This is a list of Jäger units in various national armies. ''Jäger'', or ''Jaeger'', is the

German German(s) may refer to: * Germany (of or related to) ** Germania (historical use) * Germans, citizens of Germany, people of German ancestry, or native speakers of the German language ** For citizens of Germany, see also German nationality law **Ge ...

word for " hunter", and describes a kind of

light infantry Light infantry refers to certain types of lightly equipped infantry throughout history. They have a more mobile or fluid function than other types of infantry, such as heavy infantry or line infantry. Historically, light infantry often fought ...

. In

English English usually refers to: * English language * English people English may also refer to: Peoples, culture, and language * ''English'', an adjective for something of, from, or related to England ** English national ide ...

the word Jaeger is also translated as "

rifleman A rifleman is an infantry soldier armed with a rifled long gun. Although the rifleman role had its origin with 16th century hand cannoneers and 17th century musketeers, the term originated in the 18th century with the introduction of the ri ...

" or "

ranger A Ranger is typically someone in a military/paramilitary or law enforcement role specializing in patrolling a given territory, called “ranging”. The term most often refers to: * Park ranger or forest ranger, a person charged with protecting and ...

German-speaking nations' armies

Austria

Jagdkommando The Jagdkommando (German for ''Hunting Commando'') is the Austrian Armed Forces' Special Operations group. Role The duties of this elite unit, like its counterparts such as the United States Army Special Forces, are chiefly counter-terrorism an ...

* Kaiserjäger

Germany feudal/imperial era

Prussian / imperial

*Royal Prussian Guard Jägerbattalion *Royal Prussian Guard Schützenbattalion *Royal Prussian Jägerbattalion Count York von Wartenburg ( East Prussian) No.1 *Royal Prussian Jägerbattalion Prince Bismarck ( Pomeranian) No.2 *Royal Prussian

Brandenburg Brandenburg (; nds, Brannenborg; dsb, Bramborska ) is a states of Germany, state in the northeast of Germany bordering the states of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Lower Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, and Saxony, as well as the country of Poland. With an ar ...

Jägerbattalion No.3 *Royal Prussian

Magdeburg Magdeburg (; nds, label=Low Saxon, Meideborg ) is the capital and second-largest city of the German state Saxony-Anhalt. The city is situated at the Elbe river. Otto I, the first Holy Roman Emperor and founder of the Archdiocese of Magdebu ...

Jägerbattalion No.4 *Royal Prussian Jägerbattalion von Neumann (1st Silesian) No.5 *Royal Prussian 2nd Silesian Jägerbattalion No.6 *Royal Prussian Westphalian Jägerbattalion No.7 *Royal Prussian

Rhineland The Rhineland (german: Rheinland; french: Rhénanie; nl, Rijnland; ksh, Rhingland; Latinised name: ''Rhenania'') is a loosely defined area of Western Germany along the Rhine, chiefly its middle section. Term Historically, the Rhinelands ...

(or

Rhenish The Rhineland (german: Rheinland; french: Rhénanie; nl, Rijnland; ksh, Rhingland; Latinised name: ''Rhenania'') is a loosely defined area of Western Germany along the Rhine, chiefly its middle section. Term Historically, the Rhinelands ...

) Jägerbattalion No.8 *Royal Prussian

Lauenburg Lauenburg (), or Lauenburg an der Elbe ( en, Lauenberg on the Elbe), is a town in the state of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. It is situated on the northern bank of the river Elbe, east of Hamburg. It is the southernmost town of Schleswig-Holstein ...

Jägerbattalion No.9 *Royal Prussian Hanoverian Jägerbattalion No.10 *Royal Prussian Electoral Hessian Jägerbattalion No.11

Other German kingdoms and principalities

; Kingdom of Bavaria *Royal

Bavaria Bavaria ( ; ), officially the Free State of Bavaria (german: Freistaat Bayern, link=no ), is a state in the south-east of Germany. With an area of , Bavaria is the largest German state by land area, comprising roughly a fifth of the total lan ...

n 1st Jägerbattalion *Royal

n 2nd Jägerbattalion ; Kingdom of Saxony *Royal Saxon Jägerbattalion No.12 *Royal Saxon Jägerbattalion No.13 ; Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin *Grand-Ducal Mecklenburg(-Schwerin) Jägerbattalion No.14

Germany (First World War)

1914 *Guard Reserve Jägerbattalion *Guard Reserve Schützenbattalion *Reserve Jägerbattalions 1-14 *Bavarian Reserve Jägerbattalions 1-2 *Bavarian Ski Battalions 1-2 1915 *Reserve Jägerbattalions 15-26 *

Royal Prussian 27th Jäger Battalion Royal may refer to: People * Royal (name), a list of people with either the surname or given name * A member of a royal family Places United States * Royal, Arkansas, an unincorporated community * Royal, Illinois, a village * Royal, Iowa, a c ...

