadene was reached on November 19th. The advance ended on Monte Tomba .

The battalion was replaced on December 16 by the kuk Bosnian Jäger Battalion No. 1 .

1918
Inspection by Field Marshal v. Hindenburg in the spring of 1918

After the rest period in Tesis , the battalion was transferred to Lorraine for training in mid-January to early April .

When the corps is used as part of the 6th Army in the second offensive of the spring offensive , Operation Georgette , the battalion remains as a reserve for the time being, as in the Battle of Armentières .

Then it fell to the corps to conquer the Kemmelberg . The corps attacked from the front. After its capture the corps had to hold the position. The 3rd and 4th companies were decimated so much that they had to be merged into one company. When the battalion left the Kemmel on May 7th to rest as Army Group Reserve, its entire officer corps, except for three, was recorded as a loss. The resting quarters were in Eename .

On July 30th they were transferred to Tourcoing to the emergency division. After the Black Day of the German Army , the corps was first drawn into the area around Nesle as an OHL reserve . On August 26th the Somme was crossed to the east. The corps was transported north by truck on September 1st , where it was initially to serve as a reserve for the 2nd Army .

The battalion had to secure the canal at Moislains before the Siegfried Front . On September 5, it was relocated to Épehy . This position had to be held, because if Épehy were lost, the Fein would see as far as the Scheldt Canal on the one hand and the eastern heights on the other. This would mean that there was no stopping it.

The position fell on September 18. The battalion suffered a loss of 3½ companies. Captain Kirchheim was awarded the Pour le Mérite for the defense until the fall on that day .

On September 25, Bulgaria asked for an armistice and the Alpine Corps was replaced for the last time. At the beginning of October it was back in Serbia to replace the Bulgarians. Before Prokuplje , on October 6th, the 3rd Company was split up among the other companies, due to its size. Each foot company has a combat strength of 4 Oberjäger and 40 men at that time.

After the position in the mountains west of the Morava could not be held, the retreat began here too. On the 11th, the battalion left its position north of Prokuplje, moved to Kruševac and from there to Topola , Kragujevac . On October 31, Kneževac was the last quarters of the battalion on Serbian soil. With the passing of Peterwardein it left Danube and Sava behind. The radio message that the armistice had been concluded reached the battalion on November 11th. In connection with this news, the battalion received the order to form soldiers' councils.

On November 20th the battalion was in Szeged . A train of seven closed goods and a few open coal wagons brought the battalion from Hungary to Austria and from there to Rosenheim . Here it was deloused .

On the evening of November 26th, the Goslar soldiers' council received its battalion at the station. At the town hall it was said by the city with the words Tomorrow you lay down your arms and be free citizens in a free state. welcomed.

Reserve Hunter Battalion No. 10

Reserve Hunter Battalion No. 10

active 1914 to 1919
Country coat of arms Kingdom of Prussia
Province of Hanover
Armed forces Prussian Army
Armed forces army
Branch of service Light infantry
Type battalion
structure see structure
Strength 1065 (war strength)
23 officers
2 medical officers
1 official
1039 men
61 horses
Insinuation see insinuations
Butcher Western front
Battle of St. Quentin
Battle of the Marne
Battle for Verdun

The Romanian campaign

Battle of the Argesch

Italian front

Twelfth Battle of the Isonzo
First Battle of the Piave

Western front

Great battle in France
Hundred days offensive
management
Commanders See commanders
1914

The battalion received its baptism of fire on August 23, in the battle of Namur , the battalion near Marbaix . The battalion distinguished itself for the first time with its performance in the battle of St. Quentin , which the Reichsarchiv deserves a special and praiseworthy mention in its depiction of the battle.

The fighters experienced their first attack by enemy planes on September 3rd.

At the beginning of the Battle of the Marne, in which the hunters were to receive 75% of their battalion as a loss, the battalion commander was seriously wounded. Due to the successful advance of the Germans, two corps were relocated from the western to the eastern front. The lack of this made itself felt here and so, on the verge of defeat, the German troops were withdrawn. The “miracle of the Marne”, as the French called it at the time, was to be the turning point of the war.

In the vicinity of Reims, the RJB captured the Chateau Brimont before it was replaced and the trench warfare began. In October, in the Bourgogne section north of Reims, the recovering battalion commander returned to his hunters.

As with the regular battalion in Warneton, it came about in Bougogne, except that the French took the initiative and negotiated peace with the RIR 55, to the cross-front Christmas peace.

1915

The order to transfer to the section between Ville and Noyon reached the battalion during the celebrations for the Emperor's birthday.

From April to May, the battalion was training in mountain warfare to Hüttenheim i. E. , where at this point in time the “X. RK “lay at rest, relocated. At that time, musical instruments were procured from nearby Strasbourg for the formation of a battalion band.

On the evening of Ascension Day , the division was transferred to Douai, where it was initially intended as a division reserve and was to be deployed at Arras on May 20. Immediately before leaving, however, the order came for the hunters to be at the special disposal of the OHL in Seclin . From there the hunters were taken to the Lechfeld military training camp near Augsburg , where other Prussian and Bavarian hunter battalions, as well as the Bavarian , were already located . Infanterie-Leib-Regiment from Munich had gathered.

In Auer, the reserve hunters met the active (regular) battalion. With this and the Mecklenburg Reserve Jäger it should stay together until the end of the war in the newly established association of the "Jäger-Regiment 2" in the association of the newly established Alpine Corps.

From July to mid-August, while the corps was on the Dolomite front, the 1st Company was subordinated to the Bavarian Jäger Battalion 2 in the Col di Lana position . The Col di Lana was the point that dominated the whole area from afar. From it one looked into Italy as well as into Tyrol. The Buchenstein Valley (Livinallongo) Cordevole Valley lay at the feet of the corps. The remaining battalion was assigned an Austrian Standschützenkompanie of the Standschützen Battalion “Val Gardena” , which was divided among the companies. At the beginning of October, when the entire battalion was in the Col di Lana position , the corps received orders to transport it to the western front. It was replaced by the Kaiserjäger and personally adopted by the Austrian division commander, Lieutenant Field Marshal Goiginger .

Arriving in the west, after three days of rest in Jandun, the order for a new special task to go to south-east Europe on the Balkan Peninsula arrived.

The march in pursuit of the Serbs by the corps into the valley of the south-western Morawa , the main stream of Serbia, which rises on the Kara-Dagh, followed to Novo Selo . The claim changed because the pursuit march now led south through the gorge-rich, almost pathless Serbian mountains. For the Germans, the Serbian campaign came to an end on the Montenegrin border. The campaign in Montenegro should be left to the Austrian troops.

At the end of November the corps began to retreat into the Morawatal. However, since the French and English had meanwhile advanced from Salonika , the corps was to be retained there. It moved towards Leskovac and stayed there until the end of the year.

On December 21, the battalion marched near Nisch in the presence of the corps commander to the Commander-in-Chief, v. Mackensen, over.

1916

After staying near Jelašnica , at the end of February we went on to Štip in southern Macedonia . On March 9, the regimental commander held a battalion inspection in the presence of the brigade and corps commander. A large parade in front of the Commander-in-Chief followed by a regimental exercise was held on March 17th. At the end of March the Serbian sector was finished for the corps.

Relocated to the western front, it was given a quiet section in April opposite Bétheny , which was in French hands , before training took place in May at the well-known Jandun.

Steel helmets replaced the shakos and on June 1st the battle for Verdun took place .

The battalion was led to Fort Douaumont through the Hassoule Gorge (Dead Gorge) . The regimental command post was in the Brule Gorge. On June 8th, the 2nd Bavarian. Subordinated to Infantry Division , attacked the Thiaumont intermediate plant and captured two overrun enemy lines.

There followed four days of rest near Azannes in the Soumazannes camp, before we went back to Fort Douaumont via the Dead Gorge and from there to take position at the railway embankment. The aim of the attack was to create a favorable starting position for the attack against the Thiaumont - Fleury - Fort Souville line, which was planned for the following day, 23 June . The battalion suffered such heavy losses that it had to be pulled out of the front in the evening and transferred back to the recovery camp for ten days. There it was to be used two more times before the corps left Verdun on the edge of the Argonne front.

Romania declared war on Austria-Hungary on August 27, 1916. Immediately afterwards Russian troops invaded from the Moldau and then on the left the "Romanian Northern Army", from Wallachia the 1st and 2nd Armies, in Hungary and Transylvania. On the 28th General Field Marshal v. Hindenburg General v. Falkenhayn as Chief of the General Staff of the Field Army and the Supreme Army Command (OHL), under the leadership of Prince Leopold of Bavaria as Commander in Chief on the Eastern Front, set up two new armies in Transylvania. The northern Austro-Hungarian 1st Army and the southern 9th Army under General von Falkenhayn. The latter also included the Alpine Corps coming from the western front.

