Hussar regiment "Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands" (Hannoversches) No. 15
The Hussars "Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands" (Hanoverian) no. 15 , also known as "Wandsbeker Hussars " means, was a cavalry joined the Prussian army .
history
The regiment was originally formed on December 19, 1803 (Foundation Day) as a cavalry association of the armed forces of the Kingdom of Hanover . After the lost war of 1866 and the annexation of the country by the Kingdom of Prussia , the association was taken over as Hussar Regiment (Hannoversches) No. 15 in the Prussian Army . In connection with the establishment of the German Empire on January 18, 1871 in Versailles and the entry into force of the constitution of April 16, 1871, the regiment was relocated to the then city of Wandsbek (or Marienthal ) in June 1871 . This location provided the popular name "Wandsbeker Hussars". Kaiser Wilhelm II appointed the Dutch Queen Wilhelmina as head of the regiment on August 31, 1898 and named the association after her.
The regiment was subordinate to the 18th Cavalry Brigade in Altona .
The history of the Wandsbek hussars can be traced in the Wandsbek local history museum .
Mission history
Franco-German War
During the war against France , the regiment was used several times:
1870
- Battle of Spichern August 6th -
- August 14th - Battle of Colombey
- August 17th - Bois de Vaux (2nd Squadron)
- August 18th - Battle of Gravelotte
- 19 August to 27 October - Siege of Metz
- November 13th to 24th - Siege of Diedenhofen
- November 15 to December 14 - enclosure of Montmédy (1st and 2nd squadrons)
- 5th to 14th December - Siege of Montmédy
- November 26th to December 13th - Longwy observation
- from December 19th - Siege of Mézières
1871
- to January 1st - Siege of Mezieres
- Rocroy (2nd and 3rd Squadrons) January 5 -
- January 14th - Noidant le Rocheux before Langres (1st squadron)
- January 21 - Etuz and Pin (4th Squadron)
- January 23 - Dannemarie (4th Squadron)
- January 29 - Sombacourt (1st Squadron)
First World War
- 1914 - Battle of the Marne
- 1915 - Winter battle in Masuria
Whereabouts
After the armistice and the march back home, the regiment was demobilized and disbanded at the end of September 1919. Parts of it joined the Grodno Brigade , which was active as a Freikorps , and was later transferred to the Provisional Reichswehr as the 9th Reichswehr Cavalry Regiment .
The tradition took over after the formation of the Reichswehr the training squadron of the 14th rider regiment in Ludwigslust . In the Wehrmacht , the 5th Squadron of Cavalry Regiment 14 in Parchim continued the tradition.
A memorial stone from 1923 and a bronze messenger rider from 1938 remind of the disbanded unit near the former barracks Am Husarendenkmal in Hamburg-Marienthal .
Commanders
Rank | Surname | date |
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major | Bernhard von Cosel | 1866 |
Karl von Unger | 1867 | |
Colonel | Bernhard von Cosel | 1870 |
Fedor von Grodzki | 1871 | |
Lieutenant Colonel / Colonel | Johann von Schadow-Godenhausen | December 12, 1872 to October 18, 1881 |
Lieutenant Colonel / Colonel | Gerhard of Pelet-Narbonne | October 18, 1881 to April 16, 1888 |
Colonel | Carl Geyr von Schweppenburg | April 17, 1888 |
Lieutenant colonel | August von Huth | November 19, 1891 to June 15, 1894 |
Lieutenant Colonel / Colonel | Eugen von Hirschfeld | June 16, 1894 to June 1, 1898 |
Lieutenant Colonel / Colonel | Fritz von Diepenbroick-Grüter | June 2, 1898 to July 26, 1902 |
Lieutenant Colonel / Colonel | Wedig von Zitzewitz | July 27, 1902 to March 21, 1907 |
Lieutenant colonel | Artur von Stuckmann | March 22, 1907 to April 19, 1909 |
Lieutenant Colonel / Colonel | Udo von Sechow | April 20, 1909 to January 26, 1913 |
Major / Lieutenant Colonel | Paul von Schoenaich | January 27, 1913 to August 7, 1914 |
Lieutenant colonel | Hans-Joachim von Zieten | August 8, 1914 to March 19, 1918 |
major | Willi von Wrangel | March 20, 1918 to January 9, 1919 |
Colonel | Hans-Joachim von Zieten | January 10 to September 30, 1919 |
Known relatives
- Otto Telschow - Was a member of the regiment from 1898 to 1902 and later became a member of the Reichstag and Gauleiter of the Gau East Hanover .
uniform
The rider's uniform consisted of a dark blue jacket with white strings ( Attila ), dark blue mottled riding breeches, gray trousers with a red piping ( piping ) and a black sealskin cap.
literature
- Hofmann, Bitter: History of the Hanoverian Hussar Regiment No. 15, the current Hussar Regiment "Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands" (Hannoversches No. 15). Pooh 1903.
- Ewald von Trauwitz-Hellwig: The Royal Prussian Hussar Regiment Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands (Hannoversches) No. 15 in the World War 1914-1918. Wandsbek [1931].
- Hans-Werner Faerber: Wandsbeker Hussars, an episode of Prussian cavalry history. Hamburg 1991, ISBN 3-87474-984-3 .
- Franklin Kopitzsch , Daniel Tilgner (Ed.): Hamburg Lexikon. 2nd, revised edition. Zeiseverlag, Hamburg 2000, ISBN 3-9805687-9-2 .
- Ernst Christian Schütt u. a .: Chronicle of Hamburg. 2nd updated edition. Bertelsmann Lexikon Verlag, Gütersloh / Munich 1997, ISBN 3-577-14443-2 .
Web links
- Diary of Hussar Gustav Ostendorf from 1914-1918. edited by the Oldenburg historian Martin Teller [1]
- Loss list of the regiment at denkmalprojekt.org
Individual evidence
- ^ 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 , pp. 132f.
- ↑ www.bunte-fraktion-wustrow.de (PDF; 251 kB)