2nd Badisches Dragoon Regiment No. 21

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Trumpeter of the original 2nd Dragoon Regiment around 1830

The 2nd Badische Dragoon Regiment No. 21 was a cavalry association of the Grand Ducal Baden Army that had existed since 1850 and was part of the Prussian Army from 1871 .

Dragoons exploring (1911)

history

On January 6, 1850 (Foundation Day) the establishment of a 2nd cavalry regiment with a garrison in Mannheim was ordered. It replaced the 2nd Dragoon Regiment , which was disbanded due to mutiny during the revolution of 1848 . In 1851 the regiment moved to Bruchsal , with the 1st Squadron stationed in Rastatt . On January 10, 1855, the association was formed to form the 2nd Dragoons Regiment and with the appointment of Margrave Maximilian as head of the regiment , on September 20, 1856, it was named 2nd Dragoons Regiment "Margrave Maximilian" . The move to Karlsruhe followed in 1862 , with the 1st Squadron still in Rastatt. This only changed in 1867 when this squadron moved to Durlach. According to the military convention , the association was incorporated into the Prussian Army on July 1, 1871 and was given the name of the 2nd Badisches Dragoon Regiment "Margrave Maximilian" No. 21 . The margrave died in 1882 and the regiment was named 2nd Badisches Dragoon Regiment No. 21 from June 29, 1882 . From 1871 to 1890 the 1st Squadron was again in Rastatt and then in Schwetzingen.

On June 16, 1913, Grand Duchess Hilda von Baden was appointed head of the regiment without any change in the association's name.

German war

In the association of the VIII Federal Army Corps in the federal execution against Prussia. Skirmishes at Hundheim and Gerchsheim .

Franco-German War

1870 Participation in the Battle of Weißenburg and the Battle of Wörth . Then assigned to the siege troops in front of Strasbourg . The regiment rode an attack at Nuits . In 1871 it was turned off for the siege of Belfort . On April 4, 1871 return to the home garrisons.

Operations in the colonies

  • 1900 China: one officer and 14 NCOs and dragoons of the regiment are participants in the expeditionary force to put down the Boxer Rebellion
  • 1904/06 German South West Africa : two officers and 46 NCOs and dragoons of the regiment take part in the suppression of the Herero uprising.

First World War

Badischer Dragoons on horseback field gray 1914

In August 1914, the regiment took part in border battles in Lorraine . Then advance to the Rhine-Marne Canal . After the withdrawal order in September, the regiment took part in the race to the sea and was deployed on the right wing of the 1st Army until the end of October and then in the area of ​​the new 4th Army . In November 1914, it was moved to the Eastern Front with fighting in Russian Poland, near Lodz , near Brzeziny in northern Poland, in Courland and Lithuania .

Whereabouts

On January 14, 1919, the regiment returned to Bruchsal, after which it was demobilized and disbanded.

In the Reichswehr , the 3rd Squadron of the 18th Cavalry Regiment in Ludwigsburg took over the tradition . The 2nd Division of Cavalry Regiment 18 continued in the Wehrmacht .

Commanders

Rank Surname date
Colonel Theodor Hilpert January 10, 1850 to February 17, 1854
Colonel August Hecht February 18 to September 8, 1854
Lieutenant Colonel / Colonel Heinrich von Freystedt September 30, 1854 to September 19, 1860
Lieutenant Colonel / Colonel Karl von Freydorf September 20, 1860 to July 19, 1866
Lieutenant Colonel / Colonel Hippolyt Wirth July 20, 1866 to July 14, 1871
Major / Lieutenant Colonel Oskar von Strachwitz July 15 to November 3, 1871 (in charge of the tour)
Lieutenant Colonel / Colonel Oskar von Strachwitz 0November 4, 1871 to April 28, 1879
Lieutenant Colonel / Colonel Karl von Heister April 29, 1879 to June 11, 1886
Colonel Paul von Bause June 12, 1886 to July 14, 1890
Colonel Karl von Uslar-Gleichen July 15, 1890 to April 17, 1895
Lieutenant Colonel / Colonel Siegmund von Longchamps-Berier April 18, 1895 to May 1, 1899
Lieutenant Colonel / Colonel Konrad Kühne 0May 2, 1899 to January 26, 1903
Lieutenant Colonel / Colonel Reinhold von Eben January 27, 1903 to October 17, 1907
Colonel Wilhelm von Uslar-Gleichen October 18, 1907 to April 19, 1910
Lieutenant Colonel / Colonel Hunold von Plettenberg-Oevinghausen April 20, 1910 to April 17, 1913
Lieutenant Colonel / Colonel Eginhard Eschborn April 18, 1913 to January 20, 1918
major Curt Heyl January 21, 1918 to January 1919

Uniformity

The dragoons wore a blue tunic and anthracite trousers. The tunic was equipped with Swedish lapels .

The regiment's badge color was yellow. The cuffs, the stand-up collar, the epaulette fields and passers-by were of this color . The buttons and fittings were made of brass . A white bandolier with a black cartridge ran from the left shoulder to the right hip . The bandolier and cartridge were not worn with the evening suit and formal suit. The helmet was decorated with the Baden griffin in nickel silver. Scale chains and the tip of the helmet were made of brass. For the parade a white (for the musicians a red) horsehair bush was put on instead of the tip. The national cockade was yellow-red as was the team's lance flag. The non-commissioned officers' lance flag was yellow with a red Baden griffin. The belt was white and had a pin buckle.

According to AOK of February 14, 1907, the field gray uniform M 1910 was introduced for field service from 1909/10. In this uniform, the straps and boots were natural brown, the helmet was covered by a reed-colored cover. The bandolier and cartridge were no longer worn.

  • Dragoons of the 1901 regiment

  • Dragoon's 2nd bath. Dragoon Regiment No. 21 in parade uniform, 1911 (colored)

  • Right and middle: shoulder pieces of the regiment around 1900 (left a shoulder piece of the Leibdragoner)

  • Armpit cover 2nd bathroom. Dragoon Rgt. No. 21 - teams

  • Griffin on the Badische Pickelhaube (here for infantry with chinstraps instead of shed chains)

  • Badische Dragoon helmet with parade - Haarbusch, around 1911

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ 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 until August 26, 1939. Biblio Verlag, Osnabrück 1993, ISBN 3-7648-2413-1 , p. 83.