Infantry Regiment "von Goeben" (2nd Rheinisches) No. 28

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Infantry Regiment "von Goeben" (2nd Rheinisches) No. 28

active December 5, 1813 to 1919
Country coat of arms Kingdom of Prussia
Armed forces Prussian Army
Branch of service infantry
Type Infantry Regiment
structure see structure
Insinuation 30th Infantry Brigade
Location see garrison
management
Commanders See commanders
Soldiers of the regiment in Koblenz (1910)

The Infantry Regiment "von Goeben" (second Rhenish) No. 28 was an infantry joined the Prussian army .

Names

The regiment, whose beginnings go back to the year 1672, was established on December 5, 1813 in the Generalgouvernement of Berg as the 1st Infantry Regiment and on March 25, 1815 as the 28th Infantry Regiment in the Prussian Army. From November 5, 1816 to 1823, it was called the 28th Infantry Regiment (2nd Rheinisches).

  • March 10, 1826–1860: 28th Infantry Regiment
  • July 4, 1860–1889: 2nd Rhenish Infantry Regiment No. 28.

On January 27, 1889, the regiment was named after the Prussian general August Karl von Goeben and until its dissolution on December 12, 1918 in Neuenkirchen near Osnabrück, it was called the Infantry Regiment "von Goeben" (2nd Rheinisches) No. 28 .

Garrisons

For the first time in 1820-23 the regiment was in Koblenz and Ehrenbreitstein, then again in 1831-32 and 1839 (on the fortress or fortress Ehrenbreitstein ), 1851-60 in Koblenz and in 1859 on the fortress Ehrenbreitstein. From 1877 until the beginning of the war in 1914, the regiment was with:

  • the 1st Battalion in the half-timbered barracks on the Asterstein
  • the 2nd battalion in the Bubenheimer Flesche , the Neuendorfer Flesche , the Feste Franz and the Neuendorfer Feldkaserne
  • the III. Battalion on the Oberehrenbreitstein, the Hornwerk (12th company only) and the Vorwerk Helffenstein.

The barracks (infantry barracks) planned and approved for the amalgamation of the regiment in 1913 in Steinstrasse in Koblenz-Rauental had not yet been completed when the war began in 1914. Commissioning was originally planned for autumn 1915. Of these barracks buildings still exist and were planned:

  • A team house for the 1st Battalion in Scharnhorststrasse (now residential building)
  • The farm building for the 1st battalion in Steinstrasse (now elementary school)
  • A team house (now residential building), the farm building and the guard building (now the State Investigation Office of Rhineland-Palatinate) for the 2nd Battalion in Blücherstrasse
The planned crew house of the 1st Battalion in Scharnhorststrasse

The remaining buildings were destroyed in bombing raids or demolished at the beginning of the 21st century.

It belonged to the regular crew of the Prussian garrison Koblenz and Ehrenbreitstein and was stationed there until 1914 as part of the 30th Infantry Brigade .

Battle calendar

Wars of freedom

  • 1814 --- Sham attack on Cologne and enclosure of Mainz
  • 1815 --- Battles at Couillet and Gilly, battles at Ligny and Belle Alliance , battles at Villers-Cotterets, Banves and Issy, encirclement of Laon.

Baden Revolution

Participation of the 1st Battalion in the Brandenstein Detachment and the Fusilier Battalion in the 1st Division of the 1st Army Corps ; Occupation and bombardment of Ludwigshafen, battles near Waghäusel and Durlach, reconnaissance against Muggensturm, battles near Bischweier and Kuppenheim, pursuit battle near Iffezheim.

Grave of the captain of the Infantry Regiment No. 28 Emil Hoffmann who was fatally wounded in the battle of Gravelotte in 1870; Main cemetery in Kaiserslautern

German war

During the war against Austria in 1866, the regiment took part in the fights at Hühnerwasser , Münchengrätz , Königgrätz and Jakobau in conjunction with the 15th Division at the Elbarmee .

Franco-German War

Within the 15th Infantry Division in the VIII Army Corps Battle of Gravelotte , battle near Bertaucourt les Thennes, battles near Amiens and the Hallue , battle near Tertry - Pœuilly , battle of Saint-Quentin and enclosure of Metz .

