Infantry Regiment "Freiherr von Sparr" (3rd Westphalian) No. 16

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Infantry Regiment "Freiherr von Sparr" (3rd Westphalian) No. 16

active July 1, 1813 to 1918
Country Prussia KingdomKingdom of Prussia/ PrussiaPrussia KingdomKingdom of Prussia 
Armed forces Prussian Army
Branch of service infantry
Insinuation VII Army Corps , X Army Corps
Former locations u. a. Münster , Düsseldorf , Hanover , Oldenburg (Oldb) , Cologne
Colours Red (collar, lapels and regimental number); Yellow (flap and shoulder flap)

The Infantry Regiment "Freiherr von Sparr" (3rd Westphalian) No. 16 was an infantry joined the Prussian army .

history

The association was formed on July 1, 1813 (Foundation Day) as the 4th Reserve Regiment from the Musketeer Reserve Battalions of the 3rd East Prussian Infantry Regiment . It formed three battalions with a strength of 800 men each. After participating in the Wars of Liberation , it was named the 16th Infantry Regiment from March 25, 1815, and from November 5, 1816 to March 9, 1823, the country team designation 3rd Westphalian . In the course of the army expansion, the association was renamed the 3rd Westphalian Infantry Regiment (No. 16) on July 4, 1860 . The bracket dropped from May 7, 1861. One last change occurred on January 27, 1889, when Kaiser Wilhelm II named the regiment after Field Marshal Otto Christoph von Sparr from Brandenburg . Until it was dissolved in 1919, the association therefore bore the name of the Infantry Regiment "Freiherr von Sparr" (3rd Westphalian) No. 16 .

Wars of Liberation

German war

In the war against Austria in 1866 the regiment took part in the battles near Münchengrätz and Königgrätz . A total of five officers and 141 NCOs and men were lost.

Franco-German War

The leader of the regiment, Lieutenant Colonel Ferdinand Sannow , was awarded the order Pour le Mérite for his work in the battle of Beaune-la-Rolande .

During the Battle of Mars-la-Tour, the French troops captured the flag of the 2nd battalion of the regiment, the first ever to capture a Prussian flag in the Franco-German War. The flag was later kept by the French in the Invalides in Paris and was only recaptured by German troops after the capture of Paris in World War II .

First World War

On August 2, 1914, the regiment was mobilized according to the mobilization plan . In addition to the back end of the field regiment it turned a reserve battalion to four companies and two recruits - depots on. On September 1, 1918, the regiment received an MW company, which was formed from parts of the mine thrower company No. 14.

Whereabouts

After the end of the war , the regiment was demobilized from December 12, 1918 in Coesfeld via the settlement center in Paderborn . From parts that formed in March 1919 Freikorps "Hacketau" and former staff became the staff of the Volunteer Regiment Abercron. With the formation of the Provisional Reichswehr, the "Haketau" Freikorps was part of the 1st Battalion of the 14th Reichswehr Infantry Regiment.

The tradition in the Reichswehr was adopted by the 7th Company of the 18th Infantry Regiment stationed in Munster by decree of the Chief of the Army Command, General of the Infantry Hans von Seeckt , on August 24, 1921 .

Regiment chief

Rank Surname date
General of the Infantry Ludwig of Hessen-Homburg September 25, 1823 to January 19, 1839
Kk General of the Cavalry Johann of Austria September 12, 1842 to May 11, 1859
General of the Infantry Alexander of Prussia October 18, 1861 to January 4, 1895
General of the Infantry Richard von Seeckt April 16, 1901 to March 15, 1909
Field Marshal General Max von Bock and Polach June 16, 1913 to March 4, 1915
Colonel General Karl von One 0October 9, 1918 to 1919

