List of Imperial German infantry regiments

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This is a list of Imperial German infantry regiments[1] before and during World War I. In peacetime, the Imperial German Army included 217 regiments of infantry (plus the instruction unit, Lehr Infantry Battalion). Some of these regiments had a history stretching back to the 17th Century, while others were only formed as late as October 1912.[2]

Pre-War[]

Regiment Raised[3] Garrison Corps
1st Foot Guards 11 August 1688 Potsdam Guards Corps
19 June 1813 Berlin Guards Corps
3rd Foot Guards 5 May 1860 Berlin Guards Corps
4th Foot Guards 5 May 1860 Berlin Guards Corps
5th Foot Guards 31 March 1897 Spandau Guards Corps
1st (Emperor Alexander) Guards Grenadiers 14 October 1814 Berlin Guards Corps
14 October 1814 Berlin Guards Corps
5 May 1860 Charlottenburg Guards Corps
4th (Queen Augusta) Guards Grenadiers 5 May 1860 Berlin Guards Corps
5th Guards Grenadiers 31 March 1897 Spandau Guards Corps
Guards Fusiliers 30 March 1826 Berlin Guards Corps
Lehr Infantry Regiment 1819 Potsdam Guards Corps
1st (1st East Prussian) Grenadiers "Crown Prince" 20 December 1655 Königsberg/Pr. I Army Corps
20 February 1679 Stettin II Army Corps
18 August 1685 Königsberg/Pr. I Army Corps
1 May 1626 Rastenburg I Army Corps
11 March 1689 Danzig XVII Army Corps
14 October 1772 Posen V Army Corps
20 February 1797 Liegnitz V Army Corps
21 November 1808 Frankfurt an der Oder III Army Corps
7 June 1808 Stargard II Army Corps
21 November 1808 Schweidnitz VI Army Corps
21 November 1808 Breslau VI Army Corps
1 July 1813 Frankfurt an der Oder III Army Corps
1 July 1813 Münster VII Army Corps
1 July 1813 Bromberg II Army Corps
1 July 1813 Minden VII Army Corps
1 July 1813 Cologne VII Army Corps
1 July 1813 Mörchingen XXI Army Corps
1 July 1813 Osterode XX Army Corps
1 July 1813 Görlitz, Lauban V Army Corps
1 July 1813 Wittenberg III Army Corps
1 July 1813 Thorn XVII Army Corps
1 July 1813 Gleiwitz, Kattowitz VI Army Corps
1 July 1813 Neisse VI Army Corps
1 July 1813 Neuruppin III Army Corps
18 December 1813 Aachen VIII Army Corps
5 July 1813 Magdeburg IV Army Corps
7 March 1815 Halberstadt IV Army Corps
5 December 1813 Koblenz VIII Army Corps
5 December 1813 Trier VIII Army Corps
6 September 1812 Saarlouis XVI Army Corps
6 September 1812 Altona IX Army Corps
7 March 1815 Meiningen XI Army Corps
33rd (East Prussian) Fusiliers "Count Roon" 6 March 1749 Gumbinnen I Army Corps
12 October 1720 Stettin, Swinemünde II Army Corps
13 December 1815 Brandenburg III Army Corps
13 December 1815 Halle, Bernburg IV Army Corps
26 January 1818 Krotoschin V Army Corps
26 January 1818 Glatz VI Army Corps
26 January 1818 Düsseldorf VII Army Corps
26 January 1818 Rastatt XIV Army Corps
5 May 1860 Tilsit, Memel I Army Corps
5 May 1860 Stralsund, Greifswald II Army Corps
5 May 1860 Königsberg, Pillau I Army Corps
5 May 1860 Goldap I Army Corps
5 May 1860 Insterburg, Darkehmen I Army Corps
5 May 1860 Posen, Wreschen V Army Corps
5 May 1860 Posen, Schrimm V Army Corps
5 May 1860 Küstrin III Army Corps
5 May 1860 Gnesen II Army Corps
5 May 1860 Rawitsch, Lissa V Army Corps
5 May 1860 Breslau VI Army Corps
5 May 1860 Cottbus, Crossen III Army Corps
5 May 1860 Köln VII Army Corps
5 May 1860 Kolberg, Köslin II Army Corps
5 May 1860 Detmold, Höxter, Bielefeld VII Army Corps
5 May 1860 Wesel, Kleve VII Army Corps
5 May 1860 Wesel VII Army Corps
5 May 1860 Glogau, Fraustadt V Army Corps
5 May 1860 Deutsch-Eylau, Soldau XX Army Corps
5 May 1860 Weißenburg XXI Army Corps
5 May 1860 Thorn XVII Army Corps
5 May 1860 Cosel, Ratibor VI Army Corps
5 May 1860 Oppeln, Lublinitz VI Army Corps
5 May 1860 Prenzlau, Angermünde III Army Corps
5 May 1860 Köln VIII Army Corps
5 May 1860 Magdeburg IV Army Corps
5 May 1860 Metz XVI Army Corps
5 May 1860 Koblenz VIII Army Corps
5 May 1860 Trier VIII Army Corps
5 May 1860 Saarbrücken XXI Army Corps
5 May 1860 Erfurt, Sondershausen XI Army Corps
5 May 1860 Torgau, Altenburg IV Army Corps
19 December 1803 Hannover X Army Corps
74th (1st Hannover) Infantry 27 November 1813 Hannover X Army Corps
27 September 1866 Bremen, Stade IX Army Corps
27 September 1866 Hamburg IX Army Corps
26 March 1813 Celle X Army Corps
30 November 1813 Osnabrück, Aurich X Army Corps
3 January 1838 Hildesheim X Army Corps
22 November 1813 Wiesbaden, Homburg XVIII Army Corps
5 December 1813 Frankfurt am Main XVIII Army Corps
30 November 1813 Göttingen XI Army Corps
22 November 1813 Kassel, Arolsen XI Army Corps
27 September 1866 Schleswig, Hadersleben IX Army Corps
27 September 1866 Rendsburg, Kiel IX Army Corps
27 September 1866 Flensburg, Sonderburg IX Army Corps
87th (1st Nassau) Infantry 14 March 1809 Mainz XVIII Army Corps
13 August 1808 Mainz, Hanau XVIII Army Corps
3 April 1782 Schwerin, Neustrelitz IX Army Corps
12 July 1788 Rostock, Wismar IX Army Corps
5 December 1813 Oldenburg X Army Corps
1 April 1809 Braunschweig X Army Corps
22 May 1807 Dessau, Zerbst IV Army Corps
