Fuhrmann, Rolf Die Langen Kerls 1675/1713 - 1806

The famous prussian giant-grenadiers of Potsdam. Uniforms, weapons, equipment, expierience, development and daily life of these very big soldiers. The "Soldier-King" Frederick William of Prussia "collected" extreme tall men throughout europe and formed them into a special guard-corps. His son, Frederick II. the Great, changed the corps into a grenadier-regiment (No. 6 Guard). The regiment was disbanded in1806, after the desaster of Jena-Auerstedt.

Content:
The Giant Guard
Grenadiers
Formation history; wartime deployment
The Guard Parade - Life in the Garrison
Guards and guard duty
Shield houses and guards
Recruits for the Long Guys
Long Guys
Regiment and battalion
Strengths: Red Grenadier Battalion, King's Regiment, Grenadier Guards Battalion.
King's Regiment Battalion Strengths
Company Strengths 1714 -1740
Unranked Corps, Unranked Strength Table
Grenadier caps and hats
Officers: Weapons and rank
Sabre tassels
Spontons and short rifles
Weapons and equipment
Minstrels, musicians, instruments
The Uniform 1713 -1736
The Uniform 1718 - 1729/30
Body Company King's Regiment 1726; II. and III. Battalion King's Regiment 1729 -1736
The Uniform from 1736: Officers
The Uniform from 1736: Non-Commissioned Officers
The Uniform from 1736 onwards
Carpenters, Minstrels, Hoboists
The Uniform 1798-1806
The flags
Staff and sub-staff
Monetary value, cost of living
Guard Invalides
List of sources
Naming of uniform and equipment parts

Rolf Fuhrmann
Born 1957 in Gronau/Leine, living in Wilhelmshaven since 1996.
Trained as a nurse, self-taught draughtsman.
Since graduating from high school in 1976, he has worked mainly as a freelance artist and author, specialising in costume, uniform and military history. During the 1970s he worked as a freelancer for the editorial staff of Modell-Fan in the field of figures, in 1999 he started publishing the ROFUR-Flags flag series, since 2004 he has been a freelancer for the magazine Figuren International.