kuk Dragoon Regiment "Duke of Lorraine" No. 7

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Francis III Stephan, Duke of Lorraine and Bar

The association was established in 1663 as a Garnier-Cürassiere for the imperial-Habsburg army . From this, the kuk dragoon regiment "Duke of Lorraine" No. 7 developed over the course of time up to the joint army within the Austro-Hungarian land forces .

In 1769 the regiment was given the name Cavalry Regiment No. 21 in the newly established cavalry ranking list . However, the name continued to be after the regiment owner (who did not also have to be the commander) until 1798 . There was no binding regulation of the spelling. (e.g. Count Serbelloni regiment - or Serbelloni regiment.) With each change of ownership, the regiment concerned changed its name.

After the system was changed in 1798, the numbered designation prevailed, which could possibly be linked to the name of the owner. At first, the name was changed to Cürassier Regiment No. 7 .

From 1854 to 1884 the regiment was called Wilhelm Herzog von Braunschweig No. 7 Dragoon Regiment

Since 1888 the regiment had to use his name forever . Notwithstanding this, in 1915 all names of honor were deleted without replacement. From then on the regiment was only called Dragoon Regiment No. 7 (In practice, however, this could not be enforced, on the one hand because nobody adhered to it, on the other hand because the very thrifty Austro-Hungarian military administration had ordered that all existing forms and stamps be used up first!)

The following numbering was subsequently introduced for the system: 1663/1 (to Ticino ), Cuirassier regiment K 8 (to Bleckwenn ).

prehistory

Formation history

  • In November 1663 the Sergeant General Garnier established the Cuirassier Regiment Garnier in Silesia .
  • 1664 had 200 riders to the Cuirassier - Regiment Metternich be submitted
  • In 1665, parts of the disbanded Schmidt Reiter Regiment were incorporated
  • In 1679 four companies of the disbanded Cuirassier Regiment Kaunitz were incorporated
  • In 1682 one company each was to be given up to establish the cuirassier regiments Sachsen-Lauenburg (later Dragoons No. 9) and Veterani (dissolved in 1801 as Zezschwitz No. 5)
  • 1707 parts of the disbanded cuirassier regiment Bartel incorporated
  • 1721 a company of the dissolved Dragoons Battee incorporated
  • In 1731 parts of the Auctions Company established in 1727 were given to the Cuirassier Regiment Portugal (later Dragoons No. 9)
  • In 1769 the Carabinier Company was transferred to the newly established 2nd Carabinier Regiment (later Dragoons No. 1 ), in return a squadron of the disbanded Cuirassier Regiment de Ville was assigned
  • 1768–1798, the regiment had the cavalry ranking number 21
  • In 1775 the Lieutenant Colonel - Division of the dissolved cuirassier regiment Rothschütz took over
  • In 1798 the regiment was named Cuirassier Regiment No. 7
  • In 1802 the Lieutenant Colonel Division of the dissolved Zezschwitz No. 5 Cuirassier Regiment was taken over
  • 1867 Conversion to Dragoon Regiment No. 7
Barracks of the regiment in Kolomea, 1914

Supplementary districts

  • From 1781-1817 from Moravia and Silesia .
  • 1817–1853 from all over Bohemia
  • 1853–1857 from the district of Infantry Regiment No. 42 ( Theresienstadt )
  • 1857–1860 from the supplementary districts of infantry regiments No. 35 and 42 ( Pilsen , Theresienstadt)
  • 1860–68 from the supplementary districts of infantry regiments No. 28, 42 and 73 ( Prague , Theresienstadt, Eger )
  • 1868–89 the supplementary districts of infantry regiments No. 35 and 73 (Pilsen, Eger).
  • Since 1889 it was assigned to the area of ​​the VIII Corps (Military Territorial District Prague).

Peace garrisons

I. II. III.

° In the Austro-Hungarian monarchy, Upper Hungary was the name given to the parts of what is now Slovakia which then belonged to Hungary .

