Mod95 LIR99

Jupiter66

Jupiter66

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Hello

I share with you this helmet of the LIR99. This helmet is passed of IR 143 (Strasbourg) then IR 99 (Saverne) and returns LIR 99














 

Le baron G. von Forstner

Look :-k

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A great treat! Now as usual, I will put a fly in the ointment.

First, for those who do not understand the Zabern affair.

Another event along the same line that tested the German imperial system and made it incredibly clear that Alsace-Lorraine was a second-class part of imperial territory was Zabern 1913. Zabern was a garrison town of 9000, mostly Catholics, in lower Alsace that had since 1890 housed the mostly Lutheran 99th In-fantry Regiment. The major protagonist was 20-year old Lieutenant Günther Freiherr von Forstner who had been educated at the upper Prussian cadet school. While he retained airs of aristocratic privilege, the townspeople thought of him as a buffoon. He made disparaging remarks about his recruits from Alsace-Lorraine and the French Foreign Legion. He referred to the local population as Wackes. The claim is that during his instruction hour he had offered his recruits 10 marks instead of three months in prison, should they stab a rowdy Wackes. The paper published this incident and soon mobs threatened Lieutenant Freiherr von Forstner. The commander of the 99th Infantry Regiment and the burgomaster got involved unsuccessfully and the fire brigade was ordered to drive off the crowd with hoses, which they did neither enthusiastically, nor successfully. A company of soldiers from the garrison arrived on the scene and ar-rested those who refused to leave.
Lieutenant Freiherr von Forstner was reprimanded, but on the very next day, he and several other officers had an alcohol-induced altercation with some local youths, and one of the officers, a Lieutenant Schad, called out the guard with fixed bayonets. This situation continued to simmer until 29 November when the same Baron Forstner went shopping for chocolates with four armed soldiers. Some of the locals made fun of him and the same Lieutenant Schad started arresting locals. The regimental commander, Colonel von Reuter, deployed 60 men and ordered them to load rifles and barked commands with drums beating.

Baron Forstner was transferred to Infantry Regiment 14, in which he was killed in action on the Eastern Front in 1915. Schad was transferred to Fusilier Regiment 85 and while he survived the war, he was not promoted beyond Oberleutnant.

The key issues revolved around the rights of the locals versus the rights of the army. Did the army have the right to act as police in arresting citizens and quelling unrest? Who had the right to discipline mem-bers of the army? Should the local authorities and local courts have jurisdiction? Could the Kaiser and the army maintain their personal authority in this matter? As it turned out, the army whitewashed and sidestepped the constitutional question. The residents of the Reichslande learned without question that their constitution had little value. While the war interrupted the outcome of this incident, it certainly ex-posed nerves.
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Now That We Understand the excitement of JR 99 let me disappoint everyone by saying LJR 99 had little or nothing to do with JR 99. LJR 99 was mobilized in the first wave of Landwehr units.
Landwehr regiments (Landwehr Infanterie Regimenter – Landw. IR or LIR) were mobilized from 1st and 2nd ban Landwehr reservists. Men who had completed their training many years ago and who were be-tween 27 and 39 years old. In August 1914 mobile Landwehr regiments had up to 62% of 1st ban reservist (up to 31 years old), whereas immobile regiments (most of them garrisoning fortresses) had between 78 and 100% of 2nd ban reservists (between 32 and 39 years old). That means that the enlisted men were usu-ally more than 30 years old with their military training about ten years old.



Figure 20 Landwehr soldier in transition

That meant that they were very often trained with weapons no longer in service, but the men were often were in a physical condition which made it hard for them to stand the rough conditions and the challenges of war. Cadres were reserve or Landwehr officers and NCOs. Most officers came from the local or region-al Bezirks-Kommando, almost all regimental commanders and about 50% of the battalion commanders were active officers.
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Upon mobilization 96 Landwehr regiments were mobilized in 1914 mainly by the local infantry regiments with personnel coming from the local Bezirks-Kommando. Arms and equipment were stored in artillery and garment depots. Landwehr regiments were traditionally numbered according to the active regiments mobilizing them, therefore the numbers ranged up to 133, athough only 96 regiments got mobilized. On the other hand the numbering very often was purely traditional or had a regional background where the active regiment mobilizing a particular Landwehr regiment had changed. Similar to reserve personnel Landwehr reservists were exchanged between densely populated and scarcely populated corps areas.

Landwehr regiments got mobilized a little later then active and reserve regiments. Staffs and cadres started working on third mobilization day (August 4th), while the Landwehr reservists arrived between August 5th and 7th, when the active formations had already entrained and marched off. Mobile Landwehr regiments were supposed to be operationally ready between August 10th and 13th.
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Landwehr-Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 99 (Vier Bataillone)
Aufgestellt in Straßburg (R.Stb., I.), Zabern (II.), Schlettstadt (III.) und Neubreisach (IV.)
Unterstellung: 60. gem. L.Brig.
Kommandeur: Oberstleutnant Grall (I.R.Nr. 136)
I.: Major Bork (I.R.Nr. 136)
II.: Major v. Kühn (I.R.Nr. 143)
III.: Major v. Bessel (I.R.Nr. 132)
IV.: Major Schüler (I.R.Nr. 172)
 
Thanks for posting the photos of the helmet!

Joe, you are always a source! Now, why is there ointment on your fly?

:D Ron
 
Hello Gents,
Totally agree with Joe.
This helmet passed from the JR 143 straight to the LJR99. Nothing to do with the JR99.
Another "path companion" (yes, the marking is really meaning JR143 and not JR148)
Note that this helmet kept its original plate as it moved in the Landwehr:

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Philippe
 
joerookery said:
Okay boys and girls – I do not have the marking for JR 143 or JR 148 on the list. May I add them?
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Okay GI-Joe, feel free concerning the marking on my helmet :wink:
But that´s really a JR143 too, not JR148! The "3" has got a little too much ink so it looks like a "8"!!!

Philippe
 
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