Imperial and Royal Infantry Regiment "Archduke Karl" No. 3

1717: Young Lorraine infantry regiment on foot 1769: Lorraine infantry regiment No. 3 1860: Imperial Infantry Regiment "Archduke Karl" No. 3
Infantry Regiment Carl von Lorraine 1762 - schematic representation at Kronoskaf
active	1715/16 to 1918
Country	Holy Roman Empire : Imperial Army / Habsburg Monarchy , 1804 Austrian Empire , 1867 Austria-Hungary
Branch of service	infantry
Origin of the soldiers	from the entire empire (until 1806 throughout, mainly from areas of the Teutonic Order ), 1766 Niederrheinisch-Westfälischer Reichskreis and imperial cities of the Lower Saxon Empire , 1781 Lower Austria , 1830 Hradischer Kreis in Moravia
owner	1716 Prince Franz of Lorraine , 1726 Leopold von Lignéville , 1734 Gottfried Ernst von Wuttgenau , 1736 Lucas Giovanni Pallavicini , 1736 Carl von Lothringen , 1780 Carl von Toscana , 1790 Archduke Carl of Austria
Tribe list	List of infantry regiments of the Imperial Habsburg Army in the early modern period & List of kuk combat troops
Trunk number	1769: No. 3; Ticino: 1726/2

The Imperial and Royal Infantry Regiment "Archduke Karl" No. 3 was put into service in 1716 as the Young Lorraine Regiment on foot by the Habsburg Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire . The regiment existed until 1918 in the Austrian Empire or in the Austro-Hungarian monarchy . It did not get its name until 1860.

history

The elector and archbishop of Trier, Karl Joseph von Lothringen, established two regiments of the Electorate of Trier on August 19, 1715 , which in 1716 had been in imperial service for 10 years under the names of Old Lorraine and Young Lorraine . The first owners were the Lorraine Hereditary Prince Leopold Clemens Karl (Old Lorraine) and his next younger brother Franz Stephan von Lothringen (Young Lorraine) . After the sudden death of the Hereditary Prince, Franz became the owner of his brother's regiment . His old regiment received Leopold von Lignéville , which was now called the Lignéville Infantry Regiment . In the early modern period, the regiment, as usual, had different names after the respective regiment owners . In 1769 the permanent number 3 was added to the name of the owner: Lorraine Infantry Regiment No. 3 .

Formation history, replacement, and locations

Initially, the regiment's soldiers were recruited from all over the Holy Roman Empire. This included the estates of the Austrian hereditary lands . Above all, the areas of the Teutonic Order offered a replacement. This was the case until 1806. "Forbidden nationalities" were French , Italian , Swiss , Poles , Hungarians and Croatians . From 1766 a differentiated "Reichs-Werbung" was applied. From then on, soldiers were recruited mainly in the Lower Rhine-Westphalian Reichskreis and imperial cities of the Lower Saxon Empire . The locations changed until 1771. After that, standing quarters in the Austrian hereditary lands were considered permanent garrisons , with permanent advertising areas for the German regiments. The regiment was recruited in Lower Austria from 1781 and in the Hradischer Kreis in Moravia from 1830 .

As of 1914

• Subordinated to: 12th Infantry Troop Division - II Army Corps
• Nationalities: 83% Czechs - 10% Magyars - 7% others
• Supplementary district command and replacement battalion cadre: Kremsier
• Deployment: Staff, II., III. Baon: Teschen - IV. Baon: Kremsier - I. Baon: Doboj
• Commanding officer: Colonel Heinrich Freiherr von Testa
• Staff officers: Lieutenant Colonel Exner, Emil - Lieutenant Colonel Krischan, Guido - Lieutenant Colonel Gmeinder, Anton - Major Scheler, Hugo - Major Rudel, Viktor - Major Morbitzer Edler von Morgenfeld, Stephan - Major Erler, Alois - Major Klement, Wilhelm
• German uniform - equalization color: sky blue - buttons: silver
• Regimental language: Czech

