Hunter Regiment on Horseback No. 5

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Regimental standard

The hunters Regiment on horseback no. 5 was a cavalry joined the Prussian army .

history

By the Highest Cabinet Order (AKO) of March 31, 1908, on October 1 of the year (Foundation Day), the formation of another hunter regiment on horseback, each with five squadrons, was ordered.

A squadron each had to submit for this list:

The regiment moved into its garrison in the city of Mulhouse in Alsace and was subordinate to the 29th Cavalry Brigade until the beginning of the First World War .

First World War

During the First World War , the regiment was used exclusively as divisional cavalry in the western theater of war and, after the start of the war, initially provided border protection services in the section from Tann (Alsace) to the Swiss border.

Gravestone in the cemetery near Illfurth

On August 2, 1914, a patrol of the regiment near Delle in the Territoire de Belfort came across soldiers of the French 44 e régiment d'infanterie (44th infantry regiment). The patrol leader, the 22-year-old Lieutenant Albert Mayer , and the 21-year-old Caporal Jules-André Peugeot were killed .
They are considered to be the first to die in the First World War.

In 1916 the regimental association was disbanded and the squadrons were divided into infantry divisions. The cavalry status remained until the end of the war.

Whereabouts

After the armistice , the 1st and 2nd Squadrons came to Bruchsal and Ettlingen , respectively , from where they were deployed to fight the unrest in Karlsruhe and Mannheim . In May 1919 the hunters were transported to Müllheim , where a volunteer squadron was formed and incorporated into the cavalry regiment of the Freikorps " Field Marshal von Hindenburg " in Kolberg . The squadron fought against Polish insurgents in Upper Silesia and West Prussia .

The 3rd and 4th squadrons came to Bretten in January and the 5th squadron to Warburg , where they were disbanded.

The tradition of the regiment took over in the Reichswehr the 4th 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 premiums , surcharges and any action designed light green, epaulets but with black advances than facing 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 black lugs
  • 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 Georg Ernst Müller-Kranefeldt 0October 1, 1908 February 18, 1910
Lieutenant colonel Oskar Sperling February 19, 1910 April 21, 1912
major Karl Ullmann April 22, 1912 January 13, 1917
major Witt January 14, 1917 1919

literature

  • Paul Creuzinger: History of the Royal Prussian Jäger Regiment on Horseback No. 5 (=  From Germany's great times. Formerly Prussian troops . Volume 48 ). Sporn, Zeulenroda (Thuringia) 1932 ( digitized version of the Württemberg State Library ).
  • 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. ^ The Western Front Association
  2. ^ 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. 193.