This is a list of Imperial German infantry regiments 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.[1]
Regiment | Raised[2] | Garrison | Corps | |
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1st Foot Guards | Potsdam | Guards Corps | ||
2nd Foot Guards | Berlin | Guards Corps | ||
3rd Foot Guards | Berlin | Guards Corps | ||
4th Foot Guards | Berlin | Guards Corps | ||
5th Foot Guards | Spandau | Guards Corps | ||
1st (Emperor Alexander) Guards Grenadiers | Berlin | Guards Corps | ||
2nd (Emperor Francis) Guards Grenadiers | Berlin | Guards Corps | ||
3rd (Queen Elizabeth) Guards Grenadiers | Charlottenburg | Guards Corps | ||
4th (Queen Augusta) Guards Grenadiers | Berlin | Guards Corps | ||
5th Guards Grenadiers | Spandau | Guards Corps | ||
Guards Fusiliers | Berlin | Guards Corps | ||
Lehr Infantry Regiment | Potsdam | Guards Corps | ||
1st (1st East Prussian) Grenadiers "Crown Prince" | Königsberg/Pr. | I Army Corps | ||
2nd (1st Pomeranian) Grenadiers "King Frederick William IV" | Stettin | II Army Corps | ||
3rd (2nd East Prussian) Grenadiers "King Frederick William I" | Königsberg/Pr. | I Army Corps | ||
4th (3rd East Prussian) Grenadiers "King Frederick the Great" | Rastenburg | I Army Corps | ||
5th (4th East Prussian) Grenadiers "King Frederick I" | Danzig | XVII Army Corps | ||
6th (1st West Prussian) Grenadiers "Count Kleist von Nollendorf" | Posen | V Army Corps | ||
7th (2nd West Prussian) Grenadiers "King William I" | Liegnitz | V Army Corps | ||
8th (1st Brandenburg) Life Grenadiers "King Frederick William III" | Frankfurt an der Oder | III Army Corps | ||
9th (2nd Pomeranian) Colberg Grenadiers "Count Gneisenau" | Stargard | II Army Corps | ||
10th (1st Silesian) Grenadiers "King Frederick William II" | Schweidnitz | VI Army Corps | ||
11th (2nd Silesian) Grenadiers "King Frederick III" | Breslau | VI Army Corps | ||
12th (2nd Brandenburg) Grenadiers "Prince Charles of Prussia" | Frankfurt an der Oder | III Army Corps | ||
13th (1st Westphalian) Infantry "Herwarth von Bittenfeld" | Münster | VII Army Corps | ||
14th (3rd Pomeranian) Infantry "Count Schwerin" | Bromberg | II Army Corps | ||
15th (2nd Westphalian) Infantry "Prince Frederick of the Netherlands" | Minden | VII Army Corps | ||
16th (3rd Westphalian) Infantry "Baron Sparr" | Cologne | VII Army Corps | ||
17th (4th Westphalian) Infantry "Count Barfuss" | Mörchingen | XXI Army Corps | ||
18th (1st Posen) Infantry "von Grolman" | Osterode | XX Army Corps | ||
19th (2nd Posen) Infantry "von Courbière" | Görlitz, Lauban | V Army Corps | ||
20th (3rd Brandenburg) Infantry "Count Tauentzien von Wittenberg" | Wittenberg | III Army Corps | ||
21st (4th Pomeranian) Infantry "von Borcke" | Thorn | XVII Army Corps | ||
22nd (1st Upper Silesian) Infantry "Keith" | Gleiwitz, Kattowitz | VI Army Corps | ||
23rd (2nd Upper Silesian) Infantry "von Winterfeldt" | Neisse | VI Army Corps | ||
24th (4th Brandenburg) Infantry "Grand Duke Frederick Francis II of Mecklenburg-Schwerin" | Neuruppin | III Army Corps | ||
25th (1st Rhenish) Infantry "von Lützow" | Aachen | VIII Army Corps | ||
