Imperial and Royal Hussar Regiment (Vacant) No. 12

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Coat of arms of the KuK Palatin Hussar Regiment No. 12 in 1915

The Hussar Regiment (Vacant) No. 12 was set up as an Austro-Habsburg cavalry association. The unit then existed in the kk or joint army within the Austro-Hungarian Land Forces until the end of the war in 1918.

Status and association membership 1914

VI. Corps - 1st Cavalry Troop Division - 7th Cavalry Brigade
Nationalities: 96% Magyars - 4% others
Uniform: Attila in light blue, shako cover white, olives white
Commanding officer: Colonel Rudolf Strobl Edler von Ravelsberg
Regimental language: Hungarian
First Lieutenant Hermann Fenz from HR 12

Establishment

  • In 1800 it was set up as part of the Hungarian insurrection in the Jazygier , Kumanier and Heiducken districts with three divisions and converted into a regular hussar regiment in the same year.
  • The regiment was originally called "Palatine Hussars", as the respective Palatine was intended by Hungary to be the regiment owner.
  • In 1801 it was expanded to four divisions
  • In 1802 the regiment was assigned the Hussar master list number 12. (From 1798 until its dissolution in 1801 had Croatian - Slavonian hussar regiment performed this number).
  • 1849 After participating in the Hungarian revolt, the regiment in Klattau in Bohemia was partially reorganized and since 1850 has also been bearing the name of the respective owner
  • In 1860 a squadron was formed from the 4th Division, which was to be disbanded, and handed over to the Volunteer Hussar Regiment No. 1

additions

The additions were originally made from the Jazygo-Cuman districts

  • 1857–60 Ofen and Erlau
  • 1860–67 furnace
  • 1867–83 Erlau
  • 1883–89 Kaschau , Erlau, Presov . Then from the area of ​​VI. Corps (Kosice)

Peace garrisons

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Regimental owner

Battle calendar

Coalition wars

  • 1805 Two divisions fought in battle near Günzburg . In the battle of Ulm the regiment escaped surrender . Battle near Neresheim against parts of Murat's army . Retreat to Bohemia. One division was taken prisoner during the surrender of Memmingen . A detachment of the regiment came first to the Corps Jellacicz and then took the Corps Rohan at the campaign through Tyrol part
  • 1809 in the VII. Corps of Archduke Ferdinand participation in the campaign in Poland . Fight at Raszyn, Jedlinsko, Gorzyce and Zarnowice

Wars of Liberation

  • In 1813 he took part in the fighting near Dresden in the Klenau corps . Three squadrons fought in the corps of Russian Lieutenant General Thielemann near Windischj-Laupa, Altenburg and Chemnitz . Later the whole regiment fought at Penig, Liebertwolkwitz and the Battle of the Nations near Leipzig
  • 1814 four squadrons to the lightweight division Liechtenstein parked

Reign of the Hundred Days

Risorgimento

  • 1821 Participation in the suppression of the uprising in Piedmont

Revolution of 1848/49 in the Austrian Empire

  • 1848 The unit was initially used to suppress unrest in Prague . Afterwards, parts of the regiment stationed in Bohemia followed the call of the Hungarian secessionist government and deserted to Hungary to take part in the revolt there and to fight against the imperial and Russian troops. In the spring of 1849, on the march to Italy, an entire detachment deserted, but only got as far as Styria and was captured there.

Sardinian war

  • 1859 divisions in action at Voghera, Montebello, Varese and Castenedolo. The whole regiment fought in the battle of Solferino

German war

  • 1866 Five squadrons were assigned to the Northern Army and fought in the battle of Königgrätz and later of Roketnitz

First World War

During the First World War, the hussars were exposed to a wide variety of uses. At first they fought as a cavalryman (whether in the regimental association or as divisional cavalry is currently unknown) but were also used as infantry in all theaters of war.

Uniform until 1916

Whereabouts

After Hungary was proclaimed an independent state in October 1918, the soldiers of Hungarian descent were called upon by the transitional 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 was used here to refer to an association of battalion strength. The correct division was called an infantry or cavalry division.) Each division consisted of three squadrons . The number of riders in the individual sub-units varied, but was usually around 160 riders per squadron.

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.

designation

After 1798, the numbered designation predominantly applied to the regiments, which could possibly be linked to the name of the owner, which was usually done. However, all honorary names of the regiments were deleted in 1915 without replacement.

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., 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.