Kk Dragoon Regiment "Field Marshal Duke Hercules of Modena" No. 5

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The regiment was a cavalry unit that was taken over in 1710 as Schönborn Dragoons from the service of the Electorate of Mainz in the imperial Habsburg army . In retrospect, other names for the regiment were: 1769 Cavalry Regiment No. 13 , 1798 Dragoon Regiment No. 5 . The following numbering was subsequently introduced for the system: 1710/1 (to Ticino ), Dragoon Regiment DV (to Bleckwenn ).

In the 17th and 18th centuries regiments only carried the name of the regiment chief .

Mounted grenadier of the imperial dragoon regiment Khevenhüller (DV) in the War of the Polish Succession in 1734 - Gudenus manuscript
Field Marshal Duke of Modena was named after the regiment in 1888
Uniform 1762

Formation history

  • In 1706 the Electoral Mainz Dragoon Regiment was transferred as a rental regiment by the then Elector Lothar Franz von Schönborn .
  • 1710 With the convention of April 16, the regiment passed completely into imperial service
  • 1721 two companies of the disbanded Dragoon Regiment "Veterani" were incorporated
  • In 1731 parts of the auction company set up in 1727 were given to the "Vehlen" dragoon regiment (dissolved in 1748).
  • 1760 In February the association was transformed into a Chevauxlegers regiment.
  • In 1763 he was converted back to a Dragoon regiment
  • In 1768 the grenadier company was transferred to the newly established 1st Carabinier Regiment (later Dragoon Regiment No. 3 ), and in return an squadron of the disbanded Dragoon Regiment Althann was taken over.
  • 1769 Allocation of the cavalry master list number 13
  • 1773 Conversion into a Chevauxlegers regiment
  • 1785 Allocation of a division of the Uhlan Free Corps
  • 1786 Surrender of a squadron of the former Uhlan Freikorps Division as a trunk for the new Uhlan Division of the Chevauxlegers Regiment "Richecourt" (Uhlan Regiment No. 7)
  • 1790–1791 The division, which was completed by advertising, is given to the newly formed Uhlan Regiment No. 1
  • 1798 Conversion into the Light Dragoon Regiment No. 5
  • In 1802 the regiment was dissolved, the Colonel Division to "Levenehr Dragoon Regiment No. 4" (dissolved in 1860), the Lieutenant Colonel Division to "Savoyen Dragoon Regiment No. 5" (later Dragoon Regiment No. 13 ), the Majors Division transferred to "Hohenlohe Dragoon Regiment No. 2" (later Hussar Regiment No. 15 ).

additions

  • The regiment was recruited from Bohemia from 1781 until its dissolution.

Peace garrisons

1790–95 Rohatyn-Gródek

  • 1798–99 Bavaria
  • 1801 Troppau , then Eastern Galicia.

Regimental owner

  • 1706 General of the cavalry Franz Anselm Graf Schönborn (Dragoon Regiment Graf Schönborn)
  • 1726 General Field Sergeant Ludwig Andreas Graf Khevenhüller (Dragoon Regiment Graf Khevenhüller)
  • 1744 Field Marshal Lieutenant Johann Joseph Freiherr Holly (Dragoon Regiment Holly)
  • 1756 Sergeant General Hercules, Hereditary Prince (since 1780 Duke) of Modena

Regimental commanders

  • 1706 the owner Colonel Graf Schönborn
  • 1710 Colonel Wolfgang Ludwig von Kohno (Kuno)
  • 1716 Colonel Ernst Freiherr von Petrasch
  • 1732 Colonel Voith von Rieneck
  • 1735 Colonel Count Capitanei
  • 1737 Colonel Leopold Graf Lamberg
  • 1739 Colonel Johann Baptist Graf Serbelloni
  • 1741 Colonel Johann Freiherr Kolb von Rheindorf
  • 1746 Colonel Johann Ludwig Graf Starhemberg
  • 1750 Colonel Heinrich La Reintrie Baron de Pin
  • 1757 Colonel Johann Friedrich Brinckmann
  • 1767 Colonel Caspar Count Lodron
  • 1775 Colonel Johann Nepomuk Freiherr Pfefferkorn von Ottobach
  • 1784 Colonel Prokop, Count Klebelsberg
  • 1789 Colonel Andreas Graf O'Reilly
  • 1794 Colonel Friedrich Hereditary Prince of Hesse-Homburg
  • 1797 Colonel Carl Freiherr von Roskowszky
  • 1801 Colonel Johann Nepomuk Freiherr Hager von Altensteig

Battle calendar

Anti-Habsburg uprisings in the Kingdom of Hungary

  • 1706 Relocation to the Hungarian theater of war
  • 1707 The regiment was assigned to the Starhemberg Corps
  • 1708–09 In the main army, without major action
  • 1710 Commanded to the siege troops in front of Neuhäusel
  • 1711 Detached to the so-called "Neutrality Corps" established in Silesia

