Lauenburg Jäger Battalion No. 9

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Lauenburg Jäger Battalion No. 9

LJB9 - Signum.jpg

Vive le roi et ces chasseurs
active 1866 to 1919
Country coat of arms Kingdom of Prussia
Province of Schleswig-Holstein
Armed forces Prussian Army
Armed forces army
Branch of service Hunter
Type battalion
structure see structure
Strength 1002 men (line-up)
Insinuation IX. Army Corps
Location see garrison
march King Friedrich Wilhelm III. (Presentation march)

The hunter from Kurpfalz (parade march)

management
Commanders See commanders

The Lauenburgische Rifle Battalion. 9 was an infantry joined the Prussian army . The battalion was founded by King Wilhelm I in 1866 by cabinet order . and used in the First World War.

On August 2, 1914, the Reserve Jäger Battalion No. 9 was formed from the battalion according to the mobilization calendar drawn up in peace . The remaining capable teams were sent to the replacement battalion.

After the Battle of the Marne , the replacement battalion received the telegraphic order to set up Reserve Jäger Battalion No. 18 as the third Lauenburg Jäger battalion .

organization

Surname

  • June 21, 1866 - Jäger Battalion No. 9
  • November 7, 1867 until it was dissolved - Lauenburg Jäger Battalion No. 9

structure

The battalion's cycling department
  • When it was set up, the battalion consisted of three foot companies, but was increased to four companies in the fall of 1866.
  • On October 1, 1911, the Machine Gun Company (MGK) became a regular part of the battalion.

Structure in the First World War Lauenburg Jäger Battalion No. 9

  • At the beginning of the First World War, the battalion consisted of three hunter companies, one machine gun company and one cyclist company
  • Since July 1915, the battalion had its own snipers .
  • On September 25, 1916, a second machine-gun company was ordered for the Jäger battalions.
  • With the allocation of the light mine throwers in November 1916, a mine throwing department was set up.
  • On July 29, 1916, the battalion received a guard dog .
Assignments
In the first days of September 1914 a transport of the 9th Jäger with two officers, seven Oberjäger and 120 Jäger left Ratzeburg to reinforce the Grand Ducal Mecklenburg Reserve Jäger Battalion No. 14, which was under the 28th Reserve Division . This had suffered heavy losses, but the replacement battalion was not yet in a position to provide personnel replacements.

Reserve Hunter Battalion No. 9

  • August 2, 1914
    • four hunter companies
    • a cycling company
  • August 15, 1915
    • an MG company
  • October 25, 1915
  • September 29, 1916
    • The existing MG company becomes two MG companies
  • July 1, 1917
    • one storm troop per battalion
      • two officers
      • eight chief hunters
      • 40 men
  • With the receipt of the light mine throwers in November 1916, a mine throwing department was formed
Subordinate troops
  • January 7, 1915
    • MG Department (MGA)
      • an officer
      • five chief hunters
      • 22 hunters
  • February 21, 1915
  • an officer
  • ten chief hunters
  • 52 hunters
  • July 1915
    • Snipers become part of the battalion
  • October 25, 1915
    • Battalion is reinforced with the 13th and 14th Companies of Reserve Infantry Regiment No. 84. They resign to the regiment when the relocation order arrives on December 7th.
  • July 29, 1916
    • the battalion post dogs
  • February 3, 1917
    • The battalion receives Austrian officers of the kuk 40th Brigade in exchange for service
  • August 2, 1917.
    • a pioneer company
Assignments
  • August 15, 1915
    • With the formation of the MG company, the MG platoon was transferred to the 1st Battalion of the Reserve Infantry Regiment No. 84

Reserve Hunter Battalion No. 18

  • August 20, 1914
    • four hunter companies
  • July 1915
    • Snipers become part of the battalion
  • February 21, 1916
    • an MG company
      • three officers
      • a deputy officer
      • ten chief hunters
      • 101 shooters
      • 33 horses
      • nine machine guns
The guard dog "Romé"
  • July 1916
    • the battalion received guard dogs
      • Romé, a guard dog of the 18s, excelled in the Pilkem position to such an extent that he was appointed private ( honorary ). From then on a private button adorned his collar . Before and after the war he worked as a Hamburg police dog until 1926 . Since he died in 1928, it has been reproduced in dermoplastic , as it was called "in gratitude for his excellent service", in the Zoological Museum in Hamburg.
  • October 12, 1916
    • When the Jäger Regiment was withdrawn to Burkut, the craftsmen of all three battalions were ordered by the regiment to carry out the construction work, winter was just around the corner and there were only three houses, the so-called "valley construction company".
  • July 1, 1917
    • one storm troop per battalion
      • two officers
      • eight chief hunters
      • 40 men
  • October 14, 1917
    • MG company receives four more light machine guns
  • October 15, 1917
    • a mine thrower company
  • May 16, 1918
    • two companies were formed from the remnants of the four companies
    • 3rd Company was formed on the remnants of Reserve Jäger Battalion No. 17 '
  • August 8, 1918
    • four companies
    • an MG company
    • an MW company
Subordinate troops
  • January 1915
    • Field machine gun platoon 35 (FMG 35)
  • February 8, 1915
    • Field machine gun platoon 34 (FMG 34)
      • an officer
      • 39 NCO and Rifleman
      • 3 heavy machine guns
  • February 17, 1916
    • Machine gun supplementary train 541
  • August 2, 1916
    • Mountain Machine Gun Division 242 (GMGA 242)
  • In the September battle in the Ludowa area , the commander of the 18th fighter commanded the following units:
    • 1st / Hunter 17th
    • 3rd / Hunter 17th
    • 4./Jäger 17 (temporary)
    • MGK / Hunter 17
    • 3rd / Hunter 23
    • GMGA 209
    • 3rd / Hunter 5th
    • 7./LdstIR 35 (7th company of the Landsturm Infantry Regiment)
    • 8./LdstIR 35
    • 11./LdstIR 35
    • ½ I./LdstIR 37
    • ½ staff II./LdstIR 37
    • Pioneer Company 282
    • Pioneer Company 105 (temporary)
    • kuk sappers company 1/10.
    • I. / 157
    • 6th / Hunter Regiment 3
  • July 26, 1917
    • In pursuit of the retreating Russian infantry, Captain Stoffleth was also placed under the command of the 17th Reserve Jäger Battalion.
  • August 8, 1918
    • Since Major Wild, Reserve Jäger Battalion No. 17, took over the command of Jäger Regiment 5 as the longest-serving officer, the Reserve Jäger Battalion No. 18 was also subordinated to:
      • the companies 1./17, 2./17 and 4./17
      • Engineer Company 50
  • November 11, 1918
    • 1st company
    • 2nd company
    • 3rd Company (Reserve Jäger Battalion No. 23)
    • MG Company (Lieutenant of the Reserve Benkendorff)
Assignments
  • September 20, 1917

The peacetime of the Jäger Battalion

Ratzeburg garrison church

In Oberlahnstein , where the battalion was reloaded on its march back home from the German war , it received the news on September 18, 1866 that the association still existed and that its previous interim commander, Captain Otto von Medem, was promoted to major was designated as the first regular commander. Ratzeburg became a garrison town . When the battalion arrived at its garrison on September 20, 1866, it was solemnly welcomed by the population and the authorities. As long as the barracks were still missing, the teams were housed in citizens' quarters .

The battalion, which was severely decimated by the demobilization following the peace treaty, was replenished by the already existing eight hunter battalions, each with forty hunters.

On May 29, 1872, Prince Friedrich Karl of Prussia donated 3000 Marks from the endowment that had been granted to him with the condition that a "General Field Marshal Prince Friedrich Karl Foundation" was to be used " for the benefit of the battalion " .

When the battalion returned to Hagenau from its temporary relocation , conditions in the garrison town of Ratzeburg had developed positively. The former government building was converted into a barracks and expanded. The cathedral barracks were added in 1887 for the 4th company. Since that was in Strelitz area, the hunters of 4th Company wore the Mecklenburg cockade , the others the Prussian cockade on the shako. At that time there was a similar phenomenon only in Ulm .

On September 26, 1890, the battalion provided a form of honor for the ceremonial unveiling of the Kaiser Wilhelm I monument on the market square in Ratzeburg.

25 years after its founding, the battalion formed on September 26, 1890 in parade uniform at the ceremonial unveiling of the imperial monument in Ratzeburg on the market square.

Painting by Ernst Zimmer

Since the battle of Gravelotte was probably the most glorious act in the history of the battalion, August 18th was designated as the battalion's holiday in the 25th year of the unit's existence. Since this fell on a Sunday in 1891, it was first celebrated on August 17, 1891. It culminated on Sunday with the inauguration of the monument on the dog bush. The Knights of the Iron Cross received the authorization to wear three silver oak leaves with a 25 on the ribbon. Since the foundation stone was laid on that day in Berlin for the national monument "Kaiser Wilhelm I" , to which Alfred von Waldersee was invited, he could not take part in the local celebrations. The painter Ernst Zimmer created a battle painting for this with the title “The Lauenburg Jäger Battalion No. 9 near Gravelotte”.

On the king's birthday on March 22, 1870, the battalion was still in France. A parade was held on the occasion of the Emperor's birthday, in which the hunters also took part. The hunter's shako was adorned with oak leaves; this custom, which had also been practiced by the Austrians for a long time, was then retained. Every year on August 18, when the hunters from the King's Prize Shooting from the Hundebusch marched into the city, the oak broke on the shako.

This tradition was maintained in Ratzeburg during the time of the Reichswehr .

Subordination

After the German War (1866)

In the Franco-German War

From October 1, 1876

From April 1, 1882

  • IX. Army Corps (Altona)
    • Lauenburg Jäger Battalion No. 9 (Ratzeburg)

July 1, 1914

  • IX. Army Corps (Altona)
General von Below
Commanders of the Jäger Battalion for the first 35 years

Jäger Battalion No. 9

boss

Until October 18, 1916, the battalion had no chief. On this day the position was transferred to General of the Infantry Otto von Below , who was chief of the battalion until the end of the war .

Commanders
Rank Surname Beginning of the appointment
major Otto von Medem June 21, 1866
major Rudolf von Minckwitz March 22, 1868
Colonel Paul von Kropff March 29, 1871
Colonel Fedor of Byern June 10, 1880
major August by Janson September 16, 1885
major Adolph von Winning February 14, 1888
Lieutenant colonel Ferdinand von Treskow January 15, 1889 to July 9, 1890
Lieutenant colonel Georg Ludwig Henke July 15, 1890
Major / Lieutenant Colonel Lothar von Trotha January 27, 1892 to May 28, 1894
Major / Lieutenant Colonel Ludwig von Bose June 16, 1894 to April 20, 1898
major Eberhard von Claer June 21, 1898
Lieutenant colonel Horst von Rosenberg-Gruszczynski June 30, 1900
Colonel Kurt Kruge April 22, 1905
Colonel Adolf Ebeling April 22, 1909
Lieutenant colonel Walter Lehmann January 27, 1914
major Wolfgang von der Oelsnitz 0August 2, 1914
major Bitter 0August 7, 1914
major Karl August von Laffert (deputy) July 29, 1915
major Kurt von Heiligenstedt February 16, 1916
major Friedrich Genthe October 23, 1916
major Arthur Pikardi 0January 5, 1917
major Georg Jeltsch 0September 1, 1917
Lieutenant colonel Theodor von Weber 1919
Known members of the battalion
  • Captain von Boeltzig was wounded on August 4, 1914 as the battalion's first officer. Shortly afterwards General Erich Ludendorff exchanged a few words with him. Ludendorff mentioned this incident on the first day of the war in the book My War Memories on page 24.
  • Curt Badinski (1890–1966), later Lieutenant General
  • The later chief forester Erdmann was the youngest bearer of the Iron Cross . Born on 22 October 1899 who later in the forester's Hammerstein , Pomerania in marienwerder lived, occurred when the war broke from the cadet corps Lichterfelde than 14-year-old ensign to the Ratzeburger hunters over. Here he was so badly wounded in the first months of the war that his leg had to be amputated . On December 1, 1914, he received the Iron Cross . When he was released from the hospital, he retired from military service.
  • Gustav Hansen , later President of the Hanseatic Higher Regional Court
  • Christoph Löptien had been transferred to the Hamburg Reserve Infantry Regiment No. 76 . He was captured at the Battle of Arras and interned in France. From there he managed to escape and after crossing the front line he met Infantry Regiment No. 364. When he was brought before its commander, he recognized the captain as the former leader of a course for aspiring officers of the Lauenburg Jäger Battalion No. 9. Löptien was a member of this battalion until he was injured. Gerhard Lange used his escape story in his book: Jenseits der Front. Captivity and escape experiences in France . Since Löptien had already died at the time of the book, he dedicated it to him.
  • Ludwig zu Reventlow

