handwriting 4 bath. IR 112: Report of a visit by Wilhelm von Baden

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You are bidding on one handwriting from 1943 about that 4. Baden Infantry Regiment No. 112.

spelled out experience report one formerly. members of the regiment about one Visit of the Regimental Commander Prince Wilhelm von Baden (1829-1897) in 1884. The report was written earlier, only the copy was made in 1943.

Describes the seven days from 14-20 Nov. 1884 in of the garrison in Strasbourg, in which the Celebration of the 25th anniversary of the boss of Prince Wilhelm of Baden (18th/19th November 1884) falls, who is also personally absent. Above all, the preparation and the celebration itself are described. However, some past warlike events (1866, 1870/71) are also commemorated.

Without direct indication of the year (however, the first day is on the 14. Dated November), but the content is clearly related to this event. The following passage (p. 15) also speaks clearly for the year 1884, in which the recruits practice for the prince's visit: "This time Werth must pay particular attention to the training of the recruits, since Sr. Majesty the Emperor and King in the autumn of 1885, if God still grants him life and health, His XIV. Army Corps inspect [...]."

The regiment's emblem has been drawn on the title page.

Title: Seven days in the life of a young officer. Reality retold by NN, editor. Illzach 1943, self-published by the editor.

Although it is given as a privately printed copy, it appears to be a self-written, unprinted report (see my note below on the alleged print run).

dedication page: "Dedicated in the deepest reverence to his beloved mother, the nurturer and protector of his childhood, at the special request of the hero of this story."

With two 1-page forewords by the publisher NN (dated Illzach, November 1939 and Illzach, November 1943).

Quotes:

- from the 1st Foreword: "The undersigned describes in short and humorous words the life of a young Prussian officer, as he knows it partly from experience and partly from the mouth of the hero of this story. But that young officer does not wish to be named, lest he fall prey to the curiosity of rapacious military writers."

- from the 2nd Foreword: "The blessing with which the little book was sent into the world 4 years ago has been fulfilled. Despite the fact that the first edition of this booklet was published in 50,000 copies, no copies are now available after 4 years. The publisher therefore felt compelled to publish a second, improved edition, again of 50,000 copies. The hero of this story lives as a retired general on his estate in Lusatia, now almost 81 years old. I have published this at his special request. But he still doesn't want his name mentioned."

Scope: 5 pages (title pages, forewords); 43 described pages of experience report (numbered pp. 3-45); Format: 8.3" x 5.5"

The pressure mentioned in the foreword cannot be verified; it is probably a joke and this manuscript is unique (or one of the few available copies for family and friends), since an edition of 100,000 copies is utopian for such a report and in this case there are still a few copies verifiable would be. -- It is also quite possible that the publisher is also put forward.

Condition: Simple cardboard cover rubbed, with tears in the fold. Strong pages slightly stained, ins. Good. Please bAlso note the pictures at the end of the item description!

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About the IR 112 and Wilhelm von Baden (source: wikipedia):

the 4th Baden Infantry Regiment Prince Wilhelm No. 112 was an infantry unit of the Prussian Army

History: The association was founded on 22. October 1852 as 4. Line Infantry Regiment from the 8th and 9. Infantry Battalion of the Baden Army established. It was formed into two battalions and the Konstanz regiment was assigned as a garrison. Here it was housed in the former monastery of Petershausen.

On 20. On September 1, 1856, Grand Duke Friedrich I appointed Margrave Wilhelm von Baden to be the owner of the regiment, which from then on was called the 4th Regiment. Infantry Regiment "Markgraf Wilhelm" led.

On the occasion of the Sardinian War, the Baden troops were mobilized in 1859 and the regiment received a reserve battalion. During the demobilization, the reserve battalion was disbanded and the regiment was transferred to the new garrison in Mannheim.

After the death of Margrave Wilhelm, Grand Duke Friedrich I appointed Prince Wilhelm von Baden on 19. November 1859 as the new regiment owner. For this reason the designation changed to 4. Infantry Regiment "Prinz Wilhelm".

In 1864 the regiment moved to Rastatt. on the 18th On June 28, 1866, the Baden field division mobilized on the occasion of the German war and the regiment belonged until demobilization on June 28. August 1866 to occupy the Rastatt Fortress. It therefore did not take part in combat missions.