Under the staff of the 1st Jägerregiment, the "Paulus Group" was formed from the battalion and the 1st and 2nd Bavarian Jäger Battalions.

Red Tower Pass with fighters of the battalion

The corps moved through the “1. Romanian Army ”dividing Zibins Mountains . Coming over the ridge , the battle of Sibiu came on September 26th , in which the 187th Infantry Division attacked head-on . Standing in the back of the Romanians, with the blocking of the pass that the Romanians had once come, the possibility of retreat was denied. Other parts of the corps bypassed the army in the south. According to prisoner records, the corps with its 9 battalions had fought and won against 54 of the Romanian army. At Turnu Roșu (German: Red Tower, Hungarian: Vöröstrony) a plaque was placed in memory of this victory, German Alpine Corps, September 26-29, 1916. attached to the rock face.

During the advance into Romania, the leader of the Bavarian body regiment , Prince Heinrich of Bavaria , was seriously wounded and died the next day. On that day the regiment conquered the last height of Monte Sule .

After several days in reserve, the battalion had enemy contact again on November 19th. When his commander, now Major Krahmer-Möllenberg, went forward to instruct his companies to attack, the fatal bullet hit him. He was initially buried in the Băleni monastery . Captain Schäfer from the "Reserve Jäger Battalion 14" took over the leadership of the battalion.

On November 24th, the mountain war for the corps came to a temporary end when it reached the lowlands of Wallachia . Persecution battles followed from Curtea de Argesch to Piteşti . As a reserve of the “Gruppe Krafft” it had no part in the “Battle of the Argesch”.

After the battle, the 9th Army changes the marching directions from the east to the northeast. The Krafft group formed the focal point here . With the conquest of Ploesti on December 7th, fighting on the Jalomița followed .

The Central Powers made an unused peace offer .

After that, the Christmas battle of Rimnicul-Sarat began on December 21st . For the first time, they faced both Romanians and Russians ( Trans-Caspian Cossack Brigade ). From the "Gruppe Krafft" deployed on the left wing of the army, the battalion received an order to Șindrilița on the 23rd to maintain contact with the neighboring " Gruppe Gerok " of the Army Group "Archduke Josef".

1917

After the battle, the 9th Army was advanced to the Sereth and the Putna sector . The corps followed the Magura Odobesti in the direction of the Odobeşti lying on its last branch . Boloteşti was reached on January 2, but the Putna, 6–8 m wide, but only 1 m deep, was no longer crossed. What followed were months of positional warfare with Russia on the other bank .

On April 10, the Alpine Corps, and with it the battalion, retired from the 9th Army. It was to receive several weeks of rest in Langendorf in the Transylvania . The new corps commander inspected the battalion in Mühlbach on April 13 , the brigade commander inspected all the horses on the 27th. From 8 to 12 May, hunting squads, now called storm troops , were trained. Company-specific mine throwers (MW) platoons were also trained there.

At the end of May it was relocated to Upper Alsace . A combat exercise against the active battalion took place on June 1st at the plant at Pulverbuck and the next day against the Mecklenburg “Reserve Jäger Battalion 14”. Then the hunters were moved to Heiligkreuz , south of Kolmar. Mine throwing training took place here at the Kaiserstuhl . During this, the Pour le Mérite carrier Hptm. Haupt gave a lecture to them about the storming of Fort Douaumont .

In June it was moved to the “Loch von Belfort” and at the beginning of August back to Romania.

Position at Muncelul

In the "breakthrough battle at the Șușița", the Alpine Corps crossed the Putna in the direction of Străoane on August 12th . Under the leadership of Captain Fischer, the group of the two 10th Jäger Battalions attacked Muncelul on August 15 . The battle ended with the capture of Muncelul on August 28th. Position battles followed on the Zabrautioru .

After the eleventh battle of the Isonzo, Emperor Karl asked the OHL for reinforcements. This happened at the time when the Battle of Flanders in 1917 was at its height. However, the OHL complied with the request and sent 6 divisions from the east and west to the Austrian theater of war.

Matarello was the meeting room of the Alpine Corps, which was subordinate to the 11th Army High Command . The corps had the task of showing itself to the opposing Italians and distracting them from the preparations from Tolmein until October.

In Tolmein in ranks of established here 14th Army which was reinforced by the corps since October 10, it was the corps in the Twelfth Isonzo the amount in 1114 , the center of Kolovrat to conquer.

In the breakthrough battle through the Julian Alps , which was to last from October 24th to 27th, 1917, the Leibregiment conquered the summit on the 24th and was relieved there by the RJB on the 25th. The next day the battalion marched towards Clenia and conquered Monte Madlessena . On the 27th the Alps were crossed and on the 29th Udine was conquered.

The corps now pursued the retreating Italians. On November 3rd, the Tagliamento front collapsed and the Piave River became the next destination. The transition to trench warfare took place here. In addition to the Jäger Division , the corps was deployed across from Monte Tomba . This was followed by the First Battle of the Piave , before the Alpine Corps left the tomba position on December 16.

The corps was withdrawn about 100 km behind the front line to Vivaro , where it was supposed to spend Christmas.

1918

From February the corps was for training, where z. B. as a new attack technique the application of the new regulation The "attack battle in trench warfare" was taught in Lorraine. The “light mine thrower” belonging to the infantry had developed into a so-called accompanying weapon of the infantry alongside the heavy machine gun . The mine throwing platoons of the "Jäger Regiment 2" were pulled together on March 21st, the beginning of the Imperial Battle , and as the "Mine throwing company (MWK)" were subordinated to the "RJB 10" as the seventh company. On the 14th of M. it also received a news media train.

On March 2, the battalion stood in front of Field Marshal v. Hindenburg Parade.

To the west of its accommodation near Saarburg , the battalion took part in four regimental exercises, two of which were part of the Alpine Corps.

From March 29 to April 7, the battalion was the reserve of the front section. From Cirey the corps was transferred to the Army Group "Crown Prince Rupprecht" in Flanders to take part in Operation Georgette (or "Battle of the Lys").

On the morning of April 13, the corps attacked Bailleul and, after a short break, was transferred to the upstream Rossignolhöhe for the “second battle for the Kemmel ” . The corps' storm troops were equipped with flamethrowers for this purpose .

In May the Alpine Corps was withdrawn. After twelve weeks of rest, the corps was transferred to Tourcoing as an intervention division and left Flanders ten days later. After the Black Day of the German Army , the corps was transferred to the area around Nesle as an OHL reserve , the area of ​​the newly formed "Army Group v. Boehn ", drawn. On August 18th the order was issued that the 18th Army should prepare the abandonment of the area west of the Somme . The corps was moved north of Péronnes on September 1st to cover the retreat . It had to secure the canal at Moislains before the Siegfried Front . On the 4th the corps was withdrawn to the "Tincourt position" . The " Épehy position" was the height in front of the depression of the Scheldt Canal . This had to be expanded to the "main resistance line (HWL)", but this could not be completed due to lack of time. According to the corps orders, Épehy was now to be held under all circumstances. Supported by tanks, the English overran the position and thus the battalion on September 18. Captain Fischer was the third bearer of the Hohenzollern House Order (Pour-le-Mérite-Order of the Little Man) of the battalion. The remainder, which was no longer fit for action, was placed under the Mecklenburg 14ers.

After the Bulgarian Army had concluded an armistice with the Entente , which the High Command of Army Group Scholtz did not recognize for the Germans, German divisions had to close the "gaps". The corps was immediately transferred to Serbia at the end of September .

When the corps' transport trains had to wait for their way there in the Palanka station , the train of the abdicated Tsar of Bulgaria on his way into exile passed through .

The corps was assigned to Gen.-Kdo 53 of the 11th Army of General v. Subordinated to Steuben . Their withdrawal began as soon as it reached its place of use on October 5th. The last officer of the battalion fell on October 11 while retreating on Prokuplje . The Morava valley was crossed on the 15th and the way back continued through the mountains via Kragujevac . The last change in battalion leadership took place in Topola . The last member of the battalion fell on the 30th near Železnik . Serbia was left on the night of the 31st with the crossing of the border river Sava . The Danube was crossed at Perterwardein on November 6th . The 11th Army was subordinated to the "Mackensen Army Group" on the 8th and the battalion remained in Szt until the 14th . Tamas . From November 21st to 25th, the Alpine Corps in Szeged , which had to leave its entourage there, was transported home by train and reached Passau on the 30th . The battalion's transports arrived in Goslar on December 3rd.

The last time the closed formations of the battalion marched on December 6th through the garrison town and to the sounds of the hunter from Electoral Palatinate in the courtyard of the hunter barracks past their commander.