Commanders

Rank Surname date
Major / Lieutenant Colonel / Colonel Karl von Uttenhoven 0July 1, 1813 to April 8, 1817
Lieutenant Colonel / Colonel Ludwig von Sanitz 0April 9, 1817 to June 17, 1825
Colonel Adolf Friedrich von Besser June 18, 1825 to November 13, 1826 (in charge of the tour)
Colonel Adolf Friedrich von Besser November 14, 1826 to March 19, 1834
Colonel Ewald from Busse March 30, 1834 to March 29, 1835 (in charge of the tour)
Colonel Ewald from Busse March 30, 1835 to March 15, 1839
Lieutenant colonel August von Bockum March 30, 1839 to January 27, 1840 (in charge of the tour)
Lieutenant Colonel / Colonel August von Bockum January 28, 1840 to August 9, 1845
Lieutenant Colonel / Colonel Karl von Harder 0September 1, 1845 to October 4, 1846 (in charge of the tour)
Colonel Karl von Harder 0October 5, 1846 to February 12, 1849
Major / Lieutenant Colonel August Scheppe February 17, 1849 to October 9, 1850
Lieutenant Colonel / Colonel Karl Wilhelm Effnert October 10, 1850 to March 7, 1855
Lieutenant Colonel / Colonel Karl von Borcke May 10, 1855 to March 11, 1857
Colonel Gustav von Manstein March 12, 1857 to November 21, 1858
Lieutenant colonel Heinrich Karl Schumann November 22, 1858 to May 30, 1859 (in charge of the tour)
Colonel Heinrich Karl Schumann May 31, 1859 to May 12, 1861
Lieutenant Colonel / Colonel Karl von Hanstein June 22, 1861 to February 10, 1865
Lieutenant colonel Theodor Karl Schwartz April 18 to June 15, 1865 (in charge of the tour)
Lieutenant Colonel / Colonel Theodor Karl Schwartz June 16, 1865 to May 8, 1868
Colonel Hans von Brixen May 14, 1868 to August 16, 1870
Lieutenant colonel Ferdinand Sannow August 16, 1870 to March 15, 1872 (Führer)
Colonel Friedrich Hahn von Dorsche August 23, 1870 to March 19, 1871 (for the duration of the mobile relationship)
Lieutenant Colonel / Colonel Ferdinand von Sannow March 16, 1872 to March 12, 1875
Lieutenant colonel Hans von Passow March 16 to June 18, 1875 (in charge of the tour)
Lieutenant Colonel / Colonel Hans von Passow June 19, 1875 to June 3, 1881
Colonel Eberhard von Mantey 0June 4, 1881 to March 10, 1886
Colonel August Menner March 11, 1886 to December 12, 1888
Colonel Karl Georg von Schmidt December 13, 1888 to October 19, 1891
Colonel Ernst von Bernuth October 20, 1891 to March 21, 1895
Colonel Heinrich Caspari March 22, 1895 to August 17, 1897
Colonel Paul Stern August 18, 1897 to May 17, 1901
Colonel August by Gabain May 18, 1901 to July 17, 1902
Colonel Karl von Horn July 18, 1902 to January 26, 1907
Colonel Arthur von Saucken January 27, 1907 to February 21, 1911
Colonel Fritz von Versen February 22, 1911 to January 26, 1914
Colonel Karl Eberhard Bober January 27 to November 16, 1914
Lieutenant colonel Friedrich von Hassel November 17, 1914 to March 10, 1915
Lieutenant colonel Anton from L'Estocq March 20, 1915 to August 6, 1916
Lieutenant colonel Ernst von Weltzien 0August 7, 1916 to October 23, 1917
major Albert of Coburg 0November 1st to 18th, 1917
Lieutenant Colonel / Colonel Hugo of Abercron November 19, 1917 to January 10, 1919

Others

Colloquially it was called "Regiment Hacke Tau". Persistent rain during the Battle of Großbeeren in 1813 caused the soldiers' rifles to fail, so that they used the rifle butts in close combat and shouted "Hoe tau ..." (blow to) "... it goes on fatherland". As a result, the members of the infantry regiment were given the nickname Hacketäuer . Numerous streets and settlements in North Rhine-Westphalia bear the name "Hacketäuer" in memory of this infantry regiment. Numerous “Hacketäuer associations” were formed in the Rhineland and Westphalia, which on October 1, 1912 comprised a total of 3421 members.

literature

  • Maximilian Schmidts: History of the Infantry Regiment Freiherr von Sparr (3rd Westphalian) No. 16. Verlag Gerhard Stalling, Oldenburg 1913.
  • Jürgen Kraus : Handbook of the associations and troops of the German army 1914-1918. Part VI: Infantry. Volume 1: Infantry Regiments. Verlag Militaria, Vienna 2007, ISBN 978-3-902526-14-4 , p. 57.

Web links

  • IR 16th Infantry Regiment Freiherr von Sparr (3rd Westphalian) No. 16. In: wiki-de.genealogy.net. GenWiki , March 2, 2019, p. 6 , accessed November 9, 2018 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Maximilian Schmidts: History of the Infantry Regiment Freiherr von Sparr (3rd Westphalian) No. 16. Verlag Gerhard Stalling, Oldenburg 1913, p. 172.
  2. ↑ Capture of a battalion flag on one side of the battle of Mars-la-Tour
  3. ^ Günter Wegmann (Ed.), Günter Wegner: Formation history and staffing of the German armed forces 1815-1990. Part 1: Occupation of the German armies 1815–1939. Volume 2: The staffing of 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. 83.
  4. ↑ Maximilian Schmidts: History of the Infantry Regiment Freiherr von Sparr (3rd Westphalian) No. 16. Verlag Gerhard Stalling, Oldenburg 1913, p. 176.