Imperial and Royal Hussar Regiment "Graf Üxküll-Gyllenband" No. 16

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Uniform until 1916

The hussar regiment "Graf Üxküll-Gyllenband" No. 16 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.

Status and association membership 1914

VII Corps - 2nd Cavalry Troop Division - 3rd Cavalry Brigade
Nationalities: 94% Magyars - 6% others
Uniform: Attila light blue, shako cover ash gray, olive white
Garrison : Staff: Marburg - I. Div: Graz - II. Div: Radkersburg
Commander : Lieutenant Colonel Leopold Anker
Assigned staff officers :
Lieutenant Colonel: David Blaschke
Majors: Ernst Zoltán von Csepe, Franz Nedeczky de Nedecz, Ferdinand Freiherr von Wimmersberg
Regimental language: Hungarian

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. 16". (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

  • By decree of April 25, 1798, the 4th divisions of the Dragoon Regiment Coburg and the Chevauxlegers Regiment Latour (later Dragoons 14) became the French emigrant units Saxe-Hussar Division and Bercsényi-Hussar Division in the field camp near Engfurt in Bavaria set up a Light Dragoon Regiment No. 13 , which was initially referred to as the " 2nd newly set up Dragoon Regiment ".
  • 1802 Conversion to the Chevauxlegers Regiment No. 6 . The Colonel Division of the disbanded Dragoon Regiment Coburg No. 6 was incorporated.
  • Converted to Uhlan Regiment No. 10 in 1851 .
  • 1860 Transfer of the 4th Division to the newly established Volunteer Uhlan Regiment (later Uhlan Regiment No. 13).
  • 1873 Conversion into a hussar regiment. For this purpose, the previous Uhlan Regiment was dissolved and rebuilt in Hungary as Hussar Regiment No. 16.

Supplementary districts

As a hussar regiment:

Peace garrisons

I. II. III.
Field Marshal Lieutenant Eduard Graf Clam-Gallas

Regimental owner

Campaigns and fighting

  • 1799 fighting on the Upper Rhine , parts of the regiment are involved in skirmishes near Leimen and Gamshorst. The regiment fights near Offenburg , Renchen and Neckarau . At Löchgau it rides five attacks. Battle at Wiesloch
  • 1800 fights on the Iller . In the battle of Hohenlinden the regiment covered the retreat
  • 1805 Battle of Ulm . Battle of Albeck, where a large part of a French infantry brigade was captured. Battle at Herbrechtingen , on the day of the surrender, the regiment made its way to Archduke Ferdinand's corps . Fight at Eschenau and Stecken. The division detached on the border with Tyrol returned to the regimental association.
  • 1809 Assigned to the Hiller Corps in Germany. Battles near Pfaffenhofen , Landshut and Neumarkt . At Ebelsberg, cover for the infantry crossing over the Traun . Battle of Aspern . Battle of Wagram , there the hussars save the threatened artillery on July 6th . The retreat to Moravia involved some skirmishes .

Wars of Liberation

Reign of the Hundred Days

  • 1815 Security and patrol services in Germany

Revolution of 1848/1849 in the Austrian Empire

  • 1848 Three divisions are moved from Hungary to Vienna, including a battle near Tabor in Slovenia. Involved in the capture of Vienna. The 1st Majors Division previously deployed in Serbia , then assigned to the regiment outside Vienna because of its loyal attitude. The unit was then used to maintain law and order in Vienna
  • 1849 raid to Raab , near Bakonyibél a rebel group was dispersed in battle. Later two divisions fought at Waitzen and Nagy-Sarló, and one division at Káty. In the summer campaign in III. Corps in patrol units advanced to the Tisza

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.

Shelter for the 16 Hussars on the Eastern Front

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

A regiment was the Austro-Hungarian cavalry usually originates from three to four (in the exception more) divisions . (A division here referred to an association of battalion strength. 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.

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 Dragoon Regiment "Fürst zu 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
  2. ^ Ordinance sheet for the k. and k. Heer, No. 23 of February 1, 1917. In: Erich Feigl : Kaiserin Zita. Crown witness of a century. Amalthea , Vienna & Munich 1989, ISBN 978-3-85002-277-4 , p. 54.

literature

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  • BM Buchmann: Austria and the Ottoman Empire. WUV-Univ.-Verl., Vienna 1999.
  • Allmayer-Beck / Lessing: The Austro-Hungarian Army 1848–1914. Bertelsmann, Munich 1974.
  • György Ságvári: The Book of the Hussars. Magyar Könyvklub, Budapest 1999.