page_title: Guards Rifles Battalion
section_title: Guards rifles battalion
hierarchical_section_title: Guards Rifles Battalion / Commanders / Guards rifles battalion
caption_attribution_description: For documentary purposes the German Federal Archive often retained the original image captions, which may be erroneous, biased, obsolete or politically extreme. Eine Einwehung des Denkmals (Clayallee 91) des Gardeschützen-Batallions für ihre Gefallenen fand am 19. August im Beisein des Prinzen Oskar v. Preussen statt. Prinz Oskar v. Preussen und Hofprediger Dr. Vogel.
context_page_description: The Guards Rifles Battalion was an infantry unit of the Prussian Army. Together with the Guards Ranger Battalion it formed the light infantry within the 3rd Guards Infantry Brigade in the 2nd Guards Division of the Guards Corps. The battalion consisted of four companies.
context_section_description: 1814–1817: Major Charles-Gustave de Meuron
  1816: Major von Witzleben
  1818: Major von Tilly
  1829: Lieutenant Colonel von Grabowski
  1830: Lieutenant Colonel von Thadden
  1840: Lieutenant Colonel von Brandenstein
  1847: Major von Arnim
  1848: Lieutenant Colonel Eduard Vogel von Falckenstein
  1850: Major von Thiesenhausen
  1851: Lieutenant Colonel von Eberstein
  1854: Lieutenant Colonel von Kalckstein
  1860: Major von Bülow
  1861: Lieutenant Colonel Hugo Falkenstein von Fabeck
  1863: Lieutenant Colonel Knappe von Knappsteadt
  1866: Lieutenant Colonel von Besser
  1870: Lieutenant Colonel Hugo Falkenstein von Fabeck
  1870: Lieutenant Colonel von Boeltzig
  1879: Lieutenant Colonel von Nickisch-Rosenegk
  1884: Lieutenant Colonel von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg
  1888: Lieutenant Colonel von Scholten
  1894: Lieutenant Colonel von Pawlowski
  1897: Major von Roeder von Diersburg
  1902: Major Arnold von Winckler
  1906: Major von Helldorff
  1909: Major Graf Finck von Finckenstein
  1913: Major Bernhard von Gélieu (1864–1926)
  1915: Major von Hadeln
  July 1916 – August 1918: Major Graf von Stosch
  August 1918 – November 1918: Major von Schierstädt
  November 1918: Captain Weiß (appointed, but did not take the command)
  December 1918: Captain von Arnim
caption: Johannes Vogel, preacher at Peace Church, Potsdam, and Prince Oskar of Prussia attending the inauguration of the guards rifles memorial on 19 August 1923
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