kuk hussar regiment "Friedrich Wilhelm III. King of Prussia ”No. 10

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The permanent owner of the colonel, King Friedrich Wilhelm III.

The hussar regiment “Friedrich Wilhelm III. King of Prussia ”No. 10 was set up in 1741 as the Austro-Habsburg cavalry association. The unit then existed in the Austro-Hungarian or Joint Army within the Austro-Hungarian Land Forces until it was dissolved in 1918.

When a cavalry ranking was drawn up in 1769, the association was given the name Cavalry Regiment No. 35 .

In 1888 it was ordered that the regiment should be named “Friedrich Wilhelm III. King of Prussia ”for all time .

All honorary names of the regiments were deleted without replacement in 1915. From then on the regiment was only to be called "Hussar Regiment No. 10". (However, this could not be implemented in practice, on the one hand because no one adhered to it, on the other hand 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

IV Corps - 10th Cavalry Troop Division - 4th Cavalry Brigade
Nationalities: 97% Magyars - 3% others
Uniform: light blue Attila with yellow olives and light blue shako cover
Garrison : Budapest (Franz Josef Cavalry Barracks - Xth District, Kerepesi-út 41) Replacement cadre in Szekesvehervar
Commanding officer: Lieutenant Colonel Koloman Markovits
Regimental language: Hungarian

Establishment

  • On December 8, 1741, Emperor Franz I granted Colonel Beleznay a patent to set up a hussar regiment. Eight companies could initially be established.
  • In 1748 a company of the disbanded Hussar Regiment Trips could be incorporated
  • In 1768 another company from the disbanded Hadik Hussar Regiment was assigned
  • In 1769 the regiment received the cavalry master list number 35
  • In 1775 a division of the disbanded Hussar Regiment Török was assigned
  • 1798 had a division of the merged Hussars. 7 be submitted
  • In 1849 because of the participation in the revolt in Hungary, the regiment was moved to Klattau in Bohemia and reorganized there
  • In 1860, a squadron was formed from the 4th Division to be disbanded and transferred to the Voluntary Hussar Regiment No. 2

Supplementary districts

Peace garrisons

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Memorial for the 10th Hussar Regiment in Stuhlweissenburg

Regimental owner

  • 1741 Colonel Johann von Beleznay (Beleznay Hussar Regiment)
  • 1754 Field Marshal Lieutenant Emerich Freiherr von Morocz (Hussar Regiment Morocz)
  • 1759 Major General Joseph Adam Graf Bethlen (Hussar Regiment Graf Bethlen)
  • 1772 unoccupied (Hussar Regiment Dées)
  • 1773 Field Marshal Lieutenant Vincenz Freiherr von Barcó (Hussar Regiment Barcò)
  • 1797 Lieutenant Field Marshal Johann Freiherr von Mészáros (Hussar Regiment Mészarós)
  • 1798 Change of name to Hussar Regiment No. 10
  • 1802 Field Marshal Lieutenant Joseph Freiherr Stipsicz von Ternova
  • 1814–40 Friedrich Wilhelm III. , King of Prussia
  • 1840 Friedrich Wilhelm IV. , King of Prussia
  • 1861 Lieutenant Field Marshal Carl Freiherr von Lederer
  • 1868–73 vacant
  • 1873 Wilhelm I , German Emperor and King of Prussia
  • 1888 Friedrich III. German Emperor and King of Prussia
  • 1888 Owner position was no longer filled

Battle calendar

Battle of Lauffeldt

War of the Austrian Succession

  • 1741 Immediately after the deployment to Silesia, a detachment took part in the battle near Olberndorf
  • 1742 Fighting in front of Brno, the regiment broke through the siege ring and was able to get into the city. Winter campaign in Moravia and participation in the siege of Prague
  • 1743 patrol and security services in Germany
  • 1744 Patrol and reconnaissance services in the Spanish Netherlands , a division in action near Bruges

Seven Years War

  • 1756 Patrol and reconnaissance services in Bohemia
  • 1757 Patrol and reconnaissance services in front of Prague , later in Silesia , raid against Zittau
  • 1758 patrol and reconnaissance services in Moravia , later deployed in the siege of Neisse .
  • 1759 Assigned to the Beck Corps. Battle at Grünberg
  • 1760 Assigned to Loudon Corps. Skirmishes near Cosdorf, fighting near Landshut and Liegnitz
  • 1761 Battle of Opole
  • 1762 Battle near Peilau (on the Fischerberge)

War of the Bavarian Succession

  • 1778 Skirmish Trautenau in Bohemia, a division leads a battle near Dittersbach
  • 1779 Parts of the regiment are involved in the storming of Habelschwerdt, two divisions are involved in the attack on Ober-Schwedeldorf

Russo-Austrian Turkish War (1787–1792)

  • 1788 Assigned to the army of Prince Coburg , the regiment stood at Chotin . Smaller skirmishes at Poljano, Rukszin and Chotin
  • 1789 A division fights at Vale-Saka, the whole regiment fights with distinction at Focșani and Martinestie Turnul

→ coalition wars

Wars of Liberation

  • 1813 fighting in Inner Austria near Krainburg, then on the advance near Villanova, Monzambano and Caldiero
  • 1814 Four squadrons in the Sommariva division near Monzambano and involved in the blockades of Mantua , Legnago and Venice .

Reign of the Hundred Days

  • In 1815 Macon was captured in the south of France, then with the occupying army in Alsace .

Revolution of 1848/1849 in the Austrian Empire

  • 1848 Two divisions followed the call of the Hungarian secessionist government and marched from Galicia to Hungary, where they took part in the revolt and fought against the imperial troops and their allies. The other two divisions could be kept with the flag, but suffered badly from desertion .

Sardinian war

German war

First World War

During the First World War, the hussars 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. It is currently unknown whether the regiment was deployed as a unit or as a split division cavalry . The status as a cavalry regiment existed until the end of the war.

After the end of the war, the regiment returned from Bulgaria in an orderly manner and was demobilized in Budapest.

Uniform until 1916

structure

In the Austro-Hungarian Cavalry, a regiment 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.

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.

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.) With each change of ownership, the regiment concerned changed its name. After 1798, the numbered designation prevailed, which could possibly be linked to the name of the owner. Due to this 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 )

literature

  • Obstlt. Alphons Frhr. v. 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.

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