Old Prussian Dragoon Regiment DI
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Old Prussian Dragoon Regiment No. 1 |
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| active | 1686 to 1806 split up at Auerstedt, surrender at Anklam and Ratekau in 1806 |
| Country | Prussia |
| Armed forces | Cuirassiers |
| Former locations | Schwedt, Schievelbein, Dramburg, Greifenhagen, Fiddichow, Bahn, Belgard, Greiffenberg and Wollin |
| owner | * Built in 1689 as "Anspach". 1690 Margrave Georg Friedrich († 1703), 1714 Andreas Reveillas du Veyne , 1717 Georg Joachim von der Wense , 1725 Hans Friedrich von Platen , 1741 Karl Friedrich von Posadowsky , 1747 Bernhard Christian von Katte , 1751 Johann Ernst von Alemann , 1755 Karl Ludwig von Normann , 1761 Johann Wenceslaus von Zastrow , 1774 Friedrich Albrecht Carl Hermann von Wylich and Lottum , 1794 Ludwig von Prussia , 1797 Max Joseph von Pfalz-Zweibrücken (from 1806 as King Maximilian I of Bavaria ) |
| Tribe list | Old Prussian cavalry regiments |
| Trunk number | DI Bleckwenn |
The old Prussian dragoons DI was 1686-1806.
Garrisons
Until 1735 the regiment was distributed in the small towns and villages in the districts of Schievelbein, Dramburg etc. In 1735 the Leibeskadron came to Schwedt and in 1748 to Körlin. In 1763 it came to Greifenhagen, Fiddichow, Bahn and the surrounding area. Then the staff and the body squadron were relocated to Belgard, the other squadrons came to Körlin, Labes, Reetz, Dramburg and Schievelbein. In 1770 Labes and Schievelbein were given up, in 1785 Reetz, the staff and the 2nd squadron were relocated to Treptow. In 1795 the staff came to Belgard, Greiffenberg and Wollin.
Lineup
The regiment was formed in 1686 from the Free Company Isselstein, which had been in the Brandenburg service since 1683, as well as five newly recruited companies. Elector Friedrich Wilhelm gave the cavalry regiment to General Sergeant Heinrich de Briquemault . As early as 1687 the regiment was increased to ten companies. In 1688, however, four companies were given up to form the Hamel Cuirassier Regiment . In 1691 another company was handed over to form the cuirassier regiment Schöning . In 1698 two companies were released. When the Wartensleben regiment was dissolved in 1718 , two companies were added to the regiment, and two more companies were recruited.
Standards
The regiment received standards when it was established and again in 1694. In a report of March 9, 1699, it said: “The regiment still has 3 standards, which were once blue with a red eagle and were given in 1694. The earlier one was also embroidered in blue with gold and silver and gold and silver fringes, as well as banderoles, which were given to Krossen in 1691 (?) Because they were irrelevant because of the two companies that had come from Mecklenburg; but these old ones are so torn that only the bars are left. "
Friedrich Wilhelm I gave the regiment new flags when he took office. The flags were yellow and jagged; in the middle was a white medallion surrounded by laurel branches with the black eagle flying towards the sun and the legend Nec Soli cedit . The royal name was embroidered in gold in the corners and surmounted by a crown. The edges of the flag were fringed with gold, the banderoles were black and silver.
In 1754 the standards were renewed. In 1790 the regiment received five new standards for the 100th anniversary of the foundation festival. The Leibstandarte was white with a lemon-yellow central shield and embroidered with gold; the motto is non soli cedit . The regimental standards were lemon yellow with a white central shield, the poles fluted throughout with gold. The French captured one of them at Hansfeld, the other four were burned at the surrender at Lübeck.
Timpani
King Frederick I allowed the regiment to keep the silver timpani from the maison du roi regiment that had been captured at Oudenaarde . When the fortress of Stettin surrendered in 1806 , the kettledrum also fell into the hands of the French.
