Imperial and Royal Hussar Regiment "von Tersztyánszky" No. 8

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Imperial Dessewffy Hussars (H6) 1734 Gudenus manuscript
Attila of a lieutenant in
Hussar Regiment No. 8 (19th & 20th centuries)

The Hussar Regiment "von Tersztyánszky" No. 8 was set up in 1696 under the name of Deak Hussars as an imperial - Habsburg cavalry. The unit then existed in the kk or joint army within the Austro-Hungarian Land Forces until its dissolution.

When a cavalry ranking was drawn up in 1769, the association was given the designation Cavalry Regiment No. 30 . In 1798 the name was changed to Hussar Regiment No. 8 . The following numbering was subsequently introduced for the system: 1696/1 (to Ticino ), Hussar Regiment H 6 (to Bleckwenn ).

All honorary names of the regiments were deleted without replacement in 1915. From then on the regiment was only to be called "kuk Hussar Regiment No. 8". (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 remaining forms and stamps be used up first!)

Establishment

The regiment was the second oldest of the Austro-Hungarian hussar regiments and existed for almost 220 years. On February 20, 1696 Colonel Paul Déak von Mihály received a patent from Emperor Leopold I for the establishment of an irregular regiment of hussars with a strength of 1200 men. Paul Deák (Nesztorovics) de Mihály was previously in French service and had already set up a hussar regiment there, known in France as the Poldeak Regiment.

  • In 1698 the likewise irregular regiment Kis-Balás ( militia- hussars) was incorporated and this association was later rededicated to a regular regiment. The surplus crew of 800 men was handed over to the Hussar regiments Pálffy (later No. 9) and Kollonits (dissolved in 1721)
  • 1700 At the end of the year the regiment was disbanded and the officers were transferred to the Pálffy and Kollonits regiments.
  • 1701 In January, at the request of Prince Eugene of Savoy , Colonel Déak received the order to recruit four companies. (For this purpose, the rest of the remaining crew was probably called up.) The shortfall was filled by parts of the disbanded Hussar regiments Gombos, Czungenberg and Csáky
  • In 1714, the dissolved Nádasdy regiment was incorporated
  • 1721, the reconstructed had Regiment Nádasdy parts of the regiment Palffy post
  • 1731 Parts of the auction company established in 1727 were given to the Dessewffy Hussar Regiment (later No. 3)
  • In 1746 half of the disbanded Bartolotti regiment was incorporated
  • 1748 Company of the regiment Trips incorporated
  • 1768 a squadron of the regiment Hadik incorporated
  • In 1775 a division of the disbanded Wurmser regiment was assigned
  • In 1798 the 3rd Majors Division was transferred to the newly established Hussar Regiment No. 5 , the regiment was given the list number 8
  • In the spring of 1849 the regiment was partially reorganized and reorganized. From those parts of the regiment that had not taken part in the uprising in Hungary, two divisions were formed at full warfare, the rest used to reorganize the other two divisions
  • In 1860 the 4th Division was dissolved and a squadron was formed from it, which was handed over to the Voluntary Hussar Regiment No. 1.
Barracks of the 2nd Division in Cegléd 1904–1918

Supplementary districts

Peace garrisons

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Regimental owner

  • 1696 Colonel Paul Déak de Mihály (Mihály Hussar Regiment)
  • 1706 Colonel Andreas von Viszlay (Vislay Hussar Regiment)
  • 1706 Colonel Johann Ladislaus Freiherr Splényi de Mihály (Hussar Regiment de Mihály)
  • 1730 Colonel Franz Freiherr von Czungenberg (also called Tschonka-Beg) (Hussar Regiment Czungenberg)
  • 1735 Colonel Emerich Freiherr von Dessewffy (Desewffy Hussar Regiment)
  • 1739 Generalfeldwachtmeister Johann Freiherr Baranyay von Bodorfalva (Hussar Regiment Baranyay)
  • 1766 Lieutenant Field Marshal Carl Freiherr von Nauendorf (Hussar Regiment Nauendorf)
  • 1775 Lieutenant Field Marshal Dagobert Sigmund Graf Wurmser (Hussar Regiment Graf Wurmser)
  • 1798 Change of name to: Hussar Regiment No. 8
  • 1799 Lieutenant Field Marshal Friedrich August Graf Nauendorf
  • 1802 Lieutenant Field Marshal Michael Freiherr von Kienmayer
  • 1828 Lieutenant Field Marshal Ferdinand Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
  • 1851 Friedrich Wilhelm I , Elector of Hesse-Kassel
  • 1875 General of the cavalry Alexander Freiherr von Koller
  • 1890 Field Marshal Lieutenant Andreas Graf Pálffy from Erdöd.

