Old Prussian Cuirassier Regiment K 3 (1806)

Leib-Regiment on horseback / name according to owner
active	1672 to 1806 split up at Auerstedt, surrender at Anklam and Prenzlau in 1806
Country	Prussia
Armed forces	Cuirassiers
Former locations	Schönebeck, Salze, Wanzleben, Calbe, Frohse and Egeln
owner	1672 Jakob von Bülow , 1675 Ulrich Graf von Promnitz , 1679 Alexander Magnus von Sydow , 1679 Joachim Balthasar von Dewitz , 1695 Adolph von Wangenheim , 1709 Wolf Christoph von Hackeborn , 1719 Gottfried Albrecht von Bredow , 1726 Friedrich Wilhelm von Dewitz , 1736 Adam Friedrich von Wreech , 1746 Nikolaus Andreas von Katzler , 1747 Johann Friedrich von Katte , 1758 Robert Scipio von Lentulus , 1778 Johann Rudolf von Merian , 1782 Ernst Christian von Kospoth , 1794 Leopold Heinrich von der Goltz , 1797 August Friedrich von der Drössel , 1799 Ulrich Karl von Froreich , 1801 Ernst Hermann von Kölichen , 1805 Friedrich August Leopold Karl von Schwerin
Tribe list	Old Prussian cavalry regiments
Trunk number	K 3 Bleckwenn

The regiment was established in 1672 by Colonel Jakob von Bülow through advertising, and was given the name Leib-Regiment at the foundation . He was transferred in 1675.

The regiment's garrisons in 1805 were Schönebeck , Salze , Wanzleben , Calbe , Frohse and Egeln .

The uniform in 1805 was white collets with dark blue lapels, collars and waistcoats. The collets and the waistcoat were trimmed with a blue velvet border in which there was a white stripe (a gold braid for the officers). The rest of the things that belong here are recorded in the von Beeren and von Quitzow regiments.

The canton of the regiment was part of the Oschersleben district , the 3rd district of the Holzkreis , and the cities of Cochstedt , Schönebeck, Frohse, Salze, Hamersleben , Mansfeld and Gerbstedt , together with 4,429 households. From here, too, the appropriate crew was handed over to the H 2 Hussar Regiment .

Heads of regiments

• 1673 Major General Ulrich Hipparchos von Promnitz . He went into Saxon services in 1679.
• 1679 Colonel Alexander Magnus von Sydow . He died at the end of that year.
• 1680 Colonel Joachim Balthasar von Dewitz . Soon afterwards he became major general, and in 1695 as lieutenant general governor of Kolberg . Under this chief, the regiment gave a company in 1691 to establish the cavalry regiment No. 9, which it replaced with advertising.
• 1695 Lieutenant General Adolph von Wangenheim . He died in 1709 as a general of the cavalry. In 1697 the regiment was reduced to 6 companies (3 squadrons).
• 1709 Major General Wolf Christoph von Hackeborn . He was by Elector Friedrich III. Sent to Turin in 1695 to separate the marriage of Margrave Carl Philipp and Countess Katharina von Salmour . He died in Bahrendorf in 1719 as a lieutenant general. In 1718 the regiment was placed on 5 squadrons, received crews from the dissolved regiment of Wartensleben and recruited what was still missing.
• 1719 Lieutenant General Gottfried Albrecht von Bredow . In 1725 he became governor of Peitz .
• 1727 Lieutenant General Friedrich Wilhelm von Dewitz . He died in 1736.
• 1736 Colonel Andreas Friedrich von Wreech . He became Lieutenant General and died on the same day that he had to hand over the regiment to Major General von Katzeler.
• 1746 Major General Andreas von Katzeler . In 1747 he became chief of the Gensdarmes regiment
• 1747 Major General Johann Friedrich von Katte . In 1758 he took his leave as lieutenant general.
• 1758 Major General Robert Scipio von Lentulus . He took his leave in 1778 as lieutenant general with pension.
• 1778 Major General Johann Rudolf von Merian . He retired in 1782.
• 1782 Major General Ernst Christian von Kospoth . He said goodbye as Lieutenant General with a pension.
• 1795 Major General Leopold Heinrich von der Goltz . He retired.
• 1797 Colonel August Friedrich von der Drössel . He was bid farewell as major general. As early as 1792 he received the Pour le Mérite .
• 1800 Major General Ulrich Karl von Froreich . He died in 1801. As early as 1794 he received the Pour le Merite.
• 1801 Colonel Ernst Hermann von Kölichen . He died a general in 1805.
• 1805 Colonel Friedrich August Leopold Karl von Schwerin . He soon became major general and led the regiment as the last chief in the 1806 campaign .

