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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]
German, Prussian, and Austrian war ensigns, including those called "Reichskriegsflagge " The term Reichskriegsflagge (German: [ˈʁaɪçsˌkʁiːksflaɡə], lit. ' Imperial War Flag ') refers to several war flags and war ensigns used by the German armed forces in history. A total of eight different designs were used in 1848–1849 and between ...
Reich war flag (Reichskriegsflagge) and marine jack: 1921–1933: Reich war flag: 1919–1921 (never used) Reich war flag (Reichskriegsflagge) 1903–1918 (1921) Reich war flag: 1892–1903: Reich war flag (Reichskriegsflagge) 1867–1892: Imperial Navy war ensign (Kriegsflagge) 1848–1852: War ensign of the Reichsflotte: 1895–1918: Naval ...
A corps usually included a light infantry battalion, a heavy artillery (Fußartillerie) battalion, an engineer battalion, a telegraph battalion, and a trains battalion. Some corps areas also disposed of fortress troops; each of the 25 corps had a Field Aviation Unit ( Feldflieger Abteilung ) attached to it normally equipped with six unarmed "A ...
The Imperial German Army (1871–1919), officially referred to as the German Army (German: Deutsches Heer [7]), was the unified ground and air force of the German Empire.It was established in 1871 with the political unification of Germany under the leadership of Prussia, and was dissolved in 1919, after the defeat of the German Empire in World War I (1914–1918).
The efficacy of the 5th Assault Battalions' tactics would later go on to inform German infantry doctrine during World War II, where many elements of "stormtrooper tactics" (such as the extensive use of both light and heavy machine guns and hand grenades) and were rolled into standard infantry units, with standard German squads consisting of a ...
Regiments of the German Army in World War I (2 C, 21 P) Pages in category "Military units and formations of Germany in World War I" The following 24 pages are in this category, out of 24 total.
In peacetime the Corps was assigned to the II Army Inspectorate but joined the 2nd Army at the start of the First World War. [1] It was still in existence at the end of the war [2] in the 4th Army, Heeresgruppe Kronprinz Rupprecht, on the Western Front. [3] The Corps was disbanded with the demobilisation of the German Army after World War I.