(Translated extract for pages 16-21.)
The Kurfürst Regiment
December 5, 1813 until the outbreak of war in 1866.
The new regiment was formed into two musketeer battalions, a fusilier battalion and two grenadier companies. The battalions had four companies. The two grenadier companies formed together with those of the regiment "Kurprinz" a special grenadier battalion "Von Haller". Lord William I concluded by the with the allied monarch to Frankfurt a. M. entered into a treaty with the League of Nations for Germany's independence. Hesse put 24,000 men to the common Kamps. These formed in the rank of the allied armies the IV. German army corps, which stood under the personal supreme command of the Kurprinzen William. The regiment "Elector" was the first with the regiment "Kurprinz", which left its homeland on 20 January 1814 and started the march across the Rhine to France. The task of the Hessian troop units was to take over the encirclement of the fortresses Metz, Thionville, Luxembourg and Saarlouis.
On February 11, 1814, the regiment participated in the cernization of Luxembourg, with Liebenbrunn in front of the said fortress came to a major battle. Here it was above all the 1st Company of the Fusilier Battalion - consisting only of Upper Hesse - which lack of cartridges the failing Frenchman with the piston repulsed. In a special order of the Gdneral of Dörnberg the company then earned the well-deserved recognition as the first to renew the glorious name of the old Hessians.
Equally prominent was the Regiment before Diedenhosen in the Battle of Manquenon on February 26, where the Grenadier Battalion "Von Haller" distinguished itself particularly by the fact that it cut off a failure of the enemy with the bayonet, made many prisoners and conquered a cannon Even in the battle of Ladonchamps before Metz on April 10, the regiment bravely and fought worthily its old tradition.
When in 1815 Napoleon returned to France after escaping from the island of Elba, a Hessian corps of 12,000 men was mobilized at once, to which our regiment also belonged. The corps belonged to the north German army corps commanded by the Prussian General Gras Kleist von Nollendorff. At its head was lieutenant general Engelhardt. The column with which the regiment "Elector" withdrew marched to the Rhine on the 5th of April, and crossed it on May 11. After the Hessian corps was first marched against Luxemburg and later against Aachen, it finally received the Order to overrun the Maas fortresses.
The regiment participated in the confinement and capture of Sedan on June 27, the storming of the fortified city of Charleville on June 29, the failure of Mohon on July 25, and St. Julien's on the Maas Island (3 to 7 August), which finally ended with the conquest of Mezisres, one of the most important fortresses of France, which had not yet been conquered by any hostile army; The regiment was also on fire when the city of Givet and the fortress of Montmedy were encircled.
On February 27, 1821, the high-ranking chief of the regiment, Elector Wilhelm I, passed away, to whom he had been allowed to reappear after years of hardship in his fatherland. His son, the former Elector Wilhelm, took over as Elector Wilhelm II the government.
In 1816, two companies of the Fusilier Battalion entered and the remaining two companies were combined with those of the regiment "Kurprinz" to form a special Fusilier Battalion, and in 1817, this battalion was converted into the "I. Fusilier Landwehr Regiment".
On 1 May this year, the regiment received the name "I. Linien-Infanterie-Regiment", also organizational changes brought the regiment to the year 1821. It was formed into 3 battalions, namely to 2 musketeer and 1 fusilier battalion, each battalion to 4 companies in such a way that - as mentioned above - from two companies of the regiment "Elector" and from two companies of the regiment "Kurprinz" formed grenadier battalion "Von Haller" the I. battalion, the former I. battalion the II. and the second battalion since then the fusilier battalion , At the same time the regiment received the two companies of "I. Fusilier-Landwehr-Regiments ", which constituted part of the fusilier battalion of our regiment from 1813 to 1816, namely the 1st Company to the 2nd Battalion, the 2nd Company to the Fusilier Battalion.
The 1st Battalion of the regiment, which, as just mentioned, was formed by the previous Grenadier battalion "Von Haller," had also taken over the glorious history of those combined Grenadier battalions, which at all times maintained the reputation of a brave and fearless force At Bergen, Sababurg and Dorsten in the 7-year war, at Flatbush, Whiteplains, Redbank and Charlestown in the American campaign, the grenadiers have acquired everlasting laurels and also the years 1814 and 1815 saw the grenadiers in the fire.
In 1824, the regiment was given the name "I. Linien-Infanterie-Regiment Kurprinz"and awarded the spa prince Frederick William as head of the regiment. After he had taken over the co-regency on September 30, 1831, he appointed the regiment as his body regiment As a result of a reduction of the Army Corps ordered by the Electoral Prince, he formed two battalions on September 18, 1832, in such a way that the 1st and 2nd Battalion remained in existence, the Fusilier Battalion as a rifle battalion from the Regimental Association retired.
Once again, the regiment changed its name, in 1835 the name "I. Infantry Regiment (Leib-Regiment) "received until the death of Elector Wilhelm II his successor from the throne, Elector Friedrich Wilhelm I, on November 20, 1847 his regiment, to which he was already 23 years as chief, the name "I. Infantry Regiment (Elector)" awarded. This name was retained by the regiment until 17 September 1866.
When a breakout broke out in the Grand Duchy of Baden in the month of April 1848-one of the disturbances caused by the revolt that had taken place in France at the beginning of this year and the influence thus transferred from Germany-came on the initiative of the Baden Government made Hessian corps in the Grand Duchy. In this corps was the I. Battalion of the regiment. The strike was quickly ended by the capture of Freiburg and the battalion returned to the home. But at the beginning of August the battalion again marched out with a Kurhessian corps, and indeed the 1st Battalion, which formed the 2nd Battalion of a combined Brigade, went to Mannheim, but entered Frankfurt a. M., in the middle of the following month returned to his garrison.
In 1849 the regiment was increased by a Landwehr battalion. But this was re-launched in 1854, and its crew assigned to the other two battalions.
The re-emergence of the war with Denmark in 1849 was the reason why the Second Battalion followed on April 16 this year as a substitute for the Hessian Corps, which had already left for Holstein in March. When the Kurhessian brigade under Major General Spangenberg invaded the center of the main army in Jutland in the month of May, the 2nd Battalion of the regiment remained in Horsens to maintain contact with the Reserve Division in the Sundewitt. With riders and 4 guns, the battalion was sent from here to cover the left flank of the army to Gunden-Aa, from where it advanced as far as Skanderborg. After the Battle of Friedericia the isolated Kurhessische troop units were united and placed against Friedericia. When the peace was concluded at the end of July, the battalion with the other Kurhessian troops returned via Altona back home.
On February 17, 1855, by order of the German Confederation, a part of the Kurhessian army, among which was also the I. Infantry Regiment "Elector", was put into readiness for war, and this readiness was raised again on June 8, 1856.
Similarly, on April 27, 1859, also on the basis of the Federal Decree, 6677 Kurhessische soldiers were put into march readiness and brought on July 31 of the same year again from peace-kiss. Once again the regiment was among the mobilized units.
In 1863, the Zündnadelgewehr was introduced at the Lurhessian Army Corps.
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