List of the Hesse-Kassel regiments of the early modern period

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The present list of the regiments of Hesse-Kassel from the early modern period ends with the dissolution of the Landgraviate of Hesse-Kassel by Napoleon and its incorporation into the Kingdom of Westphalia in 1807 . Previously, on November 1, 1806 , Elector Wilhelm I had declared the regiments of the Hessian Army "on leave". This is how the later tradition was based, even after the country was annexed by Prussia in 1866.

Since the 16th century, a large number of regiments that existed only temporarily were set up, mostly on the occasion of campaigns. They are not yet part of this overview. The regiments of Hessen-Kassel received special attention when they were leased to King George III. of Great Britain for use in the American War of Independence . Over 12,000 men fought in the New World. Above all, however, the Hesse-Kassel regiments fought alongside the British troops in West Germany in the Seven Years' War .

Explanation of the system

A master list and numbering of the infantry regiments of the Hesse-Kassel army was not introduced. The designation was based on the name of the regiment owner . The list includes the regiments that existed in the long term in the order of their formation and is named after Bleckwenn . In addition, the year of foundation has been added to the list. This is intended to facilitate comparability. This numbering consistently follows the Ticino line-ups. If several regiments were founded in one year, Ticino added a second number (e.g. "1683/5" = fifth Hesse-Kassel regiment, which was set up in 1683). This is followed by the names of the regiment chiefs or the name of the commander.

Meaning of the symbols used: "*" = foundation, "†" = dissolution, ">" = whereabouts, "<" = origin, "=" = double function as a standing regiment of an imperial estate.