28 October 1762 Weimar, Eisenach, Jena XI Army Corps
18 July 1807 Gotha, Hildburghausen, Coburg XI Army Corps
1 October 1867 Gera, Rudolstadt XI Army Corps
24 March 1881 Saarburg XXI Army Corps
24 March 1881 Metz XVI Army Corps
24 March 1881 Zabern, Pfalzburg XV Army Corps
30 April 1670 Dresden XII Army Corps
30 April 1670 Dresden XII Army Corps
14 June 1709 Zittau XII Army Corps
14 June 1709 Bautzen XII Army Corps
7 December 1701 Chemnitz XIX Army Corps
7 December 1701 Straßburg XV Army Corps
2 June 1708 Leipzig XIX Army Corps
2 June 1708 Leipzig XIX Army Corps
1 October 1809 Dresden XII Army Corps
23 March 1803 Karlsruhe XIV Army Corps
22 October 1852 Mannheim, Heidelberg XIV Army Corps
22 October 1852 Rastatt XIV Army Corps
22 October 1852 Mülhausen/Elsaß XIV Army Corps
16 February 1861 Freiburg im Breisgau XIV Army Corps
26 October 1867 Konstanz XIV Army Corps
1 March 1621 Darmstadt XVIII Army Corps
17 June 1813 Gießen XVIII Army Corps
10 June 1697 Mainz XVIII Army Corps
23 January 1791 Worms XVIII Army Corps
1673[4] Stuttgart XIII Army Corps
1 June 1673[5] Ulm XIII Army Corps
18 March 1716 Ludwigsburg XIII Army Corps
10 November 1806 Heilbronn, Mergentheim XIII Army Corps
17 October 1799 Ulm XIII Army Corps
1 June 1673[6] Weingarten XIII Army Corps
1809 Stuttgart XIII Army Corps
18 March 1706 Straßburg XV Army Corps
1 April 1897 Ulm XIII Army Corps
24 March 1881 Danzig-Neufahrwasser XVII Army Corps
24 March 1881 Graudenz XVII Army Corps
24 March 1881 Metz XVI Army Corps
24 March 1881 Mörchingen XXI Army Corps
24 March 1881 Straßburg XV Army Corps
1 April 1881 Zwickau XIX Army Corps
1 April 1881 Plauen XIX Army Corps
11 March 1887 Diedenhofen XVI Army Corps
11 March 1887 Straßburg XV Army Corps
11 March 1887 Hagenau XXI Army Corps
11 March 1887 Dieuze XXI Army Corps
1 April 1887 Döbeln XIX Army Corps
1 February 1890 Hohensalza II Army Corps
1 February 1890 Graudenz, Strasburg in Westpreußen XVII Army Corps
1 February 1890 Mülhausen/Elsaß, Müllheim/Baden XIV Army Corps
1 February 1890 Straßburg, Mutzig XV Army Corps
1 February 1890 Metz XVI Army Corps
28 July 1890 Metz XVI Army Corps
31 March 1897 Allenstein XX Army Corps
31 March 1897 Lyck, Lötzen XX Army Corps
31 March 1897 Elbing, Braunsberg XX Army Corps
31 March 1897 Schneidemühl, Deutsch-Krone II Army Corps
31 March 1897 Allenstein XX Army Corps
31 March 1897 Sensburg, Bischofsburg XX Army Corps
31 March 1897 Marienburg, Stuhm XX Army Corps
18 December 1897 Altenburg, Merseburg IV Army Corps
31 March 1897 Jauer, Glogau V Army Corps
31 March 1897 Ostrowo, Pleschen V Army Corps
31 March 1897 Beuthen, Tarnowitz VI Army Corps
31 March 1897 Brieg VI Army Corps
31 March 1897 Paderborn VII Army Corps
31 March 1897 Mülheim/Ruhr, Geldern VII Army Corps
31 March 1897 Bonn, Dietz, Euskirchen VIII Army Corps
31 March 1897 Düren, Eschweiler, Jülich VIII Army Corps
31 March 1897 Lübeck, Eutin IX Army Corps
31 March 1897 Neumünster, Heide IX Army Corps
24 March 1813 Hameln, Holzminden X Army Corps
31 March 1813 Quedlinburg, Blankenburg IV Army Corps
31 March 1897 Bitsch XXI Army Corps
31 March 1897 Kassel, Mühlhausen/Thüringen XI Army Corps
31 March 1897 Offenbach, Butzbach, Friedberg/Hesse XVIII Army Corps
31 March 1897 Lahr, Villingen XIV Army Corps
31 March 1897 Offenburg, Donaueschingen XIV Army Corps
31 March 1897 Colmar/Elsaß XV Army Corps
31 March 1897 Neubreisach XV Army Corps
31 March 1897 St. Avold, Metz XVI Army Corps
31 March 1897 Forbach XXI Army Corps
31 March 1897 Graudenz, Schwetz XVII Army Corps
31 March 1897 Kulm, Thorn XVII Army Corps
1 April 1897 Dresden XII Army Corps
1 April 1897 Kamenz/Sachsen XII Army Corps
1 April 1897 Wurzen, Leisnig XIX Army Corps
1 April 1897 Tübingen, Gmünd XIII Army Corps
1 April 1900 Chemnitz XIX Army Corps
1 October 1912 Freiberg XII Army Corps
Royal Bavarian Infantry Lifeguards Regiment 16 July 1814 München I Royal Bavarian Corps
1 July 1778 München I Royal Bavarian Corps
29 June 1682 München I Royal Bavarian Corps
1 February 1698 Augsburg I Royal Bavarian Corps
1 April 1706 Metz II Royal Bavarian Corps
6 August 1722 Bamberg II Royal Bavarian Corps
18 June 1725 Amberg III Royal Bavarian Corps
27 June 1732 Bayreuth III Royal Bavarian Corps
1 October 1753 Metz II Royal Bavarian Corps
21 March 1803 Würzburg II Royal Bavarian Corps
29 June 1682 Ingolstadt III Royal Bavarian Corps
1 October 1805 Regensburg III Royal Bavarian Corps
16 July 1814 Neu-Ulm I Royal Bavarian Corps
31 May 1806 Ingolstadt III Royal Bavarian Corps
15 August 1814 Nuremberg III Royal Bavarian Corps
4 August 1722 Neuburg an der Donau I Royal Bavarian Corps
1 October 1878 Passau I Royal Bavarian Corps
1 October 1878 Germersheim II Royal Bavarian Corps
1 April 1881 Landau II Royal Bavarian Corps
1 October 1890 Erlangen III Royal Bavarian Corps
1 April 1897 Lindau I Royal Bavarian Corps
1 April 1897 Fürth, Sulzbach, Eichstätt III Royal Bavarian Corps
1 April 1897 Zweibrücken II Royal Bavarian Corps
1 April 1897 Landau II Royal Bavarian Corps

