Schleswig-Holstein Infantry Regiment No. 163

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Schleswig-Holstein Infantry Regiment No. 163

IR 163 - Signum.jpg

Regimental sign
active 1897 to 1919
Country Prussia KingdomKingdom of Prussia Prussia
Province of Schleswig-Holstein
Armed forces Prussian Army
Branch of service infantry
Type regiment
structure see structure
Strength 3,629 (catering strength)

3,071 (combat strength)

Insinuation see insinuations
Location see garrison
management
Commanders See commanders
The Gießeler Höhe ( Hans am Ende ) for the IR 163 (1916)

The Schleswig-Holstein Infantry Regiment. 163 was an infantry joined the Prussian army . During the First World War it fought on the Western Front and passed its baptism of fire at the Battle of Noyon.

organization

Group picture of a corporal body of the regiment

Surname

On January 27, 1902, Wilhelm II issued the army order that the associations, which had not yet been given a rural name, were given a name extension in order to better distinguish between them and to establish tradition. From that point on, the regiment was known as Schleswig-Holstein Infantry Regiment No. 163.

The garrison town of Neumünster gave the regiment a bell tree for this reason .

Allegations

Eve of the First World War

First World War

The regiment was subordinate to the 81st Infantry Brigade of the 17th Reserve Division throughout the war . She belonged to the IX. Reserve Corps (Northern Army) of the 1st Army . At the end of September 1915 the corps changed from the 1st to the 2nd Army ( Rupprecht von Bayern ) and in July 1916 it was again subordinated to the 1st under General Fritz von Below , who at that time belonged to the "Gallwitz" army group .

structure

Subordinate troops

  • October 1913 was the regiment as part of the First Battalion of the MG - Company
  • with the mobilization a cycling department was created
  • from 1916 each battalion received an observation officer. From then on, the maps used were divided into grid squares.
  • August 3, 1916 MG Sniper Squad 150 is assigned. He was released in November.
  • August 26, 1916 - Construction of the construction company
  • An MW company was formed to operate the new armament assigned on September 15, 1916
  • From October 28, 1916, an MG company was formed in each battalion
  • By order of the General Command , a training company for training in trench warfare was formed on November 10, 1916 with the regiment . It taught in Morslede
  • on January 29, 1917 the regimental MWK was dissolved.
    • a new one was set up in each battalion
    • the grenade launchers joined the MWKs
    • In each company twelve men were trained in light mine throwers (MW) in order to compensate for possible crew losses in the MW companies
  • on March 2, 1917, a news company (news media department = NMA) was formed in each regiment

Assignments

  • On October 1, 1913, the regiment joined a company to form the III. Battalion of the "Lübeck" Infantry Regiment (3rd Hanseatic) No. 162.
  • May 15, 1915 - 13th and 14th companies are transferred to the newly established Infantry Regiment No. 187 as 11th and 12th companies.
  • August 25, 1916
  • September 5, 1916 - Transfer of a company to a new replacement infantry regiment X, from which infantry regiment No. 394 was formed on September 12, 1916

Armament and equipment

The regiment's epaulette
Regimental flag

Main armament

uniform

As part of the Prussian Army, it wore the appropriate infantry uniform. In addition to the black, white and red imperial cockade, the black and white state cockade was worn on the helmet and cap. The white epaulettes had the red number "163", the flaps were red with yellow piping . Buttons, the shoulder straps fastened and their number was that of the Company of the carrier, articles of Tombak .

banner

On October 16, 1897, the emperor lent the battalions their flag. When they were nailed, he drove in the first nail. Their consecration took place the following day in front of the monument to Frederick the Great .

The appearance of the flags of the line infantry regiments of the Prussian Army was regulated according to the corps to which the regiment belonged .

The silk flags showed a black cross on a white background, in the middle of which the Frederick Elizabeth eagle soared. The imperial signature was embroidered in gold in the four corners. The flags stood on the altar of the garrison church , the Vicelinkirche in Neumünster, for the service.