(Finnish Volunteers) *Bavarian Ski Battalions 3-4 *Württemberg Ski Company (later renamed the Württemberg Mountain Company and expanded to a Battalion, then a Regiment) *Bavarian Jägerregiment No.1 (1st and 2nd Bavarian Jäger Battalions, 2nd Bavarian Reserve Jäger Battalion) *Jägerregiment No.2 (10th Jäger Battalion, 10th and 14th Reserve Jäger Battalions) *Bavarian Jägerregiment No.3 (1st - 4th Bavarian Ski Battalions) *Alpine Corps (1st, 2nd & 3rd Jäger Regiments) 1916 *Württemberg Mountain Battalion *Jägerregiment No.4 (11th Jäger Battalion, 5th and 6th Reserve Jäger Battalions) *Jägerregiment No.5 (17th, 18th and 23rd Reserve Jäger Battalions) *Jägerregiment No.6 (5th, 6th and 14th Jäger Battalions) *Jägerregiment No.7 (13th Jäger Battalion, 25th and 26th Reserve Jäger Battalions) *Jägerregiment No.8 (4th, 16th and 24th Reserve Jäger Battalions) *Jägerregiment No.9 (8th Jäger Battalion, 12th Reserve Jäger Battalion) *Jägerregiment No.10 (12th Jäger Battalion, 13th Reserve Jäger Battalion) 1917 *Royal Bavarian 29th Infantry Regiment (Jager Regiment) (1st Bavarian Reserve Jagerbattalion, 7th and 9th Reserve Jägerbattalions) *German Jäger Division (11th, 12th & 13th Jägerregiments) 1918 *Württemberg Mountain Regiment *Jägerregiment No.11 (Guard Reserve Jägerbattalion, Guard Reserve Schützenbattalion, 1st Jägerbattalion) *Jägerregiment No.12 (2nd and 7th Jägerbattalions, 1st Reserve Jägerbattalion) *Jägerregiment No.13 (8th, 20th and 21st Reserve Jägerbattalions) *Jägerregiment No.14 (15th, 19th and 22nd Reserve Jägerbattalions) *Bavarian Reserve Jägerregiment No.15 (1st Bavarian Reserve Jagerbattalion and Caucasian Railway Protection Battalion)

Germany (Third Reich)

Jäger units

* 5th Jäger Division * 8th Jäger Division * 28th Jäger Division * 42nd Jäger Division * 97th Jäger Division * 100th Jäger Division * 101st Jäger Division * 104th Jäger Division * 114th Jäger Division * 117th Jäger Division * 118th Jäger Division * Jäger-Division Alpen

Special-purpose units

*1st Ski Division *

24th Waffen Mountain Division of the SS Karstjäger The 24th Waffen Mountain Division of the SS "Karstjäger" was a German mountain infantry division of the Waffen-SS, the armed wing of the German Nazi Party that served alongside, but was never formally part of, the Wehrmacht during World War II. ...

Waffen-SS The (, "Armed SS") was the combat branch of the Nazi Party's ''Schutzstaffel'' (SS) organisation. Its formations included men from Nazi Germany, along with Waffen-SS foreign volunteers and conscripts, volunteers and conscripts from both occup ...

mountain troops from the Austrian Karst *10th Cyclist Jäger Brigade

Other Jäger variants

Fallschirmjäger The ''Fallschirmjäger'' () were the paratrooper branch of the German Luftwaffe before and during World War II. They were the first German paratroopers to be committed in large-scale airborne operations. Throughout World War II, the commander ...

(paratroopers) *

Feldjäger The ''Feldjäger'' () are Germany's military police. The term ''Feldjäger'', literally meaning field huntsmen or field Jäger, has a long tradition and dates back to the mid-17th century. History The first modern ''Feldjäger'' ...

