Kk Landwehr Infantry Regiment "Eger" No. 6

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Imperial-Royal Rifle Regiment No. 6

Corporal of the kk Landwehr Infantry Regiment Eger No. 6 in parade adjustment
active 1889 to 1918
Country Flag of the Habsburg Monarchy.svg Austria-Hungary
Armed forces Austro-Hungarian Land Forces
Armed forces army
Branch of service infantry
Type Infantry regiment
structure See outline
Location See garrisons
management
Commanders See list of commanders

The K. k. Landwehr Infantry Regiment "Eger" No. 6 was from 1889 to 1918 a regiment of the Imperial-Royal Landwehr and thus part of the land forces of Austria-Hungary .

history

Surname

The regiment was established on May 1, 1889 as the Imperial and Royal Bohemian Landwehr Infantry Regiment No. 6 from the Imperial and Royal Landwehr Battalion Eger No. 41 established in 1869, the Imperial and Royal Landwehr Battalion Bischofteinitz No. 50 established in 1872 and the Imperial and Royal Landwehr Battalion Plan No. 51, which was also established in 1872 set up. Renamed on May 1, 1895 to kk Landwehr Infantry Regiment Eger No. 6, on April 8, 1917 it was named "kk Rifle Regiment No. 6".

It was popularly known as the Egerland Landwehr Infantry Regiment or the Egerland Rifle Regiment .

Garrisons

Old military barracks in Eger around 1900. The building is still standing. Coordinate: 50 ° 5 ′ 2 ″  N , 12 ° 21 ′ 49 ″  E
New Landwehr barracks in Eger

The regiment was stationed in Eger. The 1st battalion was in the "old Landwehr barracks" built in 1886 (formerly Junckerstraße), the 2nd battalion in the lower one, the III. Battalion in the upper wing of the "new Landwehr barracks" built in 1895 (formerly Frankengrüner Strasse). The replacement battalion, set up in Eger on July 27, 1914, moved in exchange with the replacement battalion of the Landwehr Infantry Regiment Budweis No. 29 to Budweis . In November 1918 it was moved back to Eger and demobilized there.

Participation in skirmishes and combat operations

1914/18 deployed on the Serbia, Eastern and Italian fronts:

Front against Serbia

  • August to December 1914: Participation in the three offensives across the Drina to Belgrade . Baptism of fire at Skakaliste in the morning hours of August 16, 1914.
  • December 1914 to February 1915: Restoration (rest) in Hungary.

Eastern Front

  • February to April 1915: In the Hungarian Carpathians (today's Slovakia) position battles in the Laborczatal.
  • April to May 1915: re-establishment in Hungary.
  • May to June 1915: In Galicia (today's Poland) advance to Rudnik am San , participation in the Battle of Gorlice-Tarnów .
  • June 1915 to January 1916: In the course of the Bug Offensive from Galicia, advance to Luck (now Ukraine) on the Styr . Participation in the Battle of Piskorowice.
  • January to March 1916: At rest north of Chernivtsi in Bukovina (today's Ukraine).
  • March to June 1916 deployment in Bukovina in the Zaleszezyki bridgehead on the Dniester .
  • June to August 1916: Due to the Russian Brusilov offensive in Galicia (today's Ukraine), fighting back to the Stanislau area , there from
  • August 1916 to May 1917 in trench warfare.

Italian front

Galicia and Silesia

  • February to August 1918: In Galicia (present-day Ukraine) and Silesia (present-day Czech Republic) assistance in the area of Brody , Stryj and Mährisch Ostrau .

Italy

  • August to October 1918: As an army reserve in Italy, as part of the Battle of Vittorio Veneto, last battles of the regiment on Monte Pertica from October 28 to 31, 1918.

Return home and demobilization November 1918: march back home and demobilization in Eger. Losses: around 5,400 fallen, wounded and missing officers and men.

assignment

The original purpose of the Landwehr, laid down in the Austrian Defense Act (RGBl. 41/1889) in 1889, was to support the army and "internal defense" during war, and also to maintain order and security inside during peace. The Landwehr regiments were later given the task of taking over the direct protection of the state border in the event of war. The members of the crew were mostly substitute reservists with only a few weeks of training and those reservists of the line regiments who had been assigned to the Landwehr in the last few years of the reserve. However, this changed fundamentally when the race with Hungary began to upgrade the Landwehr more and more. From then on, the Landwehr was also assigned a fixed annual contingent of recruits.