On the occasion of the turn of the century, the flags received flag ribbons with gold clasps bearing the dates 1900 and 1901.

In January 1913 the III. Battalion Colonel Trützschler von Falkenstein raised his flag according to AKO from January 1st.

The meaning of a flag, which is incomprehensible today, is described using an incident in the history of the regiment at the beginning of the war. It so happened that when the 1st Battalion retreated north of L'Ecouvillon, its flag was in danger . Six men, it is described, hurried back and brought the flag back to the battalion. Here three of them fell.

On January 27, 1915 the Emperor's birthday, the regimental flags were east of the rest of the companies on the occasion of that occasion Orvals before the regimental commander held Parade unfolded last time. After the end of the war, the flags were transferred to the armory in Berlin .

history

founding

On April 1, 1897, the anniversary of the birth of Bismarck , it was founded in the course of the army expansion in 1897 from the regiments of the 18th division - the 31st , 84th , 85 and 86th .

By law of August 3, 1893 , regarding the peace-keeping strength of the German army , these were expanded by two companies. This IV. Half Battalion they surrendered again, by version of the law of June 28, 1896. 33 new regiments were formed into two battalions. The Highest Cabinet Order (AKO) of August 29, 1899 set March 31, 1897 as the foundation day.

With the addition of the law of the strength of peace presence of the year 1911 of June 14, 1912, the number of battalions rose from 634 to 651, the regiment received its III. Battalion. Heide was chosen as its garrison town . The battalion was created by relinquishing infantry regiments No. 75 , 84, 85 and 86. Major Alexander Kucha became the battalion leader .

garrison

Barracks of the regiment (so-called new barracks) in Neumünster 1906

The division of Field Artillery Regiment No. 9 , which had previously been garrisoned in Neumünster, was relocated to Itzehoe . The 6th and 8th companies of the regiment moved into their barracks. The rest had to be content with mass quarters in the city until the barracks built by the city were ready for occupancy.

The shooting ranges were in Krogaspe , and the drill initially took place on the Ehndorfer parade ground. When this turned out to be no longer sufficient to meet the requirements, a plot of land on the Boostedter -Chaussee was purchased. The new square was named “Borneplatz” in memory of Colonel Kurt von dem Borne.

Since in October 1912, when the regiment was III. Battalion received, in whose new garrison town the barracks was not yet ready for occupancy, it had to share the barracks of the Lockstedt camp with the local foot artillery regiment No. 20 . The move into the new barracks was planned for October 1, 1914. At that time, however, the regiment was already in front of Dreslincourt .

Peace time

Already in 1898, the regiment took over as foreign corps regiment on Kaisermanöver what in Hanover and Westphalia between the Army Corps VII. And X. took place, in part. It was the only military unit of the IX. AK.

In 1904 the first members of the regiment also died. They had enlisted in the protection force for South West Africa and died fighting the Hereros .

For the imperial maneuver taking place in Mecklenburg in 1904 , the regiment entered for the first time with a III. Battalion that consisted of reservists drafted for exercise .

Every year the regiment marched to the Lockstedt camp for combat and target practice as well as the holding of battalions, regiments and brigades .

The target practice took place in Krogaspe , the drill was practiced on the Ehndorfer parade ground . However, the space soon no longer met the requirements placed on it . A space that meets these requirements was purchased on Boostedter Chaussee.

This was initially home to the additional battalion set up in 1912 .

From October 1, 1913, the MG company with six drawn rifles was a regular part of the regiment.

officer man Horses MG Σ
Catering strength 85 3,303 232 3,629
Combat strength 68 2997 6th 3,071

First World War

"As a troop of high military value, Regiment No. 162 , and thus also this one, should now be deployed in many sections of the front at risk."

