List of the Electoral Saxon regiments of the early modern period

The present list of regiments from the early modern period ends with the end of the Electorate of Saxony on December 11, 1806. There was no turning point, as the Brandenburg-Prussian army experienced due to its surrender in 1806. Most of the regiments continued the tradition of the regiments of the early modern period within the Napoleonic Rhine Confederation . Since the 16th century a large number of temporary regiments have been set up, mostly on the occasion of campaigns. They are not yet part of this overview.

Explanation of the system

A master list and numbering of the infantry regiments of the Electoral Saxon army was not introduced. The designation was based on the name of the regiment owner . The list below includes the regiments that existed in the long term in the order in which they were formed and named after Bleckwenn . In addition, the year of foundation has been added to the list below. 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. "1756/2" = second Electoral Saxon regiment that was set up in 1756). This is followed by the names of the regiment chiefs or the name (possibly name of the commander).

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

Infantry regiments

At the beginning of the Seven Years' War , most of the Saxon regiments had to capitulate to Prussia near Pirna in 1757 . The attempt to take over regiments in the Prussian army failed across the board. Most of the soldiers deserted. As a result, the troops could be set up in new formations. They fought primarily with the French army in West Germany against the Allies .

→ List of infantry regiments of the Old Prussian Army: formerly Electoral Saxon regiments

• Infantry Regiment No. 1 1663

* 1663 as a body regiment on foot (Brandt - 1676 Kuffer ) - 1680 body regiment - 1692 body guards - 1694 body guards - 1700 guards - 1712 1st guards - 1733 1st guards - 1748 guards - † 1756> Old Prussian Infantry Regiment S 52 (1756) - 1757 dissolved again> 1763 Guard - 1764 Elector> 1806

• Infantry Regiment No. 2 1680/2 (<from Obersächsischer Kreis)

* 1680 as Duke Christian on foot - 1689 Prince Christian August - 1692 Schöning - 1693 Heinrich Ehrenreich von Bornstedt - 1700 Elector Prince - 1713 Royal Prince - 1733 Leibregiment - 1740 Queen - † 1756> 1758 Prince Joseph - 1763 Elector - 1764 Thiele - 1778 Friedrich von Anhalt - 1783 Brühl - 1786 Hartitzsch - 1794 Wiedemann - 1795 Niesemeuschel> 1806

• Infantry Regiment No. 3 1682/5

* 1682 as Kuffer on foot - 1689 Uetterodt - 1697 Holstein - 1699 Queen - 1727 Prince Joseph - 1728 Rutowsky - 1729 Böhnen - 1730 Johann August von Haxthausen - 1741 Frankenberg - 1744 Saxe-Gotha ( Johann Adolf von Sachsen-Gotha-Altenburg ) - † 1756> Old Prussian Infantry Regiment S 54 (1756) - † 1758> 1758 Sachsen-Gotha - 1799 Low> 1806

• Infantry Regiment No. 4 1701/5

* 1701 as Beichlingen on foot - 1703 Wackerbarth - 1714 Friesen - 1717 Pflugk - 1728 Caila - 1740 Niesemeuschel - 1746 Frankenberg - 1751 Prince Friedrich August - † 1756> Old Prussian Infantry Regiment S 56 1756/7 - † 1763> new: 1757 Prince Friedrich August - 1763 Elector Prince - 1763 Elector - 1764 Prince Maximilian> 1806

• Infantry Regiment No. 5 1704/6

* 1704 as Weissenfels on foot - 1746 Prince Clemens - † 1756> Old Prussian Infantry Regiment S 58 (1756) - † 1757> new 1758 Prinz-Clemens> 1806

• Infantry Regiment No. 6 1709/2

* 1709 as Seckendorff Grenadiers - 1711 Seckendorff Infantry - 1717 Diemar - 1719 Marancourt - 1723 Rudolstadt - 1728 Saxony-Gotha - 1734 Löwenthal - 1736 Sulkowsky - 1744 Nicolaus Pirch - 1746 Johann Christoph von Minckwitz - † 1756> Old Prussian Infantry Regiment S 53 ( 1756) - † 1757> 1758 Minckwitz Infantry - 1759 Prince Anton> 1806

• Infantry Regiment No. 7 1711/3

* 1711 as Flemming Infantry - 1715 Wackerbarth - 1717 Dressky - 1729 Wilke - 1739 Cosel - 1746 Friesen - 1755 Prince Karl Maximilian - † 1756> Old Prussian Infantry Regiment S 59 (1756) - † 1757> 1758 Prince Karl Maximilian - 1782 Zanthier - 1798 Prince Friedrich August> 1806

• Infantry Regiment No. 8 1723/1

* 1723 as? - 1730 Grenadier Regiment Sachsen-Weimar - 1733 Prince Xaver - † 1756> Old Prussian Infantry Regiment S 59 (1756) - † 1757> 1758 Prince Xaver > 1806