→ see: kk Landwehr

organization

Association membership

The regiment was subordinated to the 41st Landwehr Infantry Brigade in Pilsen and thus part of the 21st Landwehr Infantry Division in Prague, which was established in 1894. This was subordinate to the VIII Army Corps. The team replacement came from the Landwehr supplementary district of Eger and Beraun . 97% of the regiment members were of German nationality, 3% of others.

structure

In 1893 the Landwehr battalions were divided into four companies.

Outline August 1914

  • Regimental staff
  • 1st battalion with 1st to 4th company and machine gun division I.
  • 2nd battalion with 5th to 8th company and machine gun division II
  • III. Battalion with 9th to 12th company with machine gun division III

Structure February 1915 and August 1914

  • Total catering: 3,245 men

Structure May 1915 and August 1914

  • Combat strength: 1,920 fire rifles

Staff in August 1914

Commanding officer: Colonel Adolf Hansmann
Staff officers: Colonel Viktor Friedel - Colonel Lt. Ludwig Dierkes - Lieutenant Colonel Eduard Edler von Adamek - Major Richard Klär - Major Simon Ronacher - Major Leopold Schnabl

Commanders

No. Surname Beginning of the appointment
1. Colonel Friedrich von Rehm May 1, 1889
2. Colonel Robert Scheriau, Edler von Kranichshain 1895
3. Colonel Ernst Schneller June 11, 1900
4th Colonel Ferdinand Fidler von Isarborn October 1, 1902
5. Colonel August Hess May 1, 1907
6th Colonel Adolf Hansmann April 1, 1912
7th Colonel Joseph Stika November 9, 1914
8th. Colonel Joseph Trauttweiller, nobleman von Sturmheg January 6, 1915
9. Colonel Willibald Sauer, nobleman of Nordendorf April 11, 1915
10. Lieutenant Colonel Klaudius Ritter Schoen von Liebingen July 17, 1915
11. Colonel Johann Mascon November 9, 1915
12. Lieutenant Colonel Friedrich Berg ( Interim ) August 29, 1916
13. Colonel Richard Baron von Vever January 27, 1917
14th Colonel Robert Kneisl von Alzenstett September 26, 1917
15th Colonel Paul Ritter von Zach January 10, 1918
16. Lieutenant Colonel Franz Liebhart July 8, 1918

Armament and equipment

Main armament

The M.1890 Mannlicher system was used as the standard weapon of the Austrian infantry . The knife-shaped bayonet M.1888 belonged to the rifle .

uniform

The parade uniform of the Landwehr was pike gray with grass-green equalization . A hat with a black plume and regimental number served as headgear. The adjustment was uniform.

Others

Persons in the regiment

  • Rudolf Dietl (born February 17, 1892 in Einsiedl ; † February 22, 1976 in Buchen ), 1914 to 1917 with the Landwehr Infantry Regiment Eger No. 6, Mayor of Saaz and Sudeten German politician ( NSDAP ).

Regimental Memorial Day

The regimental commemoration day was celebrated on June 14, 1915. On the occasion of the successful battle of Piskorowice and Molynie, the regiment managed to break through the Russian front on June 14 and 15, 1915. It made around 300 prisoners and captured a large amount of weapons and equipment. Own losses: 87 officers and men killed, 425 wounded and 18 missing.

Regimental march

Rudolf Sabathil (born January 2, 1875 in Sangerberg , † February 11, 1942 in Marienbad ) wrote and composed the regimental march “Die eisana Sechsa”.

References

  1. ↑ The rank group of NCOs did not exist in the Austro-Hungarian Army. Platoon leaders to staff sergeants were among the teams
  2. ↑ kuk terminus - not refreshment stand
  3. ^ Kuk terminus
  4. ^ Regimental march on youtube

swell

  • Austrian State Archives, War Archives Department, holdings AdT, BA, FA, VL

literature

  • Johann Christoph Allmayer-Beck and Erich Lessing : The K. (below) K. Army 1848-1914 , Munich and Vienna 1974, ISBN 3-570-07287-8
  • Oskar Brüch and Günter Dirrheimer: Das kuk Heer 1895 (Writings of the Heeresgeschichtliches Museum in Vienna, Military Science Institute, Volume 10) , Graz 1997, ISBN 3-7020-0783-0
  • Richard Wagner: History of the former rifle regiment No. 6 (K. k. Landwehr Infantry Regiment Eger No. 6) , Karlsbad 1932.