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Germany [ edit ] Since the 15th century, Leibgarde [ 1 ] has been the designation for the military security guards who protected Fürsten (royals and nobles) – usually members of the highest nobility who ruled over states of the Holy Roman Empire and later its former territory – from danger.
The term Leibstandarte was derived partly from Leibgarde – a somewhat archaic German translation of "Guard of Corps" or personal bodyguard of a military leader ("Leib" = lit. "body, torso") – and Standarte: the Schutzstaffel (SS) or Sturmabteilung (SA) term for a regiment-sized unit, also the German word for a specific type of heraldic flag .
The Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler (LSSAH) was founded in September 1933 as Adolf Hitler's personal bodyguard formation. It was given the title Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler (LAH) in November, 1933. [1]
Württemberg Leibgarde (Württemberg) (two squadrons, 160 men) Bibra's Dragoons, Major General von Bibra (Mainz/Austrian auxiliary) (four squadrons, 400 men) Cavalry Reserve General of Cavalry Charles Maximilien, comte de la Tour et Valsassina. Efferen's Brigade Moorheim's Cuirassiers (Mecklenburg) (two squadrons, 160 men)
The 25th Division (25.Division), officially the Grand Ducal Hessian (25th) Division (Großherzoglich Hessische (25.)Division), was a unit of the Prussian/German Army. [1] It was headquartered in Darmstadt, the capital of the Grand Duchy of Hesse. [2]
The regiment was created by Royal Decree on 16 July 1814 as the Grenadier Guards Regiment from the grenadier companies of Bavarian line infantry regiments. The tallest men were transferred to the Grenadier Guards Regiment, the rest to the "King's Own" (König) Royal Bavarian Infantry Regiment No. 1.
The Royal Saxon Army (German: Königlich Sächsische Armee) was the military force of the Electorate (1682–1807) and later the Kingdom of Saxony (1807–1918). A regular Saxon army was first established in 1682 and it continued to exist until the abolition of the German monarchies in 1918.
Karl Friedrich Otto Wolff was born the son of a wealthy district court judge in Darmstadt on 13 May 1900. [2] During World War I he graduated from school in 1917, volunteered to join the Imperial German Army (Leibgarde-Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 115) and served on the Western Front. [3]