kuk hussar regiment "von Kolossváry" No. 14

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Uniform until 1916

The hussar regiment "von Kolossváry" No. 14 was a cavalry association of the kk or joint army within the Austrian land forces .

Status and association membership 1914

VI. Army Corps - 1st Cavalry Troop Division - 6th Cavalry Brigade
Nationalities: 92% Magyars - 8% others
Garrison : Nyíregyháza
Commanding officer : Colonel Franz Matskási von Tinkova
Regimental language: Hungarian
Uniform: light blue Attila with yellow olives (buttons) and madder red shako cover

Lineup

  • On September 10, 1859, during the Sardinian War , the 1st and 2nd Zala-Egerszegers and the 1st and 2nd Debrecziner and Hajducken volunteer hussar divisions became the "Voluntary Hussar Regiment No. 14" Divisions set up.
  • In 1860 the regiment was reorganized and, by assigning one division to each of the hussars, regiments No. 3 , No. 4 , No. 6 and No. 10, it was brought to the required number of four divisions. Furthermore, the Hussar Regiment No. 7 and No. 11 each assigned four corporals and 20 riders. It was now called Voluntary Hussar Regiment No. 2
  • 1862 The regiment is converted into a regular hussar regiment with only three divisions and receives the trunk number 14

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. 14". (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!)

Supplementary districts

Peace garrisons

Regimental owner

Campaigns and fighting

German war

1866 with 5 squadrons in the Northern Army in the battle of Königgrätz

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 Thus the association was withdrawn from its previous high command, the Austro-Hungarian War Ministry, and could not be demobilized by the latter and, at best, theoretically dissolved.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

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.

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. Vienna, 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.