26th (1st Magdeburg) Infantry "Prince Leopold of Anhalt-Dessau" | Magdeburg | IV Army Corps | ||
27th (2nd Magdeburg) Infantry "Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia" | Halberstadt | IV Army Corps | ||
28th (2nd Rhenish) Infantry "von Goeben" | Koblenz | VIII Army Corps | ||
29th (3rd Rhenish) Infantry "von Horn" | Trier | VIII Army Corps | ||
30th (4th Rhenish) Infantry "Count Werder" | Saarlouis | XVI Army Corps | ||
31st (1st Thuringian) Infantry "Count Bose" | Altona | IX Army Corps | ||
32nd (2nd Thuringian) Infantry | Meiningen | XI Army Corps | ||
33rd (East Prussian) Fusiliers "Count Roon" | Gumbinnen | I Army Corps | ||
34th (Pomeranian) Fusiliers "Queen Victoria of Sweden" | Stettin, Swinemünde | II Army Corps | ||
35th (Brandenburg) Fusiliers "Prince Henry of Prussia" | Brandenburg | III Army Corps | ||
36th (Magdeburg) Fusiliers "General Field Marshal Count Blumenthal" | Halle, Bernburg | IV Army Corps | ||
37th (West Prussian) Fusiliers "von Steinmetz" | Krotoschin | V Army Corps | ||
38th (Silesian) Fusiliers "General Field Marshal Count Moltke" | Glatz | VI Army Corps | ||
39th (Lower Rhenish) Fusiliers | Düsseldorf | VII Army Corps | ||
40th (Hohenzollern) Fusiliers "Prince Charles Anton of Hohenzollern" | Rastatt | XIV Army Corps | ||
41st (5th East Prussian) Infantry "von Boyen" | Tilsit, Memel | I Army Corps | ||
42nd (5th Pomeranian) Infantry "Prince Maurice of Anhalt-Dessau" | Stralsund, Greifswald | II Army Corps | ||
43rd (6th East Prussian) Infantry "Duke Charles of Mecklenburg" | Königsberg, Pillau | I Army Corps | ||
44th (7th East Prussian) Infantry "Count Dönhoff" | Goldap | I Army Corps | ||
45th (8th East Prussian) Infantry | Insterburg, Darkehmen | I Army Corps | ||
46th (1st Lower Silesian) Infantry "Count Kirchbach" | Posen, Wreschen | V Army Corps | ||
47th (2nd Lower Silesian) Infantry "King Ludwig III of Bavaria" | Posen, Schrimm | V Army Corps | ||
48th (5th Brandenburg) Infantry "von Stülpnagel" | Küstrin | III Army Corps | ||
49th (6th Pomeranian) Infantry | Gnesen | II Army Corps | ||
50th (3rd Lower Silesian) Infantry | Rawitsch, Lissa | V Army Corps | ||
51st (4th Lower Silesian) Infantry | Breslau | VI Army Corps | ||
52nd (6th Brandenburg) Infantry "von Alvensleben" | Cottbus, Crossen | III Army Corps | ||
53rd (5th Westphalian) Infantry | Köln | VII Army Corps | ||
54th (7th Pomeranian) Infantry "von der Goltz" | Kolberg, Köslin | II Army Corps | ||
55th (6th Westphalian) Infantry "Count Bülow von Dennewitz" | Detmold, Höxter, Bielefeld | VII Army Corps | ||
56th (7th Westphalian) Infantry "Vogel von Falkenstein" | Wesel, Kleve | VII Army Corps | ||
57th (8th Westphalian) Infantry "Duke Ferdinand of Brunswick" | Wesel | VII Army Corps | ||
58th (3rd Posen) Infantry | Glogau, Fraustadt | V Army Corps | ||
59th (4th Posen) Infantry "Baron Hiller von Gaertringen" | Deutsch-Eylau, Soldau | XX Army Corps | ||
60th (7th Brandenburg) Infantry "Margrave Charles" | Weißenburg | XXI Army Corps | ||
61st (8th Pomeranian) Infantry "von der Marwitz" | Thorn | XVII Army Corps | ||
62nd (3rd Upper Silesian) Infantry | Cosel, Ratibor | VI Army Corps | ||