With its sister regiment it formed the 81st Infantry Brigade . This was at the beginning of the First World War part of the 17th Reserve Division which the IX. Reserve Corps (Northern Army) was affiliated.

1914

After the mobilization, the regiment was first used at the border guard in northern Schleswig. From here it was transferred to Belgium. It was in Leuven that it had its first experiences with the events there, which they regarded as combat experiences at the time . After invading France, it fought at the battle of Noyon and the Oise . The move to the positional battle at Laucourt and Cannectancourt .

1915

After the battle of Soissons , trench warfare follows again at Cannectancourt and Laucourt . From March 1915 the regiment was enlarged by a half battalion (13th and 14th companies) by order. Following the battle of Moulin-sous-Touvent , they returned to Laucourt before the regiment was transferred to the Artois for trench warfare .

Summer battle

1916

Coming from the Artois, the regiment took part in the storming of the Gießeler Höhe on the same day that the battle for Verdun began . The painter Hans, known from Worpswede, fought in the end in the sister regiment . He recorded this event in a painting for his 162s, for the 163s and their later regiment chief Max von Boehn, on his 50th anniversary of service.

After a break in Douai , the regiment was engaged in trench warfare and the storming of the Vimy Heights, Operation "Schleswig-Holstein" (May 21, 1916), before it had another break northeast of Douais. This was followed by two missions, interrupted by a break in the 6th Army's staging area and the Battle of Hulluch , in the Battle of the Somme .

In the operations on the Somme, the regiment lost: 71 officers and 2,177 NCOs and men.

From there it went to the trench warfare at Verlorenhoek, which lasted for the regiment into January of the following year.

1917

Position at the beginning of December at Polderhoek

After a rest east of Bruges it went back to the trench warfare at Verlorenhoek. The regiment fought in the spring battle at Arras near Monchy . Although they were already used by the English on the Somme, this is where the regiment first encountered the tanks . During the three-day mission, the regiment lost 22 officers and 874 NCOs and men.

Afterwards the regiment rested in the area of ​​the 2nd Army . The resting quarters were around Solesmes in the so-called canal group . This group was under the command of the commanding general of VI. Reserve Corps - the former regimental commander Kurt von dem Borne. In the following it was used between Lens St. Pieres and the coal heap of Loos , as well as the trench warfare in section "P".

During the rest period south of Douais, the regimental commander was awarded the medal Pour le Mérite by AKO on May 20 , which he received two days later at the parade in Fénain from Wilhelm II .

Back at the front, it fought trench warfare in the Vert forest. There the leader of the Arras group, Lieutenant General Otto von Moser , visited the rest battalion in Bellonne on July 7th . The infantry regiment "Kaiser Friedrich, König von Preußen" (7th Württembergisches) No. 125 before Monchy was replaced, fought in section "D" ( Siegfriedstellung near St. Quentin ) and "F" (around Chérisy ).

Here on November 3, around noon , a delegation from the Reichstag arrived at the Rest Battalion in the stage near L'Ecluse from Dury . After inspecting the resting quarters, she drove on.

Two weeks later the regiment was transferred to Polderhoek Castle in the Flemish region of Vlaams Gewest .

April 10, 1918
shortly thereafter
Manteuffel barracks in Strasbourg

1918

After the recovery at the turn of the year in Kortrijk , the association was sent to the trench warfare at Houthem and Zandvoort and acted as the wing regiment of the 4th Army . On the right lay the Lübeckers (162), on the left the 6th Army joined them. The practice took place in Meenen in order to avoid the eyes of the enemy higher up . On March 7, 1918, General of the Infantry Erich Ludendorff attended such an exercise .

The reserve division was moved to the right side of the Kemmel . There it took part in the Battle of the Kemmel as part of the Fourth Ypres Battle . They conquered Meesen and Wytschate (also called Wijschate). During the eleven days of deployment, the regiment lost 45 officers and 643 non-commissioned officers and men.

