Torgau March
The Torgauer Marsch ( Army March III, 69; Army March II, 210) is a German military march .
The march is said to have been composed by a teacher named Scholz based in Torgau . The naming has nothing to do with the battle of Torgau . Friedrich Wilhelm III. is said to have received it from teacher Scholz during his visit to Torgau on June 24, 1817. The Torgauer was a cavalry march, but was also played, in a slower form, by the infantry.
The Torgau March is the battalion march of the reconnaissance training battalion 3 " Lüneburg ".
literature
- Hans-Peter Stein: Transfeldt. Word and custom in the army and the navy. 9th, revised and expanded edition. Stuttgart 1986.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hans Joachim von Zieten - the "progenitor of the hussars". (No longer available online.) Pzaufkl.de The golden yellow pages of the German tank reconnaissance and army reconnaissance aircraft, archived from the original on June 24, 2009 ; Retrieved March 11, 2011 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