(military police) *

Gebirgsjäger ''Gebirgsjäger'' () are the light infantry part of the alpine or mountain troops (''Gebirgstruppe'') of Germany, Austria and Switzerland. The word '' Jäger'' (meaning "hunter" or "huntsman") is a characteristic term used for light infantry in ...

(mountain infantry) *

Panzerjäger ''Panzerjäger'' ( German "armour-hunters" or "tank-hunters", abbreviated to ''Pz.Jg.'' in German) was a branch of service of the German Wehrmacht during the Second World War. It was an anti-tank arm-of-service that operated self-propelled ...

(anti-tank troops)

Germany (Federal Republic)

* Jäger Regiment 1, an air-mobile infantry unit that was downsized to battalion level *Jägerbataillon 91, a unit that was formed in 2015 *Gebirgsjägerbrigade 23, Mountain Infantry Brigage 23 **Gebirgsjägerbataillion 231 **Gebirgsjägerbataillion 232 **Gebirgsjägerbataillion 233 *Fallschirmjägerregiment 26, formed in 2015 from parts of Fallschirmjägerbataillon 261 and Fallschirmjägerbataillon 263 *Fallschirmjägerregiment 31, formed in 2015 from Bataillonelements of Airborne Brigade 31

Other national army equivalents

Belgium

Chasseurs Ardennais The ''Bataillon de Chasseurs Ardennais'' (, or more figuratively, 'Ardennes Light Infantry') is an infantry formation in the Land Component of the Belgian Armed Forces. Originally formed in 1933 to ensure the defense of Belgium's Luxembourg Prov ...

('Arddennes Hunters'), armoured infantry battalion * 1st Regiment Jagers te Paard, mechanized reconnaissance battalion * 2/4th Regiment

Chasseurs à Cheval ''Chasseur'' ( , ), a French term for "hunter", is the designation given to certain regiments of French and Belgian light infantry () or light cavalry () to denote troops trained for rapid action. History This branch of the French Army origi ...

, mechanized reconnaissance battalion with electronic warfare unit

Denmark

* Jaeger Corps, a special forces unit of the Danish Special Operations Command, formerly of the Royal Danish Army

Finland

Jäger Movement The Jäger Movement ( fi, Jääkäriliike sv, Jägarrörelsen) consisted of volunteers from Finland who trained in Germany as Jägers (elite light infantry) during World War I. Supported by Germany to enable the creation of a Finnish sovereign ...

, volunteers from Finland in Germany trained as jägers *

Guard Jaeger Regiment The Guard Jaeger Regiment ( fi, Kaartin jääkärirykmentti, sv, Gardesjägarregementet) is a Finnish Army unit located in Santahamina, an island district of Helsinki. The regiment trains Guard jaegers for fighting military operations in urban ...

, a Finnish Army unit *

Jaeger Brigade The Jaeger Brigade (''Jääkäriprikaati'') is a unit of the Finnish Army. The unit is located in Sodankylä and Rovaniemi in Finnish Lapland, some north of the Arctic Circle. The brigade trains 1600 conscripts per year. The brigade has two main ...

, a unit of the Finnish Army *

Utti Jaeger Regiment The Utti Jaeger Regiment ( fi, Utin Jääkärirykmentti, ()) is the Finnish Army training and development centre for special forces and helicopter operations in charge of the Army Special Forces Unit and the Special Forces Qualification Course. F ...

, a Finnish Army training and development centre for special forces and helicopter operations * Armoured Jägers,

mechanized infantry Mechanized infantry are infantry units equipped with armored personnel carriers (APCs) or infantry fighting vehicles (IFVs) for transport and combat (see also mechanized force). As defined by the United States Army, mechanized infantry is di ...

units, trained in

Armoured Brigade (Finland) The Armoured Brigade ( fi, Panssariprikaati) is a Finnish Army The Finnish Army ( Finnish: ''Maavoimat'', Swedish: ''Armén'') is the land forces branch of the Finnish Defence Forces. The Finnish Army is divided into six branches: the infant ...

and

Karelia Brigade Karelia Brigade (''Finnish: Karjalan Prikaati'', KARPR) is one of the three Finnish Army readiness brigades. It is currently based at Valkeala. With some three thousand soldiers it is the second largest brigade in Finland. It is the only Finnish ...