Subsequently, the hunters from the Harz Mountains, the Lüneburg Heath , Holstein , the coast and Thuringia , since the replacement of the battalion came mainly from here, were released.

Reserve Hunter Battalion No. 23

Reserve Hunter Battalion No. 23

RJB23 - Carpathian Corps.jpg

Carpathian Corps badge of the battalion
active 1914 to 1919
Country coat of arms Kingdom of Prussia
Province of Hanover
Armed forces Prussian Army
Armed forces army
Branch of service Light infantry
Type battalion
structure see structure
Strength 965 (catering strength)
18 officers
2 medical officers
2 officials
943 men
50 horses

873 (combat strength)

16 officers
2 medical officers
855 men
Insinuation see insinuations
Butcher Ypres Front
First Battle of Ypres
Second Battle of Ypres

Carpathian Front

Kerensky offensive

Italian front

Twelfth Battle of the Isonzo
First Battle of the Piave

Western front

Great battle in France
Battle of the Marne
Meuse-Argonne offensive
management
Commanders See commanders

On September 26th, the young battalion, only one third of which had rifles, was loaded onto the Ohrdruf military training area in Thuringia . In the remaining two weeks, according to the order, it had to be ready for war use on October 10th , the training for marching and combat exercises in larger formations as well as combat shooting was used.

All exercises were focused only on warfare of movement , that is, the case of attack .

The equipment of the battalion members ended with the surrender of cutlass and zinc brand .

On the morning of October 11th, trains left the camp for the western front.

1914

At St. Vieth the border was in the direction of Grammont , the meeting room of the XXVI. RK, happens.

When the hunters marched at the head of the corps on October 18, the commanding general appeared in the car . This stopped and addressed a short speech to the troops.

When the RJB 23 had almost crossed Rumbeke the following day , it found its first death in the war with the German rider who was shot from a horse at the village exit.

The history of the battalion reveals that fire on the battalion has now been opened from all sides. This event is viewed as the battalion's baptism of fire . From today's perspective, this can be doubted. It is more likely that, as in August in Leuven, a shot was unintentionally fired, that this was misinterpreted as an attack and that the panic broke out in a wild shootout. From the war of 1870/71 the fear of franc tireurs was still present, and so no one in the children's regiments had any doubts that the few who were found in the houses and without exception wore civilian clothes must be such . Strangely enough, it was not noticed that there were no losses in the ranks of the troops.

In the Ypres Battle, the hamlet Mangaere was conquered by the 23rd hunters. Its windmill, from which it was alleged that the opposite side was signaled, was burned down by the battalion.

The corps advanced west of the Houthoulster forest to Kortekeer . Due to a lack of artillery support, however, they were forced to retreat again. The RJB became the reserve of the RIR 234.

When the 46 RD was recaptured , the 4th Company (4th / RJB 23) was subordinate to RJB 18.

The front line around Langemarck froze, and on the night of November 3rd the battalion was relieved. Behind the Houthoulster forest it was kept on alert in Tiendenberg near Westroosebeke . Here the battalion was awarded its first 18 Iron Crosses .

After heavy losses for the Hunter 10 November, the war was also in Flanders in the trench warfare over. The heavily decimated battalion was relieved on the night of November 12th.

The first replacement arrived in the form of 121 people from the Reserve Detachment 11 hunters from Marburg one on 17 December with the hunters. Of the combat strength of the battalion drawn into the field in October , 9 officers and 400 chief hunters and hunters were still available.

On December 22nd, the battalion was transferred to the divisional reserve in Westroosebeke, where it was assigned to the pioneers .

1915

On February 28, the battalion received a cyclist division composed of 15 members of each regiment 233-236. Division General v. Kleist visited them five days later. Labor service ended on March 14, and two companies each were assigned to regiments of the 102nd Infantry Brigade for ten days. In the meantime, your commander took over the management of the RIR 235.

When the 23rd Jäger occupied I./238 in the section between the Staden –Langemarck railway and the Grenzbach on April 10th , they learned that the Supreme Army Command (OHL) was planning a previously unknown weapon, chlorine gas , against the enemy to use. In the section, so-called F-batteries were installed at a distance of 20 meters, which you wanted to open to blow off when the wind direction was appropriate . For this purpose, the whole trench was flagged with small wind flags, not visible to the enemy.

The hunters were relieved on the evening of April 20, but returned 24 hours later.

At the Château Wieltje

On the evening of April 22nd, the 23rd fighters who had been ready to storm since the morning were subordinate to RIR 234 at that time, the Second Battle of Ypres began with the blow off . On the Black Day of Ypres , the 1st Canadian Division , Arthur Currie , was advanced north of St. Julien and then occupied. From there another gas attack was carried out by the hunters. However, since this was poorly coordinated, the gas was not released at the same time as the first time, it was almost ineffective.

When the 23rd hunters had advanced to Kerselaere, today part of Ypres , they received the order on Ascension Day to storm Wieltje Castle on the last hill before Ypres . However, the execution failed and only brought them high losses. It was the last "day of major battle " of the battle.

As of June 7, the battalion was designated as a corps reserve and withdrawn to Roulers . There it was inspected by the commanding general on July 15 .

Since the 23rd hunters were very popular with the division general, they were given the nickname "the Kleist's hunters " in August .

In September they were transferred to RIR 240 as their IV Battalion. They spent twelve days at the front south of Pilkem before resting for twelve days in the barracks camp in the Kalve grove near Westroosebeke. There the hunters celebrated the one-year existence of their battalion.

1916
Bridgehead company of the RJB 23

The new Jäger section to be acquired was further north at Bixschoote . The Belgians had built a bridgehead over the Yser there.

In June, the battalion was further north, in the flood plains of Woumen relocated. The landscape there made contact with the enemy almost impossible.

On the evening of July 21, the battalion received an order from the General Command to rally. Contrary to expectations, however, it did not go to the nearby Somme or Verdun , but rather the battalion, together with nine others, was transferred to the Carpathians in response to the Brusilov offensive .

Mass vaccination against typhus began in Görlitz and against cholera in Breslau . In Liegnitz , to the horror of the battalion members, the 23rd hunters had to replace the shako with the spiked bonnet. The hunters did not suspect that it was a ruse against the enemy, although their features were completely free from the start. After a two-day exercise to get used to the new terrain, shortly before the march to the front, on the morning of July 30th, Lieutenant Colonel Thümmel and in the afternoon the heir to the throne , Archduke Karl was supposed to take over the new army group of the k uk 7 , inspected the regiment.

Archduke Karl, who later became Emperor Karl of Austria, greets the German hunters who have arrived in the Carpathian Mountains

On the approach to Burkut not far from the Czeremos , one of the source rivers of the Sereth , the spiked bonnets were not allowed to be worn and had to be concealed with hats . The Russian opponent should not notice that the German military was there. In the jungle of the Carpathians, the 5 Jäger Regiment faced two divisions, the 79th and 82nd, with regiments 313, 314, 315 as well as 326, 327 and 328.

The surprise succeeded. The 23rd hunters stormed the Altitude 1610 (Hala-Mihailewa) on August 3 , and more followed until August 8. Then a break had to be taken so that the supplies could keep up. While the enemy had three "usable" roads as rear supply lines , the Carpathian Corps was dependent on a single one over the Watonarka Pass. The next village in the stage , Ruszpoljana , was three days' march behind the front line .

Since the left group of the corps was in a victorious advance northwest of Jablonitza , but the right wing stagnated in a critical situation in the Czeremocz valley and there was an approximately 25 km wide free space between the two wings, v. Contra to shorten the front and on August 16 gave the order to move the front back.

The battalion withdrew on the 17th to Mount Skupowa, captured twelve days earlier. The new position of the 23ers was now in the middle of the back leading from Skupowa to Plaik .

This is followed by site surveys by the brigade commander and eight days later by the division commander. On the Skupowa a "health inspection" by the assistant doctor Dr. Lubkowitz instead.

Since the 1st Infantry Division on the right wing of the corps was increasingly stressed, the Jäger Division had to move more forces there. To make this possible, the corps was relocated again on September 1st. The new position of the 23rd hunters was now the Stefulec south of the Riza.

On September 27th the brigade commander inspected the position. Now a positional war had developed here too.

The Jäger Battalion, with the exception of the 3rd Company, became regimental reserve from September 30th. Four days later it was relieved and moved into its resting quarters in Burkut. The regimental staff, the so-called "White House", was also housed here.

The rest days for the 2nd and 4th companies ended on October 10th. They were assigned to the " Stoffleth Group ", the 1st Company followed on the following day in their reserve position. An assault company and a work company were put together from the members of all companies in the reserve position .

