Infanterie-Regiment von Horn (3. Rheinisches) Nr. 29

Oberstleutnant Franz Heinrigs, IR 29's last commander — Oberstleutnant Franz Heinrigs
IR 29's last commander
Pour le Mérite, 8 Nov. 1917

1814

Founding & early campaigns

Formed 5 December 1813 from the 2nd Bergisches Infantry Regiment; took part in the 1815 campaign against France, the 1849 Baden campaign, and the wars of 1866 and 1870/71 before the regiment's WWI mobilization.

1914

Luxembourg · Belgium · Neufchâteau · the Marne · Vitry-le-François · Champagne · the Yser

Mobilization and the advance through Luxembourg and Belgium, followed by the war's opening mobile campaign in the west.

1915

Winter & Autumn Champagne · Loretto / La Bassée · Arras · the Aisne

The shift to positional, trench-bound warfare along the Western Front.

1916

The Somme · the Aisne · Kowel & the upper Styr/Stochod (brief Eastern Front detachment)

Committed to the Somme fighting before a temporary transfer east.

1917

The Aisne · Third Battle of Flanders (Passchendaele)

Oberstleutnant Heinrigs, the regiment's last commander, received the Pour le Mérite on 8 November 1917.

1918

Fourth Battle of Flanders · Artois · Ypres · La Bassée · Monchy · Bapaume · Armentières · Lens · Antwerp–Meuse position

The regiment's final campaigns, through demobilization at Leer in December 1918 and dissolution on 1 May 1919. 3,540 of its soldiers were killed during the war.

Research note: Primary regimental histories — Das Infanterie-Regiment von Horn (3. Rheinisches) Nr. 29, Heft 1 & 2 (1929), part of the Erinnerungsblätter deutscher Regimenter series — are digitized and freely viewable via the Württembergische Landesbibliothek Stuttgart and cross-listed on LEO-BW. These remain the best source for company-level detail on the 1916–18 fighting. On Stoßtruppen specifically: individual regiments like IR 29 typically formed ad-hoc assault detachments from their own regular troops as needed for a given operation, rather than maintaining a standing, organic Stoßtrupp company — dedicated, permanently organized Sturmbataillone existed at the divisional level or higher (e.g., potentially attached to the 16. Division), not the regiment itself. Absent confirmed company-level detail, the unit currently portrays 7. Kompanie, II. Bataillon — a plausible, non-overreaching assignment (mid-numbered, not claiming a specific documented action) that can be revised if more specific primary-source evidence comes to light.