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Fresh off the conveyor belt is the First Battalion, Regiment Freiherr von Zach, Number 15. Formed in 1701 it served in the War of Austrian Succession and in the Seven Years War as Regiment Pallavicini. From 1792-99 it was under the inhabership of Prinz zu Oranien, was vacant until 1801 when it transferred Frieherr von Rieske, before becoming Freiherr von Zach in 1806.

The new inhaber, Anton Freiherr von Zach, had entered the service in 1788. He served in the Revolutionary War campaigns  in Italy at Lodi, Borghetto, Rovereto and Novi. As Austrian chief of staff to the Austrian Army at Marengo he was captured and later was involved in the negotiated truce that followed. He was back in Italy in 1809 fighting at Sacile, Piave River and Graz. He did not serve in the field again after 1809 and he gave up the inhabership in 1815

By the 1850s the inhaber was Adolf Herzegovina zu Nassau, but the regiment did not see service in the was in 1859. It was engaged in 1866 in Ludwig’s 8th Corps. In 1898 the inhaber was Troppau, ten years later it was Wilhelm Grosherzog von Luxembourg. Its final inhaber, In 1914, was Feirherr von Georgi.