kuk hussar regiment "Wilhelm II. King of Württemberg" No. 6

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Probably the oldest representation of the regiment. Imperial Károlyi hussar in Gudenus handwriting when the regiment was founded in 1734.
The regiment owner (1891–1918) and last namesake, King Wilhelm II of Württemberg

The regiment was a cavalry association that was established in 1734 as Károlyi hussars for the imperial Habsburg army .

Naming

In the 17th and 18th centuries regiments only carried the name of the regiment holder .

In 1769 the regiment was given the official designation: Cavalry Regiment No. 16 in the newly created cavalry ranking list . The unit existed afterwards in the Austro-Hungarian or Common Army within the Austro-Hungarian Land Forces as Hussar Regiment Wilhelm II. King of Württemberg No. 6 until the end of the war in 1918. The following numbering was subsequently introduced for the system: 1734/1 (to Ticino ), Hussar Regiment H 3 (after Bleckwenn ).

All honorary names of the regiments were deleted without replacement in 1915. From then on the regiment was officially called "Hussar Regiment No. 6".

Lineup

Staff officer of the 6th regiment around 1830

After the outbreak of the War of the Polish Succession , the Court War Council accepted Prince Eugene of Savoy's suggestion and added five more to the existing three hussar regiments from 1733 to 1734.

The regiment was established with a patent from January 13, 1734 at his own expense by the general of the cavalry Alexander Count Károlyi at the assembly points Ödenburg and Pressburg , where 10 companies were initially set up.

  • In 1748 a company of the disbanded Hussar Regiment "Trips" was incorporated
  • In 1768 a squadron of the disbanded hussar regiment "Hadik" was incorporated
  • From 1769 onwards the regiment carried the cavalry trunk list number 16
  • In 1775 a division (two companies) of the dissolved Török Hussar Regiment was incorporated
  • In 1798, the 3rd Major Division was transferred to the newly established Hussar Regiment No. 7 .
  • From then on, the regiment carries the No. 6 as a hussar regiment
  • 1849 After participating in the Hungarian revolt, the regiment in Wessely in Moravia was reorganized and reorganized.
  • In 1860 a squadron formed from the 4th Division had to be handed over to the Volunteer Hussar Regiment No. 2.

Supplementary districts

Peace garrisons

I. II. III.

Regimental owner

Regimental Commanders

I. II. III.
  • 1734 Lieutenant Colonel-Colonel Johann Freiherr von Baranyay
  • 1737 Lieutenant Colonel Franz Graf Károlyi
  • 1738 Colonel Franz Count Forgách
  • 1744 Colonel Georg Count Szluha von Iklad
  • 1752 Colonel Gabriel Count Haller von Hallerstein
  • 1754 Colonel Johann Revitzky de Revisney
  • 1761 Colonel Emerich Freiherr von Sennyey
  • 1772 Colonel George of Gombos
  • 1775 Colonel Johann Terney de Kis-Terenne
  • 1784 Colonel Joseph Szerelem
  • 1789 Colonel Carl, Count Hadik von Futak
  • 1794 Colonel Sigmund Freiherr von Szent-Kereszty
  • 1797 Colonel Anton Vogl
  • 1800 Colonel Joseph von Prohaska
  • 1805 Colonel Ferdinand Graf Wartensleben
  • 1809 Colonel Vincenz von Gillert
  • 1812 Colonel Georg Freiherr von Wieland
  • 1819 Colonel Friedrich Prince Reuss -Köstritz
  • 1830 Colonel Franz Graf Schlik zu Bassano and Weisskirchen
  • 1835 Colonel Franz Graf Haller von Hallerstein
  • 1837 Colonel Johann Graf Brenner
  • 1838 Colonel Johann Freiherr Burits de Pournay
  • 1846 Colonel Alfred Graf Paar
  • 1849 Colonel Franz Pongrácz de Szent-Miklós et Ovár
  • 1851 Colonel Johann Graf Hoditz and Wolframitz
  • 1858 Colonel Joseph, Freiherr Taxis von Bordoga et Valnigra
  • 1866 Colonel Ludwig Freiherr Wattmann de Macleamp-Beaulieu
  • 1866 Colonel Ladislaus von Smagalski
  • 1872 Lieutenant Colonel-Colonel Stephan Wojnarovits
  • 1876 ​​Colonel Alphons von Kodolitsch
  • 1881 Lieutenant Colonel Anton Gábor
  • 1884 Colonel Emerich Baron Mecséry de Tsóor
  • 1886 Lieutenant Colonel-Colonel Ludwig Francke de Almás
  • 1888 Lieutenant Colonel-Colonel Joseph Nechwalsky
  • 1894 Colonel Victor von Mouillard
  • 1895 Lieutenant Colonel-Colonel Ludwig Graf von Breda
  • 1903 Colonel Johann Jovanovic
  • 1905 Colonel Theodor Kubinyi von Felsö-Kubin and Nagy-Olaszi
  • 1909 Colonel Attila Máriássy de Markus et Batizfalva
  • 1910 Lieutenant Colonel Joseph Kollowratnik
  • 1914 Lieutenant Colonel Alois Dichtl

Battle calendar

Badge of the Kuk Hussar Regiment No. 6 in the First World War

War of the Polish Succession

  • 1734 Immediately after commissioning, the regiment moved to the Rhine and was already engaged in combat activities there, including an attack on Offenburg
  • 1735 A patrol corps fought at Schmiedeberg and took the two French officers Gathau and Pauli prisoner. Another division fought a battle near Nieder-Olm .