In the resting quarters reached on May 30 at the practice site from the Court train by the Chief of the Military Cabinet , Baron Marschall , the news of the award that the Emperor the colonel general of the 7th Army and winner of Aisne, Max von Boehn, in recognition of the victory for Had appointed chief of the regiment.

After the end of the rest period, the regiment was moved to the area of ​​the 7th Army, Army Group "German Crown Prince" . Here your boss wanted to greet you on the afternoon of June 5th in Fressancourt . In the morning, however, it was immediately ordered to go to Picardy , where it had spent the first two years, to march to the 18th Army ( Oskar von Hutier ). Here you were between Lataule and Cuvilly .

Withdrawal struggles

From here, the severely decimated regiment marched through places that it knew well from the years up to 1916 to convalescence in Bohain . There, on Sedan Day , the regiment , together with the other deputations of the 17th Reserve Division who paraded past him , was finally supposed to meet their boss. It should stay the only time.

After it had been filled with parts of the disbanded Infantry Regiment No. 265, it was moved to the Verdun section between the places Duzey and Nouillon and placed under Army Division C as Army Group Reserve (HGrR).

From here the regiment was transferred to Meulebeeke ( Houthoulst group ) in Flanders, but again only as HGrR. Shortly afterwards it went back to Army Group Boehn to Landrecies east of Le Câteau . From there it had to retreat to the Hermann II position - one battalion to Pommereuil, the others to Fontaine-au-Bois .

With their replacement, the regiment's combat activities ended on October 24, 1918.

The regimental losses in World War I were distributed as follows:

1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 Σ
Officers 11 16 27 27 43 124
I. Battalion 140 33 368 194 148 883
II Battalion 88 172 230 169 177 836
III. battalion 125 14th 290 236 157 822
MW company - - - - 9 9
Construction company - - 1 9 9 19th
Σ Rgt. Losses 364 235 916 635 543 2693

Replacement battalion

At the same time as the mobilization, a replacement battalion of the regiment was set up in Lübeck on August 2, 1914. Its 3rd and 4th companies transferred to Brigade Replacement Battalion 81 on August 11th . The 4th Battalion of Infantry Regiment No. 362 was formed from there. It was also the replacement troop part of the Infantry Regiment No. 394 formed by AOK6 in 1916.

On November 3, 1918, the chief of the naval station of the Baltic Sea and the Kiel governorate , Admiral Souchon , did not address the chief military commander in his home area in order to master the Kiel sailors' uprising , but directly to the deputy general command of the adjoining corps area in Altona.

Their commanding general thereupon instructed the troop leader of the deputy brigade command closest to the Kiel fortress area, Harry von Wright , to collect all available infantry forces from the reserve battalion subordinate to him under a single command and to transport them to Kiel that same night. The General Command had trains ready for their transports in Lübeck and Neumünster . Wright alerted the reserve battalions of the 162 and the local recruiting office of the Schleswig Reserve Regiment of the 84 in Lübeck and the 163 in Neumünster. However, as it was said during the night that the unrest in Kiel had already been suppressed, the measures introduced were reversed before midnight.

The unrest there resumed the next morning. Souchon asked the chief of the Deputy General Staff of the Corps for help from Rendsburg ( 85 ) and Lübeck. Wright was then appointed by telephone from Altona at 11 a.m. to command all the replacement battalions to be deployed against Kiel.

According to Wright's plan, all intervention troops arriving from the corps area were to be gathered south of Kiel and then marched into Kiel with united forces. The plan was based on his "experiences in the history of war" and on the general staff study from 1908 on the "fight in insurgent cities", which was distributed up to the brigade staff.

Since, however, from Souchon's point of view, it was out of the question that a troop commander of the land army would be in command in the area of ​​the naval port of Kiel, he categorically rejected Wright and his plan. He got in touch with the military commander in Altona and managed to come to an understanding with him, largely asserting his personal reputation and immediate position . At noon Wright was informed by telephone from the General Command in Lübeck that he had been released from his command and that the reaction forces were under Souchon's direct command. He wanted to create Remedur within the fortress area with the help of the last formations still loyal to him and the army troops brought to them.