Campaigns
- Franco-Dutch War
- Siege of Bonn (1689) , from 1692 in the Netherlands; Siege of Namur (1695)
- War of the Spanish Succession
- 1705: Siege of Menin, 1706/7 in the Netherlands; 1708: Battle of Oudenaarde , 1709: Siege of Dornik, Battle of Malplaquet , Siege of Mons, 1710: Siege of Dounay, Siege of Aire; 1711 Siege of Bouchain
- Pomeranian campaign 1715/1716
- Siege of Stralsund (1715)
- First Silesian War
- 1741 Siege of Glogau, Battle of Mollwitz , 1742 the regiment reaches up to 4 miles from Vienna in February, 2 officers are killed in the battle near Meseritz
- Pour le Merite for Lieutenant Colonel by Bernhard Heinrich von Bornstedt for Glogau
- Second Silesian War
- 1744 siege of Prague; 1745 Battle of Hohenfriedberg , Battle of Hirschberg
- Order of the Black Eagle for Karl Friedrich von Posadowsky for Hohenfriedberg
- Seven Years War
- 1756 siege near Pirna , battle near Herwigsdorf; 1757 Battle of Reichenberg (3 standards captured), Battle of Prague, Battle of Kolin (five flags and one standard captured), Battle of Moys , Battle of Breslau , Battle of Leuthen (three standards and four flags captured); 1758 Siege of Schweidnitz , Siege of Olmütz , Battle of Zorndorf (one flag captured), Battle of Hochkirch , Battle of Ebersbach, Battle of Pfaffendorf; 1759 expedition to Poland, battle near Hoyerswerda , battle near Pretsch; 1760 Battle of Roth-Nauslitz, Siege of Dresden, Battle of Liegnitz , Battle of Zabtenberg, Battle of Torgau ; 1761 Battle near Großnossen, battle near Kobebach, battle near Wahlstadt monastery, battle near Neudorf, quarters in the camp near Bunzelwitz; 1762 Battle of Adelsbach, Battle of Konradswaldau, Battle of Burkersdorf , Siege of Schweidnitz, Battle of Plauenschen Grund
- Pour le merite for Kolin: Majors Leopold Johann von Platen , Nikolaus Alexander von Pomeiske , Leopold Sebastian von Manstein , Johann Wenzel von Zastrow ; the captains Karl Henning von Papstein, Karl Siegmund von Nimptsch, Emanuel Christian von Leopold, Franz Henning von Puttkamer, Karl Heinrich Eberhard von Nostritz, Lieutenant Gottlieb Ernst von Rabenau, Hans Christian von Barfus
- Pour le Merite for Zorndorf: Staff Captain Joachim Bernhard von Prittwitz
- Bavarian War of Succession
- Battle of Brix in 1778/79
- Pour le Merite for Brix: Captains Georg Friedrich von Kameke, Karl August von Elster , Ernst Matthias von Zürson
- Campaign in Holland
- 1787 Battle at Cortenhoff, conquest of the Hinterdammer Schanze, battle near Breland
- March to Silesia 1790
- First coalition war
- 1792 siege of Longwy, siege of Verdun , cannonade of Valmy , battle near Ober-Ursel; 1793 Siege of Königstein, battle near Waldalgesheim and Stromberg, siege of Mainz (1793) , battle near Kettricher Hof, battle of Pirmasens , battle of Kaiserslautern , siege of Landau, assault on Bitsch; 1794 Battle of Kreuznach, Battle of Kaiserslautern, Battle of Kätzhofen, Battle of Hermersberg
- Pour le merite for Kettricher Hof: Majors Johann Caspar von der Heyden , Johann Friedrich von Diezelsky I., Premier-Lieutenant Karl Erdmann Jakob von Broun, Second Lieutenant Georg Christian Friedrich von Kameke
- Pour le Merite for Neukirchen: Second Lieutenant Otto Albrecht Philipp Ludwig von der Osten
- Pour le merite for Pirmasens: Colonel Friedrich Karl Wilhelm von Lange, Second Lieutenant Ludwig Wilhelm von Eickstedt
- Pour le Merite for Kaiserslautern: Major Karl Friedrich von Ehrencron, Michael Ernst von Diezelsky II, Staff Captain Karl Ludwig von Janwitz
- also three gold and 21 silver medals
- Fourth coalition war
- 1806 Battle near Langensalza, battle near Groß-Fähner, battle near Krangen, battle near Frauenmark (one squadron is separated from the regiment and is captured near Hansfeld), battle near Schwerin, battle near Ratzeburg, the regiment had to capitulate near Lüneburg; 1807 Defense of Danzig , battle near Dirschau, battle near Königsberg (Eskadron Diezelsky)
- a military medal of honor 1st class for NCO Franz (for Danzig)
- five 2nd class military medals (for Gdansk)
resolution
After the battle of Auerstedt , the surviving cuirassiers escaped to Prussia. On October 29, 1806 they crossed the Oder near Stettin and were assigned to the Stülpnagel cuirassier brigade . The deposed troops of the regiment gathered in the Blücher army and took part in the retreat to Mecklenburg. They had to lay down their arms with the army after the surrender at Ratekau.