As a cuirassier regiment "Trauttmannsdorff" 1751–1786

Regimental owner

  • 1663 Field Sergeant Hans Heinrich Freiherr von Garnier (Cuirassier Regiment Garnier)
  • 1664 Colonel Johann Nicolaus Graf Nostitz von Kunewald (cuirassier regiment Graf Nostitz von Kunewald)
  • 1670 Colonel Count Johann Heinrich von Dünewald (cuirassier regiment Count Dünewald)
  • 1691 Colonel Veith Heinrich Truchsess von Wetzhausen (Wetzhausen Cuirassier Regiment)
  • 1697 Colonel Christian Prince of Braunschweig-Lüneburg and Hanover (cuirassier regiment Prince of Braunschweig-Lüneburg)
  • 1703 Lieutenant Field Marshal Lamoral Count von Latour (Thurn) and Taxis (Count Latour Cuirassier Regiment)
  • 1711 Generalfeldwachtmeister Peter Joseph de Viard (Cuard Regiment)
  • 1718 Lieutenant Field Marshal Johann Andreas Graf von Hamilton (Count Hamilton Cuirassier Regiment)
  • 1738 General of the Cavalry Joseph Conte de Bernes (Cuirassier Regiment Conte de Bernes)
  • 1751 Generalfeldwachtmeister Franz Graf Trautmannsdorff (Cuirassier Regiment Graf Trautmannsdorff)
  • 1786 Major General Ferdinand Graf Harrach (Count Harrach Cuirassier Regiment)
  • 1790 Field Marshal Lieutenant Christoph Freiherr von Wallisch (Wallisch Cuirassier Regiment)
  • 1794 Major General Carl Eugen Prinz Lothringen - Lambesc (Cuirassier Regiment Prinz Lothringen)
  • 1798 Change of name to Cuirassier Regiment No. 7
  • 1826 Major General Heinrich Graf Hardegg
  • 1854–1884 Field Marshal Wilhelm Herzog of Braunschweig
  • 1867 Conversion to Dragoon Regiment No. 7
  • 1884–1888 vacant
  • Since 1888 the regiment has been called "Duke of Lorraine and Bar "

Regimental Commanders

I. II. III.
  • 1663 the owner Generalfeldwachtmeister Granier
  • 1664 the owner, Colonel Count Nostitz
  • 1670 the owner Obrist Dünewald
  • 1675 Lieutenant Colonel Johann Heinrich Graf Kueffstein
  • 1677 Lieutenant Colonel La Fosse
  • 1679 Lieutenant Colonel Kunitz (Koenitz?)
  • 1681 Lieutenant Colonel Peter von Welsersheimb
  • 1684 Lieutenant Colonel Sigmund Graf Kaplirs
  • 1685 Lieutenant Colonel Lorenz Graf Hofkirchen
  • 1691 Lieutenant Colonel Freiherr von Ketteler
  • 1694 the owner Obrist Truchsess
  • 1694 Lieutenant Colonel Johann Paul Graf Caraffa
  • 1703 Lieutenant Colonel-Colonel Peter Joseph de Viard
  • 1708 Lieutenant Colonel Laser
  • 1716 Lieutenant Colonel-Colonel Johann Christoph Seherr von Thoss
  • 1727 Colonel Demetrius Freiherr von Kavanagh
  • 1734 Colonel Philipp Freiherr von Philibert
  • 1739 Colonel Claudius Graf Circourt
  • 1740 Colonel Alois Graf Radicati
  • 1745 Colonel Benedict of Rossiéres
  • 1749 Colonel Joseph von Lehner
  • 1756 Colonel Joseph Roth
  • 1759 Colonel Joseph Anton Count Turati
  • 1771 Colonel Sigmund Freiherr von Knebel
  • 1777 Colonel Casimir Freiherr von Trickel
  • 1782 Colonel Michael von Melas
  • 1788 Colonel Joseph Count Auersperg
  • 1789 Colonel Joseph Freiherr von Roth
  • 1794 Colonel Nicolaus Graf Pálffy from Erdöd
  • 1796 Colonel Johann Graf Mercandin
  • 1800 Colonel Max Graf Kollonits von Kollograd
  • 1801 Colonel Clemens Freiherr von Thünefeld
  • 1806 Colonel Johann Piccard von Grünthal
  • 1809 Colonel Ferdinand Prince of Hesse-Homburg
  • 1814 Colonel Ernst Freiherr von Penz
  • 1819 Colonel Alexander Freiherr von Bolza
  • 1816 Colonel Georg Alexander Koch
  • 1832 Colonel Ernst Freiherr Dlauhowesky von Langendorf
  • 1838 Colonel Ludwig Riepenhoff von Helvoor
  • 1846 Colonel Franz Sedlmayer von Seefeld
  • 1849 Colonel Adam Stauffer
  • 1849 Colonel Joseph Algyay of Algyest
  • 1851 Colonel Alphons Graf Seldern
  • 1852 Archduke Rainer (second colonel)
  • 1859 Colonel Alfred Graf Königsegg-Aulendorf
  • 1862 Colonel Hermann Freiherr von Ramberg
  • 1868 Colonel Cajetan von Giusti
  • 1868 Colonel Baron Oswald von Coburg
  • 1876 ​​Lieutenant Colonel Carl Fischer von Wellenborn
  • 1882 Colonel Wilhelm von Bothmer
  • 1888 Colonel Erich Ritter von Engel
  • 1891 Colonel Moriz Graf Attems
  • 1897 Lieutenant Colonel-Colonel Anatol Count Bigot de St. Quentin
  • 1903 Colonel Wilhelm Karger
  • 1909 Colonel Artur Hilvety
  • 1913 Lieutenant Colonel Stanislaus Krousky