Battle calendar

→ Great Turkish War

  • 1696 on the theater of war in Hungary skirmishes near Temesvár and Olasch
  • 1697 First in reserve at Zenta with subsequent fighting
  • 1698 operations against Temesvár and Groß-Becskerek

War of the Spanish Succession

  • 1701: Assigned to the Vaubonne Streifkorps in Italy. Skirmishes at Orzinovi and Soncino
  • 1702: Assault on Cremona , expedition to Milan and battle near Grazia
  • 1703: Fighting near Verona , the regimental commander Colonel Paul Déak de Mihály got into French captivity with a number of his riders. In response to an offer from the French, Déak de Mihály changed sides and took command of a hussar regiment set up by the French. At the end of the year two squadrons were sent to the Starhemberg Corps in Piedmont .
  • 1704-5: Fighting in Piedmont . The other, initially very weak sections, remained on the Po, were in 1705: in South Tyrol and later fought at Madonna della Balzola and Bergamo . After the division had been reinforced to three squadrons, the participation in the Battle of Cassano followed
  • 1706: The regiment fights in the relief battle near Turin . It was here that Colonel Déak's (French) hussar regiment was wiped out, and eleven of his former hussars, who had previously served in Austria, were captured and executed as deserters . Deák himself managed to escape and, after being pardoned by Prince Eugene, returned to the imperial army with the rest of his troops. However, he was no longer given a command.
  • 1707: Parts of the regiment were involved in the campaign to Naples , the rest was transferred to Provence ( Toulon )
  • 1708: Seconded to the Moselle Army in the Netherlands . Participation in the siege of Lille .
  • 1709: Participation in the Battle of Malplaquet
  • 1710: Participation in the siege of Douai and Béthune
  • 1711: Patrol and security services in the army on the Rhine
  • 1712: Fighting in northern France off Quesnoy-sur-Deûle . Battle at Fampoux. Part of the regiment was assigned to the Corps of General Grovestein. Foray into France
  • 1713: Patrol and security services in the army on the Rhine

→ Venetian-Austrian Turkish War

  • 1716 A company fights in battle near Karlowitz . The regiment fought in the battle of Peterwardein and the siege of Temesvár
  • 1717 Battle of Belgrade, pursuit battles of Regeb Pasha's corps
  • 1731-32 Two squadrons of auxiliary corps on Corsica parked

→ War of the Polish Succession

→ War of the Austrian Succession

  • 1741 Seconded to the Khevenhüller Corps
  • 1742 Winter campaign in Upper Austria and Bavaria . Then march to Bohemia
  • 1743 fighting in Bavaria, blockade of Straubing . Then advanced to the Rhine, battle near Esslingen
  • 1744 In the Batthyányi corps in Bavaria, relocation to Bohemia with a battle at Beraun
  • 1745 Fights in Bavaria with skirmishes near Geisenhausen and Nordheim
  • 1746 relocation to Italy, battle near Piacenza . March to Provence

→ Seven Years War

→ War of the Bavarian Succession

→ Russian-Austrian Turkish War

  • 1788 Involved in the capture of Šabac and in the battles near Bezanja Dam, Semlin and Deutsch-Boksan
  • 1789 Seconded to the Waldeck Corps in the Banat , expulsion of the Turks from Mehadia . Later involved in the siege of Belgrade and the operation against Lesnica
  • 1790 a division fights against the Malcontenten in the Austrian Netherlands

