Hussar piece

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A successful daring undertaking is referred to as a hussar piece (also known as a hussar ride or hussar prank ). The term is traced back to the Hungarian hussar regiments founded at the end of the 17th century . They had the task of the enemy scout out the enemy marching columns disturbing by short attacks and to provide messenger services, which a high level of addition to the ability to take responsibility for deciding courage and daring willingness required.

It takes its name from the Berlin hussar coup during the Seven Years' War , during which the Prussian capital Berlin was occupied by imperial troops on October 16, 1757 for a day.

Examples

The Rust Adventure

The flight of the 18-year-old nurse Mathias Rust in a sport airplane from Helsinki to the center of Moscow on May 28, 1987 was a spectacular feat, the effects of which could not be foreseen and which only succeeded at all through a few coincidences that favored the occurrence: Unpredictable happy circumstances It was thanks, for example, that the Soviet radar surveillance failed and the air defense did not shoot down the aircraft that had penetrated their airspace, that the normally heavily frequented Great Moskva Bridge not far from Red Square allowed a landing at all and that the hussar ride did not end in a Siberian penal camp .

The Oak Company

The Fi 156 during Benito Mussolini's liberation from Gran Sasso

In his extensive biography of Hitler, the American historian John Toland describes in detail the processes involved in the operation to liberate Mussolini, who was interned on the Gran Sasso mountain range, on September 12, 1943: Then a special unit of well-trained German paratroopers with ten cargo gliders landed surprisingly on the plateau around the hotel , in which the Duce was arrested, freed him from the hands of the Italian guards in a stroke of a hand and kidnapped him in a breakneck maneuver with a Fieseler Storch , an aircraft type specially designed for short landings and short take-offs of 20 to 50 meters, from the mountain area.

The storming of the Landshut

When four Palestinian terrorists hijacked Lufthansa's “Landshut” passenger plane on October 13, 1977 , the lives of 91 passengers and crew members were at stake. A five-day, nerve-wracking odyssey began for the travelers concerned under constant threat of death and enormous physical strain in the heat of the Orient via Dubai and Aden to Mogadishu in Somalia , until on October 18, 1977, a GSG 9 command, a special unit of the German Federal Border Guard , stormed Landshut in a seven-minute lightning strike and ended the hostage drama.

rating

The assessment of daring hussar acts in the public and the media ranges from amazed admiration to head-shaking incomprehension. It essentially depends on the values ​​associated with the company, whether the daring hussar ride is just a spectacular suicidal self-expression or a recognizable added value is intended. The venture researcher Siegbert A. Warwitz differentiates between the phenomena thrill and skill , between adventurous events that only aim for a short-term thrill and those that want to solve a demanding task responsibly with the highest level of competence. For certain people, such as circus acrobats or stunt people, developing spectacular performances for show business has become their profession and professional practice their individual trademark .

literature

  • Hakan Haslaman: Stunts and How To Do Them - About the Real Heroes of Action Movies. Bender, Mainz 2002.
  • Siegbert A. Warwitz: lust for sensation or search for meaning, thrill or skill. What separates the daring from the stimulus and risk fanatic . In: Ders .: Search for meaning in risk. Life in growing rings. Explanatory models for cross-border behavior . Verlag Schneider, 2nd edition, Baltmannsweiler 2016, pp. 296-311. ISBN 978-3-8340-1620-1 .
  • Siegbert A. Warwitz: From the sense of the car. Why people face dangerous challenges . In ': Deutscher Alpenverein (Ed.): Berg 2006 , Tyrolia Verlag, Munich-Innsbruck-Bozen, pp. 96–111, ISBN 3-937530-10-X .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Luck of the young adventurer Rust
  2. ↑ A teenager's hussar piece
  3. ^ John Toland: Adolf Hitler . Publishing house Gustav Lübbe. Bergisch Gladbach 1977. pp. 934-937.
  4. ↑ "We were like lambs on the slaughter". In: one day . October 9, 2007. Experience report of the kidnapped Gabriele von Lutzau. Retrieved August 9, 2020.
  5. ↑ Rolf Tophoven: Liberation of the 'Landshut' - "I was convinced that it would work". In: “Die Welt” of October 13, 2007, accessed on August 9, 2020 (interview with Ulrich Wegener).
  6. ↑ Tim Geiger: The "Landshut" in Mogadishu. The foreign policy crisis management of the federal government in view of the terrorist challenge 1977. In: Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte . Vol. 57, 2009, Issue 3, pp. 413–456 (PDF) .
  7. ↑ Marjorie Wiki “Skill”
  8. ^ Siegbert A. Warwitz: Thrill or Skill. What separates the daring from the stimulus and risk fanatic . In: Ders .: Search for meaning in risk. Life in growing rings. Explanatory models for cross-border behavior . Verlag Schneider, 2nd edition, Baltmannsweiler 2016, p. 296.
  9. ^ S. Piet: What motivates stuntmen? In: Motivation and Emotion. 11, 1987, pp. 195-213.
  10. ↑ Hakan Haslaman: Stunts and How They Are Done - About the Real Heroes of Action Movies. Bender, Mainz 2002.

Web links

Wiktionary: Husarenstück  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
Wiktionary: Husarenritt  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations