Imperial and Royal Uhlan Regiment "Archduke Carl" No. 3

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The namesake of the regiment - Archduke Carl

The ki.uk Uhlan Regiment "Archduke Carl" No. 3 was a cavalry unit first in the Austrian and then in the Common Army within the army of the Austrian Empire .

Since 1888 the regiment had to use this name "for ever". Nevertheless, in 1915 all honorary names were deleted without replacement. From then on, the association was only called "kuk Uhlan Regiment No. 3" . However, this could not be enforced in common parlance, on the one hand because nobody adhered to it, on the other hand the thrifty kuk military administration had ordered that all existing stamps and forms should be used up first.

Formation history

  • Set up in 1801 with a tribe of batches and men from the Uhlan Regiments No. 1 and No. 2 , the Dragoon Regiments Kinsky No. 10 and Savoy No. 13 as well as through new advertising in Cracow.
  • In 1809 parts of the dissolved Cossack bunch were incorporated.
  • In 1814 a tribe of batches and crews had to be handed over to the newly established Uhlan Regiment No. 4 .
  • 1860 A division was transferred to the previous Lombard Uhlan Regiment No. 6 to complete it.
Barracks of II. Division Ul 3 in Bielitz, still used today by the Polish army

additions

The regiment complemented each other from Galicia from the beginning

  • 1853 from the advertising area of ​​the 10th Infantry Regiment ( Przemyśl )
  • 1857–60 from the districts of infantry regiments No. 10 and 30 (Przemysl and Lemberg )
  • 1860–67 from the districts of infantry regiments No. 10 and 40 (Przemysl and Rzeszów )
  • 1867–73 from the districts of infantry regiments No. 10 and 77 (Przemysl and Sombor )
  • 1873–75 from the districts of infantry regiments No. 10 and 45 (Przemysl and Sanok )
  • 1876–83 from the districts of infantry regiments No. 30 and 77 (Lemberg and Sambor)
  • 1883–89 from the district of the 89th Infantry Regiment (Gródek)
  • Since 1889 it was assigned to the area of ​​the X Corps (Military Territorial District Przemysl) with the addition.

Peace garrisons

I. II. III.

Regimental owner

Regimental Commanders

  • 1801 Colonel Heinrich Bersina von Siegenthal
  • 1805 Colonel Johann Graf Klebelsberg
  • 1809 Colonel Heinrich Graf Hardegg
  • 1810 Colonel Emanuel Graf Mensdorff-Pouilly
  • 1812 Colonel Carl von Grozkowski
  • 1820 Colonel Carl Freiherr Kress von Kressenstein
  • 1830 Colonel Thaddäus Graf Ledochowski-Halka
  • 1836 Colonel Nicolaus Graf Lichtenberg
  • 1843 Colonel Franz Wyss
  • 1848 Colonel Joseph Batky von Batka
  • 1850 Colonel Ferdinand Count Vetter von der Lilie
  • 1854 Colonel Andreas von Pichler
  • 1859 Colonel Joseph Count Waldstein-Wartenberg
  • 1867 Colonel Maxmilian Count MacCaffry-Keanmóre
  • 1872 Colonel Emil Van Göthem de Sainte Agathe
  • 1878 Colonel Ludwig Freiherr De Vaux
  • 1880 Colonel Wilhelm Reiche von Thuerecht
  • 1884 Colonel Carl Freiherr von Mertens
  • 1891 Colonel Carl Morawetz von Moranow
  • 1897 Colonel Eduard von Böhm-Ermolli
  • 1903–1907 Colonel Alois Gayer von Gayersfeld
  • 1908–1909 Lieutenant Colonel Josef Freiherr von Bamberg
  • 1910–1913 Colonel Erich Freiherr von Diller
  • 1914 Colonel Friedrich Weiß von Schleusenburg

Battle calendar

→ coalition wars

  • 1805 fighting at Caldiero in Italy. On the later retreat through Styria , the Rückhut fought at Ehrenhausen
  • 1809 fighting in Germany. Detachments took part in the battles near Landshut , the Battle of Abensberg and the battle near Neumarkt . Battles near Gayersdorf, Lambach and Ebelsberg. On the retreat, the regiment fought at Blindenmarkt. During the Battle of Aspern the unit was in reserve near Stockerau . In the battle of Wagram only the Colonel Division was marginally involved when in the battle near Stammersdorf a detachment under Rittmeister Eugen Graf Wratislaw was able to free the already encircled 6th Vienna Volunteer Battalion by an attack. Later the regiment took part in the retreat battles at Schöngraben, Hollabrunn and the Battle of Znaim . The regimental commander, Graf Hardegg, was awarded the Military Maria Theresa Order .

→ Wars of Liberation

  • In 1813 posted to the army in Inner Austria, the regiment took part in the advance through Friuli to northern Italy. Skirmishes at Tolmein and Villanova
  • 1814 Battle of the Mincio. Lieutenant Colonel Wilhelm Freiherr von Mengen was promoted to 2nd colonel in the regiment.

→ Rule of the Hundred Days

  • 1815 Security and patrol services on the Upper Rhine, no combat activity

→ Revolution of 1848/1849 in the Austrian Empire

  • 1848 Seconded to the Reserve Corps Nugent in Italy, divisions of the regiment took part in the first skirmishes off Vicenza , the battle of Sommacampagna (June 14), the battle of Custozza and the battle of Le sei Vie. On the further march against Milan , Colonel Wyss covered the army's right flank with the 2nd Division and led a battle at Zelobuon Persico. A squadron was detached for the siege of Osoppo.
  • 1849 Campaign in Piedmont . Some patrol and security skirmishes have taken place.

→ German war

  • 1866 Assigned to the 8th Corps of the Northern Army with 5 squadrons. This detachment fought in the battle near Skalitz, the battle near Königgrätz , and the battle near Zwittau and Tobitschau

→ First World War

During the First World War, the Uhlans were exposed to a wide variety of uses. At first they fought as a cavalry (whether they were used as a closed unit or as a squadron as division cavalry is currently unknown), but were also used as infantry in all theaters of war.

Whereabouts

After the end of the war, the association returned to its garrison in West Galicia. There is currently no information as to whether the regiment dissolved itself, was dissolved by the Polish interim government or incorporated into the new Polish army.

Adjustment

  • 1801: black czapka , dark green kurtka and trousers, scarlet equalization , yellow buttons
  • 1809: scarlet czapka, dark green kurtka and trousers, scarlet equalization, yellow buttons
  • 1865: madder tartarka, light blue ulanka and trousers, madder red equalization, yellow buttons
  • 1868: madder tartarka, light blue ulanka, madder red bootie pants and equalization, yellow buttons
  • 1876: madder red czapka, light blue ulanka, madder red leveling and boot pants, yellow buttons

Association membership and status 1914

  • I. Corps - 7th Cavalry Troop Division - 20th Cavalry Brigade
  • Nationalities: 69% Poles - 26% Ruthenians - 5% Various
  • Regimental language: Polish

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 or 160 riders per squadron.

(During the army reform begun by Emperor Joseph II , the company structure within the cavalry had already been 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
  • the 5th division (if any) was the 3rd majors division

In the course of the army reform, the cavalry regiments were reduced to two divisions from 1860 onwards.

Due to the 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. 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 .
  • Osprey Military. Men-at-arms Series No. 329.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 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