Russo-Austrian Turkish War

  • Seconded to the Hildburghausen Corps in 1737, the regiment fought at Banjaluka
  • 1738 in the Banat, the association was in the fighting at Kornia and Mehadia involved
  • 1739 Participation in the Battle of Grocka

War of the Austrian Succession

  • 1741 The regiment first moved to Silesia and took part with individual squadrons in the battle near Rothschloss, then moved to Bohemia .
  • 1742 Participation in the battle near Deutsch-Brod , then sent to the siege of Prague .
  • 1743 In that year the regiment had no combat operations
  • 1744 patrol service in the Netherlands
  • 1745 Patrol services and raids on the Rhine and Main without any major action. Remaining in the Netherlands Auction Company participated in the Battle of Fontenoy in part
  • 1746 Relocation to the Netherlands, security and patrol services at Rocour
  • 1747 Participation in the battle of Lauffeldt
  • 1756 relocation to Bohemia

Seven Years War

  • 1757 Skirmishes near Troppau, Littau and in the main army in the battle near Hochkirch
  • 1759 Assigned to the Harsch corps, divisions took part in battles near Schmiedeberg , Plasdorf and Goldenelse
  • 1760 Battle near Landshut
  • 1761 Heavy battle near Schlesisch-Neustadt, outpost battles near Grebischau and Jägerndorf
  • 1762 Battle of Neise

War of the Bavarian Succession

  • 1778–79 Battle of Dauba in Bohemia
  • 1788–90 patrols and security services without combat activity

→ coalition wars

Campaign to Russia

  • 1812 In the Auxiliary Corps Schwarzenberg of the Grande Armeé, units fought at Signiewiczi, Pruszany, Kobrin, Liuboml, Stara-Wizwa and took part in the attack on Ogorodnicki.

Wars of Liberation

  • 1813 Part of the Bubna Light Division was assigned to the main army. Participation in the battles at Gabel, Stolpen and Lohmen , assigned to reserve cavalry at Leipzig .
  • 1814 invasion of the south of France, occupation of Geneva , battles at Bourg-en-Bresse and Poligny. Parts of the regiment at Macon and for the blockade of Auxonne

Reign of the Hundred Days

  • 1815 fighting on the Rhine, battle near Strasbourg

Sardinian war

  • In 1859 1 squadron each was deployed to strengthen the fortresses of Ulm and Rastatt . The regiment then moved to Italy, but was no longer used.

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 either in regiments or in squadrons as division cavalry , but were also used as infantry in all theaters of war.

Whereabouts

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 obeyed, the regiment returned to Hungary from the Ukraine as a single unit. 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

Status and association membership 1914

VI. Corps - 2nd Cavalry Troop Division - 16th Cavalry Brigade
Nationalities: 90% Magyars - 10% others
Regimental language: Hungarian
Uniform: light blue Attila with yellow olives (buttons) and ash gray shako cover

structure

A regiment in the Imperial Habsburg cavalry originally 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.

With the army reform begun by Emperor Joseph II , the company structure within the cavalry was abandoned.

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.

  • The nursery rhyme of the Blankenstein hussar goes back to this regiment.

literature

  • Allmayer-Beck , Lessing : The K. (below) K. Army. 1848-1914 . Bertelsmann, Munich et al. 1974, ISBN 3-570-07287-8 .
  • 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. The uniforms of the imperial army on the Rhine 1734. Harenberg, Dortmund 1979, ISBN 3-88379-125-3 , p. 17ff.
  • Bertrand Michael Buchmann: Austria and the Ottoman Empire. A bilateral story. WUV-Univ.-Verlag, Vienna 1999, ISBN 3-85114-479-1 .
  • Hermann Meynert : History of the KK Austrian Army, its formation and organization, as well as its fates, deeds 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.
  • 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 . Seidel, Vienna 1898–1905. Part III, 1st part: Cavalry , 2nd part: Disbanded troop bodies on horseback . Directory of regiment chiefs at the Wrede plant (PDF; 325 kB).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 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. Added to this is the frequent, in some cases multiple, reclassification of the units, as in the case of the Kuk Dragoon Regiment "Fürst zu Windisch-Graetz" No. 14 .
  2. ^ Ticino 1986 vol. 1:40
  3. ↑ Bleckwenn
  4. ↑ 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