kuk hussar regiment "Wilhelm II. German Emperor and King of Prussia" No. 7

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The Jazigier and Kumanier Hussar Regiment "Wilhelm II. German Emperor and King of Prussia" No. 7 was a cavalry association of the Austro-Habsburg and later the Common Army within the Austro-Hungarian Land Forces .

All honorary names of the regiments were deleted without replacement in 1915. From then on the regiment was officially called "Hussar Regiment No. 7".

Establishment

  • With the decree of April 28, 1798, the 3rd major divisions of the hussar regiments "Archduke Ferdinand" No. 3, "Vécsey" No. 4, "Blankenstein" No. 6 and "Mészáros" No. 10 became the Hussar Regiment No. 7 set up in Veröcze in Slavonia
  • In 1860 the 4th Division to be disbanded was distributed in the regiment, 4 corporals and 20 hussars were given to the volunteer hussar regiment No. 2

Status and association membership 1914

IV Corps - 1st Cavalry Troop Division - 7th Cavalry Brigade
Nationalities: 98% Magyars - 2% others
Regimental language: Hungarian
Garrison: Staff, II. Div: Debreczen - I Div: Nagyvárad
Commander: Colonel Béla Berzeviczy von Berzevicze and Kakas-Lomnitz
Uniform: light blue Attila with white olives (buttons) and light blue shako cover

Supplementary districts

Peace locations

I. II. III.

Regimental commanders

  • 1903 Alfred Graf Zedwitz Colonel
  • 1909 Bruno Freih. v. Schoenberger Colonel
  • 1912 Béla Berzeviczy v. Berzevicze et al. Kakas-Lomnitz Colonel

Regimental owner

Rittmeister and Trumpeter 1859

Battle calendar

→ coalition wars

  • 1799 fighting near Verona, Magnano, Trezzo and in Piedmont near Rivoli. During the siege of Mantua on May 8, a squadron was involved in warding off a failure of the fortress garrison.
  • 1800 Battle of Mincio (Piedmont)
  • 1801 retreat battles near Colognola
  • In 1805 the regiment is part of the Kienmayer am Inn corps . Retreat battles to Vöcklabruck , and over the Pyhrn Pass into the upper Enns Valley. Later joined the troops of Field Marshal Lieutenant Chasteler near Marburg .
  • 1809 Seconded to Corps Hiller in Germany, a division fought at Haag and Landshut . Relocated to Vienna in May, a division fought in front of the city between the Burgtor and the Kärntnertor. Only minor operations in the battle of Aspern and the Wagram . Battle of retreat near Korneuburg and Hollabrunn

Russian campaign

  • Posted in October 1812 as reinforcement to the Schwarzenberg Corps , fighting at Wysoko-Litovsk and Izabelin, part of the regiment led a skirmish at Mokrany, where it inflicted heavy losses on the Russians and captured some ammunition wagons.

Wars of Liberation

Reign of the Hundred Days

  • 1815 campaign against Marshal Murat . Fight at Ronco and Pesaro . Three divisions advanced as far as Naples. The Veliten Division was left with the garrison in Milan
  • In 1831 parts of the regiment were employed in suppressing the uprisings in Romagna . Battles at Secchia and Rimini .

Revolution of 1848/49 in the Austrian Empire

  • In 1848 the regiment was in Italy. Skirmishes at Sona and Volta. A division was crossed from Parma to Fiume . Another was with the occupation forces of Mantua . The regiment was then drawn up again in Milan.
  • 1849 The regiment was divided into individual brigades in divisions and fought at Mortara and the Battle of Novara . Campaign in Tuscany with battles against the Garibaldi Freikorps .

Sardinian war

German war

  • 1866 Seconded to the IV Corps of the Northern Army, four squadrons fought at Pig Skulls and in the Battle of Königgrätz . A squadron stands with the occupation forces of Olomouc .

Bosnian annexation crisis

  • In 1878 the regiment was assigned to the occupation of Bosnia . The 5th Squadron was ambushed at Maglaj and suffered great losses. Individual sections fought at Tuzla , Gračanica (Doboj) and Bandin-Odjak.

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.

  • The Landsmannschaftliche reference and suffix Jazigier and Kumanier had been promised to the regiment for all time. Nevertheless, like all regiments of the Austro-Hungarian Army, the regiment lost all honorary names in 1915.
Uniform until 1916

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: 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. WUV-Univ.-Verl., Vienna 1999.
  • Allmayer-Beck , Lessing : The K. (below) K. Army. 1848-1914 . Bertelsmann, Munich et al. 1974, ISBN 3-570-07287-8 .