Kuk Feldjäger Battalion No. 9
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The Styrian Feldjäger Battalion No. 9 was an infantry unit of the Common Army within the Austro-Hungarian Land Forces , which grew up to regimental strength when mobilized. It belonged to the police force .
Status and association membership 1914
- III. Corps - 6th Infantry Troop Division - 12th Infantry Brigade
- Nationalities: 96% German - 4% other
- Commander: Lieutenant Colonel Hugo Schotsch
- Battalion language: German
Establishment
On September 1, 1808, from the 9th Division of the Jägerregiment "Marquis Chasteler No. 64", the Feldjägerdivision No. 9 was set up. On December 1 of that year, the association was increased to six field companies and one depot company and from then on referred to as Feldjäger Battalion No. 9.
After the campaign of 1809, the hunter departments of the disbanded "Freikorps Corneville" were attached to him.
From 1810 to 1812 the name was again the Jägerdivision, but in 1813 it was finally renamed the battalion.
In 1880 the reserve company was transferred to the newly established 10th field battalion of the Tyrolean Jäger Regiment to supplement personnel .
Supplementary districts
- Since its establishment, the association has always complemented each other from Inner Austria , and since 1853 exclusively from Styria .
- Since 1889 from the area of the III. Corps.
Stations of the depot (replacement) department were:
- 1809 St. Veit ad Glan
- 1813 Stainz
- 1830 to 1836 Pettau
- 1848 Pettau
- 1860 Leoben
- 1865 Graz
- 1880 Bruck ad Mur
- 1882 Graz again
- 1914 Graz (replacement company squad Eggenbergerstrasse 8 - station barracks)
Peace garrisons
| I. | II. | III. |
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Battle calendar
Coalition wars
- 1809 The defense of Tirol certain corps of Lieutenant assigned Chasteler. A vanguard with part of the battalion was involved in the battle at the Ladritscher bridge. Battles at Bucco di Vela, Volano, Castelpietra and Pilcante. (All locations are in what is now Trentino ) Four companies were then commanded to North Tyrol, where half a company was deployed to defend the Strub Pass. The 1st and 5th companies were broken up in the battle near Wörgl and most of them were taken prisoner. The rest of the association fought on the retreat through Carinthia near Sachsenburg ; The 4th Company was also captured at Neumarkt in the Upper Palatinate while trying to make its way through Bavaria .
The other companies fought in the Battle of Bergisel and were then ordered to relieve Trento . The depot company took part in the fighting near Graz and the Battle of Raab .
Wars of Liberation
- 1813 A company under Captain Moll successfully defended the entrenchments on the Loibl Pass . Two days later the whole battalion was involved in repelling the attack by Belloti's division. The unit also fought in the battles near Krainburg , Windisch-Feistritz (Slovenska Bistrica), Hollenburg , Portis, Ospedaletto ( Veneto ), Susigana on the Piave and was then detached for the siege of Legnano .
- In 1814 the battalion was broken up in the Battle of Mincio and large parts were taken prisoner.
Reign of the Hundred Days
- 1815 Fights against the troops of Murat . Skirmishes on Panaro , Carpi , San Felice and the Battle of Tolentino . Then it was relocated to southern France.
Revolution of 1848/49 in the Austrian Empire
- 1848 Relocated to the theater of war in Italy. Fight at Sorio, Pastrengo, Santa Lucia , Montanara, Vicenza and at Sona . Participation in the battle of Custozza , the night battle near Volta Mantovana and the battle near Vigentino ( Milan ).
- 1849 Fighting in the Kolowrat Brigade with special distinction at Mortara and Novara . The battalion was later used in the campaign in Romagna and took part in the battle and the capture of Livorno .
Sardinian war
- 1859 Divided into the VIII Army Corps ( Benedek ), the battalion fought in the Battle of Solferino .
German-Danish War
- 1864 Divided into the Brigade Nostiz of the Gablenz Corps , the association took part in battles near Jagel and Ober-Selk, the battle near Oeversee and finally a battle near Veile. Later departments of the battalion were used to occupy the North Sea islands on the west coast ( Sylt , Föhr , Römö ).
