1st Guard Uhlan Regiment
The 1st Guards Uhlans was a Lancers - Regiment of the Guard Corps of the Prussian army . His garrison was Potsdam .
history
The association was set up on April 14, 1819 as the Guards Landwehr Cavalry Regiment and formed into four squadrons . The regular strength was 26 officers, 64 NCOs and 544 men. The 2nd Guard Landwehr Cavalry Regiment was formed from parts of the regiment on August 3, 1821 . By cabinet order of March 30, 1826, the association was given the new name of the 1st Garde-Uhlan (Landwehr) Regiment .
In 1835 the 2nd squadron took part in the Kalisch revue . From October 2, 1851, the association was known as the 1st Guard Uhlan Regiment .
German war
The regiment fought in the German War in 1866 in the Battle of Königgrätz .
Franco-German War
In the war against France in 1870/71 the regiment u. a. in action at Sedan and the siege of Paris .
First World War
During the First World War , the regiment, which belonged to the Guard Cavalry Division , was assigned to the Higher Cavalry Command 1 (HKK 1) under Lieutenant General Manfred von Richthofen . This should first win as quickly as possible through the Ardennes in the direction of Dinant in front of the front of the German 3rd and 4th Armies , before the enemy blocked the mountain narrow. On August 14th, after strenuous marches on the unfamiliar, hard mountain roads, without stopping by the enemy cavalry, but often harassed by the people taking part in the battle, the area east of Dinant was reached. The enemy had occupied the western bank of the Meuse , only weaker reconnaissance units were still on this side of the river. By August 19, numerous patrols and multiple violent advances by the cavalry corps had clarified the occupation of the Maas line. The regiment passed its first serious fight on August 15, 1914 at Houx in the Meuse valley north of Dinant. In the meantime the German armies had entered. In the next few days, by order of the Supreme Army Command, HHK 1 was moved north around Namur to the left bank of the Meuse and placed under the command of the leader of the 2nd Army , Colonel General Karl von Bülow .
Whereabouts
The tradition took over in the Reichswehr by decree of the Chief of the Army Command General of the Infantry Hans von Seeckt of August 24, 1921, the 3rd Squadron of the 4th (Prussian) Cavalry Regiment in Potsdam .
monument
As early as 1920, the former members of the regiment had their comrades who died in the wars erected a memorial on the ruins of Potsdam hill . The figure of the monument, a dying warrior clad only in a steel helmet, was designed by the sculptor Wilhelm Wandschneider . It was removed and destroyed after 1945.
Commanders
Rank | Surname | date |
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Major / Lieutenant Colonel | Ferdinand Wilhelm von Trotha | April 14, 1819 to October 27, 1826 |
Major / Lieutenant Colonel / Colonel | Adam von Tümpling | March 30, 1827 to March 29, 1835 |
major | Karl von Ledebur | March 30 to May 19, 1838 (in charge of the tour) |
Major / Lieutenant Colonel / Colonel | Karl von Ledebur | May 20, 1838 to May 22, 1845 |
Lieutenant colonel | Wilhelm Finck von Finckenstein | May 23 to August 31, 1845 (in charge of the tour) |
major | Leopold von Arnim | October 18, 1845 to May 14, 1846 (in charge of the tour) |
Major / Lieutenant Colonel / Colonel | Leopold von Arnim | May 15, 1846 to April 14, 1852 |
Lieutenant colonel | Alexander von Pölzig | April 15, 1852 to July 19, 1854 |
Lieutenant Colonel / Colonel | Wilhelm von Tümpling | July 20, 1854 to November 26, 1857 |
Lieutenant colonel | Wilhelm von Witzleben | November 27, 1857 to July 24, 1859 |
major | Enno of Colomb | July 25, 1859 to July 23, 1861 (in charge of the tour) |
Major / Lieutenant Colonel / Colonel | Enno of Colomb | July 24, 1861 to March 4, 1867 |
Lieutenant colonel | Valentin von Massow | March 5, 1867 to March 12, 1868 |
Major / Lieutenant Colonel / Colonel | Wichard von Rochow | March 22, 1868 to November 10, 1871 |
Lieutenant Colonel / Colonel | Karl von Eller-Eberstein | November 11, 1871 to November 10, 1876 |
Lieutenant Colonel / Colonel | Alfred von Schlieffen | November 11, 1876 to March 24, 1884 |
Lieutenant Colonel / Colonel | August-Philip of Croy | March 25, 1884 to April 15, 1889 |
Major / Lieutenant Colonel | Adalbert von Ploetz | October 13, 1890 |
Colonel | Gottfried Rabe von Pappenheim | October 14, 1890 to May 19, 1893 |
Lieutenant colonel | Bernhard von der Schulenburg | May 20, 1893 to August 17, 1897 |
Colonel | Florentin von Schmidt-Pauli | August 18, 1897 to July 19, 1898 |
Lieutenant colonel | August von Steinau-Steinrück | July 20, 1898 to March 25, 1902 |
Colonel | Hans von Boehn | March 26, 1902 to January 26, 1904 |
Lieutenant Colonel / Colonel | Karl von Alten | January 27, 1904 to February 8, 1908 |
Colonel | Raimund of Pelet-Narbonne | February 9, 1908 to April 20, 1911 |
Lieutenant Colonel / Colonel | Otto von Arnim | April 21, 1911 to May 3, 1915 |
Lieutenant colonel | Eberhard von Armin | May 4, 1915 to June 22, 1917 |
Lieutenant colonel | Max Hoffmann von Waldau | June 23 to August 9, 1917 |
major | William Halling | August 14, 1917 to March 13, 1919 |
Lieutenant colonel | Bernhard von Schlebrügge | March 14, 1919 until dissolution |
literature
- Altwig von Arenstorff: Seventy-five years of the Royal 1st Guard Uhlan Regiment 1819–1894. ES Mittler & Sohn , Berlin 1898.
- Claus von Bredow : Historical ranking and master list of the German army. Verlag August Scherl, Berlin 1905, pp. 205–207.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Günter Wegmann (Ed.), Günter Wegner: Formation history and staffing of the German armed forces 1815-1990. Part 1: Occupation of the German armies 1815–1939. Volume 3: The occupation of the active regiments, battalions and departments from the foundation or list up to August 26, 1939. Biblio Verlag, Osnabrück 1993, ISBN 3-7648-2413-1 , pp. 145-146.