Battle calendar

Memorial plaque in the Capuchin Church in Vienna

→ Turkish war 1663/1664

→ Anti-Habsburg uprisings in the Kingdom of Hungary from 1671–1711

→ Dutch War

  • 1673 with five companies on the theater of war on the Rhine . Battle at Wertheim
  • 1674 Battle near Sinsheim . Battle of retreat near Ladenburg and Zwingenberg . Battles near Florsheim, Heiligenstein, Eiselsheim and Mulhouse
  • 1675 parts of the regiment in action near Bischen, in the battle near Altenheim , in the action near Benfelden and Molsheim . In Theux two companies became prisoners of war. The regiment owner, Generalfeldwachtmeister Dünewald, was raised to the rank of count in recognition of the services he had earned here .
  • 1676 High losses in the Battle of Gengenheim ( Saverne ) The siege troops before the fortress Philippsburg off
  • 1677 Patrol and security services in Lorraine
  • Ordered to Hungary in 1678. Battle at Heiligenkreuz

→ Great Turkish War

→ War of the Palatinate Succession

  • 1689 Parked at the theater of war on the Rhine. Siege of Mainz and Bonn
  • 1690 patrol and security services

→ Great Turkish War

  • 1691 relocation to Hungary. Battle at Szlankamen and at the siege of Grosswardein
  • 1692 capture of Gyula , then in the Banat
  • 1693 patrol and security services
  • 1694 relocation to Transylvania
  • 1695 in the Veterani Corps. Battle of Lugos
  • 1696 Battle of Olashin
  • 1697 Relocated to Hungary in the Rabutin Corps. Battle of Zenta . A detachment under Sergeant General Viard was involved in the raid against Uj-Palánka
  • 1698 advanced with the main army against Temesvár . Foray to Arad

→ War of the Spanish Succession

  • 1703 Seconded from Slavonia to Corps Schlick in Germany. The regiment suffered heavy losses in skirmishes with Bavarian troops near Eisenbirn. Then transfer to the theater of war in Hungary. Battle at Levencz

→ Anti-Habsburg uprisings in the Kingdom of Hungary

  • 1704 Participated in battles near Szent-Miklós, Stuhlweissenburg , Gyarmat ( Raab ) and the battle of Tyrnau in the Heister corps
  • 1705 Battle of Bibersburg and Battle of Sibó. Then relocation to Transylvania
  • 1706 relocation to Upper Hungary to the Corps Rabutin and with this in the unsuccessful siege Kaschaus participated
  • 1707 Divided into the Starhemberg Corps (left bank of the Danube), little combat activity
  • 1708 Fighting near Skalitz and Trenčín
  • 1709 raids against the fixed places Arva and Laschau in Upper Hungary
  • 1710 divisions of the regiment fought near Romhány and took part in other operations in Upper Hungary
  • 1711 Capture of Košice
  • 1713 300 riders of the regiment took part in the cavalry battle near Karlowitz . Battle of Peterwardein and siege of Temesvár
  • 1717 Siege of Belgrade and Battle of Belgrade

→ War of the Polish Succession

→ Russian-Austrian Turkish War (1736–1739)

  • 1737 Croatian theater of war. Fights at Banja Luka and Trn (Klasnica)
  • 1738 Skirmishes at Kornia and Mehadia
  • 1739 The regiment suffered great losses in the battle of Grocka

→ War of the Austrian Succession

  • 1741 Patrol and security services in the Lobkowitz Corps in Bohemia
  • 1742 Seconded to the Khevenhüller Corps in Upper Austria. Fight in Bavaria with a battle near Straubing . Then transferred back to the army in Bohemia
  • 1743 operations in Bavaria and on the Rhine
  • 1744 Patrol and security services on the Rhine and in Bohemia
  • 1745 Battle of Hohenfriedberg and Battle of Thrush

→ Seven Years War

→ War of the Bavarian Succession

  • 1778–79 patrol and security services in the main army in Bohemia.

Russo-Austrian Turkish War (1787–1792)

  • 1789 withdrew to the siege of Belgrade. Departments of the regiment participated in Banat part in the fighting at Alibunar, Boksan, Szent Mihály and the conquest of Uj-Palánkla.

