Oldenburg and lubeck connection ?

[scottplen]

Any regiment connection between lubeck and Oldenburg? 

[GreyC]

Hi,

do you mean the Großherzogtum  Oldenburg and its capital of the same name or do you mean the smaller city by the name of Oldenburg in the Prussian province of Schleswig Holstein?

There was a small exclave of the Großherzogtum Oldenburg that extended roughly from Malente in S-H in the north to Schwartau in the South which bordered Lübeck.

GreyC

[scottplen]

The larger one !

[Dave Danner]

For the most part, the Grand Duchy was in a different Korpsbereich from the Hanseatic City of Lübeck. But as GreyC notes, Oldenburg had an exclave which bordered Lübeck.  This exclave was named ... Fürstentum Lübeck. It had a population of about 41,000 in the 1910 census.

The largest city was Eutin. Since Schloss Oldenburg is a state museum, Schloss Eutin is the current seat of the former ruling house of Oldenburg.

As for a regimental connection, III.Bataillon of Infanterie-Regiment Lübeck (3. Hanseatisches) Nr. 162 was garrisoned in Eutin.  That also would include any wartime Tochterformationen of IR 162, as well as a number of regiments which generally recruited from the Schleswig-Holstein area, such as RIR 84.

[scottplen]

Thanks !!!

[Beau Newman]

If I'm not mistaken, both Oldenburg and Hanseatic awards are often seen in Naval groups.

[Dave Danner]

Indeed. Being home to many of the major and minor North Sea and Baltic Sea ports, both the Grand Duchies of Oldenburg and Mecklenburg-Schwerin and the three Free and Hanseatic Cities made a lot of awards to naval personnel. 

III./IR 162 is merely the most direct connection between Lübeck and Oldenburg. 

Particular award combinations can sometimes strongly hint at certain units, but there are simply way too many variables. For every III./IR 162 recipient of the Lübeck and Oldenburg awards, there was probably some Lübeck native serving in IR 91, DR 19 or FAR 62 who also got both. And then the navy guys. And then the staff types. And then the guys who changed units. Or a Lübecker in 1.GDR, since the Grand Duke of Oldenburg was à la suite that regiment. 

[scottplen]

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