A plaque marking the birthplace ( 1914 ) of Jäger Movement, at the house of the Ostrobothnia ( region ) | Ostrobothnia n Nation ( university ) | student nation ( society ).

This is traditional usage resulting from the World War I era Jäger Movement.

Oesch joined the Jaeger Movement in 1915 and trained and fought in the Royal Prussian 27th Jäger Battalion.

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* Jäger Movement, Finnish volunteers trained in Germany as Jägers during World War I

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There were cavalry variations for individual nations as well: France had the chasseurs à cheval ; Germany had the Jäger zu Pferd ; Bavaria had the Chevaulegers ; and Russia had Cossacks.

As Lecoq's Saxon brigade approached the position, they were instantly met with sustained musketry fire from the Austrian defenders, two battalions of infantry regiment 17 ( Reuss-Plauen ) and the 2nd Jäger regiment, but the Saxons pushed on and entered the village.

During the war, the words of The Jäger March were written in Liepāja by Heikki Nurmio.

Many of the national team players were gathered together under coach Herberger as Rote Jäger through the efforts of a sympathetic air force officer trying to protect the footballers from the most dangerous wartime service.

The recruitment of the Jäger volunteers from the Grand Duchy of Finland were clandestine, and was dominated by Germany-influenced circles, such as university students and the upper middle class.

The recruits were transported across Finland's western border via Sweden to Germany, where the volunteers were formed into the Royal Prussian 27th Jäger Battalion.

Immediately after the Civil War, they were given the right to use the word Jäger in their military ranks.

Jäger were at first recruited in the mid-eighteenth century amongst gamekeepers, huntsmen and foresters employed on crown estates or those of the noble landowners in certain German states.

Jäger were not just skilled riflemen, they were also able to handle and maintain delicate, accurate rifles in an age when very few people had any mechanical skill.

Initially soldiers were drawn directly from the line infantry to fight as skirmishers instead, but in time many German-speaking states adopted Jäger to fulfill this role.

In theory the Jäger operated in pairs to protect each other while reloading, and remained within 100-200 yards of close-order infantry on which they could fall back if they were endangered by cavalry or driven off by infantry.

Jäger were allowed to act with a certain amount of initiative on the battlefield, unlike line infantry who were kept under tight control by their officers.

For this reason, it was the most energetic and daring soldiers who were selected to become Jäger.

Foreign mercenaries were removed, corporal punishment became rare ( and was abolished for Jäger troops ), and promotions were based on merit rather than nobility.

Continuing the earlier traditions, in Prussia these Jäger were patriotic volunteers, bearing the cost of their weapons and uniforms at their own expense or with the help of contributions from friends and neighbours, and often organizing themselves into clubs and leagues.

The most famous of the Jäger were the Lützow Free Corps.

The Prussian army gained experience as an auxiliary force in the French invasion of Russia, where the Jäger were often used on the strategic level to provide support and cover for the rest of the army.

By the end of the Napoleonic Wars many of the junior officers in the Germanic states ' armies were Jäger soldiers who had been promoted through the ranks.

By the early twentieth century Jäger units were part of the Imperial German, Austro-Hungarian, Swedish, Dutch and Norwegian armies.

Best known were the German Jäger units who were distinguished by their peace-time wear of dark green tunics and shakos ( in contrast to the dark blue tunics and spiked helmets of most German infantry ).

During World War I and the rise of Germanism, the ( Svecomans ) began covert collaboration with Imperial Germany, and from 1915 – 1917 a " Jäger " ( Jääkärit ) battalion consisting of 1, 900 Finnish volunteers was trained in Germany.

In 2007 DAF partially reformed under the name DAF. Partei with Thoralf Dietrich ( from Jäger 90 ) replacing Gabi Delgado as lead singer.

Tenor Ferdinand Jäger, whom Wolf had heard in Parsifal during his brief summer break from composing, was present at one of the first concerts of the Mörike works and quickly became a champion of his music, performing a recital of only Wolf and Beethoven in December 1888.

This village, which numbered no more than 30 wooden houses and a bridge, soon caught fire from the French artillery bombardment, but the Austrian defenders from Hardegg's brigade ( 8th Jäger regiment and a battalion of Volunteers from the Erzherzog Karl Legion ) stood their ground, despite the flames.

The word " jaeger " is derived from the German word Jäger, meaning " hunter ".

The Jäger Battalion fought in the ranks of the German Army from 1916 in the battles on the northern flank of the eastern front.

The Jäger conflict derived from the German-influenced Jägers and politicians who saw Germany as their ally in conflict with the faction oriented towards the Swedish Entente, centering on the former Russian General and Finnish Commander-in-Chief Baron Gustaf Mannerheim.

* Preußen Jäger Battalion 4 NCO Waffenrock, an example of a Jäger uniform from Kaiser's Bunker, a non-commercial reference site for Imperial German uniforms.

The Norwegian guards company was formally formed from members of the Norwegian Corps of Jäger, mainly from Stjørdal, on November 8.

Written by Einsatzkommando 3 commander Karl Jäger and sent to Franz Walter Stahlecker, it reports an almost daily running total of the liquidations of 137, 346 people, the vast majority Jews, from July 2, 1941 to November 25, 1941.

The name Jagertee ( alternatively Jagatee or Jägertee ) is derived from the Austro-Bavarian pronunciation of the standard German Jäger " hunter " + Tee " tea ".

When made from the traditional wool as recommended by Gustav Jäger, these are " woolly combinations "— sometimes abbreviated to " woolly coms ".

On 19 July, the Ottomans and Germans mounted a brief attack at Abu Tellul near the Jordan, but were defeated by Australian Light Horse regiments with heavy casualties to the German 11th Reserve Jäger battalion, which was subsequently withdrawn from Palestine.

The word Fallschirmjäger is from the German Fallschirm, " parachute ", and Jäger, the German term used for light infantry.