kuk Dragoon Regiment "Archduke Joseph" No. 15

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The namesake of the regiment
Archduke Joseph August

Lower Austria-Moravian Dragoon Regiment "Archduke Joseph" No. 15 was the name of a cavalry association of the Common Army within the Austro-Hungarian Land Forces . From 1891 to 1904 it was called "Freiherr von Bechtoldsheim". In 1915, all honorary names and additions to names were deleted without replacement, from then on the regiment was only called kuk Dragoon Regiment No. 15 . (Which, however, could not be enforced because no one adhered to it and also because the very thrifty Austro-Hungarian military administration had ordered that all forms and stamps that were still available first be used!)

Status and association membership 1914

XI. Army Corps - 4th Cavalry Troop Division - 21st Cavalry Brigade
Nationalities: 85% Czech - 15% different
Commander: Colonel Otto Aloys Graf Huyn
Regimental language: Czech

Establishment

On January 1, 1891, in accordance with the highest resolution of August 7, 1890, the regiment was set up in Wels in Upper Austria . As a tribe, the other dragoons and lancers regiments had to provide personnel by handing over officers and men.

Supplementary district

  • Area of ​​the II Corps (Military Territorial District Vienna )

Peace garrisons

Regimental owner

Campaigns

First World War

During the First World War, the dragoons were exposed to a wide variety of uses. At first they fought as cavalry in the regimental unit, but were also used as infantry in all theaters of war. On August 21, 1914, the regiment fought in the cavalry battle near Jaroslawice and in September in the battle of Rawa Ruska .

After the proclamation of Czechoslovakia as an independent state in October 1918, the soldiers of Czech origin were called on by the interim government to stop the fighting and return home. As a rule, this request was obeyed by the regiment's Czech crew. (In terms of constitutional law, this also applied to the German-Bohemian soldiers, as they were suddenly Czechoslovak citizens. The extent to which they complied with this request is no longer understandable, but should have been the exception.) Thus, the association was its previous high command, the The kuk war ministry was withdrawn and could not be demobilized by the latter and, at best, theoretically dissolved. It is currently not known whether, when and where such a dissolution took place.

Uniform of the regiment

  • Light blue tunic, white equalization , madder red ankle trousers, yellow buttons

structure

A regiment in the Austro-Hungarian cavalry consisted of two divisions at the time this regiment was established . (A division was used here to refer to a battalion-strength unit. The correct division was called an infantry or cavalry division.) Each division had three squadrons . The number of riders was usually around 160 riders per squadron.

The individual divisions were named after their formal leaders:

  • the 1st division was the colonel division
  • the 2nd division was the lieutenant colonel (lieutenant colonel) division

literature

  • Alphons von Wrede: History of the KuK Wehrmacht from 1618 to the end of the XIX century Vienna 1898–1905.
  • Georg Schreiber : The emperor's cavalry. Austrian cavalry in 4 centuries. With a foreword by Alois Podhajsky . Speidel, Vienna 1967.
  • BM Buchmann: Austria and the Ottoman Empire. WUV-Univ.-Verl., Vienna 1999.
  • Allmayer-Beck / Lessing: The K. (below) K. Army 1848–1914 Bertelsmann, Munich 1974.