With the onset of snowfall, winter began and narrowly limited the military options for both sides. In Probinatal, about two kilometers behind the front, something was off the stick dam of Wartonarcapassstraße the "Kossa" camp with aid station created and pioneered Depot to improve care. Kossa was an Austrian commander who swapped his command post with that of the commander of RJB 18 in the second and third quarters of 1917.

On December 12, the Entente was presented with an offer of peace that was to have no consequences.

1917
Meet in no man's land
Meeting in front of the Russian wire barn

On January 10, the brigade commander presented the battalion commander with the Knight's Cross of the Royal House Order of Hohenzollern .

In Burkut, the corps commander, accompanied by two Swedish officers, visited the assault company.

The revolution that broke out in Russia in March reached the front on Russian Easter Sunday, April 15. The Russian soldiers were the first to leave their trenches unarmed and wave to the surprised Lauenburg hunters (RJB 18) in order to make a peace in no man's land that would last until June. Since the troops were gradually replaced by Siberian troops in June, their artillery fired again for the first time. When senior officers visited the trench, their infantry shot over the enemy until they were replaced. The Kerensky offensive began and continued into the Carpathian Mountains.

The army commander, Field Marshal v. Kövecs , inspected the positions of the 3rd and 4th companies on July 5th.

On July 24th, the Russians began to withdraw from the front of the 11th Jäger about eleven kilometers north of the 23er. The battalion began to pursue them on July 26th and reached Plaik again in the evening.

Here, Captain Stoffleth led the so-called Bialy Detachment , which consisted of RJB 18, RJB 17, a platoon of Uhlans , four batteries and a pioneer company , which was followed by the Hungarian military police battalion 28 . Major Roël, deputy to Colonel Thümmel, who was on vacation, led the so-called Putilla detachment, which the rest of the division followed. The 23 hunters were his reserve. When the two rivers in the lower Czeremosztal were united, the division was complete again. Only once more, when conquering the heights around Wiznitz , was there any military resistance.

At the beginning of August the battalion was designated as a brigade reserve and followed the Sereth behind the division through the Bukovina to Romania to the city of the same name.

Kamenka was captured on August 4th by embracing .

The seizure of the place Sereth should take place in the night of the 7th in a coup . In contrast to the previous course, however, the slopes around the city were heavily occupied by Russian positions. This forced a retreat to Waschkoutz . Since the OHL hoped for a breakthrough of the Russian front of far-reaching strategic importance at this point , the Carpathian Corps set large parts of the 200th Infantry Division to a concentric attack for the 8th on the heights in front of the city. When it got dark that evening, the Reserve Jäger Battalion No. 6 relieved the 23ers on the heights. When the attack failed, it gave rise to a change in the leadership of 200 ID.

After days of rest, the battalion was transferred to the Bukovina position near Opryscheny , which was built in 1914 . When large fires were observed on September 4th, it was concluded that the enemy was retreating. Parts of the kuk infantry regiment 69 replaced the battalion on September 10th.

In Storocynetz , the 200th Infantry Division marched past the commanding general, General der Infanterie von. Conta , instead. With this, the division was released from the association of the Carpathian Corps. The regimental commander visited the battalion on September 16 in Karlow ( Galicia ) am Prut . The battalion festival on the occasion of its three-year existence also took place here.

The OHL accepted the request of the Austrian emperor, once commander of the Austro-Hungarian 7th Army, for support. Previously, the former commandant of the Alpine Corps , v. Dellmensingen , who was sent to the Isonzo Front to assess the situation , identified a weak point in the enemy and supported the project. The "German" 14th Army, newly formed from German reinforcements and Austrian divisions, was pushed into the right wing of the "Army Group Boroëvić".

Wilhelm II visits the battalion as it passes through Munkács

The battalion's transport train set off on September 24 with an unknown destination. As in the previous year, the train had been stripped of all license plates to keep it secret. When he crossed the Hungarian plain , he stopped in Munkács . When the battalion got off the train, the warlord's court train stopped there as well. The emperor stepped off the battalion and, after a triple horrido of the hunters, turned back to his train.

On the morning of October 8, the Commander-in-Chief of the 14th Army visited the battalion in Kerschstetten.

From October 19 to 23, the 200th Infantry Division marched via Bischoflack to Tolmein .

During the Ieza offensive , the 5th Jäger Regiment was initially assigned to the two other regiments of the 200th Infantry Division as a reserve. The 23er behind the section from the Jäger Regiment 4 . The 23rd hunters crossed the Austrian-Italian border around noon on October 26th and changed combat troops at Azzida the next day after leaving the mountains .

It was now the plan of the 14th Army to cut off the route of the 3rd Italian Army, which was retreating between Gorizia and the Adriatic Sea, and to attack from behind from the upper Tagliamento . East of Udine was the Cardonas headquarters , along the Torrente Torre was a reception post for the Italian army . The Jäger Regiment, at that time only consisting of the Jäger Battalions 18 and 23, conquered them after consultation with Colonel Thümmel under the leadership of Stoffleth on the night of October 28th.

After the 18th hunters had stormed Beivârs and left it again, the 23ers crossed the village. Meanwhile, a detachment of the Italian cavalry also passed through what they knew was unoccupied on their way to Udine. The battalion captured them.

On the road to Udine, the passenger car of Lieutenant General v. Berrer 's battalion. The battalion rallied to attack Udine, but received orders to rally in Colugna when it was found that RJB 18 was already in town .

When the 23rd Jäger were replaced on November 3rd by the Imperial and Royal Infantry Regiment 71 , the division was assigned to the Stein group as an army reserve . As such, General v. Below visited on November 5th.

The Tagliamento was crossed by the Army Reserve on November 9th. West of Moriago on the Piave , the battalion took up position opposite Vidor on the 11th and was relieved on December 2nd and relocated to the area of ​​the Krauss group . The destination on the Fontana Secca was reached on the 12th. Opposite was the Monte Spinuccia, whose pyramids and star tops were to be stormed on December 3rd.

In conjunction with the 8th Grenadier Regiment ( 5th ID attached to the left wing of 200th ID) parts of the mountain were stormed. Until December 12th, however, only the top of the pyramid could be conquered. The 18s conquered the top of the star. After the breakthrough of the 18s, the 23s were temporarily subordinated to them.

After being replaced on the 15th, the battalion was relocated to Schievenin on the 26th at the disposal of the division . On December 28th, the hunters replaced the RJB 17 on the Sternkuppe. Two days later they were replaced by the Imperial and Royal Kaiserschützen Regiment No. 2 .

The OHL had decided to no longer participate in operations in Italy. Their divisions were transported from there to the planned decisive battle on the Western Front.

1918

By January 8, the battalion marched to its final resting quarters in Paludea .

When the battalion left its resting place on February 8, it said goodbye to Italy with the aim of Lorraine . There the division, which had the reputation of being one of the best shock divisions in Germany, was being prepared. The battalion commander was sent to Hagenau for a one-week leadership course in order to be informed about the latest developments with the other commanders for the planned spring offensive .

From March 17, the battalion undertook demonstration marches within sight of the enemy tethered balloons to simulate troop relocation. On Good Friday , the start of the offensive, the battalion was loaded onto Cambrai . On the following days it followed the front line over the area of ​​the battle of 1916 on the Somme to Péronne .

This changed when the regiment approached the banks of the Avre on April 8th . The war of movement of the offensive had already ended and the division was deployed to maintain what had been achieved for five days. The 23ers were against Rouvrel . For another five days, the 23er replaced the RJB 18 on the 19th and was deployed in the front line for another five days on May 3rd. On the night of May 14th, the entire 200th Infantry Division was pulled out of the Avre position.

The resting quarters in the 2nd Army's stage were in Herbignies . The battalion commander, Ms. v. Leesen, was telegraphed back from vacation on June 12, and the battalion was transferred to Ugny-le-Gay on the 14th . The highlight of the exercises there was an attack exercise by a war-strong company with mine launchers and accompanying artillery in front of the division commander against an enemy marked by flags.

Bridge over the Marne

The 200th Infantry Division was destined for the capture of Reims , an important French railway junction on the Marne , planned for mid-July . In 1914, the Marne became a river of fate , and, as the OHL assumed, this would not happen again.

The division marched on July 14 in the Forêt de Ris on both sides of Tréloup for the battle of the Marne . The Hunter Regiment No. 5 was to cross the Marne south of Tréloup. The RJB 23 penetrated as far as La Chapelle , where its commander fell, but had to vacate the place again on the same day. On the evening of July 15, the combat strength of the RJB 23 still consisted of 6 officers, 7 Oberjäger and 50 men. The 5th Jäger Regiment , withdrawn on July 17th, was not to be used here again. A company was formed from the remnants of battalions 23 and 17. This was subordinate to the newly formed Ohlendorf Battalion, which was subordinate to the 3rd Jäger Regiment .

