Infantry regiment "Prince Leopold of Anhalt-Dessau" (1st Magdeburg) No. 26
Infantry regiment "Prince Leopold of Anhalt-Dessau" (1st Magdeburg) No. 26 |
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Lineup | July 5, 1813 |
Country | / Prussia |
Armed forces | Prussian Army |
Branch of service | infantry |
Insinuation | IV Army Corps |
Former locations | u. a. Merseburg , Erfurt , Magdeburg , Berlin |
Colours | Red (collar, regimental number); Light blue (surcharges); Dark blue (flap); White (shoulder flap) |
The Infantry Regiment "Prince Leopold of Anhalt-Dessau" (1 Magdeburgisches) No. 26 was an infantry joined the Prussian army .
history
The association was founded on July 5, 1813 (Foundation Day) as the Elbe Infantry Regiment and was named 26th Infantry Regiment on May 25, 1815. From 1820 to 1914 it was subordinate to the V Army Corps - all the time it belonged to the 7th Division and until 1851 to the 7th and then to the 13th Infantry Brigade .
The collar and the regimental number of the uniforms were red, the lapels light blue, the flap dark blue and the epaulette white.
The regiment took part in the Battle of Großbeeren and the German War in 1866.
In 1914 the regiment in Magdeburg moved into the specially built Angerkaserne .
Commanders
Rank | Surname | date |
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Heinrich von Reuss | 1813 | |
Lieutenant Colonel / Colonel | Ludwig von Rohr | May 24, 1816 to March 29, 1832 |
Lieutenant colonel | Friedrich von Uechtritz-Steinkirch | March 30 to December 23, 1832 (entrusted with the tour) |
Lieutenant Colonel / Colonel | Friedrich von Uechtritz-Steinkirch | December 24, 1832 to March 20, 1839 |
Lieutenant colonel | Karl Ludwig von Pritzelwitz | March 29, 1839 to January 27, 1840 (in charge of the tour) |
Lieutenant Colonel / Colonel | Karl Ludwig von Pritzelwitz | January 28, 1840 to March 10, 1843 |
Lieutenant colonel | Karl von Schlieffen | March 22, 1843 to March 29, 1844 (in charge of the tour) |
Colonel | Karl von Schlieffen | March 30 to October 21, 1844 |
Colonel | Friedrich Malotki von Trzebiatowski | November 2, 1844 to August 2, 1848 |
Colonel | Ferdinand von Kusserow | August 3, 1848 to December 3, 1849 |
Lieutenant Colonel / Colonel | Karl Schenck zu Schweinsberg | December 4, 1849 to October 25, 1854 |
Lieutenant Colonel / Colonel | Robert von Eberstein | October 26, 1854 to October 28, 1857 |
Lieutenant Colonel / Colonel | Eduard von Dresler and Scharfenstein | October 29, 1857 to June 6, 1861 |
Lieutenant Colonel / Colonel | Gebhard von Kotze | June 22, 1861 to April 3, 1866 |
Lieutenant Colonel / Colonel | Alexander of Medem | April 3, 1866 to May 18, 1867 |
Colonel | Cyrus von Schmeling | May 18, 1867 to January 8, 1872 |
Lieutenant colonel | Bernhard von Puttkamer | January 9 to March 13, 1872 (in charge of the tour) |
Lieutenant Colonel / Colonel | Bernhard von Puttkamer | March 14, 1872 to September 15, 1873 |
Colonel | Rudolf von Oppeln-Bronikowski | September 18, 1873 to October 20, 1879 |
Colonel | Hermann von Blomberg | October 21 to December 10, 1879 (in charge of the tour) |
Colonel | Hermann von Blomberg | December 11, 1879 to July 13, 1885 |
Lieutenant colonel | Viktor von Lignitz | July 14th to December 2nd, 1885 (in charge of the tour) |
Colonel | Viktor von Lignitz | December 3, 1885 to April 16, 1888 |
Colonel | Wilhelm Malotki von Trzebiatowski | April 17 to July 12, 1888 |
Colonel | August von Bomsdorff | July 13, 1888 to January 26, 1890 |
Colonel | Wilhelm von der Knesebeck | January 27, 1890 to January 26, 1893 |
Colonel | Karl Runkel | January 27, 1893 to October 21, 1894 |
Colonel | Eugen von Steuben | October 27, 1894 to March 18, 1896 |
Colonel | Conrad Werneburg | March 19, 1896 to April 17, 1899 |
Colonel | Hugo von Kropff | April 18, 1899 to April 17, 1901 |
Colonel | Alexander von Seydlitz-Kurzbach | April 18, 1901 to June 18, 1902 |
Lieutenant Colonel / Colonel | Erich von Schon | June 19, 1902 to October 15, 1906 |
Lieutenant Colonel / Colonel | Ferdinand von Trossel | October 16, 1906 to April 19, 1910 |
Colonel | Carl von Harbou | April 20, 1910 to March 21, 1912 |
Colonel | Max von Wienskowski | March 22, 1912 to January 26, 1914 |
Colonel | Max von Schuckmann | January 27 to September 26, 1914 |
Lieutenant colonel | Wilhelm Hundrich | September 27 to November 20, 1914 |
Colonel | Max von Schuckmann | November 21 to December 26, 1914 |
Lieutenant colonel | Willy of Livonius | December 26, 1914 to August 4, 1915 |
Lieutenant Colonel / Colonel | Paul Grautoff | August 4, 1915 to February 2, 1917 |
major | Albrecht von Leesen | February 2 to November 2, 1917 |
major | Friedbert Lademann | November 2 to December 21, 1917 |
major | Leopold Heistermann von Ziehlberg | December 21, 1917 to February 5, 1919 |
Lieutenant colonel | Gustav Faelligen | February 5 to September 30, 1919 |
literature
- [Karl] Meyer: History of the Infantry Regiment Prince Leopold von Anhalt-Dessau (1st Magdeburgisches) No. 26. 1813-1913. Baenisch publishing house, Magdeburg 1913.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ 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 , pp. 106-108 .