Reserve Hunter Battalion No. 9

Commanders
Rank Surname Beginning of the appointment
major Mantius 0August 2, 1914
Reserve captain Engels (representative) 0October 4, 1914
major Mansfeld October 14, 1914
major Felix Schelle September 12, 1916
Reserve captain Angel September 26, 1916
major Plow December 10, 1916
Captain Brendel December 17, 1916
Reserve captain Angel 0February 8, 1917
First lieutenant Dan called Edelmann (on behalf of) August 28, 1917
Captain cutter September 14, 1917

18. Reserve hunters

Commanders
Rank Surname Beginning of the appointment
Lieutenant colonel Ridel August 20, 1914
major von Tabouillot called von Scheibler November 18, 1914
Captain Gustav Stoffleth July 15, 1915
major Kossa (representative) 0March 1, 1917
Captain Neumann (deputy) 0January 1, 1918
Captain Peter von Heydebreck (guided tour) April 14, 1918
First lieutenant Petersen (tour) April 22, 1918
Captain Brunzlow (deputy) April 24, 1918
Captain Ohlendorf (representative) April 29, 1918
First lieutenant Richert (on behalf) May 27, 1918
First lieutenant in the reserve Wreath (representative) 0June 3, 1918
Captain Ohlendorf (representative) 0July 8, 1918
Captain Stoffleth 0August 2, 1918
lieutenant Benkendorff (tour) 0October 4, 1918
First lieutenant in the reserve Bennecke (tour) October 29, 1918
Captain Groom November 10, 1918
Known officers
  • First Lieutenant Ernst Sellin , professor at Kiel University. On the evening of December 15, 1915, he gave a lecture on his excavations in Egypt for the non-deployed parts of the battalion in the Jonkershover Church. A month later, the company commander was posted for health reasons.
  • Lieutenant Pfaff. The battalion adjutant took over a leaderless company when the Italian front was stormed and was later awarded the Hohenzollers House Order. He became a regimental adjutant in April 1918. As such, he was wounded on the first day of action in July at the Battle of the Marne .

Armament and equipment

MG 08
  • When they were set up, the hunters received firing needle rifles M./54 (the so-called pike rifles) and deer catchers
  • 1866 - Re-armament in October with the improved Jäger rifle M./65 by adding a bolt lock
  • 1872 - modified ignition needle barrel model 65
  • 1874 - after acknowledging the advantages of a Chassepot rifle in the Franco-Prussian War, the battalion's needle rifles were replaced by M 71 rifles and 71 side guns
  • 1886 - the army was re-armed with the M 71/84 repeating rifle
  • 1890 - the mid-shaft magazine rifle was the gun M. 88 replaced
  • For the first time, gray ring discs with glued-on head discs were used to assess the individual test shooting
  • In 1905 the regiment was equipped with new rifles and side guns. The strength of the cartridge still enabled effective shooting at 800 to 1200 meters.
  • In 1909, following the findings of the Russo-Japanese War , each regiment was assigned a machine gun company (MGK) with 6 rifles
    • for the latter, a separate barracks with stables and wagon sheds was built on the east side of the parade ground
    • the wagons pulled by two warm-blooded horses and by Bock moved out
  • From July 1915, each company was equipped with two telescopic rifles
  • November 1916 - Allocation of four light mortars

uniform

  • 1900
Tabard made of dark green cloth
red swedish cuffs
Red cloth shoulder pieces with yellow numerals
dark blue mottled cloth trousers with red piping
Shako with a Prussian eagle made of tombac (a black bush of hair was attached to the parade)

First World War

Field uniform according to the regulations of 1910 made of gray-green cloth and natural-colored leather goods. The shako was provided with a reed-colored coating.
On February 24, 1916, before entering the Rehfelsen position, the companies received gas masks .
From 1916 the new steel helmet was introduced for battle .

Officers

Ensign Rehfeld the 2nd / Hunter 9th
  • 1888
Those on horseback had to wear high boots when on duty .
Since epaulettes could only be worn with gala, parade and social uniforms, armpit pieces were introduced.
Wearing spurs became compulsory for captains .
The horse blanket was simplified and no longer had a gold braid.
The previous white one has been replaced by a reed-colored shako cover.
  • March 22, 1889.
Instead of the pocket sword with leather scabbard, the officers of the infantry had to wear their officers sword with steel scabbard and leather belt with tress trim , to which from then on the cavalry portepee was attached.
  • 1893
The previous gray paletot was replaced by a black one.
The chief of the company with the best shooting result was given a bust Se. Majesty (former expression for his / her majesty) awarded.
  • 1894
The chief of the best rifle company was decorated with a fishing line .
  • 1895
For the small service one was Litewka green fabric introduced.
  • 1896
The field bandage was prescribed for the service suit .
The sash was only put on for parades.
Mounted men were equipped with a portepee with leather straps and a coat sack .
  • 1899
The officers' baggage was restricted to a prescribed level.
A gray cloak was introduced.
From then on, red-brown gloves were required for maneuvers.
  • 1908
Introduction of brown leather lace-up shoes with gaiters for unmounted officers

Standard bearer

  • 1898
The standard bearers received a corresponding badge on the left sleeve, as well as a half-length side gun of a new design with the handle of an officer's sword
For the service with helmet one was gorget from brass to create.

Medical officers

  • April 29, 1869.
Death marks were worn as identification marks .
  • 1896
It was compulsory to wear a field bandage with the uniform.
  • February 13, 1913.
Via AKO, the medical teams had to wear the uniform of their unit and on their right upper arm an Aesculapian staff made of yellow material as a distinguishing feature.

Teams

Recruit of the Lauenburg Jäger Battalion No. 9
  • March 12, 1887 (infantry baggage M. 87)
Knapsacks and cookware have been made smaller.
three cartridge pouches (in addition to the two front ones there is also a rear one)
smaller side gun
waterproof two-part bread bag
  • 1889
The soldier in question was awarded a rifle cord made from a silver braid with black stripes for outstanding shooting performance .
  • 1891
The wearing of a Litewka made of green fabric was introduced for the small service .
  • 1893
From that year (until 1895), canteens , drinking cups and cooking utensils made of aluminum were introduced. Furthermore, the equipment was expanded to include portable tent equipment.
From then on the rifle cord consisted of a braided, silver cord.
The company with the best shooting results was allowed to wear a special badge on the left sleeve.
  • 1894
Introduction of the dark green coat
  • 1895
The troops received a new backpack model .
No rear cartridge pouch
The haversack was now on only the body belt worn
The stand-up collar on the tunic was made wider and lower.

Music corps

Music Corps 1910
  • 1898
The clothing of the bar hoboists was made of finer cloth than the usual tunic for better emphasis .
The shoulder pieces were now made of edging cord.
The cloth pads (the shoulder pieces) were provided in the colors of the troop unit.
A waist band was put on in the manner of an officer's field bandage.

banner

LJB9 - flag.jpg

On July 3, 1867, exactly one year after the victory at the Battle of Königgrätz , the battalion received its flag in Potsdam . It was decorated with the ribbon of the commemorative cross for 1866 with swords.

The flag consecration took place in the pleasure garden of Potsdam in the presence of King Wilhelm I, Crown Prince Humbert of Italy and the royal princes.

The pattern of flags of the line infantry regiments of the Prussian Army was regulated.

On May 19, 1872, the solemn church consecration of the flag top awarded to the battalion with the Iron Cross took place.

In the autumn of 1888 new rules for drill came into force. In order to outwardly equate with the infantry , it was determined by the highest order that the hunter battalions would also have to take their flag into the field in the event of war .

On August 18, 1891, at the end of the first battalion holiday, the battalion flag was awarded the ribbons of the war commemorative coin 1870/71 with the designation of the battalion's battalion.

The battalion's ribbons adorned the names:

  1. Colombey-Nouilly
  2. Gravelotte-St. Private
  3. Enclosure of Metz
  4. Orleans
  5. Beaugency
  6. Le Mans.

From July 15, 1895 to May 10, 1896, the flags of the units that had received awards from the Kaiser for their participation in the Franco-Prussian War were adorned with oak leaves as soon as they were unfurled. With the AKO of August 18, 1870, the flags and standards of the units that took part in this war were awarded the commemorative coin donated for this occasion . Their clasps bore the names of the skirmishes and battles in which they took part.

In the First World War, the standard bearer hid it in a furrow during the battle near Gandelu, shortly before he was captured. There she was found by an Englishman. In the course of the day, however, it lost it again and it came back into the hands of its rightful owners. Since the flags could no longer be used in the original sense during the First World War, they were sent back to the General Command in Altona at the end of July 1915 .

Garrisons

Travemünde before 1903
Hagenau before 1903
Ratzeburg, seen from the west
With the mobilization, the replacement battalion was ordered to Lübeck . Since the Grenadier Regiment No. 89 was already there, the Lauenburg Jäger Battalion was relocated to Travemünde. However, there were neither sufficient parade grounds nor shooting ranges and since the danger of an attack from the seaside also proved to be unfounded, the replacement battalion returned to Ratzeburg on October 1st.
  • October 1, 1876 to March 31, 1882 Hagenau
  • Ratzeburg
City barracks (barracks I & II)
Cathedral barracks (from 1887)

Lauenburg was ceded to Prussia by the Treaty of Gastein in 1865 , but part of the Ratzeburg island remained with Mecklenburg-Strelitz . The cathedral cemetery and the cathedral barracks were on this part.

  • Ratzeburg barracks

  • City barracks with entrance and officers' mess

  • Barracks II

  • Cathedral barracks

Others

The hunt

Horrido

In order for the hunter to get his right, officer hunts were organized. In the boilers, for example, the hunters drove while the shooters were the officers.

Until 1876 the officer corps did not have its own hunt. It was not until Hagenau that huntsmen leased it in Hölschloch , Surburg , and later Diefenbach and Gunstedt . Returning to Ratzeburg, the corps leased the districts of Bartelsbusch, Groß- and Klein-Deßnack as well as Buchholz and at times Hollenbeck an der Stecknitz . These had to be surrendered on January 1, 1890, as the hunter battalion was to be relocated back to Alsace , to Colmar . Since this order was revoked, areas in the Garrensee -Holz and Baalen, as well as the Feldmark von Ziethen and the district Mustin could be leased. With the exception of the district, the named areas had to be given up again in 1895. In the following year, however, the hunts Hundebusch, Langer Berg, Strucken, Bornberg and the village of Salem could be leased.

The practice of hunting was regulated within the “officers' hunting society”. Five to six battles took place every year . A member's absence from these was strictly forbidden. Each officer was allowed to shoot up to three bucks a year on the Birsche in order to demonstrate his accuracy .

The annual St. Hubertus Day marked the end . After a hunt in the best forest district, an opulent bowl of bowls followed in the evening in the rooms of the casino decorated with oak leaves and fir branches . The hunter's accolade of the youngest officers was carried out by the commander.

The end of the day was the tour of the path set up in the garden to the hunting horns, which heralded the end of the day by torchlight.

Relations with Bismarck

The band of the Lauenburg Jäger Battalion serenades Prince Bismarck.

Bismarck first came into contact with the Jäger Battalion during the Franco-Prussian War when it moved into a bivouac behind St. Ingbert on August 9, while advancing from the Saar .

On November 30, 1890, Bismarck, now as Duke of Lauenburg and former Reich Chancellor, visited Ratzeburg to see the monument to the deceased emperor, who once served as king in the current garrison church accompanied by the then Prime Minister on September 26, 1865, to pay homage to the knights and landscape accepted to inspect about a month after it was revealed. He then visited the officers 'corps' casino.

Close relationships developed between the battalion and Bismarck, who lived in Friedrichsruh , about an hour away by train . These culminated when the battalion band conveyed their congratulations to the prince with a morning serenade on his 80th birthday.

Price shooting

Officers shooting range

→ Main article: Emperor's badge

In order to increase the quality of the shooting, an annual shooting competition was established for officers and non-commissioned officers of the corps.

  • In 1885 the battalion received the prize for the first time in the form of an equestrian statuette of Kaiser Wilhelm I.

On August 4, 1888, for the first time one with the name Se. Majesty equipped sabers (officers) and shot around a gold watch (NCOs).

