location information please

[Paul C]

Is Dortmund located in the Hannover region of Germany? Would a Army Officer located in Dortmund have been in the Hannover Army prior to 1867?

[Bernhard H.Holst]

Is Dortmund located in the Hannover region of Germany? Would a Army Officer located in Dortmund have been in the Hannover Army prior to 1867?

Hello Paul.

No. The Kingdom Of Hanover 's boundaries were the rivers Weser to the west and Elbe to the east.

Dortmund was part of the Province of Westphalia in the Kingdom of Prussia.

Bernhard H. Holst

formerly a resident of the successor province Hannover and Bundesland Niedersachsen (Lower Saxony)

[Paul C]

Thanks

[Chip]

Bernhard,

I have never quite understood Niedersachsen or Oberbayern. Obviously names from the somewhat distant past when these states were larger. I don't ever recall seeing a map that defined the area that these names refer to. Can you clarify?

Chip

[Glenn J]

Paul,

numerous officers from the former Royal Hannoverian Army entered Prussian service after 1866. Do you have his name?

Regards

Glenn

[Bernhard H.Holst]

Bernhard,

I have never quite understood Niedersachsen or Oberbayern. Obviously names from the somewhat distant past when these states were larger. I don't ever recall seeing a map that defined the area that these names refer to. Can you clarify?

Chip

Hello Chip.

Over time the geographical terms such as you refer to, have changed .

I remember the words of a song (Niedersachsenlied) in which the boundaries appear in the lyrics as outlined by me above. With the creation of the Federal Republic of Germany the Bundesland Niedersachsen was formed which now includes for examle what was the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg and Braunschweig in Imperial times.

So the former boundaries of the Kingdom of Hanover are no longer in relation to the present day Niedersachsen.

I know little about Oberbayern except to many of them (including many of the rest of Bavarians), we are oftentimes the "Prussians" with additional choice description(s) omitted. Never mind that we were gobbled up by Prussia in 1866.

B.T.W.: The attempts by Kaiser Wilhelm II to instute certain traditions of the former Hanoverian Army in the late 1890's and early 1900's did mend some fences.

Bernhard H. Holst

[Chip]

Yes, my wife's grandfather was in one of those regiments, the 78th I.R., which got the "Waterloo" Bandau on their Pickelhauben.

Chip