* Border Jägers, jägers trained in the

Finnish Border Guard The Finnish Border Guard (; ) is the agency responsible for enforcing the security of Finland's borders. It is a military organisation, subordinate to the Ministry of the Interior in administrative issues and to the President of Finland in issue ...

* Coastal Jaegers, marine commando unit of the Finnish Navy * Häme Mounted Jäger Battalion, previously Häme Cavalry Regiment, dismounted in 1944, disbanded in 2014.

The Netherlands

Garderegiment Grenadiers en Jagers The Grenadiers and Rifles Guards Regiment ( nl, Garderegiment Grenadiers en Jagers) is a regiment of the Royal Netherlands Army; along with the Garderegiment Fuseliers Prinses Irene it is one of the two Dutch Guard regiments. History The two ante ...

, guards regiment, an amalgamation of the Garderegiment Grenadiers and the Garderegiment Jagers. Consists of one air mobile infantry battalion *

Regiment Limburgse Jagers Regiment Limburgse Jagers (Limburg hunters) is light infantry regiment in the Royal Netherlands Army. It is named after the Dutch province of Limburg Limburg or Limbourg may refer to: Regions * Limburg (Belgium), a province since 1839 in the Fl ...

, line infantry (former 2nd Infantry Regiment). Consists of one armoured infantry battalion

Norway

Hærens Jegerkommando Hærens Jegerkommando was a special forces unit of the Norwegian military. It was the armed forces competence centre for commando, airborne and counter terrorist duty in the Norwegian Army. Its headquarters were located 30 kilometres north ...

, the armed forces competence center for ranger, airborne and counter terrorist duty in the Norwegian Army * Jegerkompaniet, the Norwegian Army's northernmost unit *

Kystjegerkommandoen ''Kystjegerkommandoen'' (KJK: in English "Coastal Ranger Commando") is a Norwegian amphibious unit trained to operate in littoral combat theatres, filling the role of a marine corps and coastal artillery. History The unit was created when it b ...

, (Coastal Ranger Command) marine unit trained to operate in littoral combat theatres, filling the role of a marine corps and coastal artillery in the Norwegian Navy *

Marinejegerkommandoen ''Marinejegerkommandoen'' (MJK) ( en, Naval Special Operations Command) is the maritime/naval special warfare unit of the Norwegian Armed Forces and was established in 1953. The MJK is under the command of the Norwegian Special Operations Com ...

, a marine commando unit of the Norwegian Navy. * Artillerijeger, a ranger unit specialising in special reconnaissance and forward observing for artillery and aircraft. * Grensejeger, border rangers at the border between Russia and Norway

(Imperial) Russia

* His Majesty Lifeguard Jäger Regiment (Лейб-гвардии Егерский Его Величества полк) * Yeger, ?including a Guard Grenadiers battalion

Sweden

Jägare are elite units in the

Swedish Armed Forces The Swedish Armed Forces ( sv, Försvarsmakten, "the Defense Force") is the government agency that forms the armed forces of Sweden, tasked with the defense of the country as well as with promoting Sweden's wider interests, supporting internati ...

* 17th Air Force Ranger Company (''Flygbasjägarna'', FBJ), *

31st Ranger Battalion The 31st Ranger Battalion ( sv, 31. jägarbataljonen), previously called the 31st Light Infantry Battalion ( sv, 31. lätta skyttebataljonen, 31. LSkbat), is a specialized light infantry unit of the Swedish Army. The unit is part of the Life Reg ...

* 32nd Intelligence Battalion * 193rd Ranger Battalion (AJB) * 202nd Coastal Ranger Company (Kustjägarna), marine commandos trained to operate in littoral combat theatres, filling the role of a marine corps and coastal artillery * 323rd Parachute Ranger Squadron *

Swedish Parachute Ranger School The Parachute Ranger School ( sv, Fallskärmsjägarskolan, FJS), is the Swedish Army's paratrooper ranger school and the home of ''Fallskärmsjägarna'' (Parachute Rangers) and '' Särskilda operationsgruppen'' (Special Operations Group). The sch ...

(FJS) Defunct: * Lapland Ranger Regiment (I 22) (1975–2000) Arctic Ranger Battalion

United States

-The 24th Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment was also known as the "Hecker Jaeger Regiment" after Friedrich Hecker, its original commander. -The Scout Sniper Platoon of Second Battalion, Third Marine Regiment is identified by the callsign "Jaeger".