63rd (4th Upper Silesian) Infantry | Oppeln, Lublinitz | VI Army Corps | ||
64th (8th Brandenburg) Infantry "General Field Marshal Prince Frederick Charles of Prussia" | Prenzlau, Angermünde | III Army Corps | ||
65th (5th Rhenish) Infantry | Köln | VIII Army Corps | ||
66th (3rd Magdeburg) Infantry | Magdeburg | IV Army Corps | ||
67th (4th Magdeburg) Infantry | Metz | XVI Army Corps | ||
68th (6th Rhenish) Infantry | Koblenz | VIII Army Corps | ||
69th (7th Rhenish) Infantry | Trier | VIII Army Corps | ||
70th (8th Rhenish) Infantry | Saarbrücken | XXI Army Corps | ||
71st (3rd Thuringian) Infantry | Erfurt, Sondershausen | XI Army Corps | ||
72nd (4th Thuringian) Infantry | Torgau, Altenburg | IV Army Corps | ||
73rd (Hannover) Fusiliers "Field Marshal Prince Albrecht of Prussia" | Hannover | X Army Corps | ||
74th (1st Hannover) Infantry | Hannover | X Army Corps | ||
75th (1st Hanseatic)(Bremen) Infantry | Bremen, Stade | IX Army Corps | ||
76th (2nd Hanseatic)(Hamburg) Infantry | Hamburg | IX Army Corps | ||
77th (2nd Hannover) Infantry | Celle | X Army Corps | ||
78th (East Frisian) Infantry "Duke Frederick William of Brunswick" | Osnabrück, Aurich | X Army Corps | ||
79th (3rd Hannover) Infantry "von Voigts-Rhetz" | Hildesheim | X Army Corps | ||
80th (Kurhessian) Fusiliers "von Gersdorff" | Wiesbaden, Homburg | XVIII Army Corps | ||
81st (1st Kurhessian) Infantry "Landgrave Frederick I of Hesse-Cassel" | Frankfurt am Main | XVIII Army Corps | ||
82nd (2nd Kurhessian) Infantry | Göttingen | XI Army Corps | ||
83rd (3rd Kurhessian) Infantry "von Wittich" | Kassel, Arolsen | XI Army Corps | ||
84th (Schleswig) Infantry "von Manstein" | Schleswig, Hadersleben | IX Army Corps | ||
85th (Holstein) Infantry "Duke of Holstein" | Rendsburg, Kiel | IX Army Corps | ||
86th (Schleswig-Holstein) Fusiliers "Queen" | Flensburg, Sonderburg | IX Army Corps | ||
87th (1st Nassau) Infantry | Mainz | XVIII Army Corps | ||
88th (2nd Nassau) Infantry | Mainz, Hanau | XVIII Army Corps | ||
89th (Grand Ducal Mecklenburgian) Grenadiers | Schwerin, Neustrelitz | IX Army Corps | ||
90th (Grand Ducal Mecklenburgian) Fusiliers "Emperor William" | Rostock, Wismar | IX Army Corps | ||
91st (Oldenburg) Infantry | Oldenburg | X Army Corps | ||
92nd (Brunswick) Infantry | Braunschweig | X Army Corps | ||
93rd (Anhalt) Infantry | Dessau, Zerbst | IV Army Corps | ||
94th (5th Thuringian) Infantry "Grand Duke of Saxony" | Weimar, Eisenach, Jena | XI Army Corps | ||
95th (6th Thuringian) Infantry | Gotha, Hildburghausen, Coburg | XI Army Corps | ||
96th (7th Thuringian) Infantry | Gera, Rudolstadt | XI Army Corps | ||
97th (1st Upper Rhenish) Infantry | Saarburg | XXI Army Corps | ||
98th (Metz) Infantry | Metz | XVI Army Corps | ||
99th (2nd Upper Rhenish) Infantry | Zabern, Pfalzburg | XV Army Corps | ||
100th (1st Royal Saxon) Life Grenadiers | Dresden | XII Army Corps | ||
101st (2nd Royal Saxon) Grenadiers "Emperor William, King of Prussia" | Dresden | XII Army Corps | ||
102nd (3rd Royal Saxon) Infantry "King Ludwig III of Bavaria" | Zittau | XII Army Corps | ||
103rd (4th Royal Saxon) Infantry | Bautzen | XII Army Corps | ||
