Queen Elisabeth Guard Grenadier Regiment No. 3

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Queen Elisabeth Guard Grenadier Regiment No. 3

active June 4, 1860 to April 30, 1919
Country Prussia
Armed forces Prussian Army
Branch of service infantry
Insinuation Guard Corps
Location Breslau, Brandenburg an der Havel, Spandau, Wriezen, Charlottenburg

The Queen Elizabeth Grenadier Guards Regiment. 3 was an infantry joined the Prussian army .

history

The formation took place within the framework of Roon's army reform of 1860. With AKO of June 28, 1859, the 1st combined grenadier regiment from the Landwehr trunk battalions Görlitz (1st battalion), Breslau ( 2nd Battalion) and Polish Lissa (fusiliers) of the 3rd Guard Landwehr Regiment. The Breslau regiment was assigned as a garrison . In the following years the name of the regiment changed. Initially, from July 4, 1860, the association was called the 3rd Guards Grenadier Regiment . On October 18, 1861, Queen Elisabeth of Prussia was appointed head of the regiment . From this point on, the association was known as the 3rd Guard Grenadier Regiment Queen Elisabeth . A final change occurred on October 18, 1892. Until the dissolution, the name was Queen Elisabeth Guard Grenadier Regiment No. 3 .

The recruiting district was that of the V. and VI. Army Corps .

From 1893 to 1896 a new barracks for the regiment was built in Berlin-Charlottenburg ( Westend , Soorstraße / Königin-Elisabeth-Straße / Häselerstraße).

German-Danish War 1864

Cenotaph for grenadier Heinrich Gerlitschke, in Dirmstein , 1870

German War 1866

As part of the Second Army, the regiment took part in the Battle of Trautenau during the German War . At Alt-Rognitz, the grenadiers managed to capture a flag. It was active in the battle of Königgrätz and occupied the Saxon royal seat of Dresden from August 21, 1866 to May 27, 1867 .

Franco-German War 1870/71

In the war against France , the association was first used in the battle of Gravelotte , then fought at Sedan on September 1, 1870, and worked from September 19, 1870 to January 28, 1871 in the enclosure and siege of Paris . During this time parts of the regiment were involved in the fighting at Le Bourget .

During the deployment, the regiment was transported on a 65-hour train ride from Breslau to Mannheim , where it arrived on the night of July 31, 1870. From there it was supposed to be on foot, in forced marches, to the French border near Saarbrücken . On that day, at the exit of Dirmstein , in the direction of Obersülzen , three grenadiers died of heat stroke . Cenotaphs exist for two of them to this day in Dirmstein , their actual grave is in the Obersülzen cemetery.

First World War 1914/18

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Whereabouts

After the Armistice of Compiègne , the remnants of the regiment returned to Germany and were demobilized in Berlin-Charlottenburg on December 13, 1918 . Various free formations were formed from parts. In January 1919, a volunteer division / Guard Grenadier Regiment No. 3 (also called volunteer company "Elisabeth") was formed, which was used in the 1st Guard Reserve Division in the Baltic States. Other parts joined the volunteer detachments "von Oven" and "Schauroth" and the Kolberg Guard Battalion of the OHL in the Eastern Border Guard .

The tradition took over in the Reichswehr by decree of the chief of the army command, General der Infanterie Hans von Seeckt , from August 24th 1921 the 5th company of the 5th (Prussian) Infantry Regiment in Prenzlau. In the Wehrmacht she continued the regimental staff and the 13th and 14th companies of the 67th Infantry Regiment.

Regiment chief

After the death of the first head of the regiment, Queen Elisabeth of Prussia (1801–1873), Wilhelm II conferred this dignity on Crown Princess Sophie of Greece on May 20, 1898 .

Commanders

Rank Surname date
Colonel Karl von Winterfeld 0July 1, 1860 to August 12, 1864
Colonel Gustav von Pritzelwitz August 13, 1864 to October 29, 1866
Colonel Wilhelm von Döring October 30, 1866 to July 13, 1870
Colonel Konrad von Zaluskowski July 14th to October 30th, 1870
Colonel Julius von Sommerfeld December 11, 1870 to February 9, 1872
Colonel Oskar von Meerscheidt-Hüllessem February 10, 1872 to October 15, 1874
Colonel Sigismund von Schlichting October 27, 1874 to March 11, 1878
Colonel Eduard von Stocken March 12, 1878 to August 16, 1882
Colonel Arthur von Kretschmann August 17, 1882 to January 11, 1884
Colonel Leo von Beczwarzowsky January 12, 1884 to February 4, 1887
Colonel Ferdinand von Lütcken 0February 5, 1887 to January 26, 1890
Colonel Anton Herwarth von Bittenfeld January 27, 1890 to March 24, 1893
Colonel Mortimer from Buddenbrock-Hettersdorff March 25, 1893 to December 16, 1896
Colonel Paul von Ploetz December 17, 1896 to August 11, 1898
Colonel Moriz from Lyncker August 27, 1898 to August 24, 1901
Colonel Wilhelm von and zu Egloffstein August 24 to September 24, 1901 (deputy)
Colonel Fritz von Below November 14, 1901 to August 23, 1904
Colonel Hermann von François August 24, 1904 to November 17, 1907
Colonel Arnold von Winckler November 18, 1907 to March 21, 1910
Colonel Georg von Oppen March 22nd to October 2nd, 1910
Colonel Adolf Wild von Hohenborn 0October 3, 1910 to April 5, 1912
Colonel Richard von Brauchitsch 0April 6, 1912 to August 2, 1914
Colonel Gustav Boehm 0August 2, 1914 to March 23, 1916
Colonel Karl von Fabeck March 24 to July 2, 1916
Lieutenant colonel Gerhard von Heymann 0July 3 to October 19, 1916
major Siegfried zu Eulenburg-Wicken October 20 to November 5, 1916 (substitute)
Major / Lieutenant Colonel Heinrich von Hadeln 0November 6, 1916 to January 20, 1919
Colonel Gerhard von Heymann January 21 to April 30, 1919

badge

The regiment had the name "Queen Elisabeth" with the royal crown on yellow armpit flaps, plus Brandenburg lapels with dark blue sleeve plates and yellow buttons. The officers have two curved golden braids with embroidered grenades on each side of the collar.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ berlin.de (accessed September 28, 2019)
  2. ^ 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 commandos and training managers from the foundation or list until 1939. Biblio Verlag, Osnabrück 1992, ISBN 3-7648-1782-8 , pp. 21-22 .