Hunter Regiment on Horseback No. 3

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Standard of the regiment

The Jäger Regiment on Horseback No. 3 was a cavalry unit of the Prussian Army .

Organization and association membership 1914

Commanding General : Lieutenant General von Deimling
Commander : Lieutenant General Freiherr von Watter
Commander: Major General Baron von Crane
  • Foundation Day: October 1, 1905

Lineup

The standard was handed over to the regiment on January 7, 1916 in the Colmar barracks.

By order of the Prussian War Ministry of April 4, 1905, the formation of another regiment of hunters on horseback, each with five squadrons, was ordered on October 1 of that year.

For this list the previous independent squadrons hunters on horseback VII, XIV and XV were combined.

Additionally:

hand over to the new regiment for completion.

The city ​​of Colmar was assigned as a garrison .

First World War

After the mobilization in July 1914, the regiment was first transferred from the 39th to the 30th Infantry Division and carried out patrol, security and reconnaissance service at Mulhouse in Alsace and in the area of Saint-Quentin in northern France until the end of September . The regiment remained in the Arras and Ypres area until the end of November 1914 before being relocated to the east. Until autumn 1916, the hunters fought both as cavalry and infantry on the Vistula , the Rawka , Bzura and the Daugava . In the meantime, the regiment was involved in advances in the direction of Kovno and Vilna . After that, the unit was transferred to Stage Inspection 12 in Russian Poland, where it took over police and security tasks until February 1919. The unit retained its cavalry status until the end of the war.

Since the home garrison could no longer be reached, the regiment was disbanded in Spangenberg on February 22, 1919 .

Before the march back, a volunteer squadron had been assembled in Grodno for border protection tasks.

The tradition took over in the Reichswehr the training squadron of the 11th (Prussian) cavalry regiment in Ohlau .

uniform

Pattern like cuirassiers, but with the following changes:

  • Gray-green Koller (from 1910) tunic with Swedish lapels, lapels and all advances light green, but epaulets with lemon-yellow advances as a badge color . Light green borders ran around the collar and lapels, which had a broad central stripe and narrow edge stripes in the same color as the badge. For officers, the trimmings consisted of gold or silver braid with narrow stripes in the color of the badge.
Field cap: Gray-green in color with light green stripes and lemon-yellow protrusions
  • Helmet: Similar to a cuirassier helmet, made of blackened sheet steel with a dragoon eagle. Edges with nickel silver edging rails. Tip like dragoon helmet with clover-leaf-shaped attachment. (Officers with fluted tips such as cuirassier officers and silver-plated fittings.) Arched scale chain made of tombac .
  • Cuirassier boots made of natural brown leather
  • Lance flag: white-black

Commanders

Rank Surname vocation Recall
Major / Lieutenant Colonel Eduard Lübbert October 1, 1905 September 30, 1908
major Wilhelm von Heyden October 1, 1908 August 18, 1909
Lieutenant colonel Karl von Langermann and Erlenkamp August 19, 1909 March 31, 1912
Major / Lieutenant Colonel Johannes Koch April 1, 1912 September 24, 1916
major Adolf von Xylander September 25, 1916 February 1919

Known members of the regiment

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.
  • Hermann Obkircher: Jäger-Regiment on Horseback No. 3 in peace and in war. Stalling, Oldenburg 1923. (Volume 90 of "Formerly Prussian Troop Units" in the series of memorial sheets of German regiments , available digitally: urn : nbn: de: 101: 1-201304289104 )

Individual evidence

  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 Publishing House. Osnabrück 1993. ISBN 3-7648-2413-1 . P. 192.