First World War

With the outbreak of World War I , the regiment mobilized as part of the 30th Infantry Brigade of the 16th Division. During the entire war, the association was repeatedly deployed at the focal points on the western and eastern fronts. This also explains the high number of losses of 308 officers and 10,086 NCOs and men of the regiment and its field formations.

1914

1915

  • until January 7th - trench warfare in Champagne
  • 0January 8-13 - Battle of Perthes-lès-Hurlus and Beausejour
  • January 14th to 31st - Trench warfare in Champagne
  • 0February 1st to 5th - 2nd battle of Perthes-lès-Hurlus and Massiges
  • 0February 6-15 - Trench warfare in Champagne
  • February 16-19 - 3rd Battle of Perthes-lès-Hurlus
  • February 20th to March 20th - Winter battle in Champagne
  • March 21st to 31st - Trench warfare in Champagne
  • May 13th to June 19th - Battle of La Bassée in the Neuville-St. Vaast - Arras
  • from June 30th - fighting on the Aisne near Nouvron-Vingré

1916

  • until July 28th - fighting on the Aisne near Nouvron-Vingré
  • July 29th to August 25th - Battle of the Somme near Thiepval
  • August 26th to October 3rd - trench warfare on the Aisne (Laffaux corner)
  • 0October 4th to 30th - Battles on the Somme at Sailly
  • October 31 to November 19 - fighting on the Aisne
  • from November 25th - trench warfare on the upper Styr and Stochod / Volhynia

1917

1918

  • until January 18th - fighting in Flanders near Passchendaele
  • February 19 to April 4 - fighting in Flanders
  • 0April 9-18 - Battle of Armentières
  • April 19 to May 2 - Trench warfare in French Flanders
  • May 14th to July 6th - Trench warfare in French Flanders
  • July 14th to August 4th - Trench warfare in French Flanders
  • 0August 5th to 18th - Fights near Ypres and La Bassée
  • August 27th to September 1st - Battle of Monchy and Bapaume
  • 0September 7th to November 11th - defensive battles in the Antwerp-Maas position

Whereabouts

After the end of the war, the remnants of the regiment returned home, where they were demobilized in Quakenbrück on December 12, 1918 .

A security company was set up from parts and then transferred to the Rhineland Volunteer Battalion. This formed in June 1919 the over-planned Reichswehr Department Rhineland, which on October 1, 1919 as III. Battalion of the Reichswehr Infantry Regiment 19 was included in the Provisional Reichswehr .

The tradition in the Reichswehr was adopted by the 3rd Company of the 16th Infantry Regiment in Bremen 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
Field Marshal Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington April 18, 1826 to September 14, 1852
General of the Infantry Eduard von Bonin September 20, 1861 to March 13, 1865
General of the Infantry August Karl von Goeben June 16, 1871 to November 13, 1880
Field Marshal George, 2nd Duke of Cambridge 0August 2, 1889 to March 17, 1904