Imperial maneuvers

→ Main article: Imperial maneuvers (German Empire)

  • In 1868 the battalion, assigned to the 17th Infantry Division, took part in the imperial maneuver near Wittenburg for the first time .
  • In 1875 the 9th Jäger Battalion took part in its first imperial maneuver in Mecklenburg . The imperial parade took place in Roggentin
Imperial parade to Altona
  • In 1879 the battalion garrisoned in Hagenau took part in the imperial maneuver in Strasbourg . The parade took place in Königshofen, today a district of Strasbourg.
  • In 1890, when the battalion was back in Ratzeburg, it took part in the maneuver on historical ground, see Düppeler Schanzen , between Flensburg and Düppel . The Flensburg Handewitt-Platz was used for the imperial parade
  • It was in Stettin in 1895 .
  • In 1904 it took part in the Altona maneuver .
  • In 1912 it was on his last imperial maneuver, which took place again in Altona.

Anniversaries

25th anniversary celebration

Group photo on the veranda of the officers' mess

On June 24, 1891, the celebrations began to mark the battalion's 25th anniversary, and the foundation day of the battalion's foundation day was celebrated.

Ratzeburg gave his hunter battalion a 60 cm high trophy, which showed rich ornamental jewelry in driven work. A miniature Lauenburg hunter crowned him in an artistic execution. On a medallion plaque was the dedication: "The city of Ratzeburg to the officer corps of the Lauenburg Jäger Battalion No. 9 on June 21, 1891".

At 5 o'clock in the afternoon, the "Association of Former Army Hunters", if they had belonged to the Lauenburg battalion, moved into the city. At 10 o'clock in the evening, the big tattoo took place from the market square to the barracks yard . On the actual anniversary day, it was a Sunday, the battalion chapel woke up. The Hamburg club Former 9. hunters arrived and from Lübeck Coming met at 11 am the commanding general of the IX. Army Corps , Count von Waldersee, entered the Ratzeburg train station. The battalion commander received him there and escorted him in open equipage to the other officers in the council cellar.

After the festive service in the garrison church , the sermon was under the words of the Apostle Paul to the Romans, officers and guests took up positions opposite the imperial monument. The commanding officer, Lieutenant Colonel Henke, stepped in front of her and in his speech briefly recounted the history of the battalion. This part of the celebration ended with a parade march.

The picture on the right was taken at the celebratory dinner that was held at 3 p.m. for the officers' corps and their guests in the casino .

50th anniversary celebration

In Ratzeburg
The commander walks down the front with the heads of the authorities.

After the solemn service in the garrison church, the companies brought in from Mölln and the Ratzeburg companies took up parade positions in the open square on the market square. The military associations from Ratzeburg took up positions on both sides of the Kaiser monument. The heads of the authorities and the invited guests of honor had gathered in front of the memorial.

Battalion commander Colonel Graf von Bredow made the speech.

After pacing the fronts for the battalion's presentation march, the companies marched past. That ended the official celebration.

9. Hunter in the field

After the start of the war, the battalion was on the day of the foundation on the Hartmannsweilerkopf , the so-called playground of the hunters; you could therefore not celebrate the day and got it after the replacement on 14/15. July in the Hirzstein position in Merxheim .

9. Reserve hunters in the field

The celebration of the battalion anniversary day on June 16 - it was to be celebrated with a parade , prize shooting and tournament games in the field - could not take place as planned , since the battalion was newly quartered in Dourges at short notice .

A vigorous hunter's salvation from Dourges was sent to all the old Lauenburg hunters and the inspector of the hunters and riflemen .

After arriving there, Hptm. D. R. Engels, on behalf of the commander on leave, explained the importance of the day with a speech that ended with a renewed pledge of allegiance to the emperor and fatherland .

60th anniversary celebration

When 1926 marked the 60th anniversary of the founding of the former Lauenburg Jäger Battalion No. 9 , it coincided with the third and final Jäger Day in Ratzeburg.

Boxer Rebellion

German troops on contemporary postcard

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On the occasion of the unrest in connection with the Boxer Rebellion in China, the German Reich felt compelled, along with other countries, to intervene militarily. A combined hunter battalion was also set up within the expeditionary corps among the volunteers of the German contingent . To its commander was Captain Schmidt, formerly a longtime member of Lauenburger Battalion appointed. All the volunteers in the 9th Jäger Battalion returned unharmed.

Fighting

German war

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The youngest who volunteered for the German War was Prince Adolf zu Bentheim-Tecklenburg , his antipode was the retired forester Oberjäger Wegener, who had already participated in the campaign against Denmark at the age of 63 . While the old man remained in the service of the battalion for years after the campaign and remained as administrator of the canteen on the disk stands, the prince fell a few years later on August 18 when St. Hubert was stormed in the ranks of the 8th Rheinischer Jäger- Battalions

The battalion was assigned to the Main Army and left Berlin on July 20, 1866 from the Anhalter Bahnhof in the direction of Frankfurt to join the Flies division . Wertheim was occupied on July 24th.

The battalion received its baptism of fire on the 26th in the battle near Uettingen and Roßbrunn .

Franco-German War

Equestrian statue of the Maid of Orléans

On the morning of July 16, 1870 at 9 o'clock the order to mobilize the 9th Jäger was received in Ratzeburg; within ten days the battalion had reached its war strength.

War strength
n
Officers 33
Oberjäger 79
Hunter 906
French horn players 17th
Train soldiers 24
Hospital attendants 4th
Gunsmith 1
Horses (40)
Σ 1064

Among them were a striking number of educated families from the Hanseatic cities of Lübeck and Hamburg . One of them, for example, was Emil Possehl's older brother .

In Hesse , the battalion was assigned to the 18th Division and crossed the French border on August 5th. The corps initially formed the army reserve.

2nd Army (Prince Friedrich Karl )

In the morning of August 9, the king drove past St. Ingbert , where the battalion was bivouacked. Bismarck and Moltke followed him in another car.

It reached St. Avold on the 12th . This is also where the Great Headquarters was located at the time . The king designated it to relieve a battalion of the 8th Leib Grenadier Regiment to guard the headquarters. The 2nd company formed the king's guard , two Oberjäger formed the ruler's guard of honor . When the Moselle was crossed, the battalion took part passively in the battle of Colombey .

In the evening the battalion received a visit from its youngest member of the last war, Prince Adolf zu Bentheim-Tecklenburg , who was now fighting in the Brandenburg Jäger Battalion No. 3 .

Five days later, on August 18, 1870, the Lauenburg hunters received their baptism of fire. They marched in the vanguard of the division, and when they encountered a French camp near Amanvillers , attacked on Wrangel's orders. They had reached the middle of the enemy line-up.

At the Battle of Orléans , the battalion captured Cercottes . From here it went, following a railway embankment, to Orléans . In recognition of the performance shown here, v. Wrangel marched in the hunter battalion at the head. This was not carried out, however, because of the order of the commanding general von Manstein, who ordered the order according to the anciency of the troops. He took the march on the Matroy square under the equestrian statue of the Maid of Orléans .

The XVI under the command of Chanzy . and XVII. The corps of the left wing of the Loire Army had been pushed back to Beaugency on the right bank of the Loire .

On December 8th, the hunters fought in the Battle of Beaugency at Chambord Castle before marching back to Orléans . In order to counteract a reconquest of the city by Gambetta's troops , the military presence in the city was reinforced by the II Army. The Chancy troops had withdrawn to Le Mans .

The corps was assigned as a reserve at the beginning of the Battle of Le Mans in Bouloire .

In order to have the strongest possible forces available during the battle , the prince, promoted to field marshal after the surrender of Metz , ordered the advance of all available parts of the army on January 11th.

The battalion conquered the plateau of Auvours in conjunction with the 85s against Zouave soldiers .

The plan to weaken the siege of Paris had failed.

As enemy armies gathered at Bourges and Vierzon , the 18th Infantry Division returned to Orléans .

What was initially a rumor then became a certainty: Paris had capitulated , and the armistice followed.

The battalion then returned home and reached the Ratzeburg train station on June 21, 1871 by train.

losses
like deceased Σ
Portepee Ensign 2 2
Oberjäger 3 2 5
Hunter 61 15th 76
Head hospital assistant 1 1
Train 2 2
Σ 66 20th 86

First World War

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Allegations

Lauenburg Jäger Battalion No. 9

November 4, 1914

December 9, 1914

June 22, 1915

October 1, 1915

February 25, 1916

October 3, 1916

  • Brigade: 55th Landwehr Infantry Brigade (Major General Sprösser)
    • Regiment: III./Landwehr Infantry Regiment No. 40 (Captain v. Kalckstein)
      • Jäger Battalion: Lauenburg Jäger Battalion No. 9 (Major von Heilifenstedt)

November 5, 1916

November 18, 1916

March 17, 1918

  • Army: 18th Army
    • Army Corps: IV Reserve Corps (Richard von Conta)
      • Division: 47th Reserve Division (Frhr. Von Eichendorff)
        • Brigade: Infantry Brigade (Colonel Campbell)
          • Jägerbataillon: Part of the Jäger Regiment No. 101 (Captain Bornhausen)

March 24, 1918

June 1, 1918 Army Group Duke Albrecht ( Albrecht Duke of Württemberg )

November 4, 1918 Supreme Army Command (OHL)

Reserve Hunter Battalion No. 9

August 2, 1914

Army: 1st Army (initially in Schleswig-Holstein Northern Army ) ( v. Kluck )

September 25, 1914

Army: 6th Army ( Rupprecht of Bavaria )

October 9, 1914

Army: 1st Army (von Kluck)

  • Army Corps IX. Reserve Corps (IX.RK) (v. Boehn)
    • Division: 18th Reserve Division (18th RD) ( Sunday )
      • Brigade: 35th Reserve Infantry Brigade (35th RIB)
        • Jägerbataillon: Reserve Jäger Battalion No. 9 (RJB 9) (Engels)

February 27, 1916

May 24, 1916

  • Division: 18th Reserve Division (18th RD) ( Wellmann )
    • Brigade: 35th Reserve Infantry Brigade (35th RIB)
      • Jägerbataillon: Reserve Jäger Battalion No. 9 (RJB 9) (Mansfeld)

July 7, 1916

  • Division: 17th Reserve Division (17th RD) ( Frhr. V. Freytag-Loringhoven )
    • Brigade: 33rd Reserve Infantry Brigade (33rd RIB)
      • Jägerbataillon: Reserve Jäger Battalion No. 9 (RJB 9) (Mansfeld)

July 23, 1916

  • Division: 18th Reserve Division (18th RD) (Wellmann)
    • Brigade: 35th Reserve Infantry Brigade (35th RIB)
      • Jägerbataillon: Reserve Jäger Battalion No. 9 (RJB 9) (Mansfeld)

August 5, 1916

August 29, 1916

  • Division: 18th Reserve Division (18th RD) (Wellmann)
    • Brigade: 35th Reserve Infantry Brigade (35th RIB)
      • Jägerbataillon: Reserve Jäger Battalion No. 9 (RJB 9) (Mansfeld)

September 13, 1916

  • Brigade: 38th Landwehr Infantry Brigade (38th LIB) ( v. Hohenzollern )
    • Jägerbataillon: Reserve Jäger Battalion No. 9 (RJB 9) (clamp)

October 23, 1916

Army: Danube Army

December 3, 1916

  • Regiment: 29th Bavarian. Infantry Regiment (Jäger Regiment) (29th Bavarian IR) (Aschauer)

December 10, 1916

  • Battalion: Bavarian. RJB 1 and RJB 9 (plow)

December 17, 1916

  • Battalion: Reserve Jäger Battalion No. 9 (RJB 9) (Brendel)

August 8, 1917

Army: 9th Army ( v. Eben )

  • Brigade: 1st Bavarian Jäger Brigade ( von Kleinhenz )
    • Regiment: 29th Bavarian. Infantry Regiment (Jäger Regiment) (29th Bavarian IR) (Aschauer)
      • Jägerbataillon: Reserve Jäger Battalion No. 9 (RJB 9) (Engels)

August 18, 1917

  • Army Corps: XVIII. Reserve Corps (XVIII.RK) ( winner )
    • Division: 217th Infantry Division (217th ID) (v. Gallwitz called Dreyling)
      • Brigade: 18th Landwehr Infantry Brigade (Vogel)
        • Regiment: 29th Bavarian. Infantry Regiment (Jäger Regiment) (29th Bavarian IR) (Aschauer)
          • Battalion: Reserve Jäger Battalion No. 9 (RJB 9) (Engels)

Reserve Hunter Battalion No. 18

Division of War of the 46th RD (1914)

October 13, 1914

Army: 4th Army ( Duke of Württemberg )

April 22, 1915

  • Brigade: 91st Reserve Infantry Brigade (91st RIB) (v. Stockhausen) x December 13, 1915.
    • Jägerbataillon: Reserve Jäger Battalion No. 18 (RJB 18) (v. Tabouillot)

April 28, 1915

  • Brigade: 92nd Reserve Infantry Brigade (92nd RIB) (Frhr. V. Gregory)
    • Jägerbataillon: Reserve Jäger Battalion No. 18 (RJB 18) (v. Tabouillot)