• Infantry Regiment No. 9 1729/1

* 1729 as Garde Grenadier-Regiment - 1733 Grenadiergarde - 1743 Leibgrenadiergarde - † 1756> new 1763 Leibgrenadiergarde> 1806

• Infantry Regiment No. 10 1729/3

* 1729 as Janissary Battalion - 1731 Friesen Grenadier Battalion - † 1733

• Infantry Regiment No. 10 1741/1

* 1741 as Schönberg Fusiliers - 1745 Rochow - 1746 Rochow Infantry - † 1756> Old Prussian Infantry Regiment S 50 (1756) - † 1757> new 1758 Rochow - 1762 Prince Maximilian - 1764 Friedrich Christoph zu Solms-Wildenfels - 1779 Riedesel - 1786 Lindt - 1801 rights> 1806

• Infantry Regiment No. 11 1741/2

* 1741 as Brühl Infantry ( Heinrich von Brühl ) - † 1756> Old Prussian Infantry Regiment S 51 (1756) - † 1757> new 1758 Brühl Infantry - 1763 Brühl - 1764 Borke - 1775 Carlsburg - 1786 Langenau - 1794 Winckel - 1798 Sänger> 1806

• Infantry Regiment No. 12 1742/5

* 1742 as Stolberg Infantry - 1752 Alexander Jakob Lubomirski - † 1756> Old Prussian Infantry Regiment S 55 (1756) - † 1760> new 1758 Alexander Jakob Lubomirski - 1763 Block - 1778 Johann Ludwig von Lecoq - 1789 Boblick - 1792 Bomsdorff - 1794 Nostitz - 1802 Thümmel> 1806

• Infantry Regiment No. 13 1748

* 1748 as Bellegarde Grenadiers - 1750 Electoral Princess Grenadiers - † 1756> new 1758 Electress - 1781 Gustav Adolf von Bennigsen - 1784 Reitzenstein - 1790 Wolffersdorff - 1791 Heyde - 1800 Brause - 1800 Ryssel - 1805 Bünau - 1806 Bevilaqua> 1806

Cavalry regiments

Cuirassier regiments

• Cuirassier regiment K 1 1620/1

* 1620 as "Hoff ancestor" - 1701 "Garde du Corps" - 1740 Chevalier de Saxe - † 1756 capitulation against Prussia - reorganized in 1761 as Schlieben Cuirassiers - 1763 "Garde du Corps" (Cossel)> 1806 - † 1812 Russian campaign set

• Cuirassier Regiment K 2 1680/2

* 1680 as Promnitz on horseback - 1682 Plotho - 1689 Haubitz - 1692 Rathsamshausen - 1695 Reuss - 1697 Trauttmannsdorf cuirassiers - 1699 La Forest - 1700 Elector Prince - 1713 Royal Prince - 1733 Leibregiment - † 1756 Capitulation against Prussia - 1761 reorganized as Leibregiment - 1764 Elector> 1806

• Cuirassier Regiment K 3 1698/1

* 1698 as Wolfenbüttel Dragoons - 1701 Milkau - 1717 Birkholz - 1726 Arnstädt - 1741 Rechenberg - 1748 Cuirassiers (Rechenberg) - 1748 Sondershausen - 1749 Anhalt - † 1756 surrender to Prussia - 1763 reorganized as Anhalt Cuirassiers - 1786 Rex - 1786 Bellegarde - 1789 Zetschwitz - 1801 Kochtitzky> 1806

• Cuirassier Regiment K 4 1702/4

* 1702 Tiesenhausen cuirassiers - 1704 Gersdorff - 1706 Winckell - 1713 Althann - 1714 Kyau - 1715 Arnstädt - 1717 Pflugk - 1728 Hackeborn - 1730 Polenz - 1734 Venediger - 1738 Maffey - 1745 Vitzthum - † 1756 surrender to Prussia - 1763 reorganized as Vitzthum -Cuirassiers - 1765 Benkendorf - † 1778

• Cuirassier regiment K 5 1703/1

* 1703 as Flemming cuirassiers - 1706 Prince Alexander - 1727 Prince Friedrich - 1733 Elector Prince - 1734 Royal Prince - † 1756 Surrender to Prussia - 1763 reorganized as Royal Prince - 1763 Elector Prince - 1764 Ronnow - † 1778

• Cuirassier regiment K 6 1704/1

* 1704 as Wrangel-Dragoons - 1710 Baudissin - 1717 Klingenberg - 1729 George de Saxe - 1741 Pirch - 1745 Plötz - 1748 Plötz-Cuirassiers - † 1756 surrender to Prussia - 1763 reorganized as Brenkenhof-Cuirassiers - † 1778

• Cuirassier Regiment K 7 1717 (< Brandenburg-Ansbach )

* 1717 as Flemming-Dragoons - 1718 Baudissin-Carabiniers - 1730 Carabiniergarde - 1733 Carabiniergarde - 1763 Carabinier-Regiment (Brühl) - 1786 Bassewitz - 1791 Liebenau - 1792 Zezschwitz> 1806

