Infantry Regiment "Duke Friedrich Wilhelm von Braunschweig" (East Frisian) No. 78

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Infantry Regiment "Duke Friedrich Wilhelm von Braunschweig" (East Frisian) No. 78

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active October 30, 1866 to January 1919
Country Kingdom of Prussia
Armed forces Prussian Army
Branch of service infantry
Former locations Aurich , Emden , Osnabrück

The Infantry Regiment "Duke Friedrich Wilhelm von Braunschweig" (Ostfriesisches) No. 78 was an infantry joined the Prussian army .

history

Memorial stone near Vionville for those who fell in 1870/71

The regiment was formed on October 30, 1866 from the 3rd, 13th and 15th companies of Infantry Regiment No. 20 and the 13th, 14th and 15th companies of Infantry Regiments No. 24 , 60 and 64 in Brandenburg repositioned. The regimental staff , the 1st and 2nd battalions were in Emden , the III. Battalion stationed in Aurich . On November 7, 1867, the regiment was named "East Frisian Infantry Regiment No. 78".

The regiment took part in the war against France in the battles of Vionville , Gravelotte , Beaune-la-Rolande , Beaugency and Le Mans as well as the siege of Metz in 1870/71 .

At the Osnabrück site, the 4th battalion was reorganized on January 2nd, 1893. This battalion was transferred to the newly established 4th Hanover Infantry Regiment No. 164 on April 1, 1897 .

A very high cabinet order stipulates on January 24, 1899 that the regiment is to be regarded as one with the former "Royal Hanoverian 6th Infantry Regiment". This means that November 30, 1813 is the original date of foundation of Infantry Regiment No. 78.

At the religious festival on January 24, 1899, the regiment received the “Waterloo” helmet strap. The regiment was given the honorary name “Infantry Regiment Duke Friedrich Wilhelm von Braunschweig (East Frisian) No. 78” in memory of the “ Black Duke ” on January 27, 1889 .

From August 15 to 17, 1913, the “centenary celebration” took place in Osnabrück.

First World War

At the beginning of the First World War , the regiment mobilized on August 2, 1914 and moved into the field with the 37th Infantry Brigade as part of the 19th Division . During the course of the war it was repeatedly used alongside the 1st Hanoverian Infantry Regiment No. 74 , for example in the winter of 1915/16 at the Chemin des Dames , in the autumn of 1916 at the Stochid , in the Battle of the Aisne and in 1917 at Beaumont-en- Verdunois .

Whereabouts

After the end of the war, the remnants of the regiment returned to Osnabrück, where demobilization and subsequent dissolution took place from January 1, 1919 . As early as mid-December 1918, parts of the Reichenbach volunteer battalion were deployed in Berlin and with the border guards in Upper Silesia .

The tradition in the Reichswehr was adopted by the 14th Company of the 16th Infantry Regiment in Oldenburg by decree of the Chief of the Army Command, General of the Infantry Hans von Seeckt on August 24, 1921 .

Regiment chief

Leo Count of Caprivi, 1880

The first and only head of the regiment since September 21, 1889 was the infantry general and later Chancellor Leo von Caprivi .