Commanders

Rank Surname date
major Ludwig von Quadt von Hüchtenbruck March 31 to October 9, 1815
Lieutenant colonel Alexander of Ledebur October 10 to December 11, 1815
Lieutenant Colonel /
Colonel 		Ludwig von Quadt-Hüchtenbruck December 12, 1815 to March 29, 1832
Lieutenant colonel Werner von Below March 30, 1832 to February 19, 1833 (in charge of the tour)
Lieutenant Colonel /
Colonel 		Werner von Below February 20, 1833 to May 9, 1837
Colonel Franz Wilhelm von Barfus-Falkenburg August 18, 1837 to May 18, 1838 (in charge of the tour)
Colonel Franz Wilhelm von Barfus-Falkenburg May 19, 1838 to April 6, 1842
Colonel Leopold Otto von Niesewand 0April 7, 1842 to March 26, 1847
Colonel Johann Berger March 27, 1847 to May 28, 1849
major Theodor von Lüttichau May 29 to June 1, 1849 (in charge of the tour)
Lieutenant colonel Leopold von Bessel 0June 2, 1849 to October 23, 1850
Lieutenant Colonel /
Colonel 		Gottfried von Boenigk October 24, 1850 to April 1, 1855
Colonel Richard von Fircks May 10, 1855 to May 7, 1856
Colonel Heinrich Adolf von Zastrow 0May 8, 1858 to August 13, 1856
Lieutenant Colonel /
Colonel 		Heinrich Erdmann Ludwig von Winning August 14, 1856 to January 19, 1859
Lieutenant Colonel /
Colonel 		Rudolf von Schlegel January 20, 1859 to January 28, 1863
Lieutenant Colonel /
Colonel 		Friedrich von Gerstein-Hohenstein January 29, 1863 to July 14, 1866
Colonel Hermann von Kontzki July 15, 1866 to July 17, 1870
Lieutenant Colonel /
Colonel 		Heinrich von Rosenzweig July 18, 1870 to September 14, 1874
Colonel Karl von Wittich September 15, 1874 to January 17, 1881
Colonel Gneomar Natzmer January 18, 1881 to April 14, 1886
Colonel Paul von Heimburg April 15, 1886 to February 15, 1889
Colonel Leo von Schleinitz February 16, 1889 to March 28, 1892
would. Colonel Hermann von Bilfinger March 29, 1892 to June 17, 1893
Colonel Wilhelm von Menges June 17, 1893 to March 21, 1897
Colonel Albert Thiele March 22, 1897 to May 21, 1899
would. Colonel Edmund von Falkenstein May 22, 1899 to February 16, 1903
Colonel Arthur of Tilly February 17, 1903 to April 13, 1907
Colonel Richard von Loeben April 14, 1907 to March 22, 1910
Colonel Paul von Liebeskind March 23, 1910 to March 21, 1913
Colonel Hans von Oppen March 22, 1913 to August 25, 1914
Lieutenant colonel Theodor Pennrich August 26, 1914 to January 20, 1915
Lieutenant colonel Hermann Kirchner January 21 to May 3, 1915
Lieutenant colonel Max Transfeldt 0May 4 to July 29, 1915
Lieutenant colonel Georg von Wodtke July 30, 1915 to September 20, 1916
Lieutenant colonel Hans von Oidtmann September 21, 1916 to June 29, 1918
Lieutenant colonel Theodor von Selle June 30 to July 11, 1918 (entrusted with the tour)
Lieutenant colonel Hans von Oidtmann July 12, 1918 to September 30, 1919

Monument and plaque

The regimental war memorial of the 28th on the Helfenstein in Koblenz

On the Helfenstein, the plant of the Ehrenbreitstein Fortress in Koblenz south of Ober-Ehrenbreitstein, a memorial for the fallen soldiers of the regiment has stood since 1930 . The memorial was erected in 1930, 50 years after the death of the Prussian general August Karl von Goeben. Originally there was a hand grenade launcher on the base that is still preserved today. After the US troops were replaced by French occupation soldiers, the infantryman was dismantled as part of a monument clean-up; the base was badly damaged on this occasion. A relief plate (a mother weeping for her fallen son) and an inscription plaque with the regiment's loss list, which were made in the Preuss & Alf foundry in Neuss, have been preserved. In 1960 soldiers of the Panzer Grenadier Battalion 142, which was stationed in Koblenz at the time, put the remains of the broken base together to create a new memorial stone in a simple form and placed a bowl of flame on the base. The old plates and a new coat of arms were inserted into the memorial stone.

At the main cemetery in Koblenz, a plaque commemorates the fallen of the regiment in the hall of honor of the grove of honor for the fallen of the First World War.

literature

  • For the 75th anniversary of the Infantry Regiment von Goeben (2nd Rheinische) No. 28, duty run for all officers, doctors and paymasters. ES Mittler & Sohn, Berlin 1890 ( digitized version )
  • W. Neff: History of the Infantry Regiment von Goeben (2nd Rheinische) No. 28.ES Mittler & Sohn, Berlin 1890 ( digitized version )
  • Rüdiger Wischemann: The Koblenz Fortress. Koblenz 1978.
  • Paul Münstermann, Robert Begau: History of the Infantry Regiment von Goeben (2. Rheinisches) No. 28 in the world wars 1914-1918. Cologne 1928.
  • Helmut Kampmann: When stones speak. Koblenz 1992.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wischemann p. 131 ff
  2. ^ 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. 71.
  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 the active infantry regiments as well as the jäger and MG battalions, military district commands and training managers from the foundation and / or list until 1939. Biblio Verlag, Osnabrück 1992, ISBN 3-7648-1782-8 , p. 111.
  4. ^ 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 active infantry regiments as well as Jäger and MG battalions, military district commands and training directors from the foundation or list until 1939. Biblio Verlag, Osnabrück 1992, ISBN 3-7648-1782-8 , pp. 111–113 .