Tribe list 1756–1763

Infantry regiments

* Founded in 1683 as Lippe zu Fuß - 1684 Leibregiment (Commander: Alexander Hermann von Wartensleben (1684–1685)) - 1699 Life Guard - 1731 Life Guard - 1751 Guard - 1760 3rd Guard (1763–1784 in the Guard Regiment) - † 1788> II Bat. Infantry Regiment No. 13 > Tradition adopted in 1866 from: Fusilier Regiment “von Gersdorff” (Kurhessisches) No. 80
* Founded in 1683 as Prince Philipp zu Fuß - 1685 Alexander Hermann von Wartensleben - 1690 IW Rotarius - 1692 Ludwig Sittich von Schlitz, called von Goertz - 1696 Otto H. von Löwenstein - 1703 F. Stückrath - 1709 Christian Ludwig Motz - 1713 Conrad von Ranck - 1723 LF von Oeppen - 1731 CG Korff - 1734 Etienne de Clement - 1744 IR Baumbach - 1751 OF Hauding - 1757 WF Capellan - 1758 GH von Toll - 1760 GF Bartheld (Fusiliers) - 1770 Heinrich August von Loßberg (from 1780 Alt-Loßberg ) - 1789 Jungkenn - 1789 FW Lossberg - 1799 Linsingen - 1805 Biesenrodt - † 1806
* Founded in 1684 as Hanstein - 1690 Wilhelm von Hessen-Kassel - 1701 Karl von Hessen-Kassel - 1703 Leopold von Hessen-Kassel - 1704 Ludwig von Hessen-Kassel - 1708 Maximilian von Hessen-Kassel - 1717–1720 as Hessen-Kassel in imperial - Habsburg pay - 1753 Fürstenberg - 1759 Eitel von und zu Gilsa - 1765 Knyphausen - 1784 Donop - † 1789> II. Bat. Infantry Regiment No. 4th
* Founded in 1687 as Prince Karl on foot - Prince Karl - 1701 Prince Wilhelm - 1705 Wilcke - 1709 Dönhoff - 1723 Löwenstein - 1733 August Moritz von Donop - 1748 Johann Casimir von Isenburg-Birstein - 1759 Johann Adolf Ferdinand von Bischhausen - 1762 Wilcke - 1764 Wilhelm Heinrich August von Donop - 1784 Wilhelm zu Innhausen and Knyphausen - 1788 Hanstein - 1789 Heinrich Julius von Kospoth - 1801 Biesenrodt - 1805 Prince Elector Wilhelm - † 1806
* Founded in 1688 as Hereditary Prince Friedrich - 1721 King - 1751 Leibregiment - 1760 Heinrich Wilhelm von Wutginau - 1776 Landgrave Friedrich II. Of Hessen-Kassel - 1783 Leibregiment Fusiliers - 1785 Landgrave Infantry - † 1789> II. Bat. Infantry Regiment No. 7 > Tradition adopted in 1866 from: 1st Kurhessisches Infantry Regiment No. 81
* Founded in 1697 as grenadiers - 1702 grenadier regiment (1727–1751 regiment chief Prince Wilhelm) - 1760 2nd guard - 1763 regiment guard (regiment chief Carl von Bose) - 1784 2nd guard (guard grenadier regiment) - 1785 guard grenadier -Regiment - † 1806> Tradition 1866 taken over by: Fusilier Regiment "von Gersdorff" (Kurhessisches) No. 80
* Founded in 1700 as Anhalt on foot - Lebrecht von Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym - 1703 Prince Ludwig - 1705 Prince Wilhelm - 1727 Prince Friedrich - 1751 Hereditary Prince - 1760 4th Guard - 1760 Leibregiment - 1783 Hereditary Prince Wilhelm - 1785 Leibregiment - 1803 Elector - † 1806> Tradition adopted from: 1st Kurhessisches Infantry Regiment No. 81
* Founded in 1702 as Schöpping zu Fuß - 1704 Exterde - 1718 Rau von Holzhausen - 1736 Waldenheim - 1744 Mannsbach - 1763 Friedrich Wallrab von Gräffendorff - 1767 Moritz von Sachsen-Gotha - 1775 Karl Levin von Trümbach - 1778 Karl Ernst Johann von Bose - † 1789 > II. Bat. Infantry Regiment No. 9
* Established in 1702 as Waiting Life on Foot - 1709 Prince Georg - 1755 Prince Karl - 1805 Landgrave Karl - † 1806
* Founded in 1702 as Schenck zu Fuß - 1703 Wartensleben - 1706 Spiegel - 1709 Rahding - 1719 Wutginau - 1727 Wilcke - 1734 Mauermann - 1744 Hessenstein - 1747 Hessenstein - 1748 Hessenstein - 1753 Canitz - 1759 Malsberg - 1766 Wilhelm Maximilian von Ditfurth - 1789 Hanstein - † 1794
* Founded in 1745 as Anhalt on foot - 1770 Werner von Mirbach - 1780 Friedrich Wilhelm von Loßberg (Jung-Lossberg) - † 1789> II. Bat. Infantry Regiment No. 12
* Founded in 1750 as Hanau on foot - 1759 Prince Wilhelm - 1760 Hereditary Prince - 1783 Prince Friedrich - 1785 Hereditary Prince - 1803 Elector Prince - 1805 Philipp von Wurmb - † 1806
* Founded in 1760 as a guard on foot - 1785 1st Guard - 1788 Guard - † 1806
* Founded in 1760 as Blome Grenadiers - 1762 Wülckenitz - 1763 Müller - 1770 Mannsbach - 1771 Johann Gottlieb Rall - 1777 Wolfgang Friedrich von Woellwarth - 1778 Karl Levin von Trümbach - 1779 Ludwig von Angelelli de Malvezzi - 1784 Bischhausen Land Grenadiers - 1787 Johann Justus Schreiber - † 1789> II. Bat. Infantry Regiment No. 2

Cavalry regiments

Cavalry regiments

The following list shows the actual cavalry regiments. In Hessen-Kassel, too, as in other early modern territories, dragoons were not actually considered cavalry. The designation "K 1" etc. follows Bleckwenn and Witzel.