Venetian-Austrian Turkish War

War of the Polish Succession

  • 1734–35 Relocated to the theater of war in Germany. Without combat activity

Russo-Austrian Turkish War (1736–1739)

War of the Austrian Succession

  • 1741 in the Khevenhüller corps . Participation in the operation in Upper Austria
  • 1742 fighting in Bavaria
  • 1743 With the main army in action near Simbach . Advance on the Rhine and participation in the operations there. (The Grenadier Company was involved in the capture of Dingolfing .)
  • 1744 Security and patrol services on the Rhine. Then relocation to Bavaria.
  • 1745 fighting in Bavaria (battle near Pfaffenhofen)
  • Relocated to Italy in 1746, the regiment fought with distinction at Piacenza and Rottofreno
  • 1747 Participation in the campaign in Provence

Seven Years War

  • 1757 Battle of Prague . Parts of the regiment fought in the defense of the city, the rest in the Battle of Kolin . Later it was involved in the battle near Moys, the siege of Schweidnitz and in the battles near Breslau and Leuthen .
  • In 1758 a detachment took part in the defense of Schweidnitz, the regiment took part in the siege of Neisse .
  • 1759 In the association of the Reichsarmee battles at Eulenburg, Pretsch and at Maxen
  • 1760–61 Without combat activity
  • 1762 Only one detachment in battle near Kammerndorf

War of the Bavarian Succession

  • 1778–79 In the army in Moravia , August 7, 1778, heavy losses in the skirmish near Mladetzko south of Freudenthal

Russo-Austrian Turkish War (1787–1792)

  • 1788 With the main army. Skirmishes at Semlin
  • 1789 Siege of Belgrade

Coalition wars

  • 1796 relocation to Germany. Fights near Neuburg and Schliengen
  • In 1799 , when he was assigned to the troops in Vorarlberg , the regiment took part in the capture of the Lucienstiges and of Chur . Battle of Zurich and skirmishes near Brunnen
  • 1800 The regiment is deployed to the stairs used to cover North Tyrol.

Adjustment of the regiment

Dragoon Regiment

  • 1738: red skirt, sky-blue facings
  • 1757: dark blue skirt and trousers, ponceau red lapels
  • 1765: red skirt, dark blue equalization, white trousers, white buttons
  • 1767: white skirt, dark blue equalization, white trousers, white buttons

Chevauxlegers Regiment

  • 1773: unchanged

Dragoon Regiment No. 5

  • 1798: dark green skirt, orange-yellow equalization, white trousers, white buttons

See also

Commons : Uniforms of the Austrian Cavalry 1762  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

literature

  • Hans Bleckwenn : The Empress's Regiments: Thoughts on the Albertina Manuscript 1762 of the Army History Museum Vienna ; in: Writings of the Heeresgeschichtliches Museum in Vienna, Volume 3: Maria Theresa - Contributions to the history of the army of her time; Graz, Vienna, Cologne 1967. pp. 25-53.
  • Hans Bleckwenn : Horsemen, Hussars and Grenadiers. d. Uniforms d. emperor. Army on the Rhine 1734 . Harenberg, Dortmund 1979. ISBN 3883791253 ; P. 17ff.
  • Bertrand Michael Buchmann, Austria and the Ottoman Empire , Vienna, WUV-Univ.Verl.-1999. ISBN 9783851144796 .
  • Hermann Meynert : History of the KK Austrian Army, its formation and organization, as well as its fate, actions and campaigns, from the earliest to the present time . C. Gerold and Son, Vienna 1854. online at google books
  • Osprey Military, No. 271, Reprint 1999
  • Austrian military history, special volume 1997 Verlag Stöhr Vienna
  • Georg Tessin : The regiments of the European states in the Ancien Régime des XVI. to XVIII. Century ; 3 volumes; Biblio Verlag: Osnabrück 1986–1995. ISBN 3-7648-1763-1 . P. 152ff.
  • Alphons von Wrede: The history of the kuk Wehrmacht . The regiments, corps, branches and establishments from 1618 to the end of the XIX. Century. Vienna 1898–1905. Part III, Part 1 Cavalry, Part 2 Disbanded troops on horseback. Directory of regiment chiefs at the Wrede plant (PDF; 325 kB)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ticino 1986 vol. 1:40
  2. ↑ Bleckwenn
  3. ↑ Until 1798 the regiments were named after their respective owners (who did not also have to be the commanders). There was no binding regulation of the spelling. (e.g. Count Serbelloni regiment - or Serbelloni regiment.) After 1798, the numbered designation prevailed, which could possibly be linked to the name of the owner.