The regiment's campaigns

• 1675: Battle of Fehrbellin . The Leib-Cuirassiers regiment was named here with special distinction during the attack on the Swedish position by Wustrow's Luche .
• 1677: March to Pomerania and near Stettin
• 1689: Siege of Bonn

The conquest of Namur in 1695

• 1695: Siege of Namur
• 1701: Siege of Ath
• 1708: Battle of Oudenaarde . Siege of Ryssel (today's name: Lille ).
• 1709: Siege of Tournai . Battle of Malplaquet . Siege of Mons .
• 1710: Siege of Douai and Aire .
• 1712: Siege of Landrecy and Quesnoy .
• 1715: Campaign in Pomerania.
• 1745: Battle of Kesselsdorf . The regiment excelled in this battle and lost: 13 cuirassiers died, 3 officers and 15 cuirassiers were wounded and 84 horses were shot.
• 1756: Battle of Lobositz .
• 1757: Battles near Prague , Kolin and Roßbach . In the last battle the regiment was at the first meeting with the two dragoon regiments Katte and Irwing and earned the king's highest grace.
• 1759: Meeting at Sankt Sebastiansberg . The regiment, together with 2 grenadier companies under the command of Major General Johann Dietrich von Hülsen, captured 800 Austrians and General Reinhardt by attacking them. 3 cannons, 8 flags and 3 standards were captured.
• 1759: Battle of Kunersdorf .
• 1760: Bombardment of Dresden , Battle of Liegnitz , where the regiment alone captured 7 flags and 5 cannons.
• 1778: During the War of the Bavarian Succession , the regiment was part of Prince Heinrich's army.
• 1792: March into the Rhine campaign. Skirmishes near Saarbrücken, where the Rittmeister von Wattenwyl recaptured the regimental guns that had already been taken from an infantry regiment, for which he received the order Pour le Mérite . In another small battle, Lieutenant von Treskow distinguished himself from the regiment. He also received the order Pour le Mérite. In the course of the campaign, the regiment mostly stood together with the Karabiniers regiment and took part in all acts of war with them. Almost throughout it was split up into squadrons by detachment.
• 1795: return to the garrison. March again to Westphalia to form the demarcation line.
• 1798: return to the garrisons.
• 1805: mobilization in late autumn. March to Saxony and Hesse, where it stayed through the winter.

Whereabouts 1806

In 1806 the regiment was united with the carbine in a brigade under the command of Prince Wilhelm of Prussia , and marched with the king's army to Auerstedt . It was not used in battle. Belonging to the division of the Prince of Orange, it had to retreat that evening with the defeated army. In the darkness, the unity was lost, so that the individual stray and pushed-off parts only found themselves again behind Magdeburg . A small part of the regiment was present at the battle of Nordhausen on October 17th. From Magdeburg the march went to the Oder and then with the Hohenlohe Corps to Prenzlau , where it was included in the surrender. The loss of crew was not as great as that of horses. Lieutenant von Schurff led the trek via Magdeburg, where all the gates and streets had been moved so that he could only get through with the greatest effort. Although he got as far as the Oder, the French did reach him and he had to surrender to Wolgast on November 2nd . 1 detachment of 1 officer and 20 cuirassiers was captured by the French in Anklam , a second of 1 officer and 40 horses near Waren .

Only one division of the Rittmeister von Trotha and 4 other smaller ones, who were detached from Prenzlau, happily came to Prussia and were transferred as a tribe to the Märkische Kürassier-Brigade . The depot squadron, which marched out of Schönebeck too late because the order reached them too late, marched with great difficulty because of the strong entourage and the many unmounted crew to Anklam, where they too had to surrender. Premier-Lieutenant Freiherr von Gebhardi was wounded by a bullet near Auerstädt .

The squadron of Major von Wattenwyl is mentioned with praise , which up to the last moment was distinguished by the exemplary order and good sense of the cuirassiers.

literature

• L. Schneider, The sixth Cürassier Regiment (Emperor of Russia) , p. 17ff digitized

Individual evidence

1. ↑ In older literature there is an indication (based on a misprint) that the regiment was founded by a Colonel Nicolaus von Below. There was no such thing at the time. Cf. Gustav Lehmann: The Brandenburg war power under the Great Elector . In: Research on Brandenburg and Prussian History , Volume 1, Leipzig 1888, there p. 478 ff.