As a result of the military convention with Prussia dated 15. March 1867 saw the formation of the Baden Army based on the Prussian model. Therefore the regiment was on 26. Expanded to three battalions in October 1867 with the formation of a fusilier battalion. According to the military convention of 25 On November 1, 1870, the Grand Duchy ceded its military sovereignty to Prussia and was absorbed into the Prussian Army. For the 1st July 1871 the association received the designation 4. Baden Infantry Regiment "Prinz Wilhelm" No. 112 and formed together with the 4. Westphalian Infantry Regiment No. 17 the 58 Infantry Brigade. In the middle of the month the regiment moved to Upper Alsace. The regimental staff and the I. Battalion moved into Colmar as a garrison, the II. Battalion was in Neubreisach (from 12. September in Hüningen), the Fusilier Battalion in Gebweiler and Sulz. In October 1877 the regiment was combined in the new Mulhouse garrison. In April 1887 new changes took place. By setting up an IV. Battalion in Rastatt, the regiment was expanded and the fusilier battalion was given the designation III. Battalion. In addition, the regimental staff moved with I. and II. Battalion to Colmar, the III. Battalion to Schlettstadt. At this point the regiment came under the command of the 57. Infantry Brigade. For the 1st April 1890 the IV. Battalion to the newly formed 7. Baden Infantry Regiment No. 142 surrendered and the regiment moved to Mulhouse. There it moved into the Kaiser Wilhelm barracks. Together with the 7 Baden Infantry Regiment No. 142 it now formed the 58. Infantry Brigade.

Existed for a short time from October 1893 until it was handed over on January 1, 1893. April 1897 to the newly built 9. Baden Infantry Regiment No. 170 a IV half battalion. For the 1st October 1913 the regiment received a machine gun company.

Franco-Prussian War: On the occasion of the war against France, the regiment made on 16. July 1870 mobile. It took from the 15th Aug to 28 September 1870 during the siege of Strasbourg in the outpost and sortie battles at Schiltigheim, Königshofen, Zaberner Tor, Kronenburger Vorstadt and Mutzig. After the capitulation of the city, the regiment joined the newly formed XIV. Army Corps under General von Werder. It crossed the Vosges and advanced towards Troyes and Châtillon-sur-Seine. At Épinal it happened on the 6th. October to battle with troops of the corps under General Cambriels, but that retreated in a southerly direction. The association then continued its advance on Vesoul and reconnaissance against the fortress of Besançon. After battles near Auxonne advance against Dole and Dijon and on 13. November Destruction of the railway line at Saint-Vit. From the 14th November to 27. December 1870 the regiment was then in and near Dijon. From here it carried out raids against franc-tireurs and against troops under Garibaldi and Crémer. on the 18th In December 1870 the regiment took part in the Battle of Nuits. It had to mourn eight dead and seven injured officers and 68 men. The regiment owner, Prince Wilhelm von Baden, was also badly wounded as leader of the grenadier brigade.

At the end of December 1870, the regiment began to march back to Vesoul because of threatened attempts to relieve the fortress of Belfort by General Bourbaki's army and was on 9/10. On January 1, 1871, it took part in the battles at Villersexel and Vallerois-le-Bois before occupying a section of the Lisaine. In the battle that followed, the regiment succeeded on 17. January to storm the village of Chenebier, capturing seven French officers and 400 men. A lot of equipment and wagons could also be looted. Another advance on Châlonvillars failed due to the defending French and their own losses. Four officers and 37 men were dead, another 7 officers and 163 men were wounded. The Chenebier regiment then evacuated and was able to repel the French counterattacks.

The regiment entered the Southern Army under General von Manteuffel on 27 April January 1871 the renewed advance on Dijon. After the withdrawal of Garibaldi's troops and a short period of occupation, the regiment, which had lost a total of 19 officers and 404 men during the war, returned home.

In recognition, the Grand Duke awarded the three banners of the regiment on 1. April 1871 Silver Karl Friedrich Military Medal of Merit. Kaiser Wilhelm I paid tribute to the regiment's commitment on 22 August 1872 with the award of the Iron Cross for the three heads of the flag.