Contrary to the forceful counter-ideas of the army commander, who had been rejected by him, the station command allowed all special trains manned by intervention troops to enter the main station of the rebel- ruled city. The revolutionary crowd took the incoming transports by surprise.

Whereabouts

According to the Compiègne armistice , Alsace-Lorraine was to be evacuated within 15 days of the conclusion of the agreement. The 17th Reserve Division was given the task of ensuring the security service around Strasbourg during that time . The regiment first secured Landau , then Mittersheim , before reaching Strasbourg on November 12, 1918 via Pfalzburg and Zabern . Here it moved into the Margarethen barracks, which until recently was the seat of the infantry regiment “Grand Duke Friedrich von Baden” (8th Württembergisches) No. 126 .

Their regimental history notes an intervention to maintain "peace and order" when an attempt was made on November 18 to plunder the clothing offices of the Manteuffel barracks, until the end of the war, 3rd Lower Alsatian Infantry Regiment No. 138 .

On the night of November 21, the posts were relieved by the new rulers and left France across the Rhine in the direction of Kehl . The regiment arrived in Neumünster on November 22, 1918 and was demobilized via the local settlement office . On November 27, 1918, a regimental roll call was held in the barracks courtyard , followed by a parade in front of Mayor Max Röer . After its termination, the Schleswig-Holstein Infantry Regiment No. 163 ceased to exist.

The Voluntary Infantry Regiment 163 formed from demobilized parts with an MG company. This went up in June 1919 in the 1st Battalion of the Reichswehr Infantry Regiment 18. The tradition in the Reichswehr was adopted by the 6th Company of the 6th Infantry Regiment in Eutin by decree of the Chief of the Army Command, General of the Infantry Hans von Seeckt . Among other things, she kept Lieutenant Haering's sword.

Regiment chief

The first and only head of the regiment since May 30, 1918 was Colonel General Max von Boehn .

Commanders

Lieutenant Colonel Jahn, killed at Elincourt on September 16, 1914
Rank Surname date
Colonel Eugen von Doemming 0April 1, 1897 to June 15, 1900
Colonel Fedor Gynz from Rekowski June 16, 1900 to April 23, 1904
Colonel Emil Heyn April 24, 1904 to April 21, 1905
Colonel Arthur Stern and Walther von Monbary April 22, 1905 to October 17, 1907
Colonel Kurt of the Borne October 18, 1907 to March 19, 1911
Colonel Otto Trützschler von Falkenstein March 20, 1911 to March 21, 1913
Colonel Wilhelm von Rosen March 22 to August 17, 1913
Colonel Georg von Rode August 18, 1913 to August 1, 1914
Lieutenant colonel Hermann Jahn 0August 2 to September 16, 1914
Lieutenant colonel Alexander Kucha September 20, 1914 to April 24, 1915
Lieutenant colonel Georg Sick April 25 to September 23, 1915
major Holger Ritter September 24 to December 27, 1915 (entrusted with the tour)
Lieutenant colonel Georg Sick December 28, 1915 to July 23, 1918
Lieutenant colonel Bogislav from Bagenski July 25, 1918
  • Major Holger Ritter , leader of the III. Battalion, was subordinated to Battalion II / 163, I / 162 (led by Otto Dziobek ) and the 1st Battalion of Reserve Infantry Regiment No. 76 during the second deployment on the Somme on October 6, 1916 . The temporarily independent regiment traded as the "Knight" regiment. On March 16, 1917, Major Ritter took over the command of Reserve Infantry Regiment No. 76 for the commanding officer who had been sent to the gas school for a course .