February 4, 1916

  • Division: 45th Reserve Division (45th RD) ( Schöpflin )
    • Jägerbataillon: Reserve Jäger Battalion No. 18 (RJB 18) (Stoffleth)

February 13, 1916

  • Division: 46th Reserve Division (46th RD) ( by Wasielewski )
    • Brigade: 92nd Reserve Infantry Brigade (92nd RIB) ( Maercker )
      • Jägerbataillon: Reserve Jäger Battalion No. 18 (RJB 18) (Stoffleth)
200th Infantry Division, August 7, 1916

August 7, 1916

Army: Austro-Hungarian 7th Army ( Archduke Karl )

October 1, 1917

Army: 14th Army ( from Below )

  • Group: Gruppe Berrer ( v. Berrer )
    • Division: 200th Infantry Division (200th ID) (v. Below)
      • Brigade: 2nd Jäger Brigade (2nd JB) (Lehmann)
        • Regiment: Jäger-Regiment 5 (Thümmel)
          • Jägerbataillon: Reserve Jäger Battalion No. 18 (RJB 18) (Stoffleth)

November 17, 1917

  • Group: Group Stein ( v. Stein )
    • Division: 200th Infantry Division (200th ID) (v. Below)
      • Brigade: 2nd Jäger Brigade (2nd JB) (Lehmann)
        • Regiment: Jäger-Regiment 5 (Thümmel)
          • Jägerbataillon: Reserve Jäger Battalion No. 18 (RJB 18) (Stoffleth)

March 21, 1918

7th Army ( von Boehn )

July 9, 1918

  • Corps: VIII Reserve Corps ( Wichura )
    • Division: 200th Infantry Division (200th ID) (v. Below)
      • Brigade: 2nd Jäger Brigade (2nd JB) (Lehmann)
        • Regiment: Jäger-Regiment 5 (by Wodtke)
          • Jägerbataillon: Reserve Jäger Battalion No. 18 (RJB 18) (Ohlendorf)

July 17, 1918

  • Regiment: Jäger-Regiment 3
    • Jägerbataillon: Battalion Ohlendorf (Ohlendorf)
Remnants of the Jäger Regiment 5

August 2, 1918

  • Regiment: Jäger Regiment 5
    • Jägerbataillon: Reserve Jäger Battalion No. 17 (RJB 17) (Wild)
    • Jägerbataillon: Reserve Jäger Battalion No. 18 (RJB 18) (Stoffleth)
    • Jägerbataillon: Reserve Jäger Battalion No. 23 (RJB 23) (Ohlendorf)

August 24, 1918

Army: 3rd Army ( from one )

  • Division: 200th Infantry Division (200th ID) (v. Below)
    • Brigade: 2nd Jäger Brigade (2nd JB) (Lehmann)
      • Regiment: Jäger-Regiment 5 (by Wodtke)
        • Jägerbataillon: Reserve Jäger Battalion No. 18 (RJB 18) (Stoffleth)

October 13, 1918

  • Regiment: Jäger-Regiment 5 (Wild)
    • Jäger Battalion: Reserve Jäger Battalion No. 18 (RJB 18) (Benkendorff)

October 18, 1918

Army: 18th Army ( by Hutier )

Lauenburg Jäger Battalion No. 9

1914

With the mobilization of the battalion on August 2, 1914, its previous commander was given the command of a Landwehr infantry regiment to protect the island of Sylt .

Without having reached full mobilization strength, the battalion took the train to the western deployment area. There it was assigned to the 34th Infantry Brigade (Brigade Kraewel ) from Schwerin . Together with five other hunter battalions, she was the Commander-in-Chief General v. Reported to Emmich , who had orders to attack Liège .

Coming from Herstal , the Lauenburg hunters initially entered Liège without resistance . Because of the sawed off hunter helmets , the Belgians first mistook them for the expected English and did not react. Realizing their mistake, the Belgians began counterattacks, with the commander being one of the first to fall and the battalion being forced to withdraw.

On the evening of August 6th, the supplementary teams from Ratzeburg arrived and the Lauenburg Jäger Battalion No. 9 had now reached full military strength .

The Higher Cavalry Commander 2 (HKK 2) , General Georg von der Marwitz , was subordinated to the Lüttich combat group, in addition to the Lauenburg, the Brandenburg , Magdeburg , Westphalian and Hannoversche Jägerbataillon .

They fought in the battle at Haelen , conquered Cattenières , took part in the battle of Crépy-en-Valois and were in Coulommiers at the turn of the war.

The HKK two had to withdraw. In the Battle of the Marne , the 9th Jäger Battalion lost half of its population on September 10 in the battle near Gandelu .

During the subsequent race to the sea , they also met the Reserve Hunter Battalion No. 9 . When they were fighting near Dompierre , they received the order for the first time: dig in .

In Flanders, First Battle of Flanders , the hunters should first push the English out of Zandvoorde .

HKK 2 was dissolved after Hubertus Day (November 3) . The Lauenburg Jäger were assigned to the 7th Cavalry Division (7th KD) under General Kurt v. Unger , subordinated.

The yellow notes dropped on them from enemy aircraft on November 10th were the battalion's first enemy propaganda leaflet .

Coming from Saarburg , the battalion moved to its new position in the Vezouse valley in the northern Vosges on December 9, 1914 . The XV. Reserve Corps closed the so-called Saarburg gap there . At the right wing, Army Department Falkenhausen , stood at the Marne-Rhine canal in the amount of La Garde back the 7th KD

1915

Thanks and regards to the good hunters, Wilhelm. 1915.
LJB9 - Wilhelm - 2.jpg
Seat of the military government in Brussels

From his outpost the battalion was withdrawn on February 27 to attend the company Badonviller participate. It conquered and held the strategically important altitude 542 between Herbaville and Angomont .

After the war of movement had turned into a positional war from the end of 1914 , both sides began to undermine the opposing trenches. In order to be safe from such surprises, so-called listening posts had to be set up, as working in the mine tunnel could not be concealed acoustically. The battalion also set up such listening posts . In May, a demolition took place under the French ditch near the 9th .

Since July 1915 there have been two snipers in each company .

While the battalion was at Height 542 , it received visits from the highest authorities. Accompanied by Colonel General Frhr. v. Falkenhausen was also home to the poet Rudolf Herzog . He wanted to collect impressions for war songs and heroic poems . His visit to the 9th Battalion should owe it the ordination for the unveiling of the monument in Ratzeburg in 1922.

In June, the battalion south of Deutsch-Avricourt reinforced the Saxon Landwehr Infantry Regiment 100, which the French had thrown back on Gondrexon and Leintrey during the battle at Gondrexon .

In August, Captain Herbig was promoted to major and, as such, was again entrusted with the leadership of the 9th Jäger.

From October 1st, the briquetery position near Tahure in Champagne in the Tahüre section near the then notorious French Sappe R during the autumn battle in Champagne was the battalion's new location. There the unit should experience its first barrage . On the 26th battalion leader v. Boeltzig personally called to the phone. Crown Prince Wilhelm , Commander-in-Chief of the 5th Army, gave the battalion unreserved praise for holding out in the "hell of the briquette position", advised the battalion that he would send gifts of love and announced that the battalion would soon be leaving its army would leave, but would come to the "Schlemmerquartiere". But he left it open where this would be.

The battalion then went to rest and from October 30th moved to the garrison in Brussels . In his royal palace resided, their highest superior, General v. Bissing and his boss, General v. Clean branch . The latter visited the hunters one evening. There he announced, as the battalion history shows, that the governor was very happy to have the 9th Jäger as his bodyguard in Brussels and that he wanted to keep them for a long time.

On December 18, the birthday of Mayors vd Oelsnitz, who fell in 1914 before Liège, a delegation of the battalion, accompanied by the divisional pastor of the 7th KD, went to his grave at the Liège military cemetery to lay wreaths .

1916

As of January 15, the battalion had to provide four patrol commands, one for each company, for border protection in Holland . Two each were assigned to the military governorates of Antwerp and Limburg .

General v. Unger visited the battalion on January 20 at Park Elisabeth .

Ten days later the rest period ended. The order was issued that the companies had to follow their patrol commands.

On February 15, the unit moved to the deer rock position in the Vosges. This was on the lower Rehfelsen , the southern foothills of the Hartmannsweiler head . General der Infanterie Gaede, the division and the brigade commanders visited the battalion five days later. A delegation of senior Bulgarian officers visited the positions at Hartmannsweiler Kopf and the Rehfelsen section on March 21 . When the division commander visited the battalion section above the Rehfelsen on April 24, he was seriously wounded by a shot in the stomach .

Oberjäger Haacke (2nd battalion clerk), Hampe, Jäger Krupa-Krupinski (painter)

Through the mediation of the commander, v. Heiligenstedt, the painter Emil Krupa-Krupinski came to the battalion. He painted a souvenir picture of the location of the Rehfelsen, which was later hung in the Ratzeburg officer's mess. In accordance with the raid troop tactics that Captain Willy Rohr developed here last year, the platoons of each battalion company were instructed in the formation and use of raid troops .

On May 24th, the battalion relocated to the Hartmannsweiler Kopf and replaced the Guard Jäger battalion here. There it received a visit from the Commander in Chief and the then Minister of War ( Adolf Wild von Hohenborn ) on June 1st before the Guard Hunters returned on June 10th and the 9th Hunters were relocated to Hirzstein. After they were relieved there, they made up for the celebration of the 50th anniversary of their battalion in Merxheim . On July 28th they replaced the Guard Jäger battalion again.

From October 3, it was at the so-called height 425 in the Sennheim section .

In Mulhouse v adopted commander. Gündel the 9th hunters on October 14th. The battalion commander was appointed regiment commander of Landwehr Infantry Regiment No. 436 and left the unit.

In November the Lauenburg hunters changed the front. They should be used in the autumn battle in Macedonia in the Army Group (HGr) Below in the so-called Cernabogen . Your first mission on the Balkan Front ( Macedonia ) was the defense of Tepavci . When the 4th Company was wiped out in the fight against the units led by General Maurice Sarrail , the battalion was withdrawn behind the section of the 2nd Bulgarian Brigade near the height 1212 .

After the Serbs had conquered the height, it was recaptured on November 18, 1916 by the Lauenburg hunters .

Not only the Commander-in-Chief, but also Crown Prince Boris III , who is with his troops . of Bulgaria witnessed this. He reported this act to Sofia , from there it was sent to Tsar Ferdinand of Bulgaria , who forwarded it directly to the Emperor at the Great Headquarters . He immediately appointed von Below to be the chief of the Ratzeburg Lauenburg Jäger Battalion No. 9 .

Despite this, November 18, 1916 is considered to be the turning point for the Balkan front in the Cernabogen . In order to forestall a threatened encirclement by the enemy, the battalion cleared the height again and withdrew to Makovo , where it was until November 27th the major general v. Reuter was subordinated.

1917

Crnicani , at the foot of the height 1050

On January 6, the battalion chief, accompanied by Count zu Dohna , greeted King Friedrich Wilhelm III on a road towards Selereski to the march . Presentation march of the battalion, its 9th fighters.

A vacation ban was imposed from January 23 to February 3. As a moral demonstration of the fighting troops , they celebrate the emperor's birthday by order, especially exuberantly.

On the night of February 22nd, the Lauenburgische took over from the Reserve Jäger Battalion No. 8 at height 1050 (called Armatus -Höhe). In the Mash Battle of Macedonia , after six days of barrage , the battalion, which had meanwhile been decimated by half, repulsed an Italian attack three to four times stronger . According to a brigade order found on a fallen officer of the Italian 162nd Infantry Regiment “IVREA” , taking the altitude was only a stage goal . The real aim of the attack had been given to capture Prilep . The height of 1050 should not be conquered until September 1918.

The Lauenburger Jäger were replaced here on July 6th by Reserve Jäger Battalion No. 15 . The commanding general , Karl Surén , welcomed his 9th hunters on July 18 in Kanatlarci , seat of General Command 61, as he called it .

1918

On February 23, the Lauenburg Jäger Battalion No. 9 was relocated to the Western Front under the cover word Kyrill .

The Hirzstein

The divisional order of March 8th combined the Jäger Battalion No. 9 , Reserve Jäger Battalion No. 15 and Reserve Jäger Battalion No. 19 as the Jäger Regiment No. 101 . This was supposed to be a tactical relationship in which the battalions remained independent. The March offensive , March 21st, began the regiment from La Fère . After brief deployments in Canny-sur-Matz and La Terrière , the Jäger Regiment left the association of the 47th Reserve Division and was assigned to the VIII Army Corps as an army reserve before the Siegfried position . The Jäger Regiment was disbanded at the end of May.

