1st Hussar Regiment (Hessen – Kassel)
1st Hussar Regiment (Leib-Hussar Regiment) |
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Leib-Dragoons (1813-1821) |
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active | 1688 to September 6, 1866 |
Country | Landgraviate of Hessen-Kassel , Electorate of Hessen |
Armed forces | Hessen-Kassel Army |
Branch of service | cavalry |
Location | Hofgeismar |
Tradition | Hussar regiment "King Humbert of Italy" (1st Kurhessisches) No. 13 |
The first Hussars was a 1688 to 1866 in Hesse-Kassel and in the Electorate of Hesse ( Hessian army ) existing cavalry unit . The regiment was reclassified several times and had different names.
history
In 1688 it was built with 6 companies as the Wartensleben dragoon regiment. When the owner changed , it was named Graffendorf's Dragoon Regiment in 1690, the Hereditary Prince Dragoon Regiment in 1695 and the King's Dragoon Regiment in 1721. In 1751 it was named Leib-Dragoon Regiment until it was suspended on November 1, 1806.
In 1809 a company was re-established in Bohemia, but was disbanded at the end of the campaign.
It was not until 1813 that the Leib-Dragoons in Trier were rebuilt with 4 squadrons and initially assigned to the Landgrave Friedrich Dragoons Regiment. On May 1, 1821 after all, it was named the 2nd Hussars regiment, in 1825 it became the second Hussars - Duke of Saxe-Meiningen .
On September 20, 1832, the regiment gave a combined squadron to the Garde de Corps regiment and was combined with the 1st Hussar Regiment at that time to form the Leib-Dragoon Regiment, the first division of which it formed. In 1840 the regiment had to hand over the 3rd and 4th Squadrons to the newly established 2nd Dragoons Regiment. The regiment was then replenished to 4 squadrons. In 1845 the Dragoon Regiment became a Hussar Regiment, and it was named the 1st Hussar Regiment, known as the Leib-Hussaren-Regiment. In 1848 the previous Garde du Corps was merged with the regiment as a division, but separated again in 1849 and led as a division of the Elector Hussars .
In 1866 after the annexation of Kurhesse by Prussia , the regiment was taken over as Hussar Regiment No. 13 in the Prussian army.
uniform
Light blue summer and winter attila with white strings, olives and rosettes; gray riding trousers. gray coats with light blue armpit flaps; Fur hats with red kolpacks, white basketons and cords, and white tufts of hair, white leather gear.
Campaigns
- War of the Palatinate Succession
- From 1689 to the Peace of Ryswiker in 1697, the regiment was involved in the battles on the Rhine, on the Maas and in the Netherlands and in 1692 also in the relief of Rheinfels Castle , first as Waiting Life, then Graeffendorf and finally Hereditary Prince Dragoon Regiment .
- War of the Spanish Succession
- From 1702 to the Peace of Utrecht in 1713, it served as the Hereditary Prince Dragoon Regiment on the Rhine, in the Netherlands, Bavaria and Italy. In the Battle of Hochstadt in 1704, two dragoons of this regiment were involved in the capture of the French Marshal de Tallard .
- War of the Austrian Succession
- From 1741 to 1748 at the Peace of Aachen , it took part in the campaigns in Bavaria, on the Rhine and in the Netherlands as the King's Dragoon Regiment and gained much fame, especially with the Kron-Weissenburg lines.
- Seven Years War
- From 1757 to 1763 until the Peace of Hubertusburg it was part of the Allied Army in Germany as a body dragoon regiment and distinguished itself in the battle near Langensalza in 1761 and in the battle near Atzenhain in 1762.
- First coalition war
- In 1792 it fought under the same name in the campaign in Champagne and in 1793 in the siege of Mainz . Until 1795 it was used during the campaigns in Flanders and Westphalia.
- Fifth coalition war
- In 1809 the squadron newly established in Bohemia took part in the campaigns in Saxony and Bavaria.