* Founded in 1672 as a regiment of Karabiniers under Major Wilhelm von Hornumb - 1683 von Wilke - 1683 Rau zu Holzhausen - 1685 Spiegel zum Desenberg - 1714 Prince Maximilian of Hesse - 1714 von Dittfurth - Spiegel zum Desenberg - 1753 Prince Wilhelm - 1760 Hereditary Prince - † 1765
* Founded in 1684 as a body regiment on horseback - 1730 body regiment - 1760 Gens d'Armes - † 1806
* Founded in 1704 as Erbach on horseback - 1705 Boyneburg - 1738 Gräffendorff - 1749 Miltitz - 1759 Oheimb - 1760 Einsiedel - 1763 master craftsman - 1764 Schlotheim - 1765 Dragoons (Schlotheim) - 1783 Buttlar - 1787 - 1787 Hyn - † 1788> Dragoon Regiment D II
* Founded in 1704 as Hanstein on Horseback - 1705 Weißenfels - 1713 Diemar - 1735 Gräffendorff - 1738 Ernst Hartmann von Diemar - 1740 Christian Ludwig von Isenburg-Birstein - 1757 Prüschenck - 1761 Wolff - 1775 Leopold Philipp von Heister - 1777 Diemar - 1786 Dalwigk - † 1788> Dragoon Regiment DI
* Founded in 1760 as Garde du Corps (2 companies) - 1787 Regiment † 1806

Dragoon regiments

The numbering is based on Bleckwenn, different from Rudolf Witzel.

* Founded in 1688 as Nassau-Weilburg -Dragoner - 1689 Lippe - 1694 Tettau - 1696 Hessen-Homburg - 1704 Auerochs - 1731 Blohm (Melchior Johann von Blome) - 1742 Saxe-Gotha - 1757 Prince Friedrich - † 1806
* Founded in 1688 as Wartensleben -Dragoner - 1690 Graeffendorff - 1695 Hereditary Prince Friedrich - 1721 King - 1751 Leibregiment Dragoons - † 1806

Hussar regiments

* Founded in 1744 as a hussar corps - 1787 hussar regiment - † 1806

See also

literature

  • Uwe Peter Böhm: Hessian military. The troops of the Landgraviate of Hesse-Kassel 1672–1806. Edited on behalf of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Heereskunde eV, Beckum 1986.
  • Georg Tessin : The regiments of the European states in the Ancien Régime des XVI. to XVIII. Century . 3 volumes (1986-1995). Biblio Verlag, Osnabrück, ISBN 3-7648-1763-1 .
  • Rudolf Witzel: Hessen Kassel's Army in the Allied Army 1762 . BoD - Books on Demand, 2008, ISBN 978-3-8334-7531-3 ( limited preview in Google book search).
  • Tribe and ranking list of the Elector's Hessian Army Corps from the 16th century to 1866. ( digitized version ).
  • List of their chiefs and other officers with the troops. In: Hochfürstlich-Hessen-Casselscher Staats- u. Address calendar for the year of Christ 1764 . Poor, orphanage and foundling house, Cassel 1764, p. 51–74 ( orka.bibliothek.uni-kassel.de ).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Marked in the list with "traditional succession". Cf. Fritz Kersten, Georg Ortenburg: Hessian military at the time of the German Confederation . Ed .: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Heereskunde eV Beckum 1984, p. 6 .
  2. ↑ Bleckwenn introduced the numbering for most states of the early modern period according to the principle of anciency .
  3. ^ Georg Tessin : The regiments of the European states in the Ancien Régime des XVI. to XVIII. Century . 3 volumes (1986-1995). Biblio Verlag, Osnabrück, ISBN 3-7648-1763-1 , p. 169 .
  4. ^ Rudolf Witzel: Hessen Kassel's Army in the Allied Army 1762 . BoD - Books on Demand, 2008, ISBN 978-3-8334-7531-3 ( limited preview in Google book search).