Imperial and Royal Infantry Regiment "Kaiser" No. 1

1716 “Old Lorraine regiment on foot” 1769 “Emperor Infantry Regiment No. 1 " 1860:" k. k. Silesian Infantry Regiment Kaiser No. 1 "
Platoon leader of the regiment in parade
active	1715/16 to 1918
Country	Holy Roman Empire : Imperial Army / Habsburg Monarchy , 1804 Austrian Empire , 1867 Austria-Hungary
Branch of service	infantry
Origin of the soldiers	from the whole empire , from 1766: Upper Rhine Empire , from 1777: Moravia and Austrian Silesia
owner	1716 Hereditary Prince Leopold Clemens Karl of Lothringen ("Old Lorraine"), 1723 vacant, 1726 Duke Franz von Lothringen ("Lothringen"), 1745 Emperor Franz , 1765 Emperor Joseph II. , 1769 Emperor Leopold II. , 1792 Emperor Franz II. 1835 Emperor Ferdinand I. 1848 Emperor Franz Joseph I.
Tribe list	List of infantry regiments of the Imperial Habsburg Army in the early modern period & List of kuk combat troops
Trunk number	1769: No. 1; Ticino: 1726/1

The kuk infantry regiment "Kaiser" No. 1 was commissioned in 1716 as the regiment of Old Lorraine on foot by the Habsburg Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire . The regiment existed until 1918 in the Austrian Empire or in the Austro-Hungarian monarchy . The regiment did not receive the name until 1915 until 1860. In 1915 the additional designations were abolished: it was officially called "Infantry Regiment No. 1". However, this could not be easily implemented, especially since the thrifty kuk military administration had ordered that all existing stamps and forms be used up first.

history

The elector and archbishop of Trier, Karl Joseph von Lothringen, established two regiments of the Electorate of Trier on August 19, 1715 , which in 1716 entered imperial service for 10 years under the names of "Old Lothringen" and " Young Lothringen ". The first owners were the Lorraine Hereditary Prince Leopold Clemens Karl and his next younger brother Franz Stephan von Lothringen . Franz took over the "Young Lorraine Infantry Regiment" for only a few years. After the sudden death of his older brother, he received the regiment as the new Hereditary Prince, now the "Lorraine Infantry Regiment". When Franz was elected Roman Emperor in 1745 , the ownership of the emperor was established, which outlived the Holy Roman Empire and lasted until the end of the Austrian Empire in 1918. In the early modern period the regiment did not, as usual, have different names after regiment owners , but was called "Kaiser". In 1769 the permanent number 1 was added to the name of the owner: "Infantry Regiment Kaiser No. 1". Since 1860 the regiment was called "Kuk Silesian Infantry Regiment" Kaiser "No. 1".

Formation history, replacement, and locations

In the early modern period , the regiment's soldiers were recruited from across the empire . After taking over from Kurtrier services, additions were made from Mainz , Frankfurt am Main , Darmstadt , Mannheim , Heilbronn , Cologne , Bingen , Kreuznach , Worms and Aschaffenburg . From 1766 the Upper Rhine Reichskreis formed the main recruiting area. "Forbidden nationalities" were French , Italian , Swiss , Poles , Hungarians and Croatians . From 1766 a differentiated "Reichs-Werbung" was applied. From then on, soldiers were recruited mainly in the Upper Rhine Empire . But the estates of the Austrian hereditary lands also offered substitutes. The locations changed until 1771. After that, "standing quarters" were considered permanent garrisons in the Austrian hereditary lands , with permanent advertising areas for the German regiments. No. 1 was now recruited in Moravia and Austrian Silesia . In the Battle of Austerlitz the regiment took part in the defense of the Pratzener Höhe under Major General Franz Jircik .