→ coalition wars

  • 1792 parts of the regiment in action near Florennes. The rest of the unit on patrol in front of Landau . Then campaign in the Champagne , participation in the defense of Pellingen and the battles near Merzkirchen and Ober-Lenken
  • 1794 battles at Charleroi , Fleurus , Ernoux, Liège , Trier and Sprimont. Two squadrons later relocated to the garrison of Mainz fortress .
  • 1795 parts of the regiment were involved in the capture of the Hartberg near Mainz and the entrenchments near Mannheim , then battles near Pfrimm, Frankenthal and Schwengenheim
  • 1796 relocation to Italy. Battles at Brescia , Saló, Desenzano and Peschiera. After the defeat at Bassano del Grappa , three divisions in the Corps Meszáros fought at Cerea, Castellaro and La Favorita. Participation in the defense of Mantua . A division fights in Friuli in the battles at Fontaniva, Verona and Caldiero
  • 1797 After the surrender of Mantua, the regiment moved to Styria . One division fought at Rivoli and on the Tagliamento
  • 1799 Relocated to Italy, the regiment fought at Legnano and Magnano and took part in the enclosure of Mantua. Later involved in the Klenau Corps in the conquests of Modena , Sarzano and Lorici
Battle of Marengo
  • 1800 Blockade of Genoa and skirmishes near Casteggio. Participation in the Battle of Marengo . At the end of the year, departments on the Po were fighting at Finale and Bondeno.
  • 1805 Battle of Caldiero
  • 1809 Assigned to the V Corps in Germany, divisions fought at Landshut, Kloster Rohr and Riedau. The regiment was then deployed at Ebelsberg, in the Battle of Aspern , the Battle of Wagram , Korneuburg and Hollabrunn

→ Campaign to Russia

  • 1812 Three divisions in the Auxiliary Corps Schwarzenberg take part in battles at Pruzany and Diwin, at Rudnja and Wiczulki

→ Wars of Liberation

  • 1813 fighting near Dresden , Kninitz-Arbesau. Participation in the Battle of Nations near Leipzig , fights near Hochheim and Kassel . A squadron was assigned to the Streif corps of the Russian General Thielemann and participated in the battles at Naumburg and Altenburg part
  • 1814 With the blockade troops off Besançon , battle near St. Ferjeux

→ Rule of the Hundred Days

  • 1815 With 12 squadrons in the army on the Rhine. Skirmishes near Strasbourg and Hausbergen

→ Revolution in the Austrian Empire

  • 1848 Despite the appeal of the Hungarian secessionist government to take part in the revolt, the commander Colonel Barcó managed to keep most of the regiment standing in Galicia under the flag.
  • 1849 Two war strong divisions move up Vorarlberg from

→ German war

→ 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 into squadrons by 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, however, soon had to surrender the horses (if they still had any) and were then used by infantry. The regiments of the 4th Cavalry Troop Division were excluded from this.

Uniform until dissolution in 1915

Whereabouts

After the heavy loss of personnel and horses in the fighting against Russia at the beginning of the war, the regiment was disbanded in 1915. Together with the remains of other cavalry regiments, the former Hussar Regiment No. 8 formed the newly established Cavalry Rifle Regiment No. 9.

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.

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

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. (For example the Count Serbelloni regiment - or the 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 )

Status and association membership 1914

IV Army Corps - 10th Cavalry Troop Division - 4th Cavalry Brigade
Nationalities: 74% Magyars - 26% other
Uniform: Dark blue Attila with yellow olives (buttons) and madder red shako cover
Commander: Colonel Adalbert Fluck von Raggamb
Regimental language: Hungarian

See also

literature

  • Hans Bleckwenn : The regiments of the Empress: Thoughts on the Albertina manuscript 1762 of the Army History Museum Vienna. In: Writings of the Army History Museum in Vienna. Volume 3: Maria Theresia - 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. WUV-Univ.-Verl., Vienna 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
  • Georg Schreiber : The emperor's cavalry. Austrian cavalry in 4 centuries. With a foreword by Alois Podhajsky . Speidel, Vienna 1967.
  • György Ságvári: The Book of the Hussars. Magyar Könyvklub, Budapest 1999.
  • Georg Tessin : The regiments of the European states in the Ancien Régime des XVI. to XVIII. Century. 3 volumes. Biblio, 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)
  • Allmayer-Beck , Lessing : The K. (below) K. Army. 1848-1914 . Bertelsmann, Munich et al. 1974, ISBN 3-570-07287-8 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ticino 1986 vol. 1:40
  2. ↑ Bleckwenn
  3. ↑ 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