73rd Hanoverian Fusilier Regiment

73rd Hanoverian Fusilier Regiment
Füsilier-Regiment Generalfeldmarschall Prinz Albrecht von Preußen (Hannoversches) Nr. 73
Active	1866–1919
Country	Kingdom of Prussia
Allegiance	German Empire (from 1871)
Branch	Prussian Army
Type	Infantry
Role	Fusilier

The 73rd Hanoverian Fusilier Regiment was an infantry regiment of the Imperial German Army. It was founded as a unit of the Prussian Army in 1866 following Prussia's annexation of the Kingdom of Hanover.

Its full German name was Füsilier-Regiment Generalfeldmarschall Prinz Albrecht von Preußen (Hannoversches).

Their regimental traditions included a brassard with Gibraltar in gold commemorating the role of Hanoverian troops in the Great Siege of Gibraltar.

Notable soldiers in the regiment included:

• The poet Hermann Löns was killed while serving with the regiment in September 1914.
• The author Ernst Jünger fought with the regiment from December 1914 until the end of the war, and his memoir Storm of Steel was based on his time there.
• The artist Kurt Schwitters was conscripted into the regiment in 1917 but was exempted the same year.
• For much of the First World War the regiment was commanded by Colonel Gustav von Oppen who would later command the Asia Corps.

See Also

• 19th Division (German Empire)
• List of Imperial German infantry regiments
• 111th Infantry Division (German Empire)

Bibliography

• Breyding, Emil; von Kortzfleisch, Gustav (1891). Geschichte des Füsilier-Regiments General-Feldmarschall Prinz Albrecht von Preussen (Hannoversches) Nr. 73: 1866–1891 (in German). Berlin: R. Eisenschmidt.
• Jünger, Ernst (1929). Storm of Steel. Translated by Creighton, Basil.