The 74th fought in the Franco-Prussian War and distinguished itself during the Battle of Spicheren.

After the war, when the German Imperial Army was dissolved, the regiment was perpetuated in the Reichswehr by 6.

[1] A regimental veterans organisation, the Kameradschaft ehemaliger 74er, Hamburg und Umgebung was founded in 1912.

Nr 74 published a regimental history in 1931.

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