Austro-Hungarian hussar regiment "Archduke Franz Salvator" No. 15

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The regiment owner, Archduke Franz Salvator

The hussar regiment " Archduke Franz Salvator " No. 15 was set up 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. 39 .

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. 15". (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!)

Status and association membership 1914

VI. Corps - 1st Cavalry Troop Division - 6th Cavalry Brigade
Nationalities: 91% Magyars - 9% others
Commander : Lieutenant Colonel Alfons van der Sloot von Vaalmingen
Regimental language: Hungarian
Uniform: Dark blue Attila with yellow olives (buttons) and ash gray shako cover
As the "Zweibrücken" dragoon regiment in 1762

Lineup

On September 9, 1701, Margrave Christian Ernst of Brandenburg-Bayreuth received from Emperor Leopold I the patent for the establishment of a dragoon regiment, to which four companies from the Bavarian crew could be formed. The remaining eight companies were recruited from the court war treasury in Bohemia after the advertising money had been made available.

  • 1731 1727 built-Auctions Company to the dragoon regiments was de Ligne , Jörger and Vehlen issued
  • In 1760 the regiment was converted into a Chevauxlegers regiment
  • 1762 conversion into a dragoon regiment
  • 1768 was Grenadier Company (to the newly formed 1st Regiment Carabinier . Dragoons No. 3 ) issued, in return, the regiment received a squadron of the dissolved Cürassier -Regiments de Ville assigned
  • In 1769 the regiment was assigned the cavalry trunk list number 39
  • 1775 The regiment took over a division of the disbanded Liechtenstein Dragoon Regiment
  • In 1798 the regiment was named Light Dragoon Regiment No. 7
  • 1802 renamed Dragoon Regiment No. 5, a division of the disbanded Dragoon Regiment Modena No. 5 was incorporated
  • 1860 Conversion to Cürassier Regiment No. 10
  • 1867 Conversion to Dragoon Regiment No. 10
  • 1873 Conversion to Hussar Regiment No. 15

Supplementary districts

Peace garrisons

I. II. III.
  • 1798–99 Upper Austria
  • 1801–05 Horodenka
  • 1806 Greater Kanizsa
  • 1807 Vienna
  • 1805-09 Keszthely
  • 1810 Pécsvár
  • 1812–13 Maria Theresiopel
  • 1814 Verona
  • 1815 Ehrstein (Alsace)
  • 1817 Benfelden
  • 1819 Gorss-Kanizsa
  • 1820-21 Verona
  • 1821 Lodi-Vincenza
  • 1822 Gross-Kanizsa
  • 1828 Pécsvár
  • 1829 Kanizsa

Regimental owner

Battle calendar

War of the Spanish Succession

  • 1702 Participation in the siege of Landau and battle near Friedlingen
  • 1703 Battle near Munderkingen , later relocation to North Tyrol and Trento . Then back to the Tyrol in the siege of Kufstein used

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

  • 1704 Fighting in Hungary with skirmishes near Stuhlweissenburg , Léva , Koronczó. Since then, the regiment has had permission to carry captured timpani
  • 1705 battles at Sárvár, Bibersburg and Sibò . Relocation to Transylvania
  • 1706 Battle at Alsó-Szilvás, then march to Upper Hungary
  • 1707 Seconded to the Pálffy Corps on the Lower Austrian border
  • 1708 Fighting in the Battle of Trenčín against the Kuruc
  • 1709 Three companies in action at Mindszent and the blockade of Simontornya. Siege and capture of Veszprim
  • 1710 fighting in front of Neuhäusel , fighting on the right bank of the Danube against the rebels at Nagy-Vásony, Weppendorf, Karakó, Redics and Marczal
  • 1711 Four companies during the siege of Košice

Venetian-Austrian Turkish War

War of the Polish Succession

Russian-Austrian Turkish War

  • 1737 Patrol and security services in the army in Serbia
  • 1738 Skirmishes at Kornia and Mehadia
  • 1739 Heavy losses in fighting near Grocka and Pancsova

War of the Austrian Succession

  • 1744 Relocation from Transylvania to Bavaria, further transport to Bohemia. Battle at Beraun
  • 1745 fighting in the Upper Palatinate , two squadrons were fighting in Amberg and Oberpfaffenhofen involved
  • 1746 march to Italy, with fights at Piacenzza and Rottofreno
  • 1747 patrol and security service at Buffalora
  • 1756 relocation to Bohemia

Seven Years War

Russian-Austrian Turkish War

  • 1788 missions in Croatia during the siege of Dubica and Neusatz
  • 1789 Siege of Belgrade

coalition wars

  • 1793 fighting on the Upper Rhine. Individual departments are engaged in battles near Rheinzabern , Landau , Killstett, Hördt , Bettenhofen and are involved in the capture of the Weissenburg lines
  • 1794 Battles in the western Palatinate near Schifferstadt , Schwengenheim, Kaiserslautern and Frankenthal . A squadron who was seconded to Mainz fights with distinction in the recapture of the Zahlbacher Schanzen
  • 1795 Two divisions of the regiment fight in battle near Bacharach
  • 1796 battles near Malsch and Cannstatt , then battles with the Latour Corps near Friedberg , on the Isar and near Schliengen
  • 1797 Patrol and security services on the Rhine
  • 1799 Fighting with the main army near Neuhaus , later transferred to the Hotze corps and involved in the capture of the Lucienstiges. Fights near Winterthur and Zurich . Then patrol and security services in Switzerland . When retreating to Austria, a battle near Lichtensteg
  • 1,800 individual departments are in action on the border in Vorarlberg and Tyrol near Nesselwang , Reutte and Schongau . The regiment later joined the main army, fought a battle near Nieder-Heidenstein and fought in the retreat after the battle of Hohenlinden near Salzburg and Schwanenstadt
  • 1805 Fighting in the Battle of Ulm , then parts of Archduke Ferdinand's corps fought their way through and fought at Eschenau and Stecken. Two divisions were captured near Ulm and Bopfingen
  • In 1809 transferred to Italy to the army of Archduke Johann, the regiment fought at Sacil. In the same year the relocation to Hungary took place with a battle near Raab
  • 1813 Patrol and security services in Inner Austria
  • 1814 Participation in the Battle of the Mincio

Rule of the Hundred Days

  • 1815 First as an occupying force in southern France, then in Alsace

Risorgimento

  • 1821 Participated in the campaign to Naples as a patrol corps

Revolution of 1848/1849 in the Austrian Empire

  • 1848 Used in the suppression of uprisings in Lombardy . A division was later involved in the battle of Santa Lucia, a division was in Mantua with the fortress garrison. After the Battle of Custozza, pursuit battles
  • 1849 Assigned to the reserve corps, the regiment had no combat operations

Sardinian war

  • 1859 The regiment was not deployed

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.

After Hungary was proclaimed as an independent state in October 1918, the soldiers of Hungarian descent were called on by the interim government to stop the fighting and return home. As a rule, this request was followed. Thus the association was withdrawn from its previous high command, the Austro-Hungarian War Ministry, 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 until 1916

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, which at that time consisted of three divisions, were reduced to two divisions from 1860 onwards; the company structure had already been abolished beforehand.

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.
  • György Ságvári: The Book of the Hussars. Magyar Könyvklub, Budapest 1999.