104th (5th Royal Saxon) Infantry "Crown Prince" | Chemnitz | XIX Army Corps | ||
105th (6th Royal Saxon) Infantry "King William II of Württemberg" | Straßburg | XV Army Corps | ||
106th (7th Royal Saxon) Infantry "King George" | Leipzig | XIX Army Corps | ||
107th (8th Royal Saxon) Infantry "Prince John George" | Leipzig | XIX Army Corps | ||
108th (Royal Saxon) Schützen (Füsiliers) "Prince George" | Dresden | XII Army Corps | ||
109th (1st Baden) Life Grenadiers | Karlsruhe | XIV Army Corps | ||
110th (2nd Baden) Grenadiers "Emperor William I" | Mannheim, Heidelberg | XIV Army Corps | ||
111th (3rd Baden) Infantry "Margrave Ludwig William" | Rastatt | XIV Army Corps | ||
112th (4th Baden) Infantry "Prince William" | Mülhausen/Elsaß | XIV Army Corps | ||
113th (5th Baden) Infantry | Freiburg im Breisgau | XIV Army Corps | ||
114th (6th Baden) Infantry "Emperor Frederick III" | Konstanz | XIV Army Corps | ||
115th (1st Grand Ducal Hessian) Lifeguard Infantry | Darmstadt | XVIII Army Corps | ||
116th (2nd Grand Ducal Hessian) Infantry "Emperor William" | Gießen | XVIII Army Corps | ||
117th (3rd Grand Ducal Hessian) Life Infantry "Grand Duchess" | Mainz | XVIII Army Corps | ||
118th (4th Grand Ducal Hessian) Infantry "Prince Charles" | Worms | XVIII Army Corps | ||
119th (1st Württemberg) Grenadiers "Queen Olga" | [3] | Stuttgart | XIII Army Corps | |
120th (2nd Württemberg) Infantry "Emperor William, King of Prussia" | [4] | Ulm | XIII Army Corps | |
121st (3rd Württemberg)(Old Württemberg) Infantry | Ludwigsburg | XIII Army Corps | ||
122nd (4th Württemberg) Fusiliers "Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria, King of Hungary" | Heilbronn, Mergentheim | XIII Army Corps | ||
123rd (5th Württemberg) Grenadiers "King Charles" | Ulm | XIII Army Corps | ||
124th (6th Württemberg) Infantry "King William I" | [5] | Weingarten | XIII Army Corps | |
125th (7th Württemberg) Infantry "Emperor Frederick, King of Prussia" | Stuttgart | XIII Army Corps | ||
126th (8th Württemberg) Infantry "Grand Duke Frederick of Baden" | Straßburg | XV Army Corps | ||
127th (9th Württemberg) Infantry | Ulm | XIII Army Corps | ||
128th (Danzig) Infantry | Danzig-Neufahrwasser | XVII Army Corps | ||
129th (3rd West Prussian) Infantry | Graudenz | XVII Army Corps | ||
130th (1st Lotharingian) Infantry | Metz | XVI Army Corps | ||
131st (2nd Lotharingian) Infantry | Mörchingen | XXI Army Corps | ||
132nd (1st Lower Alsatian) Infantry | Straßburg | XV Army Corps | ||
133rd (9th Royal Saxon) Infantry | Zwickau | XIX Army Corps | ||
134th (10th Royal Saxon) Infantry | Plauen | XIX Army Corps | ||
135th (3rd Lotharingian) Infantry | Diedenhofen | XVI Army Corps | ||
136th (4th Lotharingian) Infantry | Straßburg | XV Army Corps | ||
137th (2nd Lower Alsatian) Infantry | Hagenau | XXI Army Corps | ||
138th (3rd Lower Alsatian) Infantry | Dieuze | XXI Army Corps | ||
139th (11th Royal Saxon) Infantry | Döbeln | XIX Army Corps | ||
140th (4th West Prussian) Infantry | Hohensalza | II Army Corps | ||
141st (Kulm) Infantry | Graudenz, Strasburg in Westpreußen | XVII Army Corps | ||