Withdrawal struggles

From July 18, the German army was in defensive combat .

The 23ers had had a second company again since the 20th and was inspected by the division commander on the morning of that day before the hunters of General v. Conta were placed under.

The 23rd hunters were brought to Sedan to recover and from there they took up quarters in St. Menges .

On August 22nd, the break was over and the battalion was transported to St. Souplet an der Py , where Captain Stoffleth (RJB 18) took over the leadership of the Jäger Regiment 5 on his behalf for the regimental commander who was on vacation . The French military pushed the regiment with infantry, artillery and gas from the river behind the givet height to the German main resistance line (HWL) . When the returned Major v. Wodtke fell, Stoffleth took over the command of the regiment again. Captain Wild, who had been promoted to major shortly before, took over the leadership of the regiment the next morning as the older one.

At the beginning of October the battalion was moved back to the Helenenhöhe. On October 13, the battalion was used as a reaction force before it was transferred five days later with the 200th ID to Barzy as a reaction division behind the sector . From October 21, the battalion fought in front of and in the Hunding position . At Boué near the Sambre-Oise Canal lay the 23rd until the regiment was withdrawn as a standby force to Bergues on the 31st . As early as the evening of November 4th, the battalion had to withdraw from there and reached the outskirts of Avesnes on the 7th , which was also evacuated the following day. On the morning of November 11th, Lieutenant Bock, representing the commander who was on leave, came forward into the trenches and announced that, according to the radio message received at 9.48 a.m. , there would be an armistice from 12 p.m.

Armistice period

In order to simplify the command structure, the division divided the RJB 23 on the battalions 17 and 18 and moved home. The German border was crossed on November 25 at Steinbach , south of Malmedy . Battalion members from the area on the left bank of the Rhine and Alsace-Lorraine were released from the battalion on November 26th. The division, immediately followed by the English cavalry , was the last on its march road across the Eifel . On the night of December 3rd to 4th the division crossed the Rhine near Bonn . The divisions on the left bank of the Rhine were released in Uckerath . The RJB 23 was put together again on December 12th and moved to Sohlbach , where Hauptmann v. Freeden the battalion expected, diverted from the Association of the 200th ID. Six days later the battalion moved on, crossed the Solling ( Uslar ) on Christmas Eve and reached Goslar on the 27th.

A delegation of the citizens , among them the aged Senator Steckhan, received the hunters on Astfelder Strasse . Jäger battalion No. 10 , returning home with the sound of the band of the day, passed the Achtermann , across the market square to the barracks. Developed in the days of November 1918 in Belgium flag of the battalion was in the care given to the citizenry.

1919

By January 4, 1919, the battalion was liquidated. Those born in 1898 and 1899 who had not been released were placed under the 10th Jäger Battalion.

Cycling company
Cycling company / hunter 10

On August 2, the cycling company with the field battalion left Goslar. One of his platoon leaders was Lieutenant Keitel. In Malmedy the company was assigned to the 43rd Infantry Brigade ( 9th Cavalry Division (HKK 2)).

Captain Baron v. Wangenheim and Lieutenant Keitel, 1914

On August 29, 1914, on the orders of HKK 2 , the cycling companies of Jäger Battalions 3, 4, 7, 9 and 10 became the cycling battalion under the command of Captain Frhr. v. Wangenheim formed. The company was now referred to as the 1st cycling company / Jäger 10 (1 RK / Jäg. 10) .

She fought in the "Battle of the Marne" and was ordered to retreat on September 9th. When she arrived in Chamouille five days later , the "Replacement Cycling Company Jäger 10", who had already arrived there the day before, met. She also became part of the battalion. That was made available to the 14th Reserve Division .

The first "Iron Crosses" arrived on September 16.

The battalion fought at Warneton. Since the war of movement had meanwhile turned into war of positions, the battalion was given a new assignment on December 7, 1914. It provided border protection on the Dutch border until December 1915 . From here it was moved to the Cernies area, where it was subordinated in June of the '77 .

After the Brusilov offensive began , the battalion was relocated to the Eastern Front and the company to the vicinity of Volhynia . In November 1916 we went back to the West. In February 1917 it provided coastal protection in Flanders and in mid-April was assigned to the "Cycling Battalion 1" , which was also located in Flanders .

Replacement cycling company / hunter 10

The company was formed on August 14th from reservists of the older age groups and militia soldiers. After the garrison elder, Major Frhr. v. Winterfeld, left the company on 30th Goslar in the direction of the “Battle of the Marne” and received the order to retreat on 9th September. When she met the Prussian Guard Jäger battalion in Limé on the 11th , she made herself available to him temporarily.

From the morning of September 14th, the company was under the "Detachement Wangenheim". She suffered heavy losses. Among them their commander. Without a leader she became part of the “RK / Jäg. 10 ". When it became independent again on March 1, 1915, Lieutenant Keitel became its commander. On May 31st, transferred to the east, he said goodbye to his company. His successor, Lieutenant Hoyer, arrived on June 8th with a replacement at the company. However, he was wounded at Cerny. In his place, he should go to the RK / Jäg after his recovery. 10 take over, Lieutenant Frhr. v. Wechmar to Captain Bode took over the command of the company on July 7th.

Since July 25, the company has been called 3. Radfahr-Firma / Jäger 10 (3. RK / Jäg. 10) .

On October 30th it was moved to Maeseyck . From December to June 1916 it was subordinate to the 37th Infantry Brigade ( 19th ID ) near Chermizy in the Ailette Valley . On May 11th the company was ordered to Béthancourt to be prepared for new tasks at the military training area of ​​the X. AK .

After the Brusilov offensive began , the company was relocated to the eastern front near Volhynia and placed under I / 74 . On the company's "black day", July 28, 1916, the Russians attacked and overran the company.

2nd cycling company / hunter 10

On the orders of the Alpine Corps, a new cycling company was formed from contributions from Jäger Battalions 10, Reserve 10 and Reserve 14 (2nd Jäger Brigade). It was set up in Brixen on July 3, 1915. Its name was: 2. Radfahr-Firma / Jäger 10 (2. RK / Jäg. 10)

The established cycling companies were combined into a cycling battalion, which the leader of the corps visited on July 16. In the "Grenzschutz -abschnittskommando 8b" the company was on the Gr. Lusia used.

After initially riding bicycles from Dresden , the company exchanged them on August 26 for folding bicycles from the Nuremberg Express Works , such as those used by the Bavarian cycling company. The Austrian brigade leader, Colonel Spielmann, visited the company on September 10th. Later several members of the company received the "Austrian Cross of Merit"

After it was relocated to the west at short notice in October, it went to Serbia through the Iron Gate . The bikes were handed over to the “Big Bagage” on November 14th, and from then on they should take a different route than the one through the Serbian mountains. Only on the 29th was the baggage to be found again in Kraljevo , where the staff of the corps was making quarters. After receiving the bikes again, the company became a headquarters company.

In the Kruševac train station, on December 4th, a vanguard of the company discovered long trains filled with Serbian ammunition. At the beginning of 1916 the company went to Branje, where it performed garrison service until the staff was transferred to Üsküp , Macedonia at the end of February . Then she was replaced as the headquarters company.

On March 17th, the company and its corps left Serbia. After a short training period, the “Battle of Verdun” started. The company stayed in the "Deutsches Eck" until the end of August. Here she left her bikes. The company commander, Krahmer-Möllenberg's brother, fell in Verdun. Thereupon the remnants of the company were integrated into the reserve hunter battalion. Lieutenant Bock took over their leadership. The rest of the company was assigned to the fort service before it received its relocation order on July 30th.

Arrived in Breslau, a cycling brigade led by Colonel Frhr. Quadt-Wyckrath-Hüchtenbruck . Then she left Breslau for Galicia and became part of the "Archduke Karl Army Group". On August 23, the brigade was loaded onto Bogdan. There, the 200th Infantry Division of the Carpathian Corps was held as support for an expected Russian attack.

The battalion left the Carpathian Mountains on October 31.

The extreme right wing of the 9th Army was formed by the reinforced Austrian 145th Brigade, the "Szivio Group". The "Quad Bike Brigade" was sent to her to conquer Orschowa . After crossing the Ialomițas , the brigade had to transform itself into a foot troop due to the local conditions. When the enemy retreated all along the line, on December 28, the hunters reached the village of Gulianca , about ten kilometers from Sereth . On the night of January 2, the Russians Gulianca participated in the coup one. The remnants of the battalion were given a new use.

In Flanders it was subordinated to the 1st Marine Division near Blankenberghe . When it left Ostend on March 6, 1917, it drove to Lanchy , subordinated to the 221st Infantry Division, to cover their withdrawal as part of the Alberich company . On March 31st she was placed under the 111th Infantry Division and replaced the 3rd RK / Jäg. 10 from. When the company had completed its task, it was released.