German war
- 1866 The battalion was assigned to the (II. Corps, Thun) of the Northern Army and fought in the battle of Königgrätz and the battle of Blumenau
Italian Wars of Independence
- 1866 The 2nd depot company was involved in the battle of Custozza as part of the combined 37th military police battalion.
- In 1869 the battalion was involved in the suppression of the uprising in southern Dalmatia and in the third expedition to the Krivoscje.
Bosnian annexation crisis
- 1878 The battalion was assigned to the 6th Infantry Troop Division and fought in the battle near Han Bjelalopac in the capture of Sarajevo and Mokro.
First World War
- 1914 Relocation to the northern theater of war. First battle at Gologory on August 26, 1914. Participation in the Battle of Rawaruska ( Battle of Lemberg ). Relief offensive on the occasion of the siege of Przemyśl with a single battle near Blozewyrn.
During the battle in the Carpathians , the battalion fought defensive battles on the Duklapass . In the later offensive , the hunters in the formation of the 6th Infantry Troop Division under Field Marshal Lieutenant Prince Schönburg crossed the Carpathian ridge over the Tartar and Pantyr passes and advanced as far as Nadworna-Stanislau
- 1915 Fighting in East Galicia during the May offensive . The unit was later involved in the fighting near Dobronoutz and on the Dniester near Doroschoutz. In September fighting near Sinkow.
When the war with Italy broke out, the 10th Marching Company was relocated to the Mittagskofel to protect the border . The tribe unit fought in the Fourth Isonzo Battle at the Wippach estuary and then on Monte San Michele .
- 1916 relocation to South Tyrol . Participation in the spring offensive with an attack on Monte Sisemol. After the Battle of Asiago , the battalion was relocated to the Isonzo Front, where it was used in the defensive battles of the Seventh Insonzo Battle and the Eighth Isonzo Battle in the position near Oppachiasella.
- 1917 Participation in the eleventh battle of the Isonzo with successful defense of Monte San Gabriele.
The 10th Marching Company fought on the Carnic Ridge until the twelfth Battle of the Isonzo . During this battle the battalion advanced as far as the Piave .
- 1918 Relocation to the high mountain front on Monte Adamello . The battalion was deployed in defensive battles from the Carè Alto via the Cima Presena to the Busazza.
Even before the armistice between Italy and Austria-Hungary came into force on November 4th at 3:00 p.m. (The Austro-Hungarian Army High Command in Baden near Vienna had, for reasons that are still unclear, the cessation of the fighting for the night of the 2nd to 3rd November ordered), the remnants of the battalion descended into the Val di Genova to return home via Carisolo and the Val Brenta . The hunters, who had been misinformed about the situation and were therefore completely surprised, were disarmed and taken prisoner by slowly advancing Italian units in Madonna di Campiglio without resistance.
Adjustment
The adjustment of the hunters consisted in peace of a pike-gray outfit with grass-green leveling . a black hunter's hat made of felt with a black cock plume was worn.
- See also: kuk Feldjäger
Battalion march
The battalion march was Rudolf Kummerer's “March of the Neunerjäger” .
See also
literature
- Hofrat Obstlt. Dipl.-Ing. Peter Fodor "The Chronicle of the 9er Jäger" Graz n.d.
- Stefan Rest, M. Christian Ortner , Thomas Ilming: The Emperor's Rock in the First World War - Uniforms and Equipment of the Austro-Hungarian Army from 1914 to 1918 , Verlag Militaria, Vienna 2002, ISBN 3-9501642-0-0
annotation
- ↑ The fighters of the Austro-Hungarian Army were normal infantrymen who only used this name for traditional reasons. The light infantry, for which the term Jäger originally stood, was abandoned during the army reform of 1867. The only difference between the hunters and the infantry was their peace uniform.
- ↑ In the Kuk Army, the troop strength of the individual units was already higher in peacetime than in Germany . During mobilization , an independent battalion achieved regimental strength through growth .
- ↑ A division was used to denote battalion strength units. Correct divisions, on the other hand, were called troop divisions.
- ^ Rest-Ortner-Ilming “The Emperor's Rock in the First World War” p. 23 ISBN 3-9501642-0-0
- ↑ according to the "Hague Land Warfare Regulations", the capture of opposing troops after a ceasefire is no longer permitted
- ↑ March of the Neunerjäger on YouTube