Chevauleger regiments

• Chevauleger Regiment CI of 1734/2

* 1734 as Prince Karl-Chevaulegers - 1758 Courland - 1796 Dehn - 1799 Prince Clemens> 1806

• Chevauleger Regiment C II of 1734/1

* 1734 as Sybilsky-Chevaulegers - 1748 Heinrich von Brühl - 1764 Renard - 1779 Christian Willibald von Goldacker - 1788 Weimar - 1793 Rössler - 1801 Polenz> 1806

• Chevauleger Regiment C III from 1742/3

* 1742 as Rutowsky-Chevaulegers ( Friedrich August Rutowski ) - † 1756 surrender to Prussia - conversion to the old Prussian Dragoon Regiment D XII (II. Bat.), Disbanded 1757 - Sacken-Chevaulegers - 1771 Sacken-Chevaulegers - 1778 Sacken-Dragoons - 1784 Sacken- Chevaulegers - 1790 Gersdorff - 1804 Prince Johann> 1806

• Chevauleger Regiment C IV of 1744

* 1744 as Duke Albrecht-Chevaulegers> 1806

Uhlan regiments

• U 1 U1 regiment of 1743

* 1743 as Uhlans - 1750 Bronikowski - 1757 Renard - 1759 Schiebel - † 1763

• U 2 Uhlan Regiment of 1745/1

* 1745 as Rudnicki-Ulanen - † 1763

• U 3 U3 regiment of 1745/2

* 1745 as Bertuszewsky-Ulanen - † 1768

Short-term "reduced" regiments

The Electoral Saxon army was reinforced in the numerous wars by newly established regiments; a corresponding list cannot show any numbering, only references to the year of establishment. At first only examples are given here

• Cavalry regiment Gotha-Grenadiers à cheval 1730

* 1730 as Gotha-Grenadiers à cheval - 1731 Prince Christian-Dragoons - 1733 Gotha-Cuirassiers - 1741 Gersdorf - 1745 Johann Friedrich von Dallwitz - † 1748

• Promnitz Cuirassier Regiment 1732/1

* 1732 as Promnitz cuirassiers - 1741 Johann Jacob O'Byrn - † 1748

See also

• Saxon Army
• Upper Saxon Imperial Circle
• List of regiments of the Upper Saxon Reichskreis
• List of the Standing Armies of the Early Modern Period

literature

• Andreas Dethloff: The Electoral Saxon Officer Corps 1682–1806. Social, educational and career profile of a military elite . Publishing house Dr. Kovač, Hamburg 2019.
• Siegfried Fiedler: Tactics and Strategy of the Cabinet Wars ; Weltbild 2005. Reprint of the Bernard & Graefe 1986 edition. For Electoral Saxony: p. 159ff.
• Fritz Kersten and Georg Ortenburg: The Saxon Army from 1763 to 1862 . Beckum 1962.
• Reinhold Müller: The Army of August the Strong - The Saxon Army from 1730 to 1733 , Military Publishing House of the German Democratic Republic , Berlin 1984, ISBN 3-327-00229-0 .
• Oskar Wilhelm Schuster ; FA Francke: History of the Saxon Army from its establishment up to the most recent times , 3 parts, Leipzig 1885.
• Georg Tessin : The regiments of the European states in the Ancien Régime des XVI. to XVIII. Century ; 3 volumes; Biblio Verlag: Osnabrück 1986–1995. ISBN 3-7648-1763-1 .
• Heinrich August Verlohren: Family register and chronicle of the Electoral and Royal Saxon Army , Leipzig 1910.
• F. Weidenmüller (ed.): The deeds and fates of the Kgl. Saxon. Army in the period from the Thirty Years' War to the 1870/1871 campaign , Dresden undated (around 1900).
• Rainer Wohlfeil : From the standing army of absolutism to general conscription (1789-1814) , in: Military History Research Office Freiburg (ed.): German military history in six volumes 1648-1939 , Pawlak Munich 1983, ISBN 3-88199-112-3 , volume 2. p. 74ff.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bleckwenn led the numbering for most states in the early modern period to the Ancienneitätsprinzip a
2. ^ Ticino 1986: 283ff
3. ↑ Also mentioned as the date of construction 1700, cf. Müller 1984: 40
4. ↑ Also mentioned as the construction date 1705, cf. Müller 1984: 37
5. ↑ Also mentioned as the date of construction 1728, cf. Müller 1984: 38
6. ↑ Also mentioned as the date of construction 1713, cf. Müller 1984: 39
7. ↑ to Bleck if not to Ticino
8. ↑ Ticino erroneously names 1701 as the year of foundation, cf. Ticino
9. ^ Daniel Byrne-Rothwell: The Byrnes and the O'Byrnes. House of Lochar, 2010, ISBN 978-1-904-81704-8 , p. 357 ( limited preview in Google book search).