They are back in Flanders on April 15th. The next day the 1st RK / Jäg took place. 10 , as the 5th company, to the battalion. The second. Marine Brigade ”, the battalion took over the Den Haan section on the 24th .

General Ludendorff visited the base on May 23, and five days later General Field Marshal v. Hindenburg the troops in the Zeebrugge-Oostende section. In June the battalion was restructured. The 9th Jäger retired and the 5th Company replaced the previous third. Res. RK 78 joined the battalion as the 6th company on August 9th . Thus all Goslar companies were united. In addition, the RK 52 was attached to the battalion as the 7th company.

Reserve Cycling Company No. 78 (Res.RK 78)

On December 28, 1914, the replacement battalion in Goslar set up a new cycling company. This joined the newly established 78th Reserve Division and moved to the training area in Altengrabow on January 8, 1915 . After the inspection by the Kaiser on January 30th, the division was transported to the field on February 1st.

In the winter battle in Masuria , the forces were rearranged through reinforcements. Thus, the 10th Army , the XXXIX. Reserve Corps , consisting of Reserve Divisions 77 and 78, reinforced. The latter division consisted of the Reserve Infantry Regiments 258, 259, 260 and Res. RK 78.

Since the bicycles turned out to be unusable in the Masurian winter, they were handed over to the mayor Lesgewangminnens on February 8th . On the 17th the company suffered its first losses from artillery fire. The corps assembled at Seyny on the 18th. The company was assigned to be guarded by the staff of the corps, now "Army Group Lauenstein" (later becoming the Nyemen Army ).

In mid-March, the division was transferred to the "Army Group Gallwitz" north of Ostrowek on the Narew line. In April the company in Gumbinnen received its bicycles back. After Schaulen was captured, the company performed outpost duty around Janischky.

The trench warfare that began in September 1915 on the Daugava made it impossible to use the company according to the type of company. The company had identified 7 enemy positions on the right bank and was then withdrawn to Bewern to secure the division staff and harvest . From November 8, a permanent position was expanded from her, after which she was the support of the 4th Cavalry Division .

In March 1917 the division was replaced and relocated to Alsace. After a short time at Hartmannsweiler Kopf it was relocated to Reims in the "Battle of the Aisne". The company served here as a messenger.

On August 7th, the company was detached from the division and, on higher orders, transferred to the 4th Army Cycle Brigade in Flanders.

In the Association of the Cycling Battalion No. 1

On September 3, 1917, Riga and Dünamünde were captured on the northern wing of the Eastern Front . By taking possession of the Baltic islands of Oesel , Moon and Dagö as well as the closure of the Moon Sound , it was now necessary to control the Gulf of Riga . To achieve this, the Albion company was carried out.

For this purpose, the "Brigade Quadt" arrived in Libau at the end of September 1917 , where the Finnish hunters were among others . The embarkation and landing exercises began immediately .

On October 10th left the landing corps, headed by the General Command of XXIII. AK - General v. Kathen , Chief of Staff Colonel v. Tschischwitz -, Libau. The landing took place in the Tagga Bay, the secondary landing, covered by the liner Bavaria and the cruiser Emden , in the southwestern Pamerort. It was carried out by 1650 cyclists, the "Brigade Quadt". From there it was advanced east of Arensburg (capital of Oesels), against the rearward Russian connections to Moon and the mainland.

From then on, the battalion carried out guard duty, distributed across various locations on the island. After the armistice of December 17, 1917, the battalion was moved to the island's capital to exercise coastal protection from there. In January 1918 the brigade received a new commander (Colonel Thümmel) and paraded on the market square of Arensburg to the governor of the islands, Frhr. v. Seckendorff , over.

To protect Estonia from the Russians, the brigade was transferred there from March 21st.

The brigade was transferred to Strasbourg in September. The Res. RK 78 was converted into a MGK and subsequently transferred to the "Radfahr-Bataillon Nr. 7".

The village of Haussy , captured by the English on the morning of October 16 , was won back by the brigade in the afternoon. The OHL considered this event worthy of a noteworthy mention in the Army Report of October 18.

The brigade fought for the last time on November 4th. She was then withdrawn to Liege. When she got there on the 11th, the truce began at 12 noon. Liege was left on the 15th. From the 19th the Rhine bridges in Cologne were secured and guard duty was carried out for a few days. In the first days of December, the Goslar companies arrived in Goslar and were disbanded.

Replacement battalion

According to the calendar of mobilization dates drawn up in peace, the Jäger Replacement Battalion was formed in August 1914 . This consisted of two companies and a recruit depot.

On February 1, 1915, the Rammelsberg barracks were taken over and a second replacement department was formed.

In mid-June 1915, the mountain machine gun replacement department was set up. However, the latter was later relocated to Oberstaufen im Allgäu because of the better training in the high mountains .

In August 1915, 2 companies were transferred to the II. Jäger Replacement Battalion No. 10 in Clausthal . From November 22, 1916, the RJB 23 was supplied exclusively by this.

On November 1, 1915, a second replacement battalion of two companies, whose garrison was initially to be Osterode , was established.

There were now two Jäger replacement battalions No. 10 . Officers in the replacement formations were inactive or reserve and Landwehr officers who had volunteered or were no longer considered fit for military service.

In 1916 a coastal defense battalion was formed from the replacement formations. As such, however, this was not used.

From 1918 the Deputy General Command sent a commission to examine the crews for fitness for service and suitability for use in the war . This should appear from time to time later.

The 2nd reserve battalion was disbanded in 1918 and the companies that had been outside Goslar returned.

At the end of the war, the recruit depot was on the border with Holland and marched from there to Epe i. Westphalia . From there it returned to Goslar by train shortly after the field battalion.

With the November Revolution, soldiers' councils were also formed in the battalion. With the arrival of the field battalion, the replacement battalion ceased to exist.

deputy commander
Rank Surname date
major v. Winter field September 1, 1914
major Blümcke February 1, 1915
major Ostermeyer 1918 (guided tour)
major Raven von Pappenheim 1918

Battalion Kirchheim

On November 10, 1918, the Supreme Polish People's Council was formed in Posen to separate it from Prussia and integrate it into Poland . Silesia and West Prussia followed suit. The center was the Oder near Frankfurt . On November 24, 1918, the German Freikorps were formed on Hindenburg's request for volunteer associations for the Eastern Border Guard .

Captain Kirchheim

According to a call from the commander in Kirchheim, the Hannoversche Jägerbataillon was set up in Goslar on January 18, 1919 . It arrived in Fraustadt ( Posen ) on the evening of January 25th . The 10th Infantry Division had been based in nearby Glogau . Together with the 2nd battery of the Field Artillery Regiment (FAR) 55 , which was also headed to Fraustadt and was to be attached to the battalion, was tactically subordinate to the division. On the 28th, the battery arrived in Fraunstadt with a company from the Naumburg Jäger Battalion 4 . After the hunters of the 14th Jäger Battalion arrived, Captain Kirchheim reported on February 3rd that the battalion had been completed.

On February 6th, it was moved to Rawitsch . An important elevation from Sarne-Sarnowko was recaptured.

The battalion was transferred from the Rawitsch section to the Meseritz section , Major General Janke. The Züllichau subsection was subordinate to Colonel Burchardi, commander of Fusilier Regiment No. 38 . In this the battalion was deployed not far from Neudorf .

It was Groitzig recaptured.

On February 17th, the OHL issued an order that all offensive movements were to be stopped immediately. The battalion was thereupon as the main reserve of the General Command of VI. AK relocated to Glogau. Here it was used against the Spartacus uprising .

Recruit depots were set up in Froebel , later also in Schlichtingsheim and Zirkau . At the beginning of March the battalion moved into Herrndorf. There were growing plans for the voluntary Hannoversche Jägerbataillon of the new Reichswehr Brigade 27 in Frankfurt a. O. and was to be given the name Reichswehr Jäger Battalion No. 27 .

At the beginning of June, he moved to his last eastern quarter in Herrnstadt .

The Reichswehr Jägerbataillon Kirchheim now wore the edelweiss, which was worn on the cap during the war, as a common mark of the battalion on a green plate as a collar badge.

When the state of war with the Poles came into force again at 9 p.m. on June 23, the battalion wanted to advance east again. However, this was not the case as the National Assembly decided to sign the Versailles Peace Treaty .

On June 26th the order arrived to load the battalion. Until July 9th it was law enforcement officers in Küstrin and was then subordinated to General Command X and transported to Celle. It stayed here until July 28th.

Captain Kirchheim handed over his battalion, to whose staff he was henceforth, to Major Pflugradt on August 2nd.