The detachment of the Rittmeister von Hiller in Hanover was able to make its way to Anklam within ten days, but then had to capitulate there on November 1st. The depot escaped to Kolberg, where it took part in the defense of the city. After the surrender of the fortress, Lieutenant Herzberg came to Danzig to defend this fortress. After Danzig fell too, the rest of them came to Grodno in New East Prussia.
After the Peace of Tilsit , on October 16, 1807, the AKO set up the new Prince Wilhelm Dragoon Brigade . The regiment still counted:
- 15 officers
- 37 NCOs
- 7 trumpeters
- 3 surgeons
- 261 men
- 223 horses
Relatives
Heads of regiments
- 1690 Georg Friedrich von Anspach († March 29, 1703)
- 1703–1713 vacant under the name Anspach-Dragoons
- 1713 Andreas Reveillas du Veyne
- 1719 Georg Joachim von der Wense († August 3, 1725)
- 1725 Hans Friedrich von Platen , 1741 division of the regiment, Platen receives the ten light squadrons
- 1741 Karl Friedrich von Posadowsky († April 7, 1747), 5th heavy squadron
- 1747 Bernhard Christian von Katte , 1751 farewell with pension
- 1751 Johann Ernst von Alemann , 1755 farewell with pension
- 1755 Karl Ludwig von Normann , 1761 farewell with pension
- 1762 Johann Wenzel von Zastrow († April 24, 1773)
- 1774 Friedrich Albrecht Carl Hermann von Wylich and Lottum , 1794 farewell with pension
- 1794 Ludwig of Prussia († December 28, 1796)
- 1797 Max Joseph von Pfalz-Zweibrücken (appalled 1807)
- 1807 Wilhelm von Prussia , (took over the regiment on March 10, 1807)
- From October 16, 1807, Prince Wilhelm's Dragoon Brigade
Commanders since 1710
- 1690 Andreas Reveillas du Veyne (Kommandeur en Chef, from 1713 chief)
- 1710 Colonel Georg Joachim von der Wense (later chief)
- 1717 Colonel Friedrich August von Röseler ; later governor of Geldern
- 1722 Colonel von Heyden
- 17 ?? Colonel von Bornstedt
- 1741 Lieutenant Colonel Friedrich Wilhelm von Kannenberg , later chief of Dragoon Regiment No. 4
- 1744 Lieutenant Colonel von Hirschen, dimitted (dismissed)
- 1745 Lieutenant Colonel Karl Friedrich von Meyer , later chief of the Dragoon Regiment No. 6
- 1752 Lieutenant Colonel Leopold Johann von Platen , later chief of Dragoon Regiment No. 4
- 1757 Lieutenant Colonel Nikolaus Alexander von Pomeiske , later chief of Dragoon Regiment No. 9
- 1761 Colonel Leopold Sebastian von Manstein , later chief of the cuirassier regiment No. 7
- 1763 Colonel von Puttkamer, dimitted
- 1765 Major Otto Balthasar von Thun , later chief of Dragoon Regiment No. 3
- 1777 Colonel Johann Christoph von Mahlen , later chief of Dragoon Regiment No. 2
- 1782 Colonel Karl Ludwig Gottlob Löwenberger von Schönholz , retired as major general
- 1788 Colonel von Lüttichau, retired
- 1789 Colonel Friedrich Karl Wilhelm von Lange, retired
- 1794 Colonel Christian Friedrich Georg Ludwig von Pastau , later chief of Dragoon Regiment No. 7
- 1803 Colonel Johann Caspar von der Heyden , retired as major general
- 1806 Colonel von Diezelsky, retired as major general
literature
- Alt, The royal Prussian standing army , Volume 2, History of the Prussian Cuirassiers and Dragoons , p. 215ff .
- Brief list of members and rankings of all regiments 1788 p. 141ff .
Web links
- DRAGONER REGIMENT 1 at preussenweb.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Gustaf Lehmann, The Knights of the Order pour le mérite, p. 57f .
- ↑ Gustaf Lehmann, The Knights of the Order pour le mérite, pp. 140f .
- ↑ Gustaf Lehmann, The Knights of the Order pour le mérite, pp. 273f .
- ↑ Gustaf Lehmann, The Knights of the Order pour le mérite, p. 269 .
- ↑ Gustaf Lehmann, The Knights of the Order pour le mérite, pp. 281f .
- ↑ Gustaf Lehmann, The Knights of the Order pour le mérite, p. 300 .
- ↑ In Old: Rouvingnac you Boyne