→ coalition wars

  • 1796 March to the Latour Corps in Germany. One division distinguished itself in the battle near Herbolzheim . Battle at Immenstadt with special distinction, at Isny , Memmingen and Schliengen
  • In 1797 the regiment stood before Kehl
  • 1799 fighting near Ostrach and Stockach. Siege and capture of Mannheim
  • 1800 battles near Möskirch, Biberach , the battle of Ulm and battle near Neuburg. Later in the Battle of Hohenlinden and the battle near Schwanenstadt.
  • 1805 Battles near Amstetten and Stein in the Kienmayer corps . Skirmishes of retreat after the Battle of Austerlitz
  • 1809 Archduke Ferdinand fights in VII. Corps near Raszyn and further operations in Poland. Four squadrons in action near Tachów

→ Wars of Liberation

→ Rule of the Hundred Days

  • 1815 Patrol and security services in France

→ Revolution of 1848/1849 in the Austrian Empire

  • In 1848 in the army of Banus Jellacic , the regiment took part in the battles at Pákozd and Velencze, the enclosure of Vienna and the battle at Schwechat . Later in Hungary fights near Bábolna and Moór
  • 1849 Fights near Tetény, the majors division with distinction near Szolnok . Detachments fought at Czegléd, Czibakháza and Szolnok, at Tapio-Bicske, Isaszeg and Keresztúr. In the summer campaign, fights near Kács , a battle near O-Becse and the battle of Hegyes
Dragoons of the regiment in 1914

→ Sardinian War 1859 Patrol and security services in Italy → German War

  • 1866 Four squadrons assigned to the 2nd Reserve Cavalry Division of the Northern Army. No major combat action in the battle of Königgrätz . Isolated outpost battles near Tischnowitz .

→ First World War During the First World War, the cavalry regiments were exposed to a wide variety of uses. Some of them continued to exist in the regimental association, some of them were divided up by squadrons into the infantry divisions, corps and army staffs as so-called division cavalry (they provided services there as reconnaissance and reporting riders as well as security detachments). Most of the regiments soon had to surrender their horses (if they still had any) and were then used by infantry. More precise information is currently not available.

Whereabouts

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.

Association membership and status in July 1914

XI. Corps - 8th Cavalry Troop Division - 13th Cavalry Brigade
Nationalities: 50% Czech - 50% German
Regimental language: Czech and German

Adjustment

1738: white skirt, red lapels
1765 (1767): white skirt, dark blue equalization , white trousers, white buttons
  • Cuirassier Regiment No. 7
1798: white skirt, dark blue equalization, white trousers, white buttons
1850: white tunic, dark blue equalization, light blue patalons, white buttons
  • Dragoon Regiment No. 7
1868: light blue tunic , sulfur yellow equalization, madder red breeches, white buttons

structure

A regiment in the Austro-Hungarian Cavalry usually consisted of three to four (in exceptional cases more) divisions. (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 , each of which consisted of two companies . The number of riders in the individual sub-units fluctuated, but was usually around 80 riders per company or 160 riders per squadron.

(During the army reform begun by Emperor Joseph II , the company structure within the cavalry was abandoned.)

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
  • the 3rd division was the majors division
  • the 4th division was the 2nd majors division
  • the 5th division (if any) was the 3rd majors division

In the course of the army reform, the cavalry regiments were reduced to two divisions from 1860 onwards.

Due to the constant renaming, the regimental histories of the Austro-Hungarian cavalry are very difficult to follow. In addition, there is the constant and apparently arbitrary, sometimes multiple reclassification of the associations. (For example: Kuk Bohemian Dragoon Regiment "Prince of Windisch-Graetz" No. 14 )

See also

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

literature

  • Johann Christoph Allmayer-Beck & Erich Lessing: The K. (below) K. Army 1848–1914 Bertelsmann, Munich 1989, ISBN 3-570-07287-8 .
  • 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 3-88379-125-3 ; P. 17ff.
  • Bertrand Michael Buchmann, Austria and the Ottoman Empire , Vienna, WUV-Univ.Verl.-1999. ISBN 978-3-85114-479-6 .
  • 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 Schreiber : The emperor's cavalry. Austrian cavalry in 4 centuries. With a foreword by Alois Podhajsky . Speidel, Vienna 1967.
  • 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. ↑ according to “Announcement of the Quartermaster's Department” of Army Group Command FM. Archduke Eugen / Q.Op. No. 665/15. Issued by the field post office 512
  2. ^ [Georg Tessin 1986 vol. 1:40
  3. ↑ Hans Bleckwenn]