From June the battalion was back in the Hirzstein position, where it replaced the II./LwIR 124. Following an order from the War Ministry on September 22nd, the Bicyclist Company was disbanded. The Army Group Leader visited the regimental section on October 25th.

After the battalion was subordinated to the OHL on November 4, it was transported the next day from Wanne , now part of Mülhausen , in two transport trains with an initially unknown destination. On the night of the 7th, the trains stopped in Hamm in Westphalia . During the stay, news of the Kiel uprising , which was spreading from there, reached the battalion. The train then went on to Münster . Here it was commissioned to support the VII Army Corps , which had set up its command center at the main train station there . Once there, the battalion was virtually disarmed by the prohibition of armed violence by the OHL. Nevertheless, the now unarmed hunters received the order to secure the station building, where negotiations with the workers 'and soldiers' council expected from Kiel were to be held. A soldiers' council has now also been formed within the battalion. The battalion left Münster on November 10th and reached Ratzeburg around noon on the 11th.

With the arrival of the field battalion, the replacement battalion ceased to exist, with the exception of the business company.

Reserve Hunter Battalion No. 9

Reserve Hunter Battalion No. 9 (RJB9)

active 1914 to 1919
Country coat of armsKingdom of Prussia
Province of Schleswig-Holstein
Armed forces Prussian Army
Armed forces army
Branch of service Light infantry
Type battalion
structure see structure
Strength 1066 (August 9, 1914)

61 horses (catering strength) 1,022 (combat strength)

Insinuation see insinuations
Location see garrison
march King Friedrich Wilhelm III. (Presentation march)

The hunter from Kurpfalz (parade march)

management
Commanders See commanders

The reserve battalion was formed from August 2nd to 9th. It consisted of the older age groups of the Reserve and the younger generation of the Landwehr. After a field service held by the garrison pastor Löwe on the Ratzeburg market square, the battalion left with a catering strength of

Catering strength
n
Officers 26th
Teams 1040
Horses 61

the town.

1914

Around Satrup , where the commander was promoted to major on August 18, the battalion operated border guards before being relocated to the south on August 23. On the 25th the battalion's train stopped in Leuven . This was left two days later for Brussels . Reinforced by the machine gun company of the 162nd MGK / 162 regiment , the tracks at the railway junction there were destroyed.

On their way to France they met the regular battalion, which was racing to the sea .

On September 15, the battalion received the order, together with the 34th RIB Noyon , where the XIII. and VI. French AK with parts of an additional division were about to attack. It crossed the Oise and occupied the southwestern edge of Pontoises . From here it took part in the Battle of Noyon the next day . Here were the two divisions of the IX. RK victorious against the five French.

Before Hesdin , the battalion received the order for the first time: dig in .

From September 25th, the Jäger Battalion of the 4th Royal Bavarian. IB , which were deployed in the forest mountains before Orval (Ferme Attèche), made available for 14 days .

A special order was issued on October 2nd. A mixed detachment under Colonel Tutschek of four battalions, one of which was that of the RJB 9, was to attack Arbre de Canny . The battalion commander was wounded in this attack. The then heavily decimated battalion was pulled back to Lassigny on October 7th and sent back to the 9th RK two days later .

On its way to him, the battalion at Margny-aux-Cerises received gifts of love from the Association of German Hunters in Hamburg . These had already arrived in Lassigny on October 8th, because Mr. Karsch, a board member accompanying the broadcast, wanted to personally hand them over to the battalion staff , an earlier distribution was impossible.

On October 11th, the battalion, which had lost half of its strength in the past few days, met the 18th RD in Ercheu , which was passing quietly .

On October 26th, the 2nd AK was replaced in the positions of Lassigny. The fighters were thereupon until November 3rd in the left wing section of Lassignies.

The battalion received its own section at Plessis-de-Roye (left of the Plémont mountain) on November 7th.

1915

At the battalion's request, four French machine guns arrive from the booty to reinforce the gran defense. The formed MGA was expanded shortly afterwards by two more rifles.

On the opposite side, Zouaves and Turkos were repeatedly found. The intensity of the mutual air reconnaissance increased. They tried to avoid this by means of corrugated iron shelters on the mountain slopes to Cuy , they were called "Indian village".

On March 16, the emperor visited the resting parts of the IX. RK, that was the 2nd company from RJB 9 and a group of the MGA, on the Beaulieu - Frétoy road .

At the beginning of July the battalion was assigned a machine-gun platoon with German rifles.

Artillery fire on Dives , the resting place, caught fire and burned down the castle there on September 15th.

After almost a year, the position there was left on October 19. The battalion's new location was the heights of Givenchy , an offshoot of the Loretto height .

On December 8th we went to Hénin-Liétard . On December 22nd, General v. Boehn , commanding general of the IX. RK, inspected. Christmas was celebrated on the evening of the same day. As the history of the battalion reports, the city ​​of Hamburg provided the battalion with 1,100 Christmas packages.

1916

The Gießeler Höhe ( Hans at the end )
Overview from Loos to Thelus

Lieutenant General Frhr. v. Ende visited the battalion on January 26th. From 27 January, all companies working in the battalion in which on the Gießler height at Angres lying Schleswig-Holstein Infantry Regiment. 163 . A major attack was being prepared.

As a result of the attack, the 81st Infantry Brigade captured the height and thus the strategic view of the Souchez Valley on February 21, the day on which the Battle of Verdun began .

From March onwards, RJB 9 was located west of Vimy and north of the film farm, which was notorious at the time .

On April 16 they were assigned a half battalion. Captain Rissom of the 163rd Regiment temporarily took over command of the battalion.

Tunnels have been driven under the enemy's trenches from both sides of the front . By blasting them, these created a breakthrough point in the opposing position. Several such explosions took place in the neighboring sections of the hunters. On April 25, 12 miner noises made by the enemy were heard in the tunnel . A blast by the hunters created a funnel about ten meters deep and 40 meters in diameter. The supposed danger was averted.

As of May, preparations were made for the Schleswig-Holstein undertaking, planned for May 18 , to storm the Vimy height. The hunters also took part in this, which was to be carried out on May 21st.

General v. Boehn inspected on May 29th, the battalion was again under the command of the 18th RD, the battalion at Bernicourt Castle .

Trellis was also on July 15 at the station square in Douai , as there the Emperor arrived there to visit the Crown Prince of Bavaria.

During its rest period, the battalion was called in to work on the position of the 162s. On June 18, they saw the Eagle of Lille fall from the 6th Army air force .

From July 5, the battalion moved northwest of Liévin , a suburb of Lens, into position. However, it was already relocated on the night of July 8th opposite the coal town of Grenay . It stayed here until it was brought to Cambrai by train on July 21st .

In the Battle of the Somme, the IX. RK of the four divisions strong Army Group Boehn , which in turn was subordinate to the 2nd Army , which belonged to Army Group Gallwitz . The hunters were initially in reserve. The IX. RK was used in the Foureaux-Wald-Longueval section .

On the afternoon of July 27th it was brought forward to Le Transloy and the 5th ID was made available for two days.

It was moved to Pozières on the night of August 4th . That was where the battle was fiercest at this point. They lost their 2nd company here on August 6th and were withdrawn from the front line three days later.

v. Boehn visited the battalion on August 21st in his resting camp near Marcoing .

In Libercourt , the battalion became the Army Reserve of the 6th Army. When the XXVII. Saxon RK was withdrawn, the 9th Jäger and 162nd Lübeckers in reserve had to close the resulting gap from the La Bassée Canal to the south. From there it was withdrawn to Épinoy on secret orders from the division . The commanding general inspected it again that afternoon.

Commander Mannsfeld was entrusted with the command of Infantry Regiment No. 394 and replaced by the previous leader of III./ RIR 76 , Major Schelle. The battalion withdrew from the IX. RK and was subordinated to the independent 38th Landwehr Infantry Brigade , which used it in Lomme .

On October 3rd, the Supreme Army Command (OHL) issued an order that the battalion had to be ready for loading on the 7th.

When they were deployed on the Western Front , the previous number of wounded and missing persons corresponded to a battalion strength, the number of those killed corresponded to a company strength and that of the departed officers corresponded to about twice the strength when moving out .

Battle of the Argesch

After they had been transferred to the southern Romanian theater of war , a new hunter regiment was formed there on October 26th, a part of which the battalion was formed.

At the station of Cernavodăs the battalions received Field Marshal v. Mackensen . However, he did not leave his platoon and only ordered the regimental commander to come to him.

That crossed the Danube and occupied Zimnicea in the back of Height 61 . When the bridgehead for crossing the Danube had been secured, the entire Danube Army followed them across the bridge. These were General Command (zbV) No. 52 , 2nd Cavalry Division (2nd KD) , 217th Infantry Division , the 12th and 1st Bulgarian and 26th Turkish divisions.

On December 1st, the village Poşta am Argesch and thus the fort line around Bucharest was reached. At the end of the now beginning Battle of the Argesch Bucharest was captured on December 6th.

When Commander Engels was unavailable due to illness, a battalion of 6 companies from Bavaria was formed. RJB 1 and RJB 9 formed under the leadership of Major Pflügel.

On December 12th, the Entente was made an offer of peace that was to have no consequences.

As a replacement for the Bavarian on the 15th. RJB 1 arrived, this broke up again on the battalion group. The management of the RJB 9 took over Captain Brendel from the Bavarian. RJB 1.

On December 22nd, the battalion was transferred to the division reserve in Neu-Găiseanca , but returned on the 25th. The regiment attacked Deduleşti , which was occupied by the Russians . The battalion becomes a section reserve on the 27th. During the 31st the battalion was relieved.

1917

The approximately 40 km wide Russian main position, the so-called Brăila bridgehead , attacked the regiment on January 4th and pushed the enemy as far as the Sereth, which ended the further advance through Romania.

The section of the Jäger Regiment in the trench warfare now beginning was from the mouth of the Buzaul to the south. For the emperor's birthday , a parade of the RJB 7 and half of the RJB 9 took place in Latinul , the resting place.

In exchange for the three-month service, Austrian officers detached from the Austro-Hungarian 40th Brigade arrived at the regiment on February 3rd . In March, 40 Alsatians from the Western Front arrived as an exchange with the battalion.

Several battalion tours took place between March 19 and 22. A preview followed by a parade march by the commander, division commander and brigade commander in Boldul , and the inspection of the 217th ID by Commander in Chief v. Falkenhayn in Balta-Albă-West .

On April 11th, the Jäger Regiment replaced the 2nd Jäger Regiment ( HJB 10 , RJB 10 and RJB 14 ) of the Alpine Corps in Focşani near the Putna .

It was now in the Găgești section .

V. Mackensen visited the dormant troops on May 23rd, Archduke Friedrich on May 28th.

In terms of tactics, more emphasis was now placed on the subdivision of the machine gun positions.

In June, the position of the battalion was the Vităneşti section .

On July 15, the regiment was reinforced by the Imperial and Royal Landsturm Battalion III / 5 , which came from the Isonzo Front , as the fourth battalion. An attack by the Russians was expected.

Shortly before this should take place, the regiment was transferred to the Alpine Corps. With that it moved into the gorge of Panciu and conquered the height 332 .

After their return to their old position, the recently newly appointed commanding general inspected them on September 30th .

Position at Muncelul

In October the regiment was moved to a new position, north of Ireşti , before being transferred to the position at Muncelul in November .

Due to the armistice negotiations with Russia , the army report announced: Since December 4. no more shot is fired . From December 9, the fight on the Romanian front ended with the Focşani armistice . From now on, the space between the fronts was considered a neutral zone .

1918

On January 1st, 238 chief hunters and hunters under 35 years of age were handed over to the 216th Infantry Division for use on the Western Front . In return, it received replacements for older teams and Alsatians. The division commander visited Muncelul on January 21st.

After the peace agreement with Romania, 8 divisions became free.

The 217th Infantry Division was relocated to Ukraine, which was independent for the first time, to protect it from unrest .

In Nikolayev there was an uprising on April 6th that was suppressed by the division.

The Assauer Detachment, assembled on April 16 on the Dnepr , operated from then on independently as part of the general advance on the Crimea . Perekop was attacked on the 19th to force the transition to Crimea. After the invasion of the Crimea, the regiment resigned to the division.

The Ukrainian state came into being on April 29th. The Sevastopol fortress , once the main stage of the Caucasus Army , was declared a governorate on May 3rd . Major General Frhr. von und zu Egloffstein was appointed its governor and lieutenant colonel Assauer its commanders . The RJB 9 occupied the western part of the city west of the southern bay from May 10th. His 1st company became a guard company, the 2nd was at the disposal of the port command, the 3rd was assigned as a police company, the 4th and 1st MGK were in the naval hospital as the reserve of the city commander, the 2nd MGK in a hotel . The 2nd Company was replaced on June 15 by the Crimean Navy Department .

