Hussar regiment "King Wilhelm I." (1st Rheinisches) No. 7

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The Hussars "King William I" (1 Rheinisches) Nr. 7 was a cavalry joined the Prussian army .

history

The regiment was established in 1815 as the 7th West Prussian Hussar Regiment, among other things, from troops from the former Silesian National Hussar Regiment and had its garrison in Posen . It was stationed in Bonn from 1852 until the association was dissolved . The hussars were subordinate to the 15th division . Since 1857 the regiment had the name of the chief , the Prussian king and later German emperor Wilhelm I as an addition.

Calls

Lieutenant of the regiment in field gray Attila (1915)

The regiment took part in the Wars of Liberation in 1813/15, in the Prussian-Austrian War in 1866, in the Franco-German War in 1870/71 and in the First World War.

Heads of regiments

Commanders

literature

  • Adolf von Deines : The Hussar Regiment King Wilhelm I (1st Rheinisches) No. 7 from the formation of the main regiment to the present. Berlin 1876, digitized
  • Adolf von Deines: The Hussar Regiment King Wilhelm I (1st Rheinisches) No. 7 from the formation of the main regiment to the present. 2nd edition supplemented and continued by Leopold Freiherr von Türcke, Berlin 1904.
  • Friedrich Karl von Zitzewitz : The Hussar Regiment King Wilhelm I. (1. Rheinisches) No. 7 from 1902 to the end of the war 1914-18. Sporn, Zeulenroda approx. 1925. (Volume 15 of the series From Germany's Great Times )

Web links

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