Other officers

  • Oberleutnant Haering died in 1904 as the first member of the regiment in the protection force for South West Africa during the Herero uprising
  • Karl von Rettberg was the commander of the III. Battalions . He was injured in the lions incident . Having returned to the regiment recovered, he was appointed commander of the infantry regiment "Lübeck" (3rd Hanseatic) No. 162 after the Battle of Noyon.

Others

societies

  • Federation of Associations formerly 163
    • Traditional association of the former Schleswig-Holstein IR 163 (Neumünster)
    • Association of former 163ers (Lübeck)

Monuments

It is not known whether the monuments are still preserved and, if so, where.

  • Memorial stone for Oberleutnant Haering (X 1904) in the garden of the officers' mess
  • Memorial to the fallen soldiers of the regiment in Neumünster
  • The monument of the Schleswig-Holstein Infantry Regiment No. 163, Neumünster (April 1st, 1897-1919) Infantry Barracks, Goebenstrasse (from April 1st, 1938 "Sick Barracks"), Neumünster, is now in the Rantzau barracks, from -dem-Borne-Strasse 14, D-24598 Boostedt
The memorial has been in the Preusser barracks, Flensburger Strasse 61–65, Eckernförde / Schleswig-Holstein, since June 9, 2015. Relocated due to the abandonment of the Rantzau barracks, D-24598 Boostedt, by the Bundeswehr.
Memorial / Memorial: Inauguration on May 21, 1922 in Neumünster / Holstein (erected at the pond, opposite the Courier House, now demolished and built for the "Holsten-Galerie" shopping center, Neumünster).
On August 15, 1988 the city of Neumünster-Der Magistrat - signed by the magistrate director Rolf Kruse wrote that the ownership of the monument is unclear (no documents were found). This description is incomprehensible because the following original documents are available, which are the property of the city of Neumünster u. a. occupied:
  1. Original commemorative publication: "Ehrenmalweihe in Neumünster on May 20 and 21, 1922", page 14, under the celebratory order: Numbers 2) and 3) = handover and takeover by the city (Neumünster city archive, own collection by Rolf Postel),
  2. Holsteinischer Courier , Neumünster, Sunday, May 21, 1922, "Special issue of the Holsteinischer Courier for the consecration of the memorial (May 21)", printed speech by Mayor Detlef Schmidt , City of Neumünster,
  3. Speech to take over the memorial; Holsteinischer Courier, Neumünster, Monday, May 22, 1922, no. 118 in the 51st year, article: "The memorable day of the 163" (Neumünster town archive, Rolf Postel's own collection).
The evidence that the city of Neumünster owns this monument / memorial is so overwhelming that the memorial has to be re-erected at its original location in Neumünster / Holstein. My efforts, also in writing, to the Lord Mayor of Neumünster, Dr. Olaf Tauras ; Mayor Schättiger, have so far been unsuccessful. Rolf Postel, D-24537 Neumünster, January 21, 2017.
  • Memorial stone to First Lieutenant Heinrich Haering, 1897 to 1904 Schleswig-Holstein Infantry Regiment No. 163, Neumünster. Killed in 1905 near Kowes, then German Southwest Africa. The memorial stone has been on the outside wall of the Anschar Church in Neumünster since 1929.