Field Marshal General v. Eichhorn held a large parade here on July 7th .

Turkey was awarded Baku , Kars and Erivan by the treaty . Georgia placed itself under German protection in order to counteract the increasing influence of Turkey in the Caucasus . Germany then sent General Kress von Kressenstein with the Imperial German delegation in the Caucasus to Tbilisi . The regiment that received orders to be transferred there on July 15 became its guard. The HAPAG steamer Corcovado , which was used as a barge in Constantinople during the war years , picked it up.

On August 11th, a Sunday, a parade took place in Poti . Major General Sumbatow of the 1st Grusin Division , along with two other Grusin generals, 30 senior officers, the civil governor, the mayor and delegations, initially paced the front of the representatives of the German Reich .

At the end of September, a special troop division, to which the Jäger Regiment should also belong, was formed by the command of the troops on the Black Sea . In connection with the events on the Bulgarian front, the order was issued on October 11th to cease troop movements and that the troops had to remain in their locations, for the regiment it was Poti. The regiment was transported away on the Russian troop transport steamer "67" on October 31st and was back in Sevastopol on November 4th.

On November 7th, the order arrived to rally in Odessa. The transport that brought them here left with them on November 9th and reached its destination on November 11th. On November 12th, news of the events of November 9th reached the regiment and soldiers' councils were formed. The next incoming order ordered the withdrawal . For this purpose, trains were placed in the regiment.

After the regiment staff and the RJB 9 separated from the regiment and transferred to the III. Reserve Corps had been sent to Białystok , the battalion's train crossed the German border near Prostken on December 20 and arrived in Ratzeburg on December 23 at 1 p.m. to the sound of the garrison chapel. The staff of the garrison, the garrison soldiers' council and the city officials received it there. Captain Keller gave the welcoming address before the battalion moved into his town. The battalion commander gave another speech at the market before the companies moved into the barracks.

Here began demobilization what at the RJB 9 whose resolution was.

1919

The second volunteer battalion, the Schneider volunteer hunter battalion , which also contained recruited volunteers from the Lockstedt camp , drove back to Białystok to the Eastern Border Guard on January 14th .

Battalion losses
like wounded missing Σ
Officer Obj. Hunter Officer Obj. Hunter Officer Obj. Hunter Officer Obj. Hunter
Western front 9 14th 171 21st 68 749 2 24 151 32 166 1071
Eastern Front 1 20th 89 18th 59 444 1 9 23 20th 88 556
Σ 10 34 260 39 127 1193 3 33 174 52 194 1627
304 1359 210 1873

Reserve Hunter Battalion No. 18

Reserve Jäger Battalion No. 18 (RJB 18)

active 1914 to 1919
Country coat of armsKingdom of Prussia
Province of Schleswig-Holstein
Armed forces Prussian Army
Armed forces army
Branch of service Light infantry
Type battalion
structure see structure
Strength 1,181 (war strength)
13 officers
2 medical officers
2 officials
105 Oberjäger
1059 hunters
57 horses
Insinuation see insinuations
Location see garrison
march The 18th Hunter March
Butcher Ypres Front
First Battle of Ypres
Second Battle of Ypres

Carpathian Front

Kerensky offensive

Italian front

Twelfth Battle of the Isonzo
First Battle of the Piave

Western front

Great battle in France
Battle of the Marne
Meuse-Argonne offensive
management
Commanders See commanders

On August 16, the emperor ordered the formation of six new army corps ( XXII. To XXVII. RK ) and a Bavarian RD .

In connection with this order issued on August 20, 1914 by the Deputy General Command of IX. AKs the order for the formation of Reserve Jäger Battalion 18 by the replacement battalion Jäger 9 formed in August .

His companies were mostly made up of volunteers . In addition, there were the older generation of the Landwehr and only a few reserve reservists .

The volunteers included an unusually large number of students from Kiel and high schools in Lübeck and Hamburg . There was only one active officer in the battalion. Since he had not recovered from an appendectomy in time , he could not be assigned to one of the other two battalions.

The previous district commander of Wismar took over the leadership of the battalion .

After five weeks of training, the battalion marched on the morning of September 26, 1914, after being blessed by the garrison pastor Löwe, to the sounds of a band and bells ringing at the state train station . It was brought to the Lockstedter camp for the remaining two weeks, according to the order it had to be ready for war use on October 10th , for marching and combat exercises in larger units as well as for combat shooting.

Together with the Reserve Infantry Regiments No. 214 and 216 and shortly thereafter 213 and 215 , exercises took place in the brigade formation.

The training was only aimed at warfare of movement , that is to say, at attack .

In one of the last marching exercises, the battalion was commanded by the General of XXIII. RK, General v. Kleist, inspected.

On the morning of October 13th, the unit left the camp by rail for the western front.

1914

The border was crossed at Herbesthal around 10 p.m.

Coming from Thielt , the battalion received its baptism of fire in the form of a shrapnel bombardment on October 19th in front of Beveren . It has not yet suffered any losses from this .

The 18th hunters advanced through the Houthoulster Forest in the Battle of Ypres and captured Kortekeer with their division . The planned western encirclement of Langemarck to the south , however, did not materialize due to the solidification of the front line. On the evening of November 2nd, the battalion was relieved.

In the attack on the entire Ypres front ordered by the Supreme Army Command (OHL) on November 10th, Dixmude was captured around noon before the hunters proceeded further towards the canal bend. The attack momentum fizzled out again in the evening.

From now on the trench warfare followed with constant rain. The steadily rising water level , the hunters were soon up to their ankles in the water, was mistakenly attributed to the persistent rain. What they did not know was that the Belgians opened their dykes at high tide , flooding their lower hinterland.

When the battalion was relieved on November 18, it had a combat strength of only 50 people. In the days that followed, the battalion received a company from the Stollwerk airship battalion as its first replacement and was inspected by the division commander, Lieutenant General Hahn.

Martje-Baert west of Merckem
The battalion music under music master Möller during the march through Jonkershove

Back at the front in front of Merckem (today Merkem) , the battalion was for the first time in expanded shelters that had previously been set up by the RJB 17 stationed there. The water level of the Martje trench rose on December 9 from 1.20 m above normal to over 2 m. Except for the higher road, all feasible connections to and from the battalion were now missing. In response, the hunters were withdrawn in the dark of night.

Four people in civilian clothes, they turned out to be emissaries of the Association of German Hunters in Hamburg and the Association of Former Hunters and Riflemen in Lübeck , appeared on December 10th with two carriages of love gifts as a Christmas present for the 18th hunters in Houthulst Castle .

After a brief operation in the Bixschoote , which had been captured but destroyed , the division and from this the 18th hunters were moved to the army reserve in the village of Coolskamp. After the requisition of 25 musical instruments in the stage , the battalion band was put together.

1915

Houthulst was the new resting place of the battalion and the front on the western edge of the Houlthulst forest , which was considered the largest in Belgium , was only reached after a one-hour march through it. Opposite were Zouaves and Turkos as enemies and the intensity of the generic air reconnaissance had increased.

As the trench warfare stagnated in Flanders, the 4th Army was supplied with a weapon containing a new type of warfare agent, chlorine gas , at the beginning of February . Colonel Peterson, commander of the newly established gas troop units and pioneer units, appeared at the 46th RD at the end of March and the installation of the gas bottles in the Steenstraate-Poelkappelle section began here from Easter. One entrusted the XXIII. and XXVI. RK with the implementation. The position of the 18th hunters, which was on alert from April 15th, was to the left of the Kippe - Steenstraate road .

The combat area at Pilkem ( aerial photography )

General v. Falkenhayn was in Thielt on April 21 and urged the Commander-in-Chief to carry out the attack as soon as possible. Since the wind had finally turned favorably, it was then set for the morning of the next day.

However, since, contrary to expectations, there was no wind in the morning, the Second Battle of Flanders did not begin until the wind started again in the late afternoon hours. The battalion was initially a reserve of the neighboring brigade before it was made available to the RIR 215 from Lübeck. But on the 25th the tide turned and a promising continuation of the attack was no longer feasible. The commanding general of the XXIII. RK, General v. Kathen , stressed the need to continue, but the attack was stopped. In the French counterattack, lost ground was recaptured. The battalion, which had lost about a third of its combat strength, became a brigade reserve again. When the enemy on the other side of the Yser Canal broke through the German line, all reserves were used to block the breakthrough. The last stretch of the conquered area across the canal was cleared on May 13th.

The battalion moved into the Pilkem section on May 24th . From the Pilkem-Höhe located in it, the fine would be offered a deep insight into the rear area as well as a good flanking possibility of its canal position. To counteract this danger, the position had to be expanded and held. The next day, leaflets dropped by enemy planes announced Italy's entry into the war .

Every way back into the stage led the soldiers via the delousing station in Cortemarck . During such a return trip on a night in August, the battalion was attacked for the first time by the opposing air force, which had only been active during the day. The artillery was upgraded on both sides. The so-called Dicken Bratelmann on the German side soon faced Big Berthas .

On the night of August 12th, a zeppelin airship flew over the position of the fighters to drop bombs on Ypres , Poperinghe and Hazebrouck .

Back in the stage, there was another innovation. The small railways set up shortly before by AOK 4 enabled bathing trips to Ostend . Officially to offer variety and relaxation to those who have been fighting there for almost a year, unofficially to simulate troop movements through the frequent transports in the Belgian hinterland .

On August 20, the battalion celebrated its founding day with an evening party in the barracks camp.

A combat exercise was conducted in front of the commanding general, v. Kathen, the division commander, v. Wasielewski, General v. Gregory and other gentlemen performed on September 13 in Roulers from the 18th RJB and the II / 216.

In September the divisional sections were redistributed again. The battalion came to the lock of the Yser Canal near Het Sas .

Since the battalion members were hunters , it organized a Hubertus hunt in the Houthulster forest on November 14th together with the division commander .

1916

The RJB 18 received its regular machine gun department from the FMG 34 and from the Hanoverian and Alsatian machine gun supplementary train 541 and was replaced by General v. Masielewski visited on March 5th and by Colonel Maercker on March 6th.

The "St. Eloi position" on April 1, 1916 (aviator photography)

On March 16, the 46th RD was relocated from the so-called floodplains to the Wytschaete-Bogen , as a major English attack was expected there. The 18th hunters were transferred to the forward corner of the southern Ypres arch to St. Eloi , the alleged impending focal point. The 3rd regular English division and the 1st Canadian division were about 80 m away . They were said to be storm divisions.

At 5.15 a.m. on the morning of March 27, four out of five blasts beneath the trenches were carried out by the 18th hunters. Immediately afterwards, a strong artillery fire began from the Kemmelberg flanking the position . It was not until the 28th that the brigade order was issued that the remainder of the battalion should withdraw. But although the position of St. Eloi had to be given up, the English were still unable to tear open the front at this point. The commander of the hunters, Captain Stoffleth, received the order on April 1st to take command of the Eloi section. The four funnels were recaptured under this on April 7th and should no longer be given up. In the meantime , the heavily decimated RJB 18 became the closed 3rd company of RJB 17 as a replacement. The Commander-in-Chief of the 4th Army inspected the remains of the hunters and the RIR 216 and 214 in Wervick and on Good Friday , April 21, the newly assembled battalion was inspected by the commanding general and the division commander.

On the evening of July 21, the battalion received an order from the General Command to rally. Contrary to expectations, however, it did not go to the nearby Somme or Verdun , but rather the battalion, together with nine others, was transferred to the Carpathians in response to the Brusilov offensive . When their train passed Breslau , the hunters' shako was replaced by the infantrymen's spiked hood . The heir to the throne , Archduke Karl , who was to take over the newly formed Army Group, held a troop display on July 28th.

View from Watonarka to Ludowa

The 18th fighters stormed against the Russian infantry, the Siberian Rifle Regiment No. 326 of the 82nd Brigade , the system of trenches on the summit of Hala, advanced to the Watonarka pass and took the dominant Ludova.

When Romania entered the war, the Carpathian front was surrounded on three sides by the enemy. After a wing of the 200th ID permanently lost contact with its neighbor, the ID backed off. In the September battle in the Ludowa region , the division recaptured the old front line . In defending this line at the Ludowa a developed trench warfare . On September 21, the battalion commander's cap was torn off the head by a shrapnel.

On September 29th there was a 2 km wide gap in the front to the Michalewy valley. The opposing side tried to use this advantage and push through the gap: after a number of opposing soldiers had already advanced, countermeasures initiated by battalion commander Hauptmann Stoffleth closed it again and over 600 Russian soldiers were captured. In recognition in October met Iron Crosses , Hanseaten crosses , Mecklenburg Military Orders of Merit and Order of the Austrian battalion. The commander was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Hohenzollers House Order by the Emperor .