Mission history

Still existing barracks of the regiment in Teschen
Coordinates: 49 ° 44 ′ 26 ″  N , 18 ° 38 ′ 5 ″  E

• 1714–1718 Venetian-Austrian Turkish War
• 1733–1735 War of the Polish Succession
• 1736–1739 Russian-Austrian Turkish War
• 1740–1748 War of the Austrian Succession
• 1756–1763 Seven Years' War
• 1778/1779 War of the Bavarian Succession
• 1787–1792 Russian-Austrian Turkish War
• 1792–1815 coalition wars
• 1848/49 First Italian War of Independence
• 1848/49 German Revolution - Participation in the capture of Vienna.
• 1848/49 Hungarian Revolution
• 1859 Sardinian War
• 1914–1918 First World War

Last peace commanders

• 1913–1914: Colonel Heinrich Freiherr von Testa
• 1909–1912: Colonel Josef Schön
• 1905–1908: Colonel Johann Ritter Eisler von Eisenhort
• 1903–1904: Colonel Karl Rudzinski von Rudno

Last garrisons

Rod	I. Battalion	II Battalion	III. battalion	IV Battalion
1906–1914 Teschen 1904-1905 Mostar 1903 Brno	1912-1914 Doboj 1906–1911 Olomouc 1904-1905 Mostar 1903 Brno	1906–1914 Teschen 1904-1905 Mostar 1903 Brno	1906–1914 Teschen 1904-1905 Mostar 1903 Kremsier	1904–1914 Kremsier 1903 Brno

Appearance and equipment

1726 white skirt, blue cuffs, white buttons; 1738 white skirt, red lapels, 1757 white skirt, red lapels, camisole and lining; 1767 white skirt, sky blue badges, white buttons; 1868 dark blue skirt, sky blue badges, white buttons.

Uniforms

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  First lieutenant in parade adjustment

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  Tabard of a sergeant of the regiment

literature

• Andreas von Thürheim : Memorial sheets from the war history of the Imperial and Royal Army . I. Volume. Bookstore for military literature K. Prochaska, Vienna / Teschen 1880, p. 11 ff . ( archive.org ).
• Alphons von Wrede , Anton Semek : The history of the kuk Wehrmacht . The regiments, corps, branches and establishments from 1618 to the end of the XIX. Century. Volume I: Infantry . LW Seidel & Sohn, Vienna 1898, p. 130 ff .

Web links

• Carl Lorraine Infantry. Kronoskaf, accessed December 28, 2011 (English, private Wiki project). 

Individual evidence

1. ^ Carl Lothringen Infantry. Kronoskaf , accessed December 30, 2011 . 
2. ↑ This numbering follows consistently the tables of Ticino. Georg Tessin : The regiments of the European states in the Ancien Régime des XVI. to XVIII. Century . 3 volumes, 1986–1995. Biblio Verlag, Osnabrück, ISBN 3-7648-1763-1 .
3. ↑ In 1915 the additional designations were abolished, from then on it was only to be called Infantry Regiment No. 3 . However, this could not be enforced in common parlance, one reason being that the thrifty Austro-Hungarian military administration had ordered that all existing stamps and forms should be used up first
4. ↑ Cf. Alphons von Wrede , Anton Semek : The history of the kuk Wehrmacht. The regiments, corps, branches and establishments from 1618 to the end of the XIX. Century . Volume I: Infantry . LW Seidel & Sohn, Vienna 1898, p. 97 .
5. ↑ Cf. Kaiserliche Reichswerbung from 1766 - assignment of the imperial circles to the imperial regiments. (PDF; 269 KB). In: Wrede: History of the k. And k. Wehrmacht. Part 1.
6. ↑ See overview of the advertising district division 1781–1889. (JPG, 631 KB). In: Wrede: History of the k. and k. Wehrmacht. Part 1.