List of German Jäger Battalions before 1918

Hunter of the Electorate of Hesse in the attack

The list of German Jäger Battalions before 1918 lists German Jäger battalions from the period before 1918. Only the armies of the states that formed the German Empire are taken into account, but not of the states that were also considered German states before the founding of the Empire.

The Jäger battalions were divided into battalion staff , four Jäger companies and with the formation in 5./MG-Kompanie to 6 MG 08 and 6. / Radfahrkompanie . In addition, service dogs and two sniper rifles per company were integrated into the hunter battalions from 1916 onwards.

Jäger battalions until 1919

Prussian Army

Before the beginning of the First World War in 1914 the Prussian Army had fourteen fighter and rifle battalions and nine machine gun divisions .

• Guard Jäger Battalion in Potsdam - Guard Corps

• Guard machine gun department No. 1 in Potsdam
• Guard machine gun department No. 2 in Berlin

• Guard Reserve Hunter Battalion - 4th Guard Division
  • later MG sniper division No. 14
• Reserve Jäger Battalion No. 15 in Potsdam - 43rd Reserve Division XXII. Reserve Corps

• Guards Rifles Battalion originally battalion of sharpshooters de la Garde May 1814-1918 in Lichterfelde with

• Guard machine gun department No. 2 until 1913, then with 1 cycling company + 1 machine gun company

• Guard Reserve Rifle Battalion
• Reserve Jäger Battalion No. 16 in Lichterfelde / Freiberg - 44th Reserve Division

• Jäger Battalion "Graf Yorck von Wartenburg" (East Prussian) No. 1 in Ortelsburg - I. Army Corps / XX. Army Corps

• Machine Gun Division No. 1 - XX. Army Corps
• Machine Gun Division No. 5

• Reserve Hunter Battalion No. 1

• Pomeranian Jäger Battalion "Fürst Bismarck" No. 2 in Greifswald / Kulm - until 1915 II. Army Corps from 1915 XVII. Army Corps
  • Reserve Hunter Battalion No. 2

• Brandenburg Jäger Battalion No. 3 in Lübben - III. Army Corps

• Machine Gun Division No. 7

• Reserve Jäger Battalion No. 3 in Lübben - 6th Reserve Division III. Reserve Corps
• Reserve Jäger Battalion No. 17 in Lübben - 45th Reserve Division XXII. Reserve Corps

• Magdeburg Jäger Battalion No. 4 - IV Army Corps
  • Reserve Hunter Battalion No. 4
  • Reserve Jäger Battalion No. 19 in Naumburg (Saale)

• Jäger Battalion "von Neumann" (1st Silesian) No. 5 in Hirschberg - 5th Army Corps
  • Reserve Jäger Battalion No. 5 in Hirschberg
  • Reserve Hunter Battalion No. 21

• 2nd Silesian Jäger Battalion No. 6 in Oels - VI. Army Corps

• Machine Gun Division No. 8

• Reserve Jäger Battalion No. 6 - 22nd Reserve Infantry Brigade - 12th Reserve Division - VI. Reserve Corps
• Reserve Jäger Battalion No. 22 in Oels

• Westphalian Jäger Battalion No. 7 in Bückeburg - VII Army Corps
  • Reserve Hunter Battalion No. 7

• Rhenish Jäger Battalion No. 8 in Schlettstadt - XV. Army Corps

• Machine Gun Division No. 3
• Machine Gun Division No. 10

• Reserve Hunter Battalion No. 8

• Lauenburg Jäger Battalion No. 9 in Ratzeburg - IX. Army Corps
  • Reserve Jäger Battalion No. 9 in Ratzeburg - 18th Reserve Division , 29th Bavarian Infantry Regiment (Jäger Regiment)
  • Reserve Jäger Battalion No. 18 in Ratzeburg - 46th Reserve Division , 200th Infantry Division

• Hannoversches Jäger Battalion No. 10 in Goslar - X. Army Corps
  • Reserve Hunter Battalion No. 10
  • Reserve Jäger Battalion No. 23 in Goslar - 51st Reserve Division XXVI. Reserve Corps

• Kurhessisches Jäger Battalion No. 11 in Marburg - XI. Army Corps
  • Kurhessisches Reserve Jäger Battalion No. 11 in Marburg - Levante Corps
  • Kurhessischee Reserve Jäger Battalion No. 20 in Marburg
  • Reserve Jäger Battalion No. 24 in Marburg - 52nd Reserve Division

