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After the First World War, the Jäger units of the Imperial German Army were disbanded, but their traditions were carried by infantry regiments of the 100,000-man Reichswehr of the Weimar Republic. After the Nazis came to power in 1933 and the rearmament of Germany began, the new Wehrmacht revived the name Jäger for various types of units:
Jäger, or Jaeger, is the German word for "hunter", and describes a kind of light infantry. [ 1 ] In English the word Jaeger is also translated as " rifleman " or " ranger ". German-speaking nations' armies
In the 19th century, the Prussian Army fought successful wars against Kingdom of Denmark in the Second Schleswig War of 1864; versus the Austrian Empire in the Austro-Prussian War of 1866; and the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-1871 with the Second French Empire of France, led by Emperor Napoleon III; which allowing Prussia to lead and dominate in ...
The unit was officially founded in February 1813 as Königlich Preußisches Freikorps von Lützow (Royal Prussian Free Corps von Lützow). Lützow, who had been an officer under the ill-fated Ferdinand von Schill, obtained permission from the Prussian Chief-of-Staff Gerhard von Scharnhorst to organize a free corps consisting of infantry, cavalry, and Tyrolean Jäger (literally, “hunters ...
During the First World War the battalion used field grey uniforms, the shakos were covered with grey textil coating. The Prussian Schutzpolizei, newly formed after 1918, nicknamed the green police, received shakos like those of the guards rifles. [14] These kind of shakos remained in use by the police of the West German states until the 1960s.
In comparison to 1806, the Prussian populace, especially the middle class, was supportive of the war, and thousands of volunteers joined the army. Prussian troops under the leadership of Blücher and Gneisenau proved vital at the Battles of Leipzig (1813) and Waterloo (1815). Later staff officers were impressed with the simultaneous operations ...
To achieve experience from warfare, the main part of the Ausbildungs-Truppe-Lockstedt became a regular Jaeger battalion, the Royal Prussian Jaeger battalion number 27 (German: Königlich Preussisches Jägerbataillon Nr. 27), which was used with relatively modest losses to attain experience, but also re-trained for the more technically demanding duties of artillery, engineers, supplies, etc. in ...
The Jäger Battalion fought in the ranks of the German Army from 1916 in the battles on the northern flank of the eastern front. Finnish Jägers parading at the town square of Vaasa 1918. After the outbreak of the Civil War in Finland the Jägers were engaged on the " White " (non-communist) side in the war and formed the nucleus of the new ...