Back to the front, the hunters were deployed in the Pryslip section in the Czeremosztal until winter severely restricted the military options for both sides.

On December 12th, the Entente was made an offer of peace that was to have no consequences.

1917

For the second quarter of the year, Captain Stoffleth took command of the 1st Battalion Honv. IR 19 , which was part of the 40th Honved Division on the corner of three countries on the Capul, while its commander, the Hungarian Major Kossa, took over the command of the 18th RJB .

The revolution that broke out in Russia in March reached the front on Russian Easter Sunday, April 15. The Russian soldiers left their trenches unarmed, waving to the surprised hunters , in order to make a peace that would last until June in no man's land . Since the crews changed, their artillery fired again for the first time, and when higher officers came into the trench, their infantry too. The Kerensky offensive began and had an impact as far as the Carpathians. After their end, the Russian troops withdrew and the 200th Infantry Division conquered the freed areas without a fight.

Here, Captain Stoffleth led the so-called Bialy Detachment, which consisted of RJB 18, RJB 17, a platoon of Uhlans , four batteries and a pioneer company, which was followed by the 28th Hungarian military police battalion . Major Roël, deputy to Colonel Thümmel, who was on vacation, led the so-called Putilla detachment, which the rest of the division followed. When the two rivers in the lower Czeremosztal were united, the division was complete again. A reporter for the Daily Rundschau from Berlin reported while following the Cseremosz from the ranks of the 18th RJB . Only once more, when conquering the heights around Wiznitz , was there any military resistance.

Carpathian badge

At the beginning of August the battalion became a brigade reserve and followed the Sereth division to Romania to the city of the same name. During that time, the young Emperor of Austria awarded the corps members the Carpathian badge in the form of silver deer antlers in recognition of their achievements . This was worn on the cap.

After the brigade commander v. Below had taken command of the division, the 2nd Jäger Battalion was commanded by Colonel Lehmann, the last peace commander of the main battalion from RJB 18 .

The corps was withdrawn without knowing the new target. The battalion's train stopped at the station in Czap on the morning of September 26th . Shortly afterwards the court train of the German emperor also stopped there. The captain reported and spoke to the emperor for about 20 minutes. When he asked where his battalion was going, the Emperor replied that he would find out soon enough. The court train had barely left the station when another court train entered the station. Also Archduke Joseph , he was in this, was reimbursed by Stoffleth message.

The new target was the Isonzo Front . On the morning of October 8th, the commander in chief of the 14th Army inspected the battalion and in the afternoon issued the regimental order that the battalion music of the 18th hunters would be disbanded.

In the so-called Ieza offensive , the RJB 18 initially only moved after the Jäger Regiments 3 and 4 until it received the order to descend into the Cosizzatal in order to occupy the ridge of the Castel del Monte from there . Shortly thereafter, the order was changed to the effect that Captain Stoffleth should act “according to the situation”. So the 18s at the head of the division headed towards the Cardonas headquarters in Udine . East of Udine, along the Torrente Torre , they were received in the evening by a reception station for the Italian army . After consultation with Colonel Thümmel, Stoffleth's hunters and the RJB 23, which was subordinate to them for this purpose, wanted to attack them only with the bayonet , since a retreat was impossible . The 18s underwent enemy fire and waited for the 23s. But when these had not yet moved up at the beginning of dawn , the commander let his fighters line up for the storm alone . They crossed the river and broke the enemy line because the Italians weren't reacting quickly enough. After the storming of the heavily occupied village of Beivârs that followed, the staff of the 47th IR. FERRARA captured.

Now the RJB 18 was approaching Udine to take it from behind. Since you felt safe here, it was not particularly well defended. The hunters followed the tram tracks into the city center and blocked all cross connections from east to west on the way. Udine, seat of the command of the XXVII. Italian corps, whose commander Cadorna escaped at the last minute, was captured .

As an army reserve, the division crossed the Tagliamento on November 9th before moving to General v. Stone was determined. Fighting followed at the Fontana Serra . On November 28, 1917, the commander suffered gas poisoning near Vidor . Recovered, he led his 18s in the mountain battles west of the Piave .

Star top

After others had previously failed, Captain Stoffleth received the order in the early morning of December 13th that he had to conquer the Sternkuppe (Monte Valderoa). His strategy did not start from the point from which Jäger 23 and 8th Grenadiers tried unsuccessfully. The Cinespa valley was crossed under cover of darkness. He pushed his companies as close as possible to the upper valley and then attacked the steepest but hollow rocky slopes, roughly in the middle between Sternkuppe and the point 1222 marked on the map. The 23rd fighters now drew Italian attention from the point where they previously failed. Upon the report of the successful break-in of the 18s, RJB 23 and III./Jäger -Regiment 3 were drawn up and temporarily placed under the 18s. Italian troops approaching from Monte Solarolo to strengthen their forces could be prevented.

For the conquest of Udine and the storming of Monte Valderoa , the emperor distinguished the battalion commander with the award of the Pour le Mérite order . Shortly afterwards the battalion received a picture of the attack area at Tolmein , signed by the Supreme Warlord .

When the 18th hunters were relieved on December 14th on the Sternkuppe and brought to Schievenin , there were 1000 prisoners, one heavy and three medium-sized mine throwers, as well as three light and 28 heavy machine guns in spoils of war, compared to losses of two thirds of the combat strength .

  • Breakthrough battle of the German 14th Army in the 12th Isonzo battle, October 24-27, 1917
  • To Reserve Jäger Battalion No. 18

    "It is a particular pleasure for me to be able to send the brave battalion on behalf of Sr. Majesty the Emperor and King the following picture as a lasting memory of the victorious campaign against Italy."

    - The Commander-in-Chief, von Below, General of the Infantry

1918

After leaving their resting place, the battalion said goodbye to Italy on February 8 and loaded onto Santa Lucia four days later . When the train stopped in Karlsruhe , your commander, whom he took over for the New Year , rejoined his hunters. In the evening it reached its terminus in Mörchingen ( Lorraine ). There the division, which had the reputation of being one of the best shock divisions in Germany, was being prepared. The regiment received with Major v. Wodtke a new commander. In Hagenau , the battalion commander and others were informed about the latest developments for the planned spring offensive . One of the others, former division commander of the battalion, v. Masielewski , from Flanders, remembered his hunters “with great joy”.

From now on the division was driven towards the front in the morning for the purpose of mock maneuvers on the following days and away from it in the dark. On Good Friday , the start of the offensive, the battalion was loaded onto Cambrai . On the following days it followed the front line over the Somme area to Péronne . This changed when the regiment advanced to the banks of the Avre in order to maintain what had been achieved so far. An explosive shell put the officer corps of the 18th fighter out of action near Moreuils .

The 200th Infantry Division was assigned to the capture of Reims , an important French railway junction on the Marne , which was planned for mid-July . She was moved from the front to Le Quesnoy for preparation . After the battalion had regained its combat strength with new replacements, 60 men per company, their exercises began. General vd Marwitz , Commander-in-Chief of the 2nd Army , was present at one of these on May 30th . The division marched on July 14 in the Forêt de Ris on both sides of Tréloup for the battle of the Marne . The commanders of the other two battalions and their staffs, they were in the front row, fell after crossing the river. On the night of July 17, the 30-man battalion was replaced by RJB 6 . On the 17th the Jäger Regiment 5 was reformed so that it consisted of only one battalion, the Ohlendorf battalion . This was subordinated to the Jäger Regiment 3 . The RJB 17 left the association on the 21st. With the return of Stoffleth to his 18s, the 23s under Captain Ohlendorf became independent again . The 18th hunters were brought to Sedan to relax and from there they moved into St. Menges .

The combat strength of the battalion was once 800 to 1000 in Flanders, 600 to 700 in the Carpathians, 500 to 600 in Italy, 350 on the Avre, 250 on the Marne and just under 150 in the Champagne battle. The 46th Reserve Division , former division of the 18th Jäger in Flanders, was completely disbanded at this time for lack of replacement.

Withdrawal struggles

On 22 the rest period was over and the battalion was to St. Souplet on the Py transported where Captain Stoffleth for on holiday located regimental commander representation, the leadership of the hunters Regiment 5 took over. The French military pushed it back with infantry, artillery and gas from the river behind the Givet Heights onto the German Main Line of Resistance (HWL) . When the returned Major v. Wodtke fell, Stoffleth took over the command of the regiment again. Captain Wild, who had been promoted to major shortly before, took over command of the regiment the next morning as the older one.

In October the 18s were relocated to the left edge of the division section, an offshoot of the Helenenhöhe called "Sattelberg". On the orders of Colonel Lehmann, who was with the staff of the 2nd Jäger Brigade on the neighboring Blanc Mont , Stoffleth and three of his companies were brought across. As the next day American infantry and tanks to Blanc Mont conquered, he managed to escape his capture the bar in the last minute. The 38-man battalion withdrew to the so-called Petersberg , where Captain Stoffleth, appointed adjutant of AOK 17 by AKO , left "his" 18th fighters and was initially represented by the senior officer. At St. Étienne , north of the Arnesbach, the battalion was developed into the regiment's combat battalion. After three days of recovery, the 2 / Jäger 18 was disbanded and distributed to the remaining companies along with the 38-man incoming replacement. On October 13th, the battalion was used as a reaction force , before being transferred to Barzy five days later with the 200th ID as a reaction division behind the section of the. On the 22nd at Boué near the Sambre-Oise Canal , which formed the line to the enemy, the II./RIR 12 was replaced by the 18th fighters . Until its replacement on October 31st, the divisional order mentioned it twice with approval.

The battalion deployed in Bergues on November 4th had to withdraw in the evening and reached the outskirts of Avesnes on the 7th, which had to be evacuated the following day. The last "act" in the world war is the rallying of the battalion on the morning of November 11th in Cousolre , on which the order of battle announced by divisional order the cessation of all hostile acts from 12 noon.

In order to simplify the command structure, the division divided the RJB 23 on the battalions 17 and 18 and moved home. The German border was crossed on November 25 at Steinbach , south of Malmedy . The division was then, immediately followed by the English cavalry , as the last on its march road across the Eifel . On the night of December 3rd to 4th the division crossed the Rhine near Bonn . Those on the left bank of the Rhine were released in Uckerath . On December 12th, the 23ers were branched off to Sohlbach . The division association was founded on December 13th by the last division order v. Belows resolved. The MGK, pack squadron and parts of the 1st and 4th company were loaded on December 15th in Betzdorf and transported to Ratzeburg. The rest marched to Hann. Münden to be loaded there with the 18th ID .

1919

On the morning of January 7th, 1919, her train was received by the commandant and adjutant of the replacement battalion, as well as the officers who had already arrived at the Ratzeburg train station. Then the remnants of the battalion moved into the cathedral barracks.

Replacement battalion

According to the calendar of mobilization dates drawn up in peace, the Ratzeburg Jäger Replacement Battalion was formed in August 1914 . After the field battalion had been reinforced during the war, the older age groups of the reserve and the younger generation of the Landwehr were assigned to Reserve Jäger Battalion No. 9, which was being formed, and the remaining capable crews to the replacement battalion (2 companies of 250 men) .

After the Battle of the Marne , several Army Corps (AK) , whose approval the Reichstag had refused in 1912, was ordered. The replacement battalion received from the deputy general command of the IX. AKs from Altona received the telegraphic order to set up the Reserve Jäger Battalion No. 18 . The RJB 18 was transferred to the Lockstedt camp on September 22nd . From there it was on 12 October after Belgium shipped to there in the Association of 46th Reserve Division in Flanders his baptism of fire to get.

A little later, the battalion received the order to set up a replacement cyclist company, which was handed over to the Guard Rifle Battalion after Christmas .

In order to prevent possible acts of sabotage, the replacement battalion was responsible for guarding the station in Büchen , as well as the dynamite factory Krümmel and the powder factory Düneberg in Geesthacht .

Since the replacement battalion had to supply three hunter battalions, two new recruit depots and a new replacement cyclist company were set up in 1915.

The deputy commander of the 33rd Infantry Brigade in command of the replacement battalion, Lieutenant General von Heinzel, visited the battalion several times. The deputy brigade commander of the 81st Infantry Brigade in Lübeck , Major General v. Wright , toured the battalion.

As the strength of the replacement battalion grew steadily in 1915, two of the six replacement companies and one recruit depot were relocated to Mölln .