Mobilisation[]

On mobilisation, the German Army raised 113 Reserve Infantry Regiments (of 332 battalions) and 96 Landwehr Infantry Regiments (of 294 battalions).

The Lehr Infantry Battalion was expanded to form the Lehr Infantry Regiment.[7]

Reserve regiments[]

Regiment Raised Garrison Corps
64th Reserve Infantry Regiment 1914
86th Reserve Infantry Regiment August 1914 IX Reserve Corps
93rd Reserve Infantry Regiment 1914
213th Reserve Infantry Regiment 1914

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ Tessin 1974, pp. 12–25
  2. ^ "The Prussian Machine, Infantry Regiments". Archived from the original on 19 December 2012. Retrieved 19 May 2012.
  3. ^ "A Pocket German Army". Archived from the original on 24 February 2009. Retrieved 23 October 2012.CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  4. ^ Given as Spring 1673.
  5. ^ Given as June 1673.
  6. ^ Given as June 1673.
  7. ^ Busche 1998, p. 4 Lehr (meaning teach, instruction or training) is usually left untranslated.

Bibliography[]

  • Busche, Hartwig (1998). Formationsgeschichte der Deutschen Infanterie im Ersten Weltkrieg (1914 bis 1918) (in German). Institut für Preußische Historiographie.
  • Cron, Hermann (2002) [1937]. Imperial German Army 1914-18: Organisation, Structure, Orders-of-Battle. Helion & Co. ISBN 1-874622-70-1.
  • Tessin, Georg (1974). Deutsche Verbände und Truppen, 1918 - 1939. Biblio Osnabrück. ISBN 3-7648-1000-9.
  • The German Forces in the Field; 7th Revision, 11th November 1918; Compiled by the General Staff, War Office. Imperial War Museum, London and The Battery Press, Inc (1995). 1918. ISBN 1-870423-95-X.
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