kuk hussar regiment "Ferdinand I, King of the Bulgarians" No. 11

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The regiment owner, King Ferdinand I as general of the cavalry in the owner's uniform

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.

Flag of the Székler Border Hussar Regiment circa 1765

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

Peace garrisons

As a Transylvanian Szekler border hussar regiment

As a line hussar regiment

Regimental owner

Sergeant of Regiment No. 11

Campaigns

War of the Bavarian Succession

  • 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

→ coalition wars

Wars of Liberation

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
Painting of the Sardinian War

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 )

Footnotes

  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

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.