To demonstrate internal resistance in front of the enemy , the chief warlord's birthday was also celebrated in 1917 with a peace-like character. It should be the last time that the Lauenburg hunters roamed the streets of Ratzeburg on this occasion after the great tattoo . In the course of the year the Möllner remnants of the 5th and 6th companies and the 3rd recruit depot were disbanded.

Since the number of teams transferred for training could no longer be reconciled with those requested as replacement, the 3rd and 4th replacement company and the 2nd recruit depot were dissolved.

When there was mutiny in Kiel, see Kieler Sailors' Uprising , the four companies of the replacement battalion Infantry Regiment No. 162 were sent to Kiel to restore order. There, however, three of the four companies defected to the insurgents and the fourth returned disarmed.

The Lauenburg replacement battalion was now to be sent with a strength of 100 men with weapons and ammunition to the fourth company in the Marli barracks for their rearmament. Those should then stop the rampant riot . Since the way by train across the streets was blocked by the demonstrators, the intention was to get to Lübeck via the Wakenitz in the early morning hours of the next day . However, the project was no longer carried out because the riot hit Ratzeburg during the night. The order was given to the battalion not to fight, but to negotiate. A soldiers' council was formed shortly afterwards.

deputy commander
Rank Surname date
Captain Grandier until May 6, 1915
Lieutenant colonel Ferdinand von Bredow from May 6, 1915

Demobilization

The remnants of the battalion were now responsible for the demobilization of their own unit, the Reserve Jäger Battalion No. 9, the Reserve Jäger Battalion No. 18 as well as the Reserve Cycle Company 88.

On orders, a new volunteer battalion was set up from his two companies, the two machine-gun companies and the economic company . A second volunteer battalion, the Schneider volunteer battalion, formed independently . That completed the border protection in the east.

As in Ratzeburg, a volunteer battalion was formed from the remnants of the 14th Jäger Battalion in Wismar, Mecklenburg . Both were merged on May 11, 1919 to form Reichswehr-Jäger-Bataillon 9 in the provisional Reichswehr .

The whereabouts of Ratzeburg as a garrison location was determined on March 7, 1920. The part of the battalion located in Wismar moved to Ratzeburg. The Schneider volunteer battalion had since returned and been disbanded.

Maintenance of tradition

Flag dedication card

With the establishment of the Reichsheeres on January 1, 1921, the training battalion of the 6th Infantry Regiment was established in Ratzeburg . This continued the tradition of the former Lauenburg Jäger Battalion No. 9 in its 15th, later also 14th company .

After the war there were three more hunter days in Ratzeburg:

  • August 21, 1921 - the task was to dedicate a memorial stone to the fallen comrades on the banks of the Ratzeburg lake .
  • June 23, 1924 - the board of directors of the Northwest German Jägerbund called into town to festively dedicate the new flag of the Association of Former Hunters in Ratzeburg
  • June 21, 1926 - the 60th anniversary of the founding of the battalion.

societies

  • Association of former 9th hunters in Berlin
  • Association of former 9th hunters in Hamburg
  • Association of former hunters and riflemen in Lübeck
  • Association of former hunters Kiel
  • Association of former hunters and shooters in Bremen
  • Association of former hunters in Ratzeburg

Monuments

  • August 18, 1880 - Unveiling of the memorial stone at the place where the Portepee Ensign Allendorf fell for ten years.
His uncle and the officer corps of the at that time in Hagenau i. E. Garrison Lauenburg Jäger Battalion No. 9 enabled the erection of the monument with their contributions.
The ensign's bones were previously transferred and buried at the foot of the monument.
  • August 18, 1891 - Inauguration of the battalion memorial at Hundebusch at the end of the first battalion holiday on the anniversary of the Battle of Gravelotte . It was suggested that the draft of the later battalion commander, Major von Bose , who would later fight in Gravelotte, be transferred to the sculptor Pehle, who was a member of the battalion at the time.
It consists of a stone pyramid crowned by a bronze eagle. In the front there is an inscription plaque with the names of the fallen hunters.
At the time of the unveiling, a delegation of the battalion, consisting of four old comrades and four chief hunters, was in Chantrenne in front of the local memorial to the fallen 9th hunters.
  • August 21, 1921 - Unveiling of the Jäger monument donated by former relatives and friends of the Lauenburg Jäger Battalion No. 9 , the Reserve Jäger Battalion No. 9 and the newly established Reserve Jäger Battalion No. 18 in the so-called Kindergarten in the suburb on Königsdamm.
It consists of a column made of white sandstone with a horse's head on top. The horse's head is the coat of arms of the Duchy of Lauenburg . Names were not given on the memorial as there was not enough space on the four sides. Instead, only the number of those killed is recorded.
Field Battalion 34 officers and 675 Oberjäger and Jäger
Reserve Battalion 18 officers and 441 Oberjäger and Jäger
18th Battalion 28 officers and 1677 Oberjäger and Jäger
A total of 80 officers and 2,793 chief hunters and hunters fell. Not including the hundreds of missing people .
The pageant to the memorial square - consisting of the honor company, generals and senior officers who were once members of the battalion, the heads of the authorities, ... - was the largest that Ratzeburg had ever seen, according to newspapers.
Major Lehmann, the last commanding officer of the battalion, gave the address after greeting the guests on the crowded market square.
Afterwards, the festival participants took to the parade line-up and the senior officers and guests of honor walked the front.
  • “Monuments

  • Hunters memorial near Chantrenne

  • Hunter memorial in the dog bush

  • Jäger monument in Ratzeburg

literature

  • Curt Badinski: From a long time. Reminder sheets of the Jäger-Feld-Battalion No. 9. World War 1914–1918. Vol. 1, Lauenburgischer Heimatverlag, Ratzeburg 1932.
  • Curt Badinski: From a long time. Reminder sheets of the Jäger-Feld-Battalion No. 9. World War 1914–1918. Vol. 2, Lauenburgischer Heimatverlag, Ratzeburg 1933.
  • Erich Karitzky: Reserve Jäger Battalion No. 9th first edition. Verlag Gerhard Stalling , Oldenburg i. D. 1925, DNB 58033709X . Digitized version of the Württemberg State Library .
  • Hanns Möller : History of the knights of the order "Pour le mérite" in the World War. Volume 2, Verlag Bernard & Graefe, Berlin 1935, pp. 380–382.
  • Gustav Stoffleth: History of the Reserve Jäger Battalion No. 18. Verlag Bernard & Graefe, Berlin 1937, DNB 362821119 .
  • Rudolf Weise: Das Lauenburgische Jäger-Bataillon No. 9. Verlag von J. Neudamm, Neudamm 1902, OCLC 823640885 .
  • Siegfried von Ziegner: History of the Lauenburg Jäger Battalion No. 9. Verlag von HHC Freystatzky's Buchdruckerei, Ratzeburg 1898.

Works

Web links

Commons : Lauenburgisches Jäger-Bataillon Nr. 9  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ AKO:

    "In pursuance of my order of 18. d. M. ad 4, that after the completion of the Jäger-Ersatz-Kompagnien immediately to the formation of a Jäger Battalion, which is for the time being called Jäger Battalion No. 9 . The formation is to take place here in Berlin and to be placed in the hands of the inspector of the hunters and riflemen, Colonel Count zu Dohna, whom I have instructed to submit proposals for filling the officer positions to this battalion. The War Ministry must then arrange for the necessary to take place as quickly as possible and, in particular, to send the detailed implementation regulations to Count zu Dohna as soon as possible. "

    - Berlin, d. June 21, 1866. (signed) Wilhelm
  2. ↑ Order from Altona: "Substitute Jäger Battalion 9 has to set up a reserve Jäger Battalion 18 beyond the schedule; the commander, doctor and purser will be referred, the battalion has to arrange everything else independently."
  3. ↑ on February 8, 1915, transferred to Reserve Infantry Regiment No. 215
  4. ↑ wounded
  5. ↑ Infantry Regiment No. 394
  6. ↑ Infantry Regiment No. 370
  7. ↑ Kgl. Bay. Reserve Jäger Battalion 1
  8. ↑ Kgl. Bay. Reserve Jäger Battalion 1
  9. ↑ Appointed commander of the RIR 214. † December 18, 1936 in Göttingen
  10. ^ Reserve Jäger Battalion No. 6
  11. ↑ Kgl. Bay. Reserve Jäger Battalion 1
  12. ↑ from the Jäger Battalion 11
  13. ↑ Division staff
  14. ↑ JB 11
  15. ↑ Standard bearers did not have a gun.
  16. ↑ this relieved the shoulder
  17. ↑ Once a month a special battalion service was held in it.
  18. ↑ If God is for us, who may be against us
  19. ↑ Fifty years of existence of the Lauenburg Jäger battalion in Ratzeburg In: Vaterstädtische Blätter . No. 39 of June 25, 1916.
  20. ↑ Jan-Jasper Fast: From craftsman to entrepreneur. The Possehl family from Lübeck. Verlag Schmidt-Römhild , Lübeck 2000, ISBN 3-7950-0471-3 .
  21. ↑ It is said that one of the hunters, pointing to the former, asked his neighbor: Is that Bismarck? The named turned to him and replied: Yes, that's me , and dressed in the hunters he added: Well, hunter welfare , hunter! . They answered with: Waidmannsdank!
  22. ↑ If a regiment is listed below the brigade, the battalion was subordinate to this regiment
  23. Jump up ↑ once commander of the Bismarck fighters and, if you can believe the history of the 18th Jäger battalion, a sincere friend of the battalion, died April 21, 1936.
  24. ^ Hermann Stegemann : History of the war. Publisher Deutsche Verlagsanstalt, Stuttgart.
  25. ↑ In connection with mining and a late effect, a place in Belgium became famous. During the First World War, mines were also mined there and the mines, as they were no longer under enemy territory, were forgotten . A lightning strike detonated one in the 1950s.
  26. ↑ Curt Badinski: From a great time. Reminder sheets of the Jäger-Feld-Battalion No. 9. World War 1914–1918. Vol. 1, Lauenburgischer Heimatverlag, Ratzeburg 1932, pp. 358-360.
  27. ↑ He painted the Lorelei in 1899
  28. ↑ Dr. Georg Strutz: Autumn Battle in Macedonia - Battle of the Cernabogen 1916 . Gerhard Stalling Verlag, Berlin 1924.
  29. ↑ see also - Reichsarchiv. Struk & Liebmann: Autumn battle in Macedonia Cernabogen 1916. Battles of the World War ; Edited and published in individual representations on behalf of the Reichsarchiv. Issue 3, Stalling Verlag, Berlin 1921.
  30. ^ Gustav Goes: The day X. The great battle in France (March 21 to April 5, 1918). Tradition publishing house, 1932 Berlin
  31. ↑ The regiment was already fighting in Verdun and was then disbanded. Only the Bavarian. RJB 1 and its staff already belonged to its tribe there.
  32. ↑ If the village is also called Latinu in the LINK , it is more than likely that it is Latinul in German regimental histories of the First World War
  33. ↑ If the community in the LINK is also called Boldu , it is more than likely that it is Boldul in the German regimental histories of the First World War
  34. ↑ If the village is only called Muncelu in the LINK , it is more than likely that it is Muncelul in the German regimental histories of the First World War
  35. ↑ see Poznan Uprising (1918–1919)
  36. ↑ Dedicated to the 18th Reserve Jäger Battalion and composed in 1915 by Hermann Möller
  37. ↑ The World War, Volume VIII. P. 35 ff.
  38. ↑ The preparations were made by Prof. Dr. Haber , the creator of the gas weapon, and Colonel Peterson. The first use was for the section of the XXVII. RK was planned, but was postponed again and again due to the unfavorable weather conditions and finally stopped completely.
  39. ↑ the on English and French page as Black day of Ypres was called
  40. ↑ Instead of attacking at dawn with the sun behind you, General v. Kathen as a tactical mistake.
  41. ↑ When the front line in Flanders froze, a mine war arose there . From both sides of the front it was infiltrated by mine tunnels and then filled with explosives. By blowing them up, the enemy then tried to advance. In the St. Eloi position , the English had an advantage in this regard.
  42. ↑ The RJB 17 was set up by BJB 3 in Lübben .
  43. ↑ In the conquest, the 18th fighters , as the army report later reported, played a major role.
  44. ↑ With Lieutenant Calov fell of April 19, the last still in the evening RJB 18 located War volunteers from the year 1914th
  45. ↑ see also municipal mergers in the Aisne department
  46. ↑ The battalion history says that when the city was deserted, you could have heard the bells ringing from it , which heralded the liberation of Avesnes.
  47. ↑ Order from Altona: "Substitute Jäger Battalion 9 has to set up a reserve Jäger Battalion 18 beyond the schedule; the commander, doctor and purser will be referred, the battalion has to arrange everything else independently."
  48. ↑ was transferred to RIR 214