Horse Regiment No. 12

Regimental standard

The hunters Regiment on horseback no. 12 was a cavalry joined the Prussian army .

history

Lineup

The Highest Cabinet Order (AKO) of September 4, 1913 ordered the formation of a horse regiment with five squadrons on October 1 of the year (Foundation Day).

To do this had to submit:

the Thuringian Uhlan Regiment No. 6 the 4th Squadron
the Jäger-Regiment on Horseback No. 5 the 3rd Squadron
the Schleswig-Holstein Dragoon Regiment No. 13 the 3rd Squadron
the 3rd Silesian Dragoon Regiment No. 15 the 2nd Squadron
the Uhlan regiment "Graf Haeseler" (2nd Brandenburg) No. 11 the 5th squadron

The regiment was subordinate to the 34th Cavalry Brigade and the garrison was located in Saint-Avold .

First World War

After the mobilization in July 1914, the regiment's squadrons, in accordance with their original task, were assigned to various infantry divisions as courier and messenger rider detachments.

There came:

the 1st Squadron to the 33rd Infantry Division
the 2nd squadron to the 34th Infantry Division
3rd Squadron to the 121st Infantry Division
the 4th Squadron to the 91st Infantry Division
the 5th squadron to the 1st Landwehr Division

The squadrons were used exclusively in the west . The regimental association was not restored.

The tradition of the regiment was taken over in the Reichswehr by the training squadron of the 2nd (Prussian) cavalry regiment in Allenstein .

uniform

Major of the regiment in field gray service uniform ( tunic , 1915)

The tunic was made of gray-green cloth with Swedish lapels and yellow buttons. Collars, lugs and lapels were light green, the badge color black. The regimental number was on the shoulder pieces. The leather gear was black. Officers wore the cuirassier helmet with dragoon eagle, men and officers the dragoon helmet. Dragoon boots were commonly used. The bandolier was only intended for officers. (Since the cuirassier helmet intended for the men when the regiments were set up - made of blackened sheet steel as for the first seven regiments, but with fittings made of tombac instead of nickel silver - were not available, these regiments were equipped with the dragoon helmet Conversion to the originally planned equipment).

Lance flag: white-black

Commanders

Rank	Surname	vocation	Recall
Major / Lieutenant Colonel	Kurt von Nordeck	0October 1, 1913	August 26, 1916
major	Curt von Vultejus	August 27, 1916	0November 3, 1916
Lieutenant colonel	Kurt von Nordeck	0November 4, 1916	December 20, 1918
major	Hubertus von Gessler	December 21, 1918	1919
major	Alfred von Kruger	1919	1919

literature

Hugo FW Schulz: The Prussian Cavalry Regiments 1913/1914. Weltbild Verlag 1992.
Stefan rest (ed.), Jürgen Kraus : The German army in the First World War. Ingolstadt 2004.

Web links

Commons : Hunters Regiment on Horses No. 12 - Collection of images, videos and audio files

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 active regiments, battalions and departments from the foundation or formation until August 26, 1939. Cavalry, artillery, pioneers, motor and driving departments, armored forces, traffic forces and intelligence departments. Biblio Verlag, Osnabrück 1993, ISBN 3-7648-2413-1 , p. 196.

[1] 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 active regiments, battalions and departments from the foundation or formation until August 26, 1939. Cavalry, artillery, pioneers, motor and driving departments, armored forces, traffic forces and intelligence departments. Biblio Verlag, Osnabrück 1993, ISBN 3-7648-2413-1 , p. 196.