142nd (7th Baden) Infantry | Mülhausen/Elsaß, Müllheim/Baden | XIV Army Corps | ||
143rd (4th Lower Alsasian) Infantry | Straßburg, Mutzig | XV Army Corps | ||
144th (5th Lotharingian) Infantry | Metz | XVI Army Corps | ||
145th (6th Lotharingian) King's Infantry | Metz | XVI Army Corps | ||
146th (1st Masurian) Infantry | Allenstein | XX Army Corps | ||
147th (2nd Masurian) Infantry | Lyck, Lötzen | XX Army Corps | ||
148th (5th West Prussian) Infantry | Elbing, Braunsberg | XX Army Corps | ||
149th (6th West Prussian) Infantry | Schneidemühl, Deutsch-Krone | II Army Corps | ||
150th (1st Ermland) Infantry | Allenstein | XX Army Corps | ||
151st (2nd Ermland) Infantry | Sensburg, Bischofsburg | XX Army Corps | ||
152nd (1st Alsasian) Infantry "Teutonic Order" | Marienburg, Stuhm | XX Army Corps | ||
153rd (8th Thuringian) Infantry | Altenburg, Merseburg | IV Army Corps | ||
154th (5th Lower Silesian) Infantry | Jauer, Glogau | V Army Corps | ||
155th (7th West Prussian) Infantry | Ostrowo, Pleschen | V Army Corps | ||
156th (3rd Silesian) Infantry | Beuthen, Tarnowitz | VI Army Corps | ||
157th (4th Silesian) Infantry | Brieg | VI Army Corps | ||
158th (7th Lotharingian) Infantry | Paderborn | VII Army Corps | ||
159th (8th Lotharingian) Infantry | Mülheim/Ruhr, Geldern | VII Army Corps | ||
160th (9th Rhenish) Infantry | Bonn, Dietz, Euskirchen | VIII Army Corps | ||
161st (10th Rhenish) Infantry | Düren, Eschweiler, Jülich | VIII Army Corps | ||
162nd (3rd Hanseatic)(Lübeck) Infantry | Lübeck, Eutin | IX Army Corps | ||
163rd (Schleswig-Holstein) Infantry | Neumünster, Heide | IX Army Corps | ||
164th (4th Hannover) Infantry | Hameln, Holzminden | X Army Corps | ||
165th (5th Hannover) Infantry | Quedlinburg, Blankenburg | IV Army Corps | ||
166th (Hessen-Homburg) Infantry | Bitsch | XXI Army Corps | ||
167th (1st Upper Alsatian) Infantry | Kassel, Mühlhausen/Thüringen | XI Army Corps | ||
168th (5th Grand Ducal Hessian) Infantry | Offenbach, Butzbach, Friedberg/Hesse | XVIII Army Corps | ||
169th (8th Baden) Infantry | Lahr, Villingen | XIV Army Corps | ||
170th (9th Baden) Infantry | Offenburg, Donaueschingen | XIV Army Corps | ||
171st (2nd Upper Alsatian) Infantry | Colmar/Elsaß | XV Army Corps | ||
172nd (3rd Upper Alsatian) Infantry | Neubreisach | XV Army Corps | ||
173rd (9th Lotharingian) Infantry | St. Avold, Metz | XVI Army Corps | ||
174th (10th Lotharingian) Infantry | Forbach | XXI Army Corps | ||
175th (8th West Prussian) Infantry | Graudenz, Schwetz | XVII Army Corps | ||
176th (9th West Prussian) Infantry | Kulm, Thorn | XVII Army Corps | ||
177th (12th Royal Saxon) Infantry | Dresden | XII Army Corps | ||
178th (13th Royal Saxon) Infantry | Kamenz/Sachsen | XII Army Corps | ||
179th (14th Royal Saxon) Infantry | Wurzen, Leisnig | XIX Army Corps | ||
180th (10th Württemberg) Infantry | Tübingen, Gmünd | XIII Army Corps | ||
181st (15th Royal Saxon) Infantry | Chemnitz | XIX Army Corps | ||
182nd (16th Royal Saxon) Infantry | Freiberg | XII Army Corps | ||
Royal Bavarian Infantry Lifeguards Regiment | München | I Royal Bavarian Corps | ||
1st Royal Bavarian Infantry "King" | München | I Royal Bavarian Corps | ||
2nd Royal Bavarian Infantry "Crown Prince" | München | I Royal Bavarian Corps | ||
3rd Royal Bavarian Infantry "Prince Charles of Bavaria" | Augsburg | I Royal Bavarian Corps | ||
4th Royal Bavarian Infantry "King William of Württemberg" | Metz | II Royal Bavarian Corps | ||
5th Royal Bavarian Infantry "Grand Duke Ernst Ludwig of Hessen" | Bamberg | II Royal Bavarian Corps | ||
6th Royal Bavarian Infantry "Emperor William, King of Prussia" | Amberg | III Royal Bavarian Corps | ||
7th Royal Bavarian Infantry "Prince Leopold" | Bayreuth | III Royal Bavarian Corps | ||
8th Royal Bavarian Infantry "Grand Duke Frederick II of Baden" | Metz | II Royal Bavarian Corps | ||
9th Royal Bavarian Infantry "Wrede" | Würzburg | II Royal Bavarian Corps | ||
10th Royal Bavarian Infantry "King" | Ingolstadt | III Royal Bavarian Corps | ||
11th Royal Bavarian Infantry "von der Tann" | Regensburg | III Royal Bavarian Corps | ||
12th Royal Bavarian Infantry "Prince Arnulf" | Neu-Ulm | I Royal Bavarian Corps | ||
13th Royal Bavarian Infantry "Franz Josef I, Emperor of Austria and King of Hungary" | Ingolstadt | III Royal Bavarian Corps | ||
14th Royal Bavarian Infantry "Hartmann" | Nuremberg | III Royal Bavarian Corps | ||
15th Royal Bavarian Infantry "King Frederick August of Saxony" | Neuburg an der Donau | I Royal Bavarian Corps | ||
16th Royal Bavarian Infantry "Grand Duke Ferdinand of Tuscany" | Passau | I Royal Bavarian Corps | ||
17th Royal Bavarian Infantry "Orff" | Germersheim | II Royal Bavarian Corps | ||
18th Royal Bavarian Infantry "Prince Ludwig Ferdinand" | Landau | II Royal Bavarian Corps | ||
19th Royal Bavarian Infantry "King Viktor Emanuel III of Italy" | Erlangen | III Royal Bavarian Corps | ||
20th Royal Bavarian Infantry "Prince Francis" | Lindau | I Royal Bavarian Corps | ||
21st Royal Bavarian Infantry "Grand Duke Frederick Francis IV of Mecklenburg-Schwerin" | Fürth, Sulzbach, Eichstätt | style=white-space:nowrap | III Royal Bavarian Corps | |
22nd Royal Bavarian Infantry "Prince William of Hohenzollern" | Zweibrücken | II Royal Bavarian Corps | ||
23rd Royal Bavarian Infantry | Landau | II Royal Bavarian Corps |
On mobilisation, the German Army raised 113 Reserve Infantry Regiments (of 332 battalions) and 96 Landwehr Infantry Regiments (of 294 battalions). Meanwhile a number of existing units of various sizes were expanded. The Lehr Infantry Battalion was expanded to form the Lehr Infantry Regiment.[6] Throughout the war Germany also mustered numerous new infantry regiments.
Regiment | Raised | Garrison | Corps | |
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64th Reserve Infantry Regiment | 1914 | |||
86th Reserve Infantry Regiment | August 1914 | IX Reserve Corps | ||
93rd Reserve Infantry Regiment | 1914 | |||
213th Reserve Infantry Regiment | 1914 | |||
254th Reserve Infantry Regiment | December 1914 |
Regiment | Raised | Garrison | Corps | |
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405th Infantry Regiment | late 1916 | |||
409th Infantry Regiment | 2 October 1916 | |||
410th Infantry Regiment | late 1916 |