Demobilization

After the battalion had left Kirchheim Goslar, only a part of the cycling company and the remaining not yet discharged from the reserve battalion born in 1899 were in the Rammelsberg barracks . With the establishment of a security company, which was not subordinate to the Goslar Soldiers' Council and was to be led by Captain Keitel, the basis for the addition of volunteers to the hunters was created in the cathedral barracks on February 14, 1919.

She was used when the chamber building was occupied on March 12 by 1899ers who were about to be released. On March 20, half the security company was posted to Celle . On March 28, a second security company was formed. A business company was set up on April 1st. The MG company was revived on April 15th.

When Braunschweig Spartakists wanted to take the Börßum railway junction on April 11th, Captain Keitel hurried there with his company.

The battalion took part in the suppression of the Northwest German Republic . On May 1st, the security companies were dissolved. On May 5, the battalion unit in the Provisional Reichswehr was restored. At the beginning of July it was called to the riots in Hanover. It occupied the train station and the war school on July 8th . The merger of the two battalions to form Reichswehr Jäger Battalion 10, ordered by Reichswehr Brigade 10, was completed in August.

The further reduction of the army threatened to close the Goslar garrison in favor of the Hildesheimers . The decisive factor for Goslar was the Kapp Putsch . The troops from the province around Hanover were concentrated concentrically. On March 14, 1920 the battalion moved out. On the 15th the commander of the Reichswehr Brigade received a telephone call from Hanover. Insurgents had seized a weapons depot in Hildesheim, and he was ordered to immediately ensure peace and order there. From there, the hunters were transported by train to Buldern ( Westphalia ) on March 20 to defend it against the Red Ruhr Army . From there it moved to Dülmen whose castle served as the battalion's headquarters . Hunters found the lord of the castle, Count Westerholt , who was on the run after jumping out of the window of his castle , and brought him to safety in Dülmen. The battalion's next stations were Haltern , Datteln and Herne .

On July 19 and 20, 1920, the battalion celebrated the 50th anniversary of the mobilization order together with 25 veterans of the 1870/71 war. Forester Runnebaum and Accountant Wool (Hanover) were the oldest representatives of the campaign officers and hunters from Germany's last war of unification.

From October 1st, 1920, the IVth Battalion of Reichswehr Infantry Regiment 13, which had once emerged from Wesel Infantry Regiments 56 and 57 , was to be merged into the Jäger Battalion. This had as III. (Jäger) Battalion of the 17th Infantry Regiment to be formed from the Reichswehr Infantry Regiment 20 takes its place in the new Reichsheer which has existed since January 1, 1921 .

On October 1, 1933, Erwin Rommel was transferred to them as commander. As such he met Adolf Hitler, who was visiting Goslar, on September 30, 1934 .

Maintenance of tradition

The meeting already envisaged at the beginning of 1919 took place for the first time on October 25 and 26, 1919 in Goslar. Around 600 former Goslar hunters from Germany and abroad appeared for this. The now annual Hunters Day was banned twice in the following years and could not take place three times for economic reasons.

The association of former Goslar hunters was founded on November 19, 1919 in Goslar. Major General Jungblut, who once emerged from the old Hanoverian hunters, headed the association until his death on June 22, 1922. Since then, it has been led by the last peace commander of the hunters, Major General Bauer. From 1924 the association brought out the "little battalion story". Furthermore, the plan for the creation of a memorial matured. Its foundation stone was laid on May 16, 1926. The monument was unveiled on the historically greatest day in the history of the association. From now on, double posts held special battle dates in front of the memorial.

In 1921, according to a decree of the army command, the III. (Jäger) Battalion the 12th Company of the 17th (Preuss.-Braunschw.) Infantry Regiment of the Reichswehr the tradition of the "Goslar Jäger".

Others

societies

  • Association of former hunters and shooters in Goslar

Monuments

War memorial in the courtyard of the cathedral barracks

War memorial in the courtyard of the cathedral barracks
Memorial stone in front of the Rammelsberg barracks

On August 18, 1872, the anniversary of the “baptism of fire” in the Thronviller bushes and the battle of Mars la Tour , a memorial in memory of those who fell in the campaign was unveiled in the courtyard of the cathedral barracks under the bells of the Goslar market church and gunfire from the imperial family , which was created by the Gosla sculptor Hübeler. On a square of 11 feet (about 3.45 m) length side, a raised pedestal of sandstone , the one on a concave geböschtem stationary base obelisk bore, which was in turn surmounted by a gold-plated eagle with outstretched wings. On the base on the east side two crossed hunter rifles with the signal horn and the shako were to be seen, on the west side the inscription Eretzt d wrapped in an oak wreath . 16 August 1872 . The north side showed the Iron Cross , the south side a reproduction of the war memorial . The obelisk bore a portrait medallion of Kaiser Wilhelm I and the inscription Hann.-Jäger-Btl. No. 10 / True to their duty, 1 officer, 2 sergeants, 5 chief hunters and 34 hunters died . As enclosure stood at the four corners of the base of the memorial stone pillar in the form of cannon tubes, each carrying a ball and were connected to chains. When the barracks yard later became a parking lot, the fence was removed.

On March 22, 1876, the birthday of Kaiser Wilhelm I, the redesigned memorial was unveiled in front of the cathedral barracks following a service. The names of the fallen were now written on the sides of the obelisk.

In 1973 the monument from the court of Domkaserne became a Kahn pond translocated .

Memorial plaque in the market church

On August 5, 1874, a name plaque in memory of the fallen was consecrated in the market church as part of the Sunday service.

Memorial stone in front of the Rammelsberg barracks

In 1919 a memorial stone was erected in front of the Rammelsberg barracks. As an inscription, it bore the nationalistic dedication that ex-General Erich Ludendorff had given his book War Memories:
Our Heroes 1914–1918, Fallen Believing In Germany's Greatness

Fallen Memorial at Thomaswall

Fallen Memorial at Thomaswall

In 1925, the Monument Committee of the Association of Former Goslar Hunters , chaired by the architect Karl Barth, launched a competition for a memorial dedicated to the 3,000 Goslar hunters who died in the First World War. Free artists based in the Free State of Prussia or in the Free State of Braunschweig as well as all former members of the battalion were allowed to participate . The competition was won by the architect (and former member of the battalion) Kurt Elster in Dessau, who was commissioned to carry out his design. With the approval of the monument committee, he engaged the sculptor Hans Lehmann-Borges ( Gildenhall ) for the figurative part of the monument. The groundbreaking ceremony took place on April 19, 1926, followed by the laying of the foundation stone on May 16 . The copper time capsule embedded in the foundation stone , which had been made by another member of the battalion, also contained the names of the fallen on parchment by the wife of a battalion officer . On September 19, 1926, a dedication speech by Pastor Hauck and an address by Major General a. D. unveiled the monument and handed it over to the city of Goslar, Lord Mayor Friedrich Klinge received it on his behalf.

The memorial on Thomaswall consists of a natural stone wall staggered in height and depth, in front of whose central (highest and deepest) segment a base made of the same stone supports the bronze sculpture of a kneeling hunter in an idealized representation. The background of the memorial is a plantation of oaks and firs.

Personalities

literature

  • Ernst von dem Knesebeck: History of the Churhannovian troops in Gibraltar, Minorca and the East Indies. Helwingsche Hof bookstore, Hanover 1845.
  • History of the Hanoverian Jäger Battalion No. 10. Siegfried Mittler and Son, Berlin 1913.
    • First part (1803 to 1866) written by Gottber.
    • Second part (1866 to 1903) written by Eschwege.
    • Addendum (from the years from 1903) written by Krahmer-Möllenberg.
  • Wilhelm Hillebrand: War memories of a Goslar hunter 1914–1918. Commission publisher R. Schimmelpfeng, Blankenburg bookstore, 1921.
  • Festschrift: Monument consecration of the Goslar hunters on September 19, 1926.
  • From the series of memorial sheets of German regiments :
    • William Balck: Hannoversches Jäger Battalion. Stalling , Oldenburg 1924, urn : nbn: de: 101: 1-201304289226 . (= Issue 94 of the series of formerly Prussian troops)
    • Ernst Haccius: Reserve Jäger Battalion 10th (= Issue 95 of the series of formerly Prussian troops)
  • Fritz Jung: The Goslar hunters in the world wars. Lax printing works, Hildesheim 1933.
    • Volume I: The Hannoversche Jäger Battalion No. 10. With appendix: The Voluntary Hannoversche Jäger Battalion.
    • Volume II: The Reserve Jäger Battalion No. 10 and its cycling companies.
    • III. Volume: Walter Holste: The Reserve Jäger Battalion No. 23. With appendix: The Association of Former Goslar Jäger. Lax printing works, Hildesheim 1934.
  • Hanns Möller : History of the knights of the order "Pour le mérite" in the World War. Volume 2, Verlag Bernard & Graefe, Berlin 1935, pp. 380–382.
  • Gustav Stoffleth: History of the Reserve Jäger Battalion No. 18. Verlag Bernard & Graefe, Berlin 1937.

