Hunter Regiment on Horseback No. 4

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Standard of the regiment

The hunters Regiment on horseback no. 4 was a cavalry joined the Prussian army .

history

Lineup

The Highest Cabinet Order (AKO) of July 1st ordered the formation of the Jäger Regiment on Horseback No. 4 with five squadrons on October 1st 1906 (Foundation Day) .

For this list had to submit:

Furthermore, the hitherto self-employed

  • Squadrons Hunters on Horses No. 1 and XVII incorporated into the new regiment.

The city of Graudenz was assigned as a garrison . The regiment was subordinate to the 35th Cavalry Brigade .

First World War

After the mobilization in July 1914, the regimental association was disbanded and the squadrons - according to their determination as reporting and liaison riders - divided into different infantry divisions.

The squadrons were deployed exclusively in the east and served in Russian Poland, Galicia , Romania and Courland . The cavalry status remained until the end of the war.

The tradition of the regiment was taken over in the Reichswehr by the training squadron of the 5th (Prussian) cavalry regiment in Stolp .

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 epaulettes with light blue 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 trim stripes and light blue 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 like cuirassier officers.) Arched scale chain made of tombac .
  • Cuirassier boots made of natural brown leather
  • Lance flag. White black

Commanders

Rank Surname vocation Recall
Lieutenant colonel Hermann Heidborn 0October 1, 1906 June 26, 1908
major Georg Saenger June 27, 1908 March 21, 1913
major Hugo von Loen March 22, 1913 November 10, 1914
major Eberhard von Schroetter November 11, 1914 June 17, 1917
major Wilhelm Kügelgen June 18, 1917 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.

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.