- Wars of Liberation
- In 1814 the regiment fought as the now Leib-Dragoon Regiment in the sieges of the fortresses of Metz and Thionville, in 1815 it fought in the capture of Sedan, the siege of Mezieres, the capture of Longwy and the siege of Montmedy.
Bosses
- 1688 Colonel Alexander Hermann von Wartensleben , served as Major General in Saxony-Gotha,
- 1690 Lieutenant Colonel Ernst Quirin von Gräffendorf, took his leave as a colonel
- 1695 Hereditary Prince Friedrich I , subsequently ruling Landgrave of Hesse and King of Sweden.
- 1751 Landgrave Wilhelm VIII.
- 1760 Landgrave Friedrich II.
- 1785 to 1821 Landgrave Wilhelm IX. or Elector Wilhelm I.
- 1825 to 1832 Duke of Saxony-Meiningen
- 1833 Prince Elector Friedrich Wilhelm I.
- 1847 Elector Friedrich Wilhelm I.
Commanders
1695 | Lieutenant Colonel Moritz Wilhelm von Oeynhausen | Retired from service as a colonel |
1697 | Lieutenant Colonel von May | Died as a brigadier |
1714 | Colonel Count Ludwig von Wylich and Lottum | Went into royal Prussian service |
1717 | Major General Johann Friedrich von Kagge | Transferred to Ziegenhain as lieutenant general and governor |
1739 | Colonel von Meysenbug zu Frielingen | Died a major general |
1747 | Colonel von Wöllwarth | Died |
1749 | Major General Carl Josef von Blome | Relocated |
1752 | Major General Victor August von Einsiedel | Relocated. |
1760 | Major General Ernst Ludwig von Hanstein | Died in 1762 |
1762 | Major General Franz Heinrich von Ditfurth | Died |
1764 | Major General Philipp von Heister | Transferred to lieutenant general |
1775 | Colonel von Chicken | Transferred to lieutenant general |
1787 | Major General Friedrich Ernst Carl Treusch von Buttlar | Died as a lieutenant general |
1793 | Colonel Kaspar Wilhelm Julius von Schenck zu Schweinsberg | Transferred as Lieutenant General and Governor of Ziegenhain |
1801 | Major General Ernst Wilhelm Leopold von Kruse | later Lieutenant General, Commander and Chief and Inspector General of the Remonte, also Colonel and Commander of the Swiss Life Guard. |
1806 | Colonel Justus Heinrich Friedrich Wilhelm von Diemar | promoted to major general and inspector general of the cavalry. Relocated |
1813 | Colonel August Ludwig Ernst von Marschall | Transferred as major general |
1818 | Kommandeur en Chef, Lieutenant General and Brigade Chief Justus Heinrich Friedrich Wilhelm Caesar von Diemar | Retired in 1821. |
1818 | Commander Colonel Karl Ferdinand von Stein | 1829 Major General, transferred as Brigade Commander of the Cavalry. |
1831 | Lieutenant Colonel Georg Ludwig Wilhelm von Cornberg | 1832 Colonel, retired as major general |
1841 | Colonel Aloysius von Ameluxen | ad Interim , confirmed in 1841, transferred as commander of the cavalry brigade. |
1843 | Major Friedrich Christian Ludwig von Bardeleben | ad Interim , confirmed in 1846, from 1844 lieutenant colonel, took his leave as lieutenant general |
1850 | Major Julius Treusch von Buttlar | commissioned, 1851 ad interim and promoted to lieutenant colonel confirmed in 1852 and promoted to colonel. |
1857 | Lieutenant Colonel Carl Bödicker | ad interim , confirmed in 1858 and made colonel, retired in 1865 |
1865 | Colonel Friedrich von Baumbach |
literature
- Tribe and rank list of the Electoral Hessian Army Corps from the 16th century to 1866, p. 174ff
- History of the Royal Prussian 2nd Hessian Hussar Regiment No. 14, digitized
Web links
- Dragoons body regiment . Hessian troops in America. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).