Web links

Commons : Hannoversches Jäger-Bataillon Nr. 10  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ AKO:

    “A new hunter battalion will be established from levies from the Guard Jäger Battalion No. 1 , the Pomeranian Jäger Battalion No. 2 , the 1st Silesian Jäger Battalion No. 5 and the 2nd Silesian Jäger Battalion No. 6 . A second ... Both newly formed battalions are in full prima plana and receive 2/3 of the peace head strength . They will be completed later by recruits. The formation is led by the inspection of the hunters and shooters and the later meeting of the first-mentioned battalion in Potsdam takes place at the guard-hunter battalion, the second ... "

    - Babelsberg Castle, September 27, 1866. (signed) Wilhelm (signed) v. Roon
  2. ↑ Order from Hanover: “Replacement battalion Jäger 10 has to set up reserve battalion 23 beyond the plan; The commander, doctor and purser will be referred, the battalion has to arrange everything else independently. "
  3. ↑ Ranking list of the Hanover Army in: Hannoverscher… Staatskalender 1818 , p. 138; see also the following years.
  4. ↑ History of the Hanoverian Jäger Battalion No. 10. Mittler and Son, Berlin 1913, p. 151.
  5. ↑ Ranking list of the Hanoverian Army. In: State and address calendar for the Kingdom of Hanover. 1826, p. 96.
  6. ^ State and address calendar for the Kingdom of Hanover, 1834. P. 117.
  7. ^ The Prussian Machine. German Military Glossary. (English)
  8. ↑ compiled from regiments 233–236
  9. ↑ founded from the two departments
  10. ↑ compiled from the companies of the battalion
  11. ↑ coming from Beverloo
  12. ↑ from the very highest decree on the 100th anniversary of the birthday of Wilhelm I.
  13. ↑ Standard bearers did not have a gun
  14. ↑ this relieved the shoulder
  15. ↑ According to Scharnhorst , the Hanoverian hunters carried the most perfect rifles of that time
  16. ↑ Article XIV .: For the time being, two battalions of light infantry should be formed from those people who have already been recruited . Each battalion should contain the number prescribed in the attached budget (B). These battalions are to be considered on the army budget from December 19, 1803 . The formation of the remainder of the legion will take place in proportion to the number of men serving.
  17. ↑ The Hanoverian Guard Hunters did not see December 19th but December 24th as their foundation day. They followed the custom prevailing in England at that time, according to which the beginning of the Christian era was the birthday of Christ, ergo December 25th. The military month closed on the 24th and the next began on the 25th. Accordingly, the departures took place on the 24th. However, the above order was issued on the 19th.
  18. ↑ captain (at the time still designation of captain) Schaumenn, the father Gustav Schaumann's been here with the Guelph Medal awarded
  19. ↑ " Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori " - It is sweet and honorable to die for the fatherland.
  20. ^ 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 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. 411 f.
  21. ↑ So far, commander of the East Prussian Reserve Battalion No. 1
  22. ↑ Visite de l'Empereur Guillaume II à Bitche le 14 may 1903 (French)
  23. ↑ The Herero in South West Africa rebelled against German colonial rule. The following year the Nama ( Hottentots ) joined them. Lieutenant General Lothar von Trotha , the military commander of German South West Africa, suppressed the uprising with extreme brutality and put it down in early 1907. In 1915 South Africa took over the League of Nations mandate via the German colony as South West Africa . After renaming to Namibia in 1968, the country gained independence from South Africa in 1990.
  24. ↑ The OHL had withdrawn two corps from the western front to East Prussia , in the sure expectation of defeating the French shortly . The assumption was obvious, because one could see the Eiffel Tower in distant Paris from a hill from the Marne. When the enemy there proved to be much stronger than originally assumed, the two corps were missing there. To avoid defeat, the front line had to be withdrawn, i.e. shortened, instead.
  25. ↑ Fritz Jung: The Goslar Jäger in the World War. Volume I: The Hannoversche Jägerbataillon No. 10. Buchdruckerei Lax, Hildesheim 1933, p. 144 f.
  26. ↑ His brother, Kurt Krahmer-Möllenberg, and later namesake of the barracks, was appointed commander of Reserve Jäger Battalion No. 10 at the beginning of the war .
  27. ↑ see also: " Argonnerwaldlied "
  28. ↑ a b Erich von Falkenhayn: The campaign of the 9th Army against the Romanians and Russians 1916/17 . ES Mittler & Sohn, Berlin 1921 ( online version )
  29. ↑ Here the hunter Emil Günther fell on October 10th. The Swiss had volunteered for the flags.
  30. ↑ a b even if the place in the LINK is only called Muncelu , it is more than likely that it is Muncelul in German regimental histories of the First World War
  31. ↑ a b Kolovrat, open-air museum First World War
  32. ↑ a b Monte Tomba
  33. ↑ According to Jung's book, the battalion refused to form soldiers' councils.
  34. ↑ Data refer to the strength when leaving Goslar on August 12, 1914.
  35. ↑ Loss here means fallen , wounded or missing .
  36. ↑ The reserve infantry regiments of the 77 and 91 regiments suffered similar losses in the division on the days before.
  37. ↑ Volume 22 of the series "Battles of the World War", "The Marne Drama 1914", Part I ( Verlag Gerh. Stalling in Oldenburg ) published with the help of the Reichsarchiv
  38. ↑ Kurt Krahmer-Möllenberg's grave in Goslar
  39. ↑ Albert Reich : "Through Transylvania and Romania"
  40. ^ Erich Ludendorff : My war memories 1914-1918. Berlin 1919, p. 547.
  41. ↑ Data refer to the letter from GHQ dated October 14, 1914.
  42. ↑ The writer Werner Beumelburg later called the inexperienced war volunteers who were deployed in Flanders, to which he also belonged at the time, in his books because of their age.
  43. ↑ The army report of this created the basis for the myth of Langemarck
  44. ↑ as he was called on the English and French sides
  45. ↑ Hermann Stegemann : The war.
  46. ↑ At this point in time it was 3./Jäger 23
  47. ↑ The general was on his way there after the news that Udine had been conquered. However, since this report was not true, his path led him to an Italian position. Here he found his death.
  48. ↑ among other things according to the newly published regulation "The attack battle in the trench warfare."
  49. ↑ Scoffers referred to them as propaganda moves
  50. ↑ see also municipal mergers in the Aisne department
  51. ↑ Yellow Cross
  52. ↑ The battalion history of the 23rd and the RJB 18 report that when the city was deserted, one would have heard their bells ringing from it , which heralded the liberation of Avesnes.
  53. ↑ Have not found an Austrian Cross of Merit that temporarily corresponds to that. If someone can help, please do so.
  54. ↑ Lt. Bock freed himself from captivity in 1918 and in the last months of the war still led the 2nd company of the field battalion.
  55. ↑ The landing corps consisted of eleven infantry battalions and five cycling battalions
  56. ↑ later commander of the reserve fighters 23
  57. ↑ returned from French captivity
  58. ↑ The day on which the commander of the RJB 10, Major Krahmer-Möllenberg, died the "heroic death" in Romania three years earlier.
  59. ^ Decree of the Chief of the Army Command, General of the Infantry Hans von Seeckt, dated August 24, 1921.
  60. ↑ Jägerdenkmal is 100 years old. In: Goslarsche Zeitung from August 16, 1972.
  61. ↑ The memorial found a new location at the Kahnteich. In: Goslarsche Zeitung of June 8, 1973.
  62. ↑ a b Undated recent photos of the two monuments from 1872 and 1926 (and other Goslar monuments) on www.raymond-faure.com , accessed on January 8, 2018
  63. ↑ Ludendorff replied to Lieutenant Haccius' request for permission to use this dedication for the memorial: My dear Lieutenant, take this sentence, you make me happy with it.
  64. ↑ Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , Volume 45, 1925, No. 17 (from April 29, 1925), p. 202 (on the competition)
  65. ^ Wulf Konold (Ges.-Red.), Klaus-Jürgen Etzold (co-author): The Lower Saxony State Orchestra Hanover 1636 to 1986 (= State Orchestra ), ed. from the Lower Saxony State Orchestra Hannover GmbH, Hanover: Schlütersche Verlagsgesellschaft, 1986, ISBN 3-87706-041-2 , p. 179
  66. ^ Staatsorchester , p. 184 in the Google book search.