First World War: With the outbreak of the First World War, the regiment with a strength of 66 officers, 3159 men and 183 horses in the network of the 29. Mobile Infantry Division. Initially entrusted with reconnaissance and security tasks, the regiment took up arms on April 9. August 1914 at the Battle of Mulhouse and on 20./22. August took part in the Battle of Lorraine. After fighting off Toul, the regiment moved to northern France and saw action in the battles of Arras and Lille in October 1914. At Violaines, on the 22nd October 1914, after an attack without artillery support, around 200 prisoners were taken by three different enemy units and one machine gun was captured. At the end of the month the regiment went into trench warfare. After fighting on the Loretto Heights and a period of rest, the regiment was transferred to Champagne in mid-June 1915, where it took part in the autumn battle and then in the trench warfare in East Champagne. In July 1916, the regiment was briefly separated from the 29. Infanterie-Division and became the division "Fortmüller" or the 28th Reserve Division assigned. In mid-August 1916, the 29th Infanterie-Division and in September a MG company with six machine guns each was formed from the existing MG company for each battalion. According to the instructions of the War Ministry, an IV. Battalion with machine gun company set up, but that only existed until the end of January 1917. In March 1917 the regiment occupied a section of the Siegfried Line between Riqueval-Ferme and Bellenglise. At the end of March/beginning of April, the regiment returned to Champagne and saw action in the Battle of the Aisne. On the 17th alone April around 41 men. on the 1st Withdrawn from the front on May 11, the regiment came to rest in the quieter sector at Butte de Tahure. on the 8th On July 1917 it received the order to go behind the right wing of the 5. Army to march before Verdun and to be available as a reserve. In the coming months it was in trench warfare in front of the French fortress. At the beginning of April 1918 rest and training periods followed in the Arlon area. At the end of the month the regiment arrived in the Ypres area, had to endure costly battles for the strategically important Kemmelberg and lost around 19 officers and 939 non-commissioned officers and men by mid-May. from 19 May to 14. On June 1, 1918, the association was at rest near Oostrozebeke, then from Langemark and took part in the defensive battle on the Vesle. This was followed by fighting at Pinon in September and the defensive battle between Cambrai and Saint-Quentin in October. After further fighting in front of and in the Hermann Position and the retreat battles in front of the Antwerp-Maas Position, the regiment received on 11. November 1918 the announcement of the armistice.

Altogether the regiment had 92 officers, 281 non-commissioned officers and 2663 men killed.

Whereabouts: After the end of the war, the regiment evacuated the occupied territory in accordance with the terms of the armistice and marched back home with its remnants. on the 22nd The Belgian-German border was crossed in November 1918. During the stopover in the upper or Nieder-Waroldern from 13. December 1918 to 3. On January 1, 1919, some of the regiment members were dismissed. The regiment was then loaded in Warburg and met on April 7. January 1919 after a long train journey in Donaueschingen. There it was welcomed by the mayor after a ceremonial entry into the city. Finally, after demobilization, the regiment was mobilized on April 31. Disbanded March 1919.

The tradition of the Infantry Regiment No. 112 took over in the Reichswehr by decree of the Chief of the Army Command General of the Infantry Hans von Seeckt on 24. August 1921 stationed in Tübingen 6. Company of the 14th (Baden) infantry regiments. In the Wehrmacht, the I. and II. Battalion of the 75th Infantry Regiment in Villingen continued the tradition.

commanders

Rank Name Date[2]

Lieutenant Colonel/Colonel Philipp Joseph Louis 22. October 1852 to 10 January 1859

Colonel Ludwig Waag 15. January to 16 May 1859

Lieutenant Colonel/Colonel Heinrich Ludwig Delorme 17. May 1859 to

Lieutenant Colonel/Colonel Stefan Bayer 20. June 1866 to

Lieutenant Colonel Eduard von Nitsche 15. July to 18 October 1871 (commanded to leadership)

Lieutenant Colonel Eduard von Nitsche 19. October to 3 November 1871 (charged with leadership)

Lieutenant Colonel/Colonel Eduard von Nitsche 4. November 1871 to 21 March 1877

Colonel Franz Krueger 22. March 1877 to 2. August 1883

Colonel Waldemar von Munenberg 11. August 1883 to 2 August 1888

Lieutenant Colonel Ludwig Bene 3. August 1888 (in charge of leadership)

Colonel Ludwig Bene 4. August 1888 to 15 May 1891

Colonel Adalbert Buchfinck 16. May 1891 to 26 January 1895

Colonel Karl Koeppel 27. January 1895 to 17 October 1897

Colonel Max Crotogino 18. October 1897 to 21 May 1900

Colonel Kurt von Uechtritz and Steinkirch 22. May 1900 to 17 July 1903

Colonel Berthold Deimling 18. July 1903 to 20 May 1904

Colonel Louis Goetz 21. May 1904 to 12. Sep 1906

Colonel Max Hofmann 13. September 1906 to 9 Sep 1910

Colonel August Caesar 10. September 1910 to 17 Aug 1911

Lieutenant Colonel Kurt von Olszewski 18. Aug to 12 September 1911 (in charge of leadership)

Colonel Kurt von Olszewski 13. September 1911 to 2 Aug 1914

Lieutenant Colonel Konrad Neubauer 3. Aug to 21 December 1914

Major Ernst von Forstner 22. December 1914 to 24. January 1915

Colonel Konrad Neubauer 25. January to 23 May 1915

Colonel August Jonas 24. May 1915 to 9. January 1917

Major Ernst Lauteschläger 10. January 1917 to November 1918

Lieutenant Colonel Rudolf Seiler November 1918 to 31. March 1919

commemoration

To commemorate the 3036 who fell during the First World War, a memorial was erected in Donaueschingen, which is located opposite the castle.