References

literature

  • Jürgen Kraus : Handbook of the associations and troops of the German army 1914-1918. Part VI: Infantry. Volume 1: Infantry Regiments. Verlag Militaria, Vienna 2007, ISBN 978-3-902526-14-4 , p. 253.
  • Otto Dziobek : History of the Infantry Regiment Lübeck (3rd Hanseatic) No. 162. First edition. Verlag Gerhard Stalling, Oldenburg i. D. 1922. Officers' Association formerly 162
  • Hugo Gropp: Hanseatic people in battle. Klindworth & Neuenhaus, Hamburg 1932. Association of former members Reserve 76 e. V.
  • Holger Ritter: History of the Schleswig-Holstein Infantry Regiment No. 163. Volume 184 of the Prussian. Part of the souvenir sheets, Leuchtfeuer Verlag, Hamburg 1926, digitized version of the Württemberg State Library
  • Harboe Kardel : The Reserve Field Artillery Regiment No. 17. Volume 30 of memorial sheets of German regiments. Formerly Pruss. Troop units, with 4 cards, first edition. Verlag Gerhard Stalling, Oldenburg i. D. 1922.
  • Reichsarchiv: Volume 20: Battles of the World War "Somme Nord Part I"
  • Reichsarchiv: Volume 21: Battles of the World War "Somme North Part II"
  • Reichsarchiv: Volume 27: Battles of the World War "Flanders 1917"
  • Reichsarchiv: Volume 17: Battles of the World War "Loretto"

Web links

Commons : Schleswig-Holsteinisches Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 163  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Notation taken from Ritters' book (1926).
  2. ↑ Wolf Jan Dose (Ed.): The 187s in the field. Self-published. Hamburg 1922.
  3. ^ Jürgen Kraus: Handbook of the units and troops of the German army 1914-1918. Part VI: Infantry. Volume 1: Infantry Regiments. Publishing house Militaria. Vienna 2007. ISBN 978-3-902526-14-4 . Pp. 253, 343.
  4. ↑ The tunic
  5. ↑ See also coat
  6. ^ Martin Lezius : flags and standards of the old Prussian army. Franckh'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Stuttgart 1935.
  7. ^ Antjekathrin Graßmann : Lübeckische Geschichte , Verlag Schmidt-Römhild, 3rd improved and supplemented edition. 1997, ISBN 3-7950-3215-6 .
  8. ↑ The regimental order with which the commander announced this to his regiment was: SM the Kaiser awarded me the medal “Pour le mérite” on May 22nd, 17. I see in this very highest honor that has become me again, and this time an extraordinary honor for the whole regiment. It is not my merit, each individual has contributed to the reputation that the regiment enjoys through faithful fulfillment of duty and bravery in battle. I therefore extend my sincere thanks to the regiment. SM dismissed me with the words: "Give my regards to your beautiful regiment". In delivering this imperial greeting, I expect that we will continue to be worthy of the award.
  9. ^ Jürgen Kraus : Handbook of the associations and troops of the German army 1914 to 1918 ; 3 volumes, Verlag Militaria, Vienna 2007–2010.
  10. ^ Jürgen Kraus  : Handbook of the associations and troops of the German army 1914 to 1918; 3 volumes, Verlag Militaria, Vienna 2007–2010.
  11. ↑ See also list of abandoned buildings in Lübeck: Wisbystraße
  12. ^ Czech-Jochberg : Die Politiker der Republik , KF Koehler, Leipzig 1933, p. 20
  13. ^ Revolution in Kiel , In: Federal newspaper of the association of former 163ers , 13th year, No. 11, edition of November 1, 1936, p. 3
  14. ^ Günter Wegmann (Ed.), Günter Wegner: Formation history and staffing of the German armed forces 1815-1990. Part 1: Occupation of the German armies 1815–1939. Volume 2: The occupation of the active infantry regiments as well as Jäger and MG battalions, military district commands and training managers from the foundation or list until 1939. Biblio Verlag, Osnabrück 1992, ISBN 3-7648-1782-8 , pp. 369-370 .
  15. ^ Otto Dziobek: History of the Infantry Regiment Lübeck (3rd Hanseatic) No. 162. 1st edition. 1922.
  16. ↑ This barracks is to be evacuated and abandoned by the Bundeswehr in 2016 [obsolete] . On October 1, 1994, the "Sick Barracks", Goebenstrasse 1–13, D-24534 Neumünster, was handed over to the Kiel Federal Property Office for transfer to federal property.
  17. ↑ : The stone soldier had to move again
  18. ^ Rolf Postel, Neumünster, October 29, 2013