• Grand Ducal Mecklenburg Jäger Battalion No. 14 in Colmar - XV. Army Corps
  • Grand Ducal Mecklenburg Reserve Jäger Battalion 14 - German Alpine Corps 1915–1918

• Royal Prussian Jäger Battalion No. 27 (Finnish Jäger) - 1915 Lockstedter Lager Holstein

Saxon Army

• 1st Jäger Battalion No. 12 in Freiberg - XII. (I. Royal Saxon) Army Corps
  • Reserve Jäger Battalion No. 12 in Freiberg

• 2nd Jäger Battalion No. 13 in Dresden - XIX. (II. Royal Saxon) Army Corps
  • Reserve Jäger Battalion No. 13 in Dresden
  • Royal Saxon Reserve Jäger Battalion No. 25 in Dresden - 53rd Reserve Division (3rd Royal Saxon) XXVII. Reserve Corps
  • Reserve Jäger Battalion No. 26 in Freiberg 54th (Württemberg) Reserve Division
    • with machine gun division 9
• 3rd Jäger Battalion No. 15 (Wurzener Jäger) 1810–1900 incorporated into the 15th Royal Saxon Infantry Regiment No. 181

see Light Infantry (Saxony)

Bavarian Army

• Jäger Regiment No. 1 subordinates the Jäger Brigade - established in May 1915 as a Bavarian part of the Alpine Corps

• 1st Jäger Battalion “König” in Freising 1815–1919 - 1st Division 2nd Infantry Brigade in Munich , 1914 Cavalry Division , 1915 German Alpine Corps
  • Reserve Jäger Battalion 1 - 5th Reserve Division

• 2nd Jäger Battalion in Aschaffenburg 1890–1918 - 4th Division 7th Infantry Brigade in Würzburg , 1914 Cavalry Division , 1915 German Alpine Corps
  • Reserve Jäger Battalion 2-5th Division , 1915 German Alpine Corps

• 29th Bavarian Infantry Regiment (Jäger Regiment) - formed in October 1916 from Bavarian Reserve Jäger Battalions (RJB)
  • Reserve Hunter Battalion No. 1
  • Reserve Hunter Battalion No. 7
  • Reserve Hunter Battalion No. 9 (Engels)

formerly

• 2nd Jäger Battalion in Aschaffenburg 1878–1890
• 3rd Jäger Battalion in Eichstätt 1825–1890
• 4th Jäger Battalion in Landshut 1825–1890
• 5th Jäger Battalion in Zweibrücken 1851–1878
• 6th Jäger Battalion in Erlangen 1851–1878
• 7th Jäger Battalion in Landsberg 1851–1878
• 8th Jäger Battalion in Straubing 1863–1878
• 9th Jäger Battalion in Passau 1868–1878
• 10th Jäger Battalion in Aschaffenburg 1868–1878

Württemberg Army

before 1860 - Württemberg contingent

• Foot hunter company “von Scharffenstein” from 1800 hunter corps (two hunter companies), from 1801 foot hunter battalion “von Roman” (four companies) - Württemberg Army
• 1st foot hunter battalion "von Roman" (black hunters) 1805
• 2nd foothunter battalion "von Scharffenstein"

German Alpine Corps

• Bavarian 1st Jäger Battalion
• Bavarian 2nd Jäger Battalion
• Bavarian Reserve Jäger Battalion 2
• Prussian Jäger Battalion No. 10
• Prussian Reserve Jäger Battalion No. 10
• Mecklenburg Reserve Jäger Battalion No. 14
• Jäger-Regiment 3 (initially snowshoe battalions)

200th Division (German Empire) 1916–1918

Jäger Division (German Empire) 1917–1918 Twelfth Battle of the Isonzo

Baltic Division 1918 Mecklenburg Jäger Battalion No. 4 and 14, Royal Prussian Jäger Battalion Finnish Jäger No. 27, other parts Jäger battalions

Shares of the Asia Corps with Kurhessisches Reserve Jäger Battalion No. 11

See also

• New Prussian Army Organization
• Schillsche Jäger Schillsche Freikorps
• Lützow Freikorps Schwarze Jäger or Lützower Jäger
• Braunschweig-Lüneburg hunters

literature

• Otto Münter: Short story of the German hunter troop. Festschrift Jägertage 1986, Deutscher Jägerbund e. V.
• Ulrich Schiers: deserted or loyal to the king? The hunters of the Duchy of Lauenburg. in: AufBruch & BürgerKrieg. Schleswig-Holstein 1848–1851. Volume 2, ed. by Jens Ahlers and Jan Schlürmann , Kiel 2012, pp. 437–442, ISBN 978-3-941713-10-9 .