kuk hussar regiment "Ferdinand I, King of the Bulgarians" No. 11
The hussar regiment "Ferdinand I, King of the Bulgarians" No. 11 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. 47 .
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. 11". (However, this could not be enforced in common parlance, on the one hand because nobody adhered to it, on the other hand the thrifty kuk military administration had ordered that all existing stamps and forms be used up first.)
Status and association membership 1914
- IV Corps - 6th Cavalry Troop Division - 14th Cavalry Brigade
- Nationalities: 96% Magyars - 4% others
- Uniform: equalizing color on shako ash gray, Attila dark blue with white olives
- Commanding officer: Colonel Alexander Szivó de Bunya
Establishment
- 1762 set up as a Transylvanian Szekler border hussar regiment to eight squadrons
- In 1769 the regiment was assigned the cavalry ranking number 47
- In 1798 the association received the Hussar troop number 11
- 1851 On the occasion of the closure of the Military Border Institute in January, the unit was converted into a line hussar regiment while retaining the number 11
- In 1860 the 3rd Division was dissolved, the personnel were distributed in the regiment, and a smaller team was transferred to the Voluntary Hussar Regiment No. 2
additions
- As a national border regiment, the additions were made from the Szekler districts of Háromszék , Csík , Aranyos and Hunyad County .
- In 1770 the area was enlarged by some districts that had previously belonged to the Wallachian Dragoon Regiment.
- 1853 Banat ( Kikinda )
- 1857–60 also Temesvár
- 1860–67 Szeged
- 1867–73 Szatmár and Nyíregyháza
- until 1883 Losoncz and Gran
- 1883–89 Komorn , Gran, Pressburg then from the area of the V Corps - (Pressburg)
Peace garrisons
As a Transylvanian Szekler border hussar regiment
As a line hussar regiment
- 1851 Gródek
- 1852 Zolkiev
- 1854–59 Tarnopol
- 1859 Bruck an der Leitha
- 1860 Klagenfurt
- 1863 Udine and Pordenone
- 1866 Vicenza , after the Brandeis campaign
- 1869 Saaz
- 1878 Raab
- 1884 Vienna
- 1889 Steinamanger
- 1914 Staff, I. Div: Landshut (Galizien) - II. Div: Przemysl
Regimental owner
- 1762–1851 as a Transylvanian Szekler border hussar regiment without an owner
- 1850 Lieutenant Field Marshal Alexander Prinz (from 1877 Duke) of Württemberg
- 1885–87 vacant
- 1887 Lieutenant Field Marshal Joseph Prinz zu Windisch-Grätz
Campaigns
War of the Bavarian Succession
- In 1778 two divisions fought with the main army in Bohemia , a battle near Burkersdorf and a skirmish near Dittersbach
- 1779 Battle near Braunau am Inn
- 1785 parts of the regiment fighting the Wallachian revolt
Russo-Austrian Turkish War (1787–1792)
- 1788 assigned to three divisions of the arms of Prince Saxe-Coburg . Skirmishes at Foksani , Belcestie (Belceşti), Adjud . The other companies were spread over the border passes and took part in the battles at the Vulkan Pass, the Bodzaer Pass (Buzau) and the Bulka Pass
- In 1789 the regiment fought in divisions in the battles near Foksani, Mărtineşti and the battles near Valje-Mulieri, Dialu-Hontili, Kimpolung and at the Bodzaer Pass
- Used in the siege of Giurgevo in Wallachia in 1790
- 1793 six squadrons fought on the Upper Rhine and took part in the capture of the Lauterburger lines. Battles at Drusenheim , La Wantzenau , Hördt , Weyersheim and Bischweiler
- 1794 The regiment suffers heavy losses in battles near Schwegenheim , Westheim and Schifferstadt
- 1795 Battles near Heidelberg , Handschuhsheim , near Mannheim , near Frankenthal and Großfischlingen
- 1796 Battles near Malsch, Bopfingen , Neresheim , Nuremberg , Würzburg , Kircheib and Mutterstadt
- 1797 parts of the regiment in action near Wiesbaden
- In 1799, after the Peace of Campo Formio, it was first placed in a garrison in Mies in Bohemia. Then patrol and security services on the Rhine
- 1800 Two squadrons are in battle near Nidda . The regiment initially relocated to the Electoral Palatinate . Then in the battle near Bamberg
- In 1805, assigned to the Kienmayer Corps, the regiment fought a rearguard battle near St. Pölten . Participation in the Battle of Austerlitz
- 1809 Fighting in front of Sandomierz in Archduke Ferdinand's corps
Wars of Liberation
- 1813 In the Austrian-Bavarian corps of the General of the Cavalry Count Wrede fighting near Hanau , battle near Ste. Croix
- 1814 Battles at la Rothiere, Troyes, Bar-sur-Aube , Vandeuvre and Arcis-sur-Aube
Reign of the Hundred Days
- 1815 Patrol and security services on the Rhine
Revolution of 1848/49 in the Austrian Empire
- 1848 Three divisions respond to the appeal of the Hungarian secessionist government and join the revolt. The Division of Major Suini had stayed with the flag
- 1849 The Suini division fought in the Puchner corps near Hermannstadt , Stolzenburg , Salzburg , Piski , Mediasch , then took part in the retreat to Wallachia and later went on the offensive again. Fight at Sepsi-Szent-György and Kászony-Ujfalu
Sardinian war
- 1859 Relocated to Italy in mid-June, patrol and reconnaissance services at Medole
German war
- 1866 The regiment fights in Italy, four squadrons with distinction in the battle of Custozza , the fifth squadron was in Mantua as a garrison . Battle of retreat at Versa
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.
structure
In the Austro-Hungarian Cavalry, a regiment usually consisted of three to four (in exceptional cases more) divisions . 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.
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: Bohemian Dragoon Regiment "Prince of Windisch-Graetz" No. 14 )
- see: kuk hussars
Footnotes
- ↑ 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
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., Wiej 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.