Hessen-Kassel Infantry Regiment No. 6 (1756)
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Grenadier Regiment / Guard / 2nd Guard / Guard Grenadiers |
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 Schematic representation of Frédéric Aubert's 1756 uniform at Kronoskaf |
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| active | 1697/1702 to 1806/1866 |
| Armed forces | Hessen-Kassel Army |
| Branch of service | infantry |
| Type | Guard |
| Tribe list | Hessen-Kassel |
| Trunk number | No. 6 (unofficial) |
The Hessen-Kassel Infantry Regiment No. 6 was a military unit founded in 1702 as a grenadier regiment in the Landgraviate of Hessen-Kassel . The regiment had different names. Mostly it was referred to as the Guard .
history
1697 individual were Grenadier companies in Hesse-Kassel excavated. In 1702 they were combined to form a grenadier regiment in order to take part in the War of the Spanish Succession on the imperial side . From 1727 to 1751 Prince Wilhelm was head of the regiment . As a landgrave, he remained the owner until his death in 1760. In the Seven Years' War the regiment was paid by the British and fought mostly against French troops in the Allied Army . In 1760 the regiment was renamed the 2nd Guard. His grenadiers were in the "Standing Grenadier Battalion Pappenheim" together with the grenadiers from "No. 12 ” and took part in the Battle of Warburg among others .
In 1763 the regiment was called Guard and formed the 2nd battalion. The regiment chief was Carl von Bose. In 1784 the designation was 2nd Guard (Garde Grenadier Regiment) and 1785 Garde Grenadier Regiment. In 1789 it became part of the Hesse-Kassel Infantry Regiment No. 14 merged. With the occupation of the country by Napoleon in 1806, this regiment was given leave of absence by the elector Wilhelm I , who was now in exile . In 1813 it was re-established as the “Elector Regiment” of the Hessian Army , and in 1821 it was renamed “1. Line Infantry Regiment ", 1824" 1. Lines Elector Prince of Hesse ", 1831" Leib-Regiment ", 1835" 1. Infantry Regiment, Leib-Regiment ", 1856" 1. Elector Infantry Regiment ”. After the annexation of Kurhessen, the regiment became the Prussian fusilier regiment "von Gersdorff" (Kurhessisches) No. 80 .
Prominent members of the regiment
See also
literature
- Landgraviate Hessen-Kassel (Hrsg.): Hochfürstl.-Hessen-Casselischer Staats- und Adreß-Calende . Orphans and Findelhaus, Kassel 1774 ( full text in the Google book search).
- Georg Tessin : The regiments of the European states in the Ancien Régime des XVI. to XVIII. Century . 3 volumes (1986-1995). Biblio Verlag, Osnabrück, ISBN 3-7648-1763-1 .
- Rudolf Witzel: Hessen Kassel's Army in the Allied Army 1762 . BoD - Books on Demand, 2008, ISBN 978-3-8334-7531-3 ( limited preview in Google book search).
Web links
- The regiment in the private project SYW (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Hesse-Cassel Grenadier Regiment Uniform. Kronoskaf , accessed January 1, 2012 .
- ^ Unofficial numbering after Hans Bleckwenn and Rudolf Witzel.
- ↑ The regiment consisted of the 2nd and 3rd Battalion. The First Guard regiment formed the first battalion.
