Westphalian Jäger Battalion No. 7

Westphalian Jäger Battalion No. 7
active	October 3, 1815 to December 1918
Country	Kingdom of Prussia
Armed forces	Prussian Army
Branch of service	Hunter
Type	battalion
Former locations	Wetzlar (1818–1860) ; Cleve (1860–1866) ; Bückeburg (1867–1918)
commander
Important ; commanders	See list of commanders

The Westphalian Jäger Battalion No. 7 (called Bückeburger Jäger ) was an association of light infantry in the Prussian Army . The independent battalion of the Jäger military type was set up in 1815, took part in the German Wars of Unification and the First World War and was disbanded after its end.

Formation and history

The battalion was set up on October 3, 1815 by the highest cabinet order as the "Rhenish Rifle Battalion". This date is therefore considered to be the foundation day of the battalion. The in Paris by King Friedrich Wilhelm III. The signed document reads: "I have decided to set up a Rhenish Rifle Battalion and have approved that, if the voluntary hunter detachments are disbanded after the march back from France, all those hunters who wish to continue their service and be employed in the Rhenish Rifle Battalion will be grouped together and the same is to be built out of them. "

The battalion was recruited from teams from the disbanded voluntary hunter detachment, the former Bergischer hunter battalion and parts of the former Nassau and Saxon infantry . The first ranking of the "Rhenish Rifle Battalion" dates from 1816. It shows Lieutenant Colonel Johann Christian von Böhler, as well as four captains , four premier and eight second lieutenants as commander . The war strength was set at 802 men.

The battalion changed garrison frequently between 1815 and 1818 and was stationed in Königswinter , Kreuznach , Aachen , Cologne , Jülich , Andernach and Düsseldorf , only to find a permanent garrison in Wetzlar in July 1818 . In April 1821 the battalion was divided into the 3rd and 4th rifle divisions (Westf. And Rhein.) Of 2 companies each. However, both departments were under a commander. The former 1st and 4th companies formed the 1st and 2nd companies of the 3rd Rifle Division (Westf.), Which were reinforced in November 1848 by the 3rd and in June 1852 by the 4th Company.

The battalion took part in the campaign against Denmark in 1849 and was part of the Altona garrison .

According to AKO from July 4, 1860, the battalion was renamed "Westphalian Jäger Battalion No. 7". Garrison was Cleve from 1860 . On January 18, 1861, the battalion was awarded the troop flag and at the same time the ribbon of the Military Medal of Honor for participation in the 1849 campaign. In the war against Denmark in 1864, the battalion fought in the battle of Missunde , in front of the Düppeler Schanzen and other places.

During the war against Austria in 1866 the battalion belonged to the Elbe Army and took part in the Battle of Münchengrätz and the Battle of Königgrätz . After taking part in this campaign, the Jäger battalion was ordered to the Bückeburg and Stadthagen garrisons according to cabinet orders of August 22, 1867 . The basis for this was the military convention concluded between Prussia and Schaumburg-Lippe on June 30, 1867 after the formation of the North German Confederation . On September 20, 1867, the march from Cleve took place and after a 12-day march the battalion reached Bückeburg on October 2, 1867, where the unit moved into the hunter barracks . From 1870 Bückeburg was the sole garrison town.

The battalion took part in the Franco-Prussian War in 1870/71 , subordinated to the 13th Division , which belonged to the VII Army Corps . In 1892 the Senne military training area near Paderborn was acquired by the VII Army Corps for combat-like target practice and drills in larger units. The first unit of the VII Army Corps to practice there was the 26th Infantry Brigade , to which the Jäger Battalion was subordinate according to the division of war .

When it was mobilized in 1914, the battalion, as part of the 26th Infantry Brigade, was still part of the 13th Division , and thus continuously deployed on the Western Front. The division of war dated March 8, 1918 shows the machine gun sniper division No. 22. In December 1918 the battalion was disbanded. 791 members of the battalion were killed in the First World War .

Aftermath and memory

In the Weimar Republic , the 11th and 12th companies of the 18th Infantry Regiment of the Reichswehr took over the tradition . In the Wehrmacht , the III. Battalion of the 58th Infantry Regiment continued the tradition, which led to the additional name "Bückeburger Jäger".

After the establishment of the Bundeswehr, Bückeburg became a garrison site again, and the Jägerkaserne hosted the Army Aviation School . At the initiative of the site elder, the tradition of the hunter troop was incorporated into the central portal of the barracks. The German Jägerbund eV (DJB) founded in 1922 set up a memorial with memorabilia in the barracks. In 1992 the hall of honor was moved to the premises of the Association of Former Hunters and Shooters Bückeburg e. V. relocated. The exhibits from the exhibition on Jäger Battalion No. 7 and its successor units have been in the Prussia Museum since 2017, and the archival records have been handed over to the Lower Saxony State Archives - Bückeburg Department .

Commanders

From October 25, 1869 until his death, Prince Adolf zu Schaumburg-Lippe held the honorary title of head of the regiment , then from May 15, 1893 Prince Georg zu Schaumburg-Lippe .

The commanders of the battalion were:

appointment	commander	appointment	commander
1815	Böhler, from	1876	Vogel von Falckenstein, Hermann
1816	Tempski, from	1881	Carmer, Maximilian von
1817	Holleben, Heinrich von	1883	Hoe, Kurt von
1830	Bursky, from Albrecht	1886	Bojanowski, Hans von
1834	Frobel, Louis of	1890	Plettenberg, Karl von
1848	Schlieffen, Emil von	1894	Flatow, Heinrich von
1849	Meyne, Friedrich	1897	Bünau, Heinrich von
1851	Plonski, Karl von	1901	Larisch, Alfred von
1854	Stuckradt, Leopold von	1906	Finck von Finckenstein, Bernhard
1857	Massow, Heinrich von	1909	Buchka, Hermann von
1862	Beckedorff, Friedrich von	1913	Rango, Ralf von
1865	Sell, Theodor von	Aug 1914	Donalies, Georg
1866	Reinicke, Rudolf von	Aug 1914	Falkenstein, Erich von
1870	Kameke, Alexander von	July 1918	Teichmann, Rudolf

literature

The Kgl. Prussian (Westphalian) Jäger Battalion No. 7 (field battalion) in World War 1914-18. ed. from the Association of Officers of the Battalion, Gerhard Stalling, Oldenburg 1929, (series of memorial sheets of German regiments. Volume 272). Digitized version of the Württemberg State Library .

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ Hans-Georg Aschoff : From the founding of the empire to the end of the 1st World War. In: Stefan Brüdermann (Ed.): History of Lower Saxony. Volume 4, part 1, Wallstein, Göttingen 2016, ISBN 978-3-8353-2803-7 , p. 334 f.
↑ Hall of Honor and Archive Jäger 7 on the archived website of the Association of former Jäger und Schützen Bückeburg e. V.

[1] Hans-Georg Aschoff : From the founding of the empire to the end of the 1st World War. In: Stefan Brüdermann (Ed.): History of Lower Saxony. Volume 4, part 1, Wallstein, Göttingen 2016, ISBN 978-3-8353-2803-7 , p. 334 f.

[2] Hall of Honor and Archive Jäger 7 on the archived website of the Association of former Jäger und Schützen Bückeburg e. V.