Harry from Rège

Colonel of Rège

Grave Harry von Rège in the castle gate cemetery

Harry Emil von Rège (born September 20, 1859 in Schneidemühl , † February 9, 1929 in Berlin-Friedenau ) was a Prussian major general .

Life

origin

He was the son of the Prussian Lieutenant Colonel Emil von Rège (1816–1881) and his wife Charlotte Wilhelmine Antonie, born von Dresky (1828–1895). His father was raised to the hereditary Prussian nobility on July 11, 1865 by King Wilhelm I.

Military career

Coming from the cadet corps, Rège was transferred on April 12, 1879 as a second lieutenant to the 2nd Hanseatic Infantry Regiment No. 76 stationed in Hamburg and Lübeck . From November 1, 1884 to February 18, 1889 he was adjutant of the II battalion and court officer. During this time he was promoted to Prime Lieutenant on September 19, 1888 and in February 1891 assigned to a teaching course at the Spandau rifle factory . When the emperor visited the Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck on April 1, 1891, he was his orderly officer . For this he was given a saber of honor , which he was entitled to use from August 15, 1893, by the highest permit. From October 1, 1891 he was adjutant of the Landwehr district of Bremen . Under transport to captain on 13 March 1884 returned Rege on 15 September 1893 and became the chief appointed the 3rd Company. From May 17 to June 27, 1894, he left his company because he was assigned to a training course at the infantry shooting school in Wünsdorf . From October 20 to 24, 1895 and from July 8 to 13, 1897 he was with the General Command of the IX. Army corps on a training trip.

On October 1, 1901, Hanno von Dassel , regiment commander of the 76ers, gave Rège the order to draw up an officer master list for the regiment . The officers were placed in front of the commanders according to their entry date, regular staff officers , company commanders and adjutants. In its appendix there is a list of the officers who died in the regiment and those who were dismissed in the regiment's uniform. The list was published as of April 1, 1902.

From August 4 to 9, 1902, Rège had been assigned to the tactical training trip of the staff officers of the 17th division . With his promotion of 5 September 1904, he has been relieved of his command and as a supernumerary Major his regiment aggregated . It was followed on October 16, 1906, his transfer to Minden in the infantry regiment "Prince Friedrich of the Netherlands" (2nd Westphalian) No. 15 , where Rège was commander of the III. Battalion was appointed. He was assigned to a training trip of the VII Army Corps from July 6 to 9, 1909. He was removed from his position as battalion commander on April 7, 1911 and transferred to the regiment's staff . There he was promoted to lieutenant colonel on April 21, 1911. On January 21, 1913 Rege was charged with the statutory board for disposition made and commander of the Landwehr district Stargard appointed. In this position, Rège received the character of a colonel on January 27, 1914 .

With the mobilization at the outbreak of the First World War , Rège was reused as a zD officer. He was given command of the Stargard Reserve Infantry Regiment No. 211 , a so-called "children's regiment ", in West Flanders . At the beginning of 1915 he was awarded the Iron Cross 1st Class.

family

Rège married Alice Henriette, the sixth child of the rentier Carl Georg Nölting and sister of the wife of the Lübeck Senator Julius Vermehren (1868-1947), in Lübeck's Marienkirche in Lübeck on December 27, 1888 . The daughter Harriet Isabel Anneliese Carmen (1903-1984) emerged from the marriage. She married Martin Wandel (1892–1943) in Berlin on October 17, 1925 .

After his death Alice married Vicco von der Lühe .

Publications

• List of officers of the Infantry Regiment No. 76. Mauke, Hamburg 1902.
• Family tree of the von Rège family. 1917.

Awards

• Red Eagle Order IV class
• Order of the Crown IV Class
• Lübeck Hanseatic Cross

swell

literature

• Harry von Rège: Officer master list of the infantry regiment No. 76. Mauke, Hamburg 1902, OCLC 252978009 , p. 101.
• Alfred Cramer : Officer list of the infantry regiment "Prince Friedrich of the Netherlands" (2nd Westphalian) No. 15. Verlag R. Eisenschmidt, Berlin 1913, pp. 451–452.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Genealogical handbook of the nobility 98. 1990.
2. ↑ Königliches Herolds-Amt (Ed.), Marcelli Janecki : Handbuch des Prussischen Adels. First volume, ES Mittler & Sohn, Berlin 1892, p. 475.
3. ^ Military weekly paper . No. 14/15 of January 27, 1914, p. 252.
4. ↑ The writer Werner Beumelburg later coined the term “children's regiments”. In his books he referred to the new regiments , consisting of inexperienced volunteers , deployed in Flanders , to whose crews he had also belonged at the time, as "children's regiments" because of the age of their soldiers . '
5. ^ Rubric: "Knights of the Iron Cross" In: From Lübeck's towers . (weekly entertainment supplement to the Lübecker General-Anzeiger), Volume 25, No. 2 of January 9, 1915.
6. ↑ The Church of St. Mary's. In: Lübeck advertisements . No. 303 of December 24, 1888.
7. ↑ Lübeck city archives in terms of Senate files: Directory of the owner of the Lübeckischen Hanseatic Cross. awarded on January 15, 1916, with reference to receipt 7073, signature: Neues Senats Archiv 1092/1093.