Hussar regiment "von Schill" (1st Silesian) No. 4

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The hussar regiment "von Schill" (1st Silesian) No. 4 , sometimes called the Brown Hussars , was a hussar regiment of the Prussian Army .

Association membership 1914

VI. Army Corps in Breslau - Commanding General : General of the Infantry Kurt von Pritzelwitz
12th Division in Neisse - Commander : Major General Martin Chales de Beaulieu
12th Cavalry Brigade in Neisse - Commander: Major General von Pfeil and Klein-Ellguth
  • Regimental commander: Colonel v. Rentzell
  • Garrison : Ohlau

history

The Hussar Regiment "von Schill" (1st Silesian) No. 4 was a very old regiment with a lot of tradition. The formation was ordered with AKO on September 24, 1741 as a regiment of the "Brown Hussars" to 10 escadrons and was completed in 1742. The unit was assigned the strain number 6.

After the devastating defeat of the Prussian army in the battle of Jena , the regiment also went under, only small remnants could be used for a new formation. With AKO on September 7, 1808, the "Upper Silesian Hussar Regiment" and the "Lower Silesian Hussar Regiment" were formed from two hussar brigades. Silesian Hussar Regiment ”were merged into four escadrons.

By 1807 the unit had a total of eight commanders:

Colonel Count von Holditz
Colonel von Soldan
Colonel Baron von Wechmar
Colonel von Werner
Lieutenant Colonel von Groeling
Colonel von Wolfrath
Colonel of the Oye
Colonel Prince of Anhalt-Pless (from 1807 also regiment owner )

From 1817 a lieutenant colonel von Schill was acting as head of the regiment.

The AKO of December 20, 1898 determined that the regiment was to be regarded as the successor to the "Hussar Regiment 6" of the old master list. The foundation day was thus set for November 15, 1741.

Naming

The regiment was renamed several times:

1816 to 1823: "4. Hussar Regiment (1st Silesian) "
1823 to 1860: "4. Hussar Regiment "
1860 to May 1861: “1. Silesian Hussar Regiment (No. 4) "
1861 to January 1889: “1. Silesian Hussar Regiment No. 4 "
January 1889 to March 1919: "Hussar Regiment von Schill (1st Silesian) No. 4"

Garrisons

The first formation garrison was Ohlau, from here the regiment was stationed alternately in different places in Silesia until it was finally barracked in Ohlau in 1819.

Mission history

There was no use

The regiment fought in the Battle of Hohenfriedberg

In this war, the unit was used in numerous skirmishes and battles, so in the Battle of Prague , the Battle of Kolin , the Battle of Leuthen (all 1757), the Battle of Hochkirch (1758), the Battle of Torgau (1760) and the battle of Reichenbach (1762).

Use in battle near Glomnitz (near Troppau )

In the years 1792 and 1793 the participation in the Rhine campaign against the French revolutionary troops took place. Battle of Jena.

In 1812 two escadrons from the regiment and two escadrons from the 2nd Silesian Hussar Regiment No. 6 were formed into the Combined Hussar Regiment No. 3 and with the auxiliary corps v. York was assigned to the French Russian campaign, where it took part in several skirmishes. According to the Tauroggen Convention , this regiment was sent to Tilsit and then to Elbing and Marienburg .

At the beginning of the Wars of Liberation, the “1. Silesian Hussar Regiment ”merged again. It took part in numerous skirmishes, including the Battle of the Nations near Leipzig , and entered Paris on March 31, 1814 . On June 18, 1815, it finally fought in the Battle of Waterloo . The hussars returned to Silesia in December of the same year.

  • In 1848 there was an operation against Polish insurgents in Silesia.

The regiment was set in motion during the mobilization for war in 1870/71, fought in the Battle of Sedan and stood at the siege of Paris . Until the end of the war, the regiment then fought against the French Loire Army. The hussars returned to their garrison in Ohlau on August 17 and 18, 1871.

In the brigade formation with the 6th Hussar Regiment, the unit advanced through Belgium to France . Until the withdrawal order in September 1914, reconnaissance, reporting rider and patrol service was carried out. At the end of October 1914, the brigade was moved to the east, where the brigade was to remain until the end of the war. Initially deployed in northern Poland, in January 1015 the command was sent to Hungary and Bukovina . Until the end of 1916, operations were carried out in the area of Pinsk . After that, the regiment was used in the police service in Ukraine until April 1918 . On February 8, 1919, the regiment returned to its home garrison, Ohlau, where demobilization began immediately.

A few weeks later, three squadrons from the regiment's personnel were again set up for border protection, which were then merged into one squadron and assigned to the 8th Cavalry Regiment.

The tradition was continued by the 1st Squadron of the 11th Cavalry Regiment in Ohlau.

Peace uniform

Hussar hat made of black seal skin with a yellow Kolpak and a gold-colored chain of scales for the crews and NCOs. The fur hat for the officers was made of gray opossum fur with gilded scale chains. The lanyard was only put on for mounted service. Otherwise, the officers found it folded on the back of the fur hat, where it was fixed with a toggle.

The Attila was brown with gold-colored lacing.

The boot pants were anthracite-colored, the Hungarian-style boots in black with gold-colored chisms.

In addition, there was a brown saber pocket with gold-colored FWR lettering under a crown at parades . A black and white stutz made of heron feathers was also worn.

See also

literature

  • Karl Georg Heinrich Bernhard von Poten: Brown Hussars in France , published by A. Reisewitz, Gera 1876 (Google digitized version)
  • Hans Bleckwenn : The Frederician uniforms 1753–1786 . Volume III: Mounted Troops . Dortmund 1984, ISBN 3-88379-444-9 .
  • Hugo FW Schulz: The Prussian Cavalry Regiments 1913/1914. Podzun-Pallas Verlag, Friedberg 1985, licensed edition Weltbild Verlag, Augsburg 1992, ISBN 3-89350-343-9 .

Web links

Commons : Hussar Regiment "von Schill" (1st Silesian) No. 4  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Karl Georg Heinrich Bernhard von Poten: Brown Hussars in France
  2. ↑ Ranking list of the Royal Prussian Army 1827, p. 299 }