Infantry Regiment "Generalfeldmarschall von Mackensen" (3rd West Prussian) No. 129

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Infantry Regiment "Generalfeldmarschall von Mackensen" (3rd West Prussian) No. 129

active March 24, 1881 to 1919
Country coat of arms Kingdom of Prussia
West Prussia
Armed forces Prussian Army
Branch of service infantry
Type Infantry regiment
Insinuation 7th Infantry Brigade /
69th Infantry Brigade
Location see garrison
management
Commanders See commanders

The Infantry Regiment "Field Marshal von Mackensen" (3rd West Prussian) no. 129 was an infantry joined the Prussian army .

history

The association was established by AKO on March 24, 1881 as Infantry Regiment No. 129. For this purpose, gave the regiments 9, 14, 21, 31, 34, 49, 54, 61, 84, 85 and 86 no. 2, each of a company from. Initially, the regiment was stationed in Bromberg and subordinated to the 7th Infantry Brigade of the 4th Division .

On January 27, 1902, Wilhelm II issued the army order that the associations, which had not yet been given a rural name, were given a name extension in order to better distinguish between them and to establish tradition. From this point on, the regiment was known as the 3rd West Prussian Infantry Regiment No. 129.

Since October 2, 1893 the III. Battalion in Schneidemühl until the regiment was finally merged in Graudenz on April 1, 1903 . At the same time the association was subordinated to the 69th Infantry Brigade.

The regiment chief and namesake August von Mackensen

The first and only head of the regiment was the Prussian Field Marshal August von Mackensen , who had received this honor on November 27, 1915. The association received its name on October 25, 1916 by Wilhelm II due to the military successes during the campaign in Romania . Until it was dissolved, it was called Infantry Regiment Generalfeldmarschall von Mackensen (3rd West Prussian) No. 129.

First World War

At the beginning of the First World War , the regiment was mobilized on August 2, 1914. In association with the 69th Infantry Brigade, it initially participated in securing the border in East Prussia against Russia and fought in the Battle of Gumbinnen . Subsequently, after major losses, the 4th, 9th and 11th companies had to be disbanded, but they were reorganized by the replacement battalion in early September. Also during the Battle of the Rawka - Bzura , the regiment suffered high losses again, so that the II. Battalion disbanded and the I. and III. Battalion of three companies each formed. On May 16, 1915, the subordination changed and the regiment was assigned to the 209th Infantry Brigade. As a result, the association was used during the campaigns in Serbia and Romania . On September 25, 1916, the regiment received a 2nd and 3rd MG and on September 7, 1918 an MW company.

Whereabouts

After the end of the war , the remnants of the regiment returned to Graudenz, where demobilization took place on January 1, 1919 .

Various free formations formed from demobilized parts . The I. and II. Battalion provided the Volunteer Battalion XVII, the III. Battalion, the border guard battalion "Graudenz". In addition, the volunteer company "Almers" was set up, which joined the volunteer detachment "Drews", and the volunteer company "from the ceiling" by the 1st and 3rd replacement company. Finally, on April 10, 1919, the volunteer infantry regiment 129 was set up. This formation was in action in Thorn at the border guard .

With the formation of the Provisional Reichswehr , individual units u. a. in the Reichswehr Infantry Regiments 33, 73 and 109.

The tradition in the Reichswehr was adopted by the 14th Company of the 4th (Prussian) Infantry Regiment by decree of the Chief of Army Command, General of the Infantry Hans von Seeckt , on August 24, 1921 .

Commanders

Rank Surname date
Lieutenant colonel Hugo von Aschoff 0April 1 to May 13, 1881 (in charge of the tour)
Lieutenant Colonel / Colonel Hugo von Aschoff May 14, 1881 to January 12, 1885
Colonel Otto von der Schulenburg January 13, 1885 to February 4, 1887
Lieutenant colonel Georg Heinrich Kirchhof 0February 5 to March 7, 1887
Colonel Georg Heinrich Kirchhof March 8, 1887 to March 23, 1890
Colonel Ferdinand von Ziegler and Klipphausen March 24, 1890 to August 15, 1891
Colonel Constantine of Zepelin August 22, 1891 to May 13, 1894
Colonel Leonhard Nauwerck May 14, 1894 to June 15, 1896
Colonel Maximilian Braumüller June 16, 1896 to July 2, 1899
Colonel Arthur Black 0July 3, 1899 to March 21, 1903
Colonel Alfred von Otterstedt March 22, 1903 to April 13, 1907
Colonel Johannes Liebach April 14, 1907 to March 19, 1911
Colonel Carl Rehbach March 20, 1911 to June 18, 1912
Colonel Louis Hoffmann June 19, 1912 to December 17, 1913
Lieutenant colonel Ludwig Breßler December 18, 1913 to February 16, 1914 (responsible for the tour)
Colonel Ludwig Breßler February 17, 1914 to January 25, 1915
Lieutenant colonel Ferdinand von Matthießen January 27 to April 14, 1915
Lieutenant colonel Seydel April 15 to December 28, 1915
Lieutenant colonel Albrecht von Köller December 29, 1915 to August 23, 1917
major Friedrich von Keßler August 24 to October 31, 19171917
Lieutenant colonel Scheuermann 0November 1, 1917 to January 10, 1918
major Wilhelm von Richthofen-Seichau January 11, 1918 (command not taken up due to illness)
major Gustav von Strensee (Command not started due to illness)
Lieutenant colonel Fritz von Kittlitz January 23 to May 10, 1918
major Theodor von Winkler May 11, 1918 to January 19, 1919
Colonel Günther von Below January 20 to September 30, 1919

literature

  • Karl Heyn, Max Woltersdorf: master and ranking list of all officers of the 3rd West Prussia. Infantry Regiment No. 129 from 1881 to 1906. Verlag Gerhard Stalling, Berlin, Oldenburg, Leipzig 1906.
  • Joseph Steuer: The infantry regiment "Generalfeldmarschall von Mackensen" (3rd West Prussian) No. 129 in the World War. Volume 121 of the Prussian part of the memorial sheets, Stalling-Verlag , Oldenburg i. O. 1925. Available online: Württembergische Landesbibliothek
  • 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 , pp. 211-212.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Military weekly paper . No. 222 of December 4, 1915. p. 5187.
  2. ^ Theo Schwarzmüller: Between Emperor and Leader. Field Marshal General August von Mackensen. Ferdinand Schöningh. Paderborn 1995. p. 138.
  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. 336f.