Commanders

Rank Surname date
Colonel Hermann von Wedel October 30, 1866 to October 20, 1869
Colonel Lothar von Lyncker October 21, 1869 to October 21, 1870
Lieutenant colonel Peter of Mutius October 22 to December 31, 1870 (in charge of the tour)
Colonel Lothar von Lyncker 0January 1, 1871 to April 21, 1873
Colonel Friedrich Schulz May 23, 1873 to June 15, 1874
Colonel Leo of Caprivi June 16 to October 14, 1874
Colonel Hermann von der Groeben October 15, 1874 to March 11, 1881
Colonel Karl von Lengerke March 12, 1881 to October 16, 1883
Colonel Theodor von Kameke October 17, 1883 to February 14, 1885
Colonel Heinrich von Wodtke February 15, 1885 to August 3, 1888
Colonel Karl Tuebben 0August 4, 1888 to March 21, 1889
Colonel Ferdinand Borell du Vernay March 22, 1889 to July 27, 1892
Colonel Alwin Moeller July 28, 1892 to July 13, 1895
Colonel Karl von Grolman July 14, 1895 to November 17, 1897
Colonel Hermann Bennecke November 18, 1897 to February 16, 1898
Lieutenant Colonel / Colonel Max von Fabeck February 17, 1898 to August 17, 1901
Colonel Sylvester Jordan August 18, 1901 to August 17, 1905
Colonel Ernst von Bacmeister August 18, 1905 to March 21, 1907
Colonel Friedrich von Hugo March 22, 1907 to February 20, 1911
Colonel Thilo von Hanstein February 21, 1911 to August 24, 1914
Lieutenant colonel Karl Winkelmann August 25 to September 4, 1914
Lieutenant colonel Ralf from Rango September 15, 1914 to December 10, 1915
Lieutenant colonel Kurt von Behr December 11, 1915 to June 25, 1916
Lieutenant colonel Friedrich Karl Spiecker June 26, 1916 to
major Ostermeyer
Colonel Paul Kienitz 1919
Regimental memorial on the Bucksturm in Osnabrück for the fallen of the First World War

monument

In Osnabrück in 1922 a memorial for the regiment was attached to the Bucksturm , a building of the former city fortifications. The war memorial from Anröchter Stein was designed by Hermann Hosaeus (1875–1958). The memorial and plaque were donated by the survivors of the regiment. With 120 officers, 305 NCOs and 3,042 men, the board lists the number of those who fell in this regiment in the First World War. The wounded are not listed.

literature

  • A. v. Hennings: History of the Infantry Regiment Duke Friedrich Wilhelm von Braunschweig (East Frisian) No. 78.ES Mittler & Sohn , Berlin 1895.
  • Brief history of the infantry regiment Duke Friedrich Wilhelm von Braunschweig (East Frisian) No. 78.Meinders & Elstermann Verlag, Osnabrück 1910.
  • Centenary of the infantry regiment Duke Friedrich Wilhelm von Braunschweig (Ostfriesisches Nr. 78) on August 15, 16 and 17, 1913. Osnabrücker Volkszeitung, Osnabrück 1913.
  • Fritz Ebeling: History of the infantry regiment Duke Friedrich Wilhelm von Braunschweig (East Frisian) No. 78 in the world wars. (Souvenir sheets of German regiments Volume 119), Verlag Gerhard Stalling, Oldenburg 1924.
  • Oskar von Busse: Memories of the East Frisian Infantry Regiment No. 78 from the years of its formation and the campaign against France. W. Haynel, Emden 1872. books.google.de

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kurt Gabriel (Ed.): The 1st Hannoversche Infanterie-Regiment No. 74 in the world wars. Self-published by the comradely associations of the former 1st Hanoverian Infantry Regiment No. 74, Willy Hahn printer, Hanover 1931, p. 240.
  2. ↑ Kurt Gabriel (Ed.): The 1st Hannoversche Infanterie-Regiment No. 74 in the world wars. Self-published by the comradely associations of the former 1st Hanoverian Infantry Regiment No. 74, Willy Hahn printing house, Hanover 1931, p. 298.
  3. ↑ Kurt Gabriel (Ed.): The 1st Hannoversche Infanterie-Regiment No. 74 in the world wars. Self-published by the comradely associations of the former 1st Hanoverian Infantry Regiment No. 74, Willy Hahn printer. Hanover 1931. p. 318.
  4. ↑ Kurt Gabriel (Ed.): The 1st Hannoversche Infanterie-Regiment No. 74 in the world wars. Self-published by the comradely associations of the former 1st Hanoverian Infantry Regiment No. 74, Willy Hahn printer, Hanover 1931, p. 364.
  5. ^ 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. 143-144.
  6. ^ 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 , pp. 205–206 .