Hohenlohe Regiment
The Regiment Hohenlohe was a military association, which was set up by French royalists to combat the French Revolution and for a time was also in Dutch, Austrian and Russian service. 1814 rose from its ruins a federation of the French army, who is regarded as a precursor, which was founded in 1831 Foreign Legion.
The regiments of Hohenlohe- Bartenstein and Hohenlohe Hohenlohe were germ cells of the regiment, which went up in the French Foreign Legion in 1831. In 1792 they were erected in 1794 merged. After 1805, the Infantry Regiment Hohenlohe- Bartenstein was in Russian service, it Hisse then: Infantry Regiment Grand Duke Michael of Russia No. 26 After several name changes, it was 1832 when the resolution back to its original name.
In 1798 the French Revolution broke out. Many royalists, emigrants from France, headed by the brothers of Louis XVI. , Came in the following years to Germany. Their attempt to raise an army to restore the " old order " in France, supported the Prince of Hohenlohe and Hohenlohe- Bartenstein. In 1792 they set up two regiments, which should help the Bourbons in the fight against the revolution.
Prince Aloys Ludwig zu Hohenlohe- Waldenburg - Bartenstein was commander of the Hunter ( Chasseurs à Pied ) and Prince Karl Joseph zu Hohenlohe Bartenstein was commander of the Fusiliers. In addition, former, seasoned in the French service officers were hired. The Hohenlohe mercenaries came primarily from the areas around Pfedelbach, Bartenstein and Schillingsfuerst. Although recruitment was slow, but in the end some 900 man came along that were subordinate to the army of Prince Louis Joseph de Bourbon - Condé.
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Initially, the regiments fought in the Palatinate, in the Netherlands and in the Upper Rhine against the French revolutionary troops. In 1794 they were merged to form the Regiment Hohenlohe and changed in the same year in Dutch services. Under command of Colonel Durand, the association was maintained from 1797 by Russian subsidy payments. The Regiment Hohenlohe -Durand was temporarily in the Austrian service. Be battles in Holland in the same year, the Royal Regiment Hohenlohe was almost completely destroyed. The survivors were captured or drowned in the supplied forenen Zuiderzee. In 1805 the regiment recorded under the leadership of Major General Ludwig Alois Prince of Hohenlohe Bartenstein from the rest. It fought at Caldiero near Verona under the command of Archduke Charles. To compensate frührere losses, the regiment of soldiers of Carinthia was supplemented.
After the Congress of Vienna in 1814 was Prince Aloys Ludwig zu Hohenlohe- Bartenstein French Lieutenant-General and Inspector of Infantry. He was allowed to plan their own regiment, called the Legion de Hohenlohe, which consisted of remnants of the Regiment Hohenlohe- Durand and Napoleonic strangers regiments. In 1821 it was renamed Regiment Hohenlohe. 1827 finally became Prince Aloys Ludwig marshal and peer of France. The status of a peer of France was the highest in the French nobility and was awarded by the king. He died in Luneville on May 31, 1829.
Resolution
The regiment was stationed at that time in Marseille. After the July Revolution of 1830, the soldiers of his regiment could take French nationality. Who was not ready, had to join the French Foreign Legion, built in 1831 or after Germany.
Individual fates
A son of Hohenlohe- Bartensteinischen Hofschmieds described in a letter to Bartenstein from 1805 that he had deserted the wounded from the regiment in Switzerland. As he there not be smithing could exert he enlisted from advertisers in Spanish military services. He fought six years in the service of the Spanish king in Melilla / North Africa against the Moors. As a company of Corporal in the 3rd Battalion of Infantry Regiment Irlandais ( in the letter Regiment Irlandia called ), he then lived in Cádiz. There lose track of him.
The son of Hohenlohe- Bartensteinischen Hofkrämers returned after the dissolution of the regiment until 1836 when disabled by Bartenstein back. Here he was completely unknown. Together with the local priest he put on a genealogy to prove his identity. He died a short time later depleted in a cottage outside the town.
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- Anne and Claus Reimann: Bartenstein as it used to, Niederstetten 2009
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- Gerhard Taddey (ed. ): Pfedelbach 1037-1987. From past and present ( = research from Württembergisch franc. Vol. 30). Published by the community Pfedelbach. Thorbecke and others, Sigmaringen, among other things, 1987, ISBN 3-921429-30-7.
- Hohenlohe- Central Archives New Stone
- Archive Schrozberg, Part Bartenstein
- The Infantry Regiment Hohenlohe- Bartenstein at the Battle of Caldiero, Vienna 1891