As of 1914

Subordinated to: - 5th Infantry Division - 1st Army Corps

Nationalities: 82% German - 15% Czech - 3% other

Supplementary district command and replacement battalion cadre: Troppau

Deployment: Staff, II., III. Baon: Cracow (ul.Warszawska Kronprinz-Rudolf Kaserne) - I. Baon: Mostar - IV. Baon Troppau

Commanding officer : Colonel Adalbert von Kaltenborn

Staff officers: Lieutenant Colonel Panzenböck, Karl - Lieutenant Colonel Latinik, Franz - Lieutenant Colonel Kremling Edler von Eggholf, Ludwig - Lieutenant Colonel Wolf, Matthias - Major Lanna, Karl - Major Hemala, Maximilian - Major Salaschek, Josef - Major Jiroušek, Anton

German uniform - leveling color: dark red - buttons: gold

Regimental language: German

The barracks buildings in Cracow are still there, today they are home to the Polytechnic. Coordinate: 50 ° 4 ′ 18 ″  N , 19 ° 56 ′ 36 ″  E

Regimental commanders 1903–1914

• 1903: Colonel Emmerich Edler von Fischer
• 1904–1907: Colonel Hugo Kromer
• 1908–1910: Colonel Heinrich Freiherr von Fiedler
• 1911: vacant
• 1912–1914: Colonel Adalbert von Kaltenborn

Last garrisons

Rod	I. Battalion	II Battalion	III. battalion	IV Battalion
1903-1912 Troppau 1913–1914 Krakow	1903-1911 Troppau 1912–1914 Krakow	1903-1908 Troppau 1909– Foča 1910-1914 Mostar	1903-1911 Troppau 1912–1914 Krakow	1903-1914 Troppau

Barracks of the regiment in Krakow

The barracks today as a polytechnic

Uniform skirt of a drum of the regiment (peace uniform)

Mission history

The regiment participated in the following wars and interventions:

• 1714–1718 Venetian-Austrian Turkish War
• 1733–1735 War of the Polish Succession
• 1736–1739 Russian-Austrian Turkish War
• 1740–1748 War of the Austrian Succession
• 1756–1763 Seven Years' War
• 1778/1779 War of the Bavarian Succession
• 1787–1792 Russian-Austrian Turkish War
• 1792–1815 coalition wars
• 1815 Austro-Neapolitan War
• 1821 military intervention in Naples ( Kingdom of the Two Sicilies )
• 1848/49 First Italian War of Independence
• 1859 Sardinian War
• 1878 Occupation of Bosnia and Herzegovina
• 1914–1918 First World War

Appearance and equipment

1726 white skirt, red cuffs; 1757 white coat, red lapels and collars, camisole and lining; 1767 white coat, dark red badges, yellow buttons, white camisole; 1868 dark blue skirt, dark red badges, yellow buttons.

literature

• Andreas von Thürheim: Memorial sheets from the war history of the Imperial and Royal Army . I. Volume. Bookstore for military literature K. Prochaska, Vienna, Teschen 1880, p. 1 ff . ( online ).
• Alphons von Wrede, Anton Semek: The history of the kuk Wehrmacht . The regiments, corps, branches and establishments from 1618 to the end of the XIX. Century. Volume I: Infantry. LW Seidel & Sohn, Vienna 1898, DNB  368726878 , p. 117 ff .

Web links

• Kaiser Infantry. Kronoskaf the Virtual Time Machine, accessed December 28, 2011 (private wiki project). 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ This numbering follows consistently the list of Georg Tessin : The regiments of the European states in the Ancien Régime des XVI. to XVIII. Century . 3 volumes. Biblio Verlag, Osnabrück 1986, ISBN 3-7648-1763-1 .
2. ↑ probably to all now unpopular honorary regiment owners such as Get rid of the King of Montenegro, the King of Italy or the Tsar of Russia in this elegant way
3. ↑ 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
4. ↑ Cf. Alphons von Wrede , Anton Semek : The history of the kuk Wehrmacht . The regiments, corps, branches and establishments from 1618 to the end of the XIX. Century. Volume I: Infantry. LW Seidel & Sohn, Vienna 1898, p. 97 .
5. ↑ Cf. Kaiserliche Reichswerbung from 1766 - allocation of the imperial circles to the imperial and royal regiments (from: Wrede: Geschichte der k. Und k. Wehrmacht. Vol. 1) (PDF, 269 KB)
6. ↑ See overview of the advertising district division 1781-1889 (from: Wrede: Geschichte der k. Und k. Wehrmacht. Vol. 1) (JPG, 631 KB)
7. ↑ Austerlitz, The Empire at ist